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The Field of Canadian Jewish Studies and Its Importance for the Jewish Community of Canada

October 27, 2009 | Prof. Ira Robinson

The Canadian Jewish community has emerged recently as one of the more interesting and culturally creative centers of contemporary Jewish life. This article explores an aspect of that development: the evolution of Canadian Jewish studies from something almost wholly internal within the Canadian Jewish community to a phenomenon of interest to academics and community members alike.

Canadian Jewry Today: Portrait of a Community in the Process of Change

September 15, 2006 | Prof. Ira Robinson

The Canadian Jewish community is now one of the more significant contemporary diaspora Jewish communities, numbering approximately 364,000. It is one of the few communities that is growing demographically. The most important trend in Canadian Jewry in the past decades is the rise of Toronto to preeminent status in terms of Jewish population and the concomitant decline of Montreal.

Virtual Reality Comes to Canadian Jewry: The Case of the Canadian Jewish Congress Plenary

February 11, 1999 | Prof. Ira Robinson

This article deals with the issue of the changing nature of the "public square" of contemporary Jewry through an account of the Canadian Jewish Congress Plenary Assembly in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1998. The CJC Plenary has historically been, par excellence, Canadian Jewry's "public square." The program of the 1998 Plenary differed from that of previous Plenaries in that a major portion of the event's schedule was shifted from "traditional" activities, such as speeches and resolutions, to a "talk show" format of sessions on issues of contemporary Jewish concern. This major shift in format raises questions - most particularly that of the control of public discourse in the Jewish polity.

Public Funding for Religious Education in Ontario: A Dilemma for Canadian Jews?

December 15, 1998 | Stuart Schoenfeld

Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors? Jews and Judaism in Canadian Schools and Universities

October 1, 1998 | Michael Brown

Virtual Reality Comes to Canadian Jewry

September 1, 1998 | Prof. Ira Robinson

The Canadian Jewish Community and the Politics of Quebec Independance

July 1, 1997

Canadian Jewry: Challenges to a Growing Diaspora Community

April 15, 1990