Untitled - Memorial University of Newfoundland
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culture (and ifso, what are the men's role)? I was unable to answer these questions<br />
succ:essfuIly, ifanswers are possible. Still, the questions themselves are significant.<br />
The penultimate question was also COIUrOversial. Kwinter noted to me that the<br />
previous year they had asked Yare you Jewish'?"', and thai: the question IUU1ted in one<br />
complaint questioning wbcther or not the Festival organizers were aying to put on a<br />
festival for Jews only. In my eagerness to get into the cultural subdivisions <strong>of</strong>Toronto<br />
Jewry I suggested altering that question to a more ambiguous one: "denomination"?<br />
What I had hoped for. by phrasing the question as I did, was 10 sec some division within<br />
the Jewish community among Reform Jews. Conservative Jews. Orthodox Jews. and the<br />
variety <strong>of</strong> non-Jews who would anend.<br />
Denomination?<br />
Not Answered 207<br />
Jewish 235<br />
Reform 18 Catholic<br />
Conservalive 13 Christian<br />
Non-practicing q Protestant<br />
Reconstruetionalist 7 Anglican<br />
Hebrew 7 HalfJewish<br />
Egalitarian 4 Lutheran<br />
Onhodox I Muslim<br />
-ReconSCl"\"ado:C I Non-Jewish<br />
FlgUrt 2.15: TJFF Sun-C)' - YIRehglousl DenomIDation'"<br />
14 Agnostic<br />
2 None<br />
Humanist<br />
Atheist<br />
Filmish<br />
Rastifarian<br />
Spiritual<br />
Wiccan<br />
A large number <strong>of</strong> people did nOI ans .....er lhe question. possibly because they did not<br />
understand what I meanl by the .....ord ··denomination'". or making jokes like Mprefer 20s.<br />
bUI will take 5s". It is also possible they felt the question was intrusive, and flat out<br />
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