'We can't give in to hate,' announced a Toronto synagogue targeted in an anti-Semitic attack.

Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, is the first non-Israeli chosen to light a torch at the national Independence Day ceremony.

Rabbi Marvin Hier, the first Orthodox clergyman to recite an inaugural benediction, quoted Psalm 137, pledging to remember Zion and Jerusalem.