Being Jewish in multicultural Canada.

Canadian Speeches, November, 2000 by Avie Bennett

"TEXT1746","Canadian Speeches: Volume 14, #05, November/December, 2000.","AVIE BENNETT.","Chancellor, York University, and Chairman, McClelland & Stewart.","Being Jewish in multicultural Canada.","Race relations. Jews.", "Growing up Jewish in the anti-Semitic Canada of a few decades ago imbued Avie Bennett with a lifelong sense of being "other." That sense of identity remains important, but in a Canada that is now perhaps the world's most multicultural nation where "others" can share fully in the opportunities, rewards, and recognition. Mr. Bennett has been named the 2000 Negev Dinner Honouree by the Jewish National Fund of Toronto. Proceeds from the dinner are earmarked for development of recreational sites on Mount Saul, overlooking the Sea of Galilee in Israel....

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