The York Region District School Board will use the Star of David to denote Jewish holidays on its calendar of religious events, after it came under fire for allegedly avoiding the symbol over concerns it would be associated with the state of Israel.
In a post on its website on Thursday, the board's director of education Bill Cober said the board would make changes to its calendar after it received "concerns" regarding the post and email, along with feedback on its existing symbolism. The board did not specify what post it was referring to, but a post on X, formerly Twitter, showed an email addressed to trustee Estelle Cohen and superintendent Michael Grieve, which goes into greater detail about why the menorah was allegedly used.
The social media post was viewed more than 200,000 times, with many sharply criticizing the statement.Education Minister Stephen Lecce said Thursday he spoke with the board on the matter and was "pleased to see" it had been "rectified." Deborah Lyons, the country's special envoy on Holocaust remembrance and combating antisemitism, as well as a former Canadian ambassador to Israel, called the decision to use the menorah over the Star of David "inconceivable" in her own post to X.
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