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The great Canadian scandal of 2024 is part of the great scandal of history, which we celebrate at Christmas.

“Scandal” here has two meanings. Both mean shocking, but one regrettable the other an occasion to marvel.

As to the latter, theologians call it the “scandal of particularity,”meaning that God does not promulgate a set of principles, like a global constitution or learned treatise. Rather, the Christian faith is a story, with particular characters acting in particular places at particular times. And God is the principal character, who acts in history even though He exists outside of time; who enters the created world even though He is its creator. It is the marvelous scandal of particularity.

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And that scandal is related to Canada’s shameful scandal of 2024, the ugliness of antisemitism in our streets.

Just this week, a Montreal synagogue was fire-bombed for the second time. In a year-end essay for 2023, Montreal was already described as the most dangerous North American city for Jews.

Earlier this month, our Terry Glavin published a 7000-word report, “The Explosion of Jew-Hate in Trudeau’s Canada”. It is an immense sadness to read. What has happened to Canada?

‘Heartbreaking’ is a word that well describes the way Canadian Jews see their predicament these days,” writes Glavin. “In part, that’s because antisemitism is no longer just some protest culture eccentricity. It’s going mainstream, from the........

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