Toronto’s Jewish community is resolute after a Jewish girls’ school on the city’s north side was riddled with gunfire for the third time this year.
“We are here to educate children, and that’s what we’re here for, and that’s what we will continue to do, and we hope that this is the final time, and this will come to an end again,” Rabbi Yaacov Vidal, the school’s principal, told reporters Friday. “As Hanukkah is coming up, light will always prevail, and the message to the world out there is increasing goodness and kindness.”
While the school was in operation Friday, school officials said that some parents decided to keep their children home from school.
Toronto police said that in the early hours of Dec. 20 they found “evidence of firearm discharge” at Bais Chaya Mushka Elementary School in North York. Police responded within moments of the shooting, officials said.
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