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[edit] Promotional blurb?

I never quite understood Federation CJA. It claims to represent Montreal Jews, but in reality it is run by the "elite" of the Montreal Jewish community, those that finance it, to further their interests.

It may be interesting to put the Federation CJA in historical perspective. To what extent does Federation CJA derive from a kehila, an institution of Jewish self-government. Is it authoritarion or democratic? My view is it is very much authoritarion; cushioned somewhat by the fact that any particular Jew's association with the institution is completely voluntary.

Some issues that the article should contain are:

• The "de-Judaizing" of the Ashkenaz Jewish community by seeking acceptance in Protestant schools in the 20th century. Corrective action in this respect was taken, it appears, only in the 21st century, when the network of Jewish schools was expanded; and Jewish children now, I understand, mostly attend Jewish schools of varying quality and outlook from a Jewish point of view;

• The Federation's promotion of secular liberalism as opposed to Jewish values in North America's most Orthodox Jewish community; with the effect that many Jews lack a clear Jewish identity, to the community's manifest detriment (Naomi Klein is a product of this community);

• The Federation's strategy of appeasement to militant French Quebec supremicists in respect of restrictive language laws that left the Ashkenaz Jews, who went to Protestant English-language schools and were accordingly "angloized," with little choice but to leave Quebec, Canada's oldest Jewish community. The Montreal Ashkenaz Jewish community may have been reduced to about 50% of the 1976 population, (a dirty little secret I'm afraid);

• The islamization of Montreal: Immigration in the last 10-15 years has resulted in more Muslems in Montreal than Jews. The Muslem presence in Montreal, incubated in a place with a long history French-Catholic antisemitism--now secularized--that has actively sought out French-speaking Muslims in an attempt to bolster the French sepratist movement, that seeks a state separate from Canada. My view is that the Federation has its head in the sand on this issue, with the result that the Montreal Jewish community is in physical danger comparable to the Jews of France.

The aforementioned list is preliminary and far from exhaustive. I look forward to further discussion herein. The article in its current form is a promotional blurb.--Lance ^talk 07:35, 12 October 2006 (UTC)