A few months ago, I wrote an article asking Canadian Jews a simple but uncomfortable question: What is your threshold?

What would it take for you to admit that something fundamental had shifted?

What would finally make you say, “This is no longer safe for us”?

I warned that the line was approaching.

I didn’t expect it to be erased so quickly.

And yet here we are, not even a year later, and the situation has deteriorated beyond anything I imagined. The incident that broke me this week was three separate shootings at three separate synagogues in Toronto. These synagogues were shot at  — not vandalized, not threatened, but shot at. Synagogues! In Canada! A country that once prided itself on being a multicultural mosaic where every community could worship freely and without fear. Now Jews need armed guards to pray. Now parents hesitate before sending their children to Hebrew school. Now mezuzot are quietly removed from doorposts because people are afraid of being identified as Jewish.

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This is not “just a phase.”

This is not something that will blow over.

This is what it looks like when a society stops protecting its Jews.

Governments........

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