Steps toward consolidation and expansion of the local Jewish community’s efforts to aid the many North African Jewish immigrants who have come here in the last few years were taken today at the first city-wide conference on North African Jews in this city. There are about 6,000 North African Jews in Canada now, but the majority of them have settled in Montreal because their native language is French. All of the North Africans are Sephardim.
Both Sephardic and Ashkenazi representatives at the conference agreed on the need for a new Sephardi synagogue here, to supplement the three already established in Montreal by the newcomers from North Africa. Other steps decided upon included the establishment of an employment bureau to help get work for the preponderance of the immigrants who observe the Sabbath; the publication of an organ in French for the section of the community; intervention with Jewish schools to provide tuition-free enrollment for the children of the newcomers; and the establishment of youth clubs.
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