JCC Rockland International Jewish Film Festival - Outremont and the Hasidim

JCC Rockland International Jewish Film Festival - Outremont and the Hasidim

Thursday, Apr 4, 2024 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm

  845-362-4200
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Outremont and the Hasidim reveals the challenges of accommodating the "Hasidim" - or ultra-Orthodox Jews - in the affluent Montréal borough of Outremont. Some 7,000 Hasidim live in or near this choice neighborhood of Québec's Francophone elite. After settling there more than 70 years ago, the Hasidim are a rapidly growing minority group which today represents about 23% of Outremont's population. This growing presence poses a major challenge for certain members of Outremont's French-speaking Québécois majority which fears the massive influx of a group, which according to some, refuses to integrate.

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