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To: lorne who wrote (19620)	3/18/2003 11:01:21 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 23908

The Canadian Jewish Experience Maintaining Consensus: The Canadian Jewish Polity in the Postwar World, Chapter One Daniel J. Elazar A New Force in World Jewry The Canadian Jewish community today is on the threshhold of becoming a major force in world Jewry as the result of the convergence of two factors that are almost cliches and the addition of a third. The first is that Canadian Jewry is a generation or two behind the American Jewish community. Like most cliches, it reflects a basic truth. Just as American Jewry had a great flowering in the generation immediately after World War II, so has Canadian Jewry begun to flower in the second generation after the war, the generation that began in the mid-1970s and is now reaching its peak. The second cliche relates to that flowering, namely that Canadian Jewry has now come of age. Here, too, the cliche states the truth. Because Canada is territorially adjacent to the United States, Canadian Jewry has become intertwined with American Jewish institutions as part of a North American "community." Yet at the same time it has preserved certain British and Eastern European models. They are reinforced by the special character of Canada as a bilingual, multicultural society. This combination has made Canadian Jewry a linchpin between American and other diaspora Jewries and even to some extent between the diaspora and Israel. This is the third factor that has yet to be widely recognized. One of the first ways in which this latter phenomenon has manifested itself is in the institutions of the emerging world Jewish polity. In one manifestation of Canadian Jewry's new role, the Canadian United Israel Appeal, as part of Keren Hayesod, is linked with all the magbiot (fund-raising campaigns for Israel) of the Jewish world other than the United States, while the Canadian Jewish community federations, which actually raise the money, are linked through the Council of Jewish Federations with American Jewry. In the past decade or so, this has led to Canadian Jewish leaders playing a special role in helping the reconstituted Jewish Agency move forward. As the fourth largest diaspora Jewish community in size in the Free World, exceeded only by the United States, France, and Britain, Canada is one of those with a sufficient critical mass to play a creative role on the Jewish scene. Moreover, while France is limited in its influence by virtue of its language (since English is now the lingua franca of the Jewish world) and its own internal limitations, and British Jewry has ceased to play much of a role on the world scene, in relative influence Canada probably stands next to the United States. [...] jcpa.org I debunked your case....