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

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.