Libraries, publishers donate to rebuild Talmud Torah library

robg writes “A supposedly politically-motivated arson destroyed the Talmud Torah day school library in Montreal last Monday. But donations have been pouring in ever since from libraries and publishers across Canada to help rebuild it, according to the letter from the editor in Saturday’s Globe and Mail.

A teacher-librarian from British Columbia summed up the sentiment felt across the country: ‘The library is the heart of the school… Without a well-stocked library, kids are shortchanged. We didn’t want to see that happen to those kids.’

It’s just unfortunate those kids still have to live with the memory of being targeted for actions they and their school have nothing to do with….”