The Canadian Je^yish News, Wednesday, April 19, 1989-Page 23
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JANICE ARNOLD
MONTREAL-
. Having barely accepted the gavel froin Morton Bessner, the new Canadian Jewish Congress, Quebec Region chairman admits she has already ruffled a few.feathers.
Goldie Hershoh, whose introduction to Jewish organizational activity 10 years i^o was through the Soviet Jewry movement, has stated clearly that public demonstrations on behalf of Jews wishing to emigrate are a thing of the past, unless the changes taking place in the Soviet Union are reversed.
Hershon said the Jewish community cannot continue the same approach while thousands of Jews are being permitted to emigrate and those choosing to stay have greater freedom than ever before for cultural and religious expression.
This does not mean, Hershon emphasized in an interview, that CJC should not be vigilant and continue to lobby for the release of Refuseniks, but it should do so through governmental and diplomatic channels and by specific case.
At this time,'Hershon believes the Jewish community should be concentrating on doing what it can to help Soviet Je\ys retain
Quebec CJC head opposes public protests
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pects to delegate much of her duties to officers and committee chairmen over her 3-year term, "I'm not going to be a 1-woman show."
Hershon (nee Libman) grew up in the Park Ave. district, the datighter of im-
or discover their Jewish heritage,
The Sfancha Torah rally, which annually see a couple of thousand Montreal Jews marching to the Soviet consulate should be turned into a joyous occasion, slich as a festival in the park, and not a tfane for pUcard-waving and slogans.
"Simcha Torah should be a happy occasion, yet we should not forget." ■ Hershon says the CJC Soviet Jewry Committee in Montneiai agrees with her, but others do not, notably the Group of 35s, a women's organization which has steadfastly demonstrated for the rights of Soviet Jews over the years, and its chairman Barbara Stem, who is also chairman of CJC's Canadian Committee for Soviet Jewry.
On April 24, the 35s has scheduled its annual Third Seder outside the Soviet consulate.
Hershon was chairman of the Quebec Region Soviet Jewry committee form 1981-86, and served as liaison to the international group - of parliamentary spouses for Soviet Jewry which met with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher a few years ago at 10 Downing St.
Hershon is not by nature one who seeks controversy. In fact, she ex-"
The Hershon family, which is Orthodox, rnoved from Dollard des Ormeaux to Hampstead seven years ago.
Hershon is a mernber of the Federal Human Rights Tribunal and chief returii-ing officer for the Mount
migrants and her first Ian- Royal riding. She has been
WINNIPEG -
Winnipeg comrniinity leader Mortte Nathansonv will be honored by the Winnipeg chapter of the Canadian Friends of the Hebrew, University at a tribute dinner May 18 at the Westin Hotel.
The dinner marks the culmination of the Winnipeg Friends' drive to eis-tablish The Monte Nathanson Division of Jewish Education in the Diaspora at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Institute of Contemporary Jewry..
Current research projects at the new division include a comparative study of the Zionist idea in contemporary Jewish education systenis, the teaching of Israel . and contemporary Jewry in Mexico and Jewish education and identification, in Australia. The division willalsoTestablTsh a data bank on programs for teaching. Je\yish istudies^ throughout the world.
Nathanson.-a native of Winnipeg, wias instrumental in transforming the Jew-
Monte Nathanson
ish Welfare Fund into the Winnipeg Jewish Community Council and served as the council's president for two years. He is a former president of the Winnipeg Friends and an a.ssociate governor of the Hebrew University.
Raymond Kiyes chairs the tribute planning committee:;
'Contributors of $2,500 or more will be acknowledged on a special plaquein the Institute of Contemporary Jewry. For further information, call the Winnipeg Friends at (204) 942-3085.
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TORONTO -
Seventeen rabbis have signed a statement protesting the treatment of women praying at the Western Wall in Jerusalem and'ask-ing the Israeli government to provide police protection. ' {'.■■'Xn'''r
It was signed bi/ Rabbis Deborah Erin, Erwjn Schild, W. Gunther Plaut, Dow Marmur, J. Benjamin Friedberg,' Lawrence Troster, Saihuel Wein-
traub, Jordan PeaHson, Michael S.Stroh, Arthur Bielfeld, Bernard Baskin; Daniel Gottlieb; Steven Garten, John Moscowitz, Ned Soltz, Ed (joldfarb and ^ David Azen.r
"We strongly urge that the. Israeli government cleariy and vigorously affirm the right of women to pray at the Western Wall and direct the police to protect the right as firmly as necessary,'' the statement said.
guage was Yiddish. She attended United Talmud Torahs and Herzliah High School, and later became a nursery school teacher. She also received a certificate in family life education at Concordia University Tnd took intensive French coiirses at McGill University.
She has devote^ most of her life to being a wife and mother arid volun* teer. Her husband, Sheldon, is presklent of Rpbm International, a children's wear manufacturer, and past president of Congregation Beth Tikvah. They have two children: Diivid, 24, best known as the chairman of JAPS (Jewish Adult Programming Society), a young adults club; arid Ciridy, 25, a social worker, who will soon be leaving for Israel vnth her husband.
member of the Allied Jewish Community Services board of trustees since 1983 and is chairman of this year's Combined Jewish Appeal Super Sunday.
A trim woman who will not reveal her age, Her-shon's favorite pastime is her daily morning aerobics at the Y. "I've told Congress, there'll be no meetings before 9.30 a.m." -====AsHQuebec chairman, she will play a key role on the Lithwick task force, studying the structure and priorities of CJC, once negotiatkms resume. She said she had not read the Lithwick report yet, but she is Arm that CJC must remain the spokesman for the Quiebcc Jewish ciMnmunity-on matters of publk policy to goverri-ment and in intercommunity relations.
Otherwise, she sees the thrust of the report (CJN,
April 6) as a "step forward" and feels her perspective as a lay leader of both AJCS and CJC gives her an advantage.
One thing is certain, Hershon does not share Morton Bessner's pessimism about the Jewish future in Quebec. "I don't see the doom and gloom.
We're here to stay. Both my kids are bilingual and my husband just opened a nev^ building. We feel comfortable.
' The days when the an-glos were king will never be here again.. With some adjustments, I don't think the quality of our life will suffer that much."
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