Robert Bandanza
August 15th, 2006, 06:27 PM
As area north of Toronto grows, Jewish groups struggle to keep up
By Bill Gladstone
August 15, 2006
TORONTO, Aug. 15 (JTA) — Seven years ago, when Rabbi Ezriel Sitzer opened a storefront Jewish educational center north of Toronto, the area was just “pasture and sheep.”
It’s a lot more than that today.
Construction of new homes has been rapid since developers arrived in the area known as Thornhill Woods four years ago. Today about three-quarters of some 6,500 planned single-family homes have been built and sold.
So far the area is at least 50 percent Jewish, with young married couples predominating, drawn by the slightly lower housing prices.
As many as 80,000 Jews — about 40 percent of the greater Toronto area’s Jewish population —...
http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=16952&intcategoryid=2
By Bill Gladstone
August 15, 2006
TORONTO, Aug. 15 (JTA) — Seven years ago, when Rabbi Ezriel Sitzer opened a storefront Jewish educational center north of Toronto, the area was just “pasture and sheep.”
It’s a lot more than that today.
Construction of new homes has been rapid since developers arrived in the area known as Thornhill Woods four years ago. Today about three-quarters of some 6,500 planned single-family homes have been built and sold.
So far the area is at least 50 percent Jewish, with young married couples predominating, drawn by the slightly lower housing prices.
As many as 80,000 Jews — about 40 percent of the greater Toronto area’s Jewish population —...
http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=16952&intcategoryid=2