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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: "I was called a F—ing Jew and shoved into a fence": Why Sam Brody is fighting back
Description: Last week, a local modern Orthodox Jewish man in Toronto, Sam Brody, recorded a video that he posted to Facebook. In it, he described being assaulted near Yonge and Eglinton, where he lives, specifically for being Jewish. Brody says a stranger bodychecked him into a wooden fence and yelled, “F— you, you Jew! You will never take Israel. Free Palestine!”
Brody wears a light-blue knitted kippah and a star of David necklace, which was visible at the time. He was walking his dog before heading to work at Magen Meats, a popular kosher butcher, where he works as a m...