In the early hours of August 18, a Toronto man broke into a North York synagogue and stole religious articles — a crime swiftly answered by police, who recovered every item within a day and brought the suspect before a court. Yet the resolution of this single incident offers only partial comfort, arriving as it does within a sustained and escalating pattern of antisemitic violence that has reshaped daily life for Toronto's Jewish community since October 2023. What might elsewhere be treated as routine property crime carries a different weight here, where synagogues have been shot at, businesse