Current sectionJewish WorldShare to FacebookShare to XArticle printing is available to subscribers onlyPrint in a simple, ad-free formatSubscribeComments: Zen reading is available to subscribers onlyAd-free and in a comfortable reading formatSubscribeVadim Danilov relocated to Canada from Israel in 2023. Credit: Courtesy of Vadim DanilovAmid record-level antisemitism, an Israeli emigrant to Toronto created Jewride as an alternative to Uber and Lyft. One driver says customers tell him: 'I don't want to take a ride with someone who's an Israel hater.' But critics worry that initiatives like this 'create a more insular and defensive world for Jews'05:57 PM • May 26 2026 IDTTORONTO – Daniel, a 42-year-old Jewish lawyer, didn't see it coming at all. After a pleasant Uber ride last year with an Iranian driver named Iskander – during which they discussed his namesake, Alexander the Great, and ancient Greece – the car pulled up to its destination: Jerusalem Restaurant, in Toronto's Forest Hill neighborhood. When the driver noticed the big neon sign with the name of the restaurant, he looked at his passenger through the mirror and asked: "Wait, are you Jewish?"In the NewsIsraeli Army Chief Discharges Ex-top Prosecutor Amid Leak InvestigationSome Canadian Jews Say Ride-sharing Apps Are No Longer Safe. Enter JewrideThe West's Furor Over Ben-GvirPoll: Bennett-Lapid Merger Party Loses Three Seats, Likud Remains Largest PartyHow AIPAC Made a Midterm Race the Most Expensive Primary in U.S. HistoryRemembering and rebuilding two years laterICYMIFreed Gaza Flotilla Activists Report Sexual Abuse, Rape in Israeli CustodyBen-Gvir Posts Video of Police Dragging Detained Gaza Flotilla ActivistsThe Most Consequential Republican Primary for Israel Is Happening in Kentucky'It Was Okay to Be Crazy': IDF Soldiers Discuss Moral Decay in LebanonWill Trump Forgive Netanyahu Over Iran? The Emerging Deal Suggests NotOn Israel, Gaza and Palestine, Bigmouth Tucker Carlson Spoke Nothing but Truth