{"id":843038,"date":"2026-08-02T20:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T20:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/843038\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T20:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T20:11:10","slug":"montreals-jewish-community-on-edge-after-blaze-guts-kosher-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/843038\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal&#8217;s Jewish community on edge after blaze guts kosher restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL \u2014 Montreal police are investigating after a fire heavily damaged a kosher restaurant overnight Saturday in the city\u2019s C\u00f4te-des-Neiges\u2013Notre-Dame-de-Gr\u00e2ce borough. <\/p>\n<p>While police say the investigation hasn\u2019t determined a motive, social media was flooded with statements of concern that this was yet another hate-motivated attack. <\/p>\n<p>Police say the investigation remained in its early stages and no arrests had been made.<\/p>\n<p>A video published by several media outlets, including the CBC, appears to show a man starting the fire before running away, though police have not confirmed those images. <\/p>\n<p>Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree said on social media the government was concerned by what appeared to be an arson attack targeting a gathering place for Montreal\u2019s Jewish community. <\/p>\n<p>B\u2019nai Brith Canada, a Jewish advocacy organization, also condemned the incident and called for action, saying Jewish Canadians need more than words of condemnation. <\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 2, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Montreal as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=montreal.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782077411_500_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL \u2014 Montreal police are investigating after a fire heavily damaged a kosher restaurant overnight Saturday in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":843039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[76,45,49,48,83,75,713,890,2338,47,11867,715],"class_list":["post-843038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-arts","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-disaster","tag-entertainment","tag-justice","tag-lifestyle","tag-montreal","tag-national","tag-ontario-quebec","tag-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}