Linguistic Structure Dept: Nearly a half-century after the Quiet Revolution began changing the way people in Quebec saw their world, and 35 years after Bill 101 began changing the way in which the children of Quebec were educated, the Montreal Jewish community is much altered, according to Montreal Gazette. There are more Hasidim, whose significant growth, particularly in Outremont, has raised a number of contentious issues regarding the limits of difference and accommodation of others in the province and as Montreal Jews see things, there is much to worry about, from events in the Middle East to tsunamis in Japan. But there is one worry they keep returning to: their collective future as a Jewish community in Quebec. There are more Sephardim, whose immigration to Quebec challenged and changed the social, religious and linguistic structure of the Montreal Jewish community as much as it changed francophone Quebec's perception of who is a Jew. As
reported in the news.
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