There is a feeling settling over many Jewish communities in Canada right now – difficult to describe, but impossible to ignore.

It is the feeling that something foundational has shifted.

You see it in the headlines: violent attacks targeting synagogues and Jewish institutions. Random assaults against visibly Jewish people walking down the street. Public rhetoric that would have once been unthinkable is now normalized through social media algorithms, protests, and everyday discourse.

But the deeper anxiety comes from somewhere else.

It comes from the erosion of trust.

Trust that public institutions will respond with moral clarity. Trust that elected officials will speak plainly when antisemitism appears in front of them. Trust that universities will protect Jewish students with the same urgency afforded to every other minority community.

And yes, for some, there are even questions about the Jewish communal world itself – wondering whether some organizations are being too cautious, or too reactive.

These concerns are real. Pretending otherwise serves no one. But despair is not a strategy.

At Hillel Ontario, we have spent a great deal of........

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