A fire that police say was deliberately set on the second day of Sukkot caused some $10,000 in damage to the Jewish Community Center in downtown Toronto. Authorities are investigating whether the fire was a hate crime and whether it was related to an act of arson that damaged an Orthodox Jewish day school in Ottawa on Oct. 1, just after the end of Yom Kippur. The Canadian Jewish Congress has offered $5,000 for information that might lead to the conviction of those responsible for the Toronto fire.
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