Advocacy @ HBT: The week of September 12, 2025

Advocacy @ HBT: Supporting Indigo this weekend, and the Davis Cup bows to extremist pressure.  

• In response to protests and boycotts, support and ‘Buycott” Indigo/Chapters this week.  
• Don’t allow what happened to the Davis Cup to become the norm for Canadian society. 

Last weekend, protestors and vandals once again targeted Indigo/Chapters because of its ties to the Jewish community and because of founder Heather Reisman’s ongoing support for lone soldiers. These protests continued a nearly 2-year series of hateful incidents intended to intimidate and harass customers at a Jewish-owned business.  

We encourage you, if you are looking for a good book to enrich this sacred time of year, to consider making a “Buycott” purchase from Indigo as a sign of continued support. Rabbi Kaye recommends “This is Real and You are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation” by Rabbi Alan Lew. Advocacy Committee Chair Michael Davis encourages you to consider purchasing “As a Jew: Reclaiming our Story from those who Blame, Shame, and Try to Erase Us” by Sarah Hurwitz. There are many other options available at Indigo/Chapters including “On Being Jewish Now”, a Heather’s Pick which had its Canadian book launch here at Holy Blossom earlier in the year.  

Additionally, you may have heard that the Davis Cup, an international tennis tournament partially hosted in Halifax this year, will now be closed to the public. Tennis Canada has quoted escalating safety concerns for fans, staff, and athletes – prompted by the visit from the Israel team- as the reason for this closure. Canadians shouldn’t allow threats of violence and an ‘increased cost’ for safety to become normalized. You can read more and sign CIJA’s petition here, urging our government to take a stand against the normalization and ‘mainstreaming’ of threats and intimidation.   

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