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Aug 17, 2018, 2:03 AM

Lessons from the Christie Pits Riot, 85 Years Later

“You’d hear ‘dirty Jew’ all the time,” said Joe Black in a 2013 interview. Black recounted how it was far from uncommon to be beaten up simply for being Jewish when growing up in Depression-era Toronto. “You had to learn...

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Barbara Bank is the Toronto Chair of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), the advocacy agent of Jewish Federations of Canada