anti-Semitism

Anti-Semitic hate events in Canada are breaking records: a 670% increase in violent incidents against Jews in the country. Synagogues attacked, shootings at Jewish educational institutions, and a display praising Yahya Sinwar in the streets of Toronto. The Jewish community lives in fear: "We don't feel safe even wearing a yarmulke on the street"

For the Jewish communities, the plague meant a double tragedy. Beyond the horrible suffering and loss caused by the disease itself, their Christian neighbors accused them of intentionally spreading the illness. Across Europe, Jews were captured and tortured until forced confessions of a Jewish plot to poison the wells were extracted.

Rabbi Yom Tov concluded his words, and his students set fire to the fortress's walls, which began to blaze. The attackers retreated in panic, and the fortress, along with all the Jews of York, ascended in smoke, sanctifying God's name with their lives.

When anti-Semitic sentiment flared, even the nobility couldn't resist. The Jews of Blois faced horrific consequences as injustice and greed took center stage.

Beilis was thrown into a Russian prison without a clue of the charges against him. During his "interrogation," he discovered he was accused of murdering a boy named Andrei Yushchinsky, found dead in a cave months earlier.

On this day, 116 years ago, the infamous 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion' were first published in a Russian newspaper, becoming the most recognized anti-Semitic document worldwide.