Argentina's economic meltdown is prompting the country's Jewish citizens to flee to Montreal, where the old and established Jewish community has been dwindling.
In what he admits is an optimistic projection, Mr. Cummings speaks about doubling the size of the Jewish community in the next 10 years, not just through immigration, but by persuading out-of-town students graduating from Montreal universities to settle in the city.
The Jewish community's interest in Argentina dovetails with an active recruiting effort by the Quebec government, which appointed a full-time immigration adviser to its delegation in Buenos Aires this year. Quebec has already received more than 2,000 immigration requests from Argentines since March.
Many are members of the 22,000-strong Jewish community — descendants, like Mr. Boim, of Jews who fled Eastern Europe at the turn of the 20th century.
