Page 6-The Canadian Jewish News, Wednesday, September 23, 1987
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Herzog calls for tolerance
JERUSALEM -
The New Year for Israel, its 40th anniversary, is one of special and moving significance calling for reverence and hope, says President Chaim Herzog in his Rosh Hashanah message to the Diaspora.
It   is  "not simply
another anniversary in the cycle of time but a date that evokes deepest memories of the juxtaposition of death and loss in the Holocaust with new life in our ancient homeland," Herzog said.
"In all this saga, of rebirth, there have been
events of the most intense, most stirring significance — the War of Independence, the reunification of Jerusalem in the Six Day War, the hard-won victory of the Yom Kippur War, leading eventually to peace with Egypt, the rescue at Entebbe, the flowering of
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to "act as one people"
JERUSALEM -
Not since the infancy of the Jewish people has there been a period "so fateful, so inspiring and so rich in achievement" as the past 40 years. Israeli. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir lold Diaspora Jews in his New Year's message.
Since the estabishment of the stale, the niajor events of Jewish/history, have revolved around ' Israel. Shamir said.
"Those who were touched by the.se events who have felt themselves part of this saga know the incomparable excitement such participation can impart." the Prime Minister said. "Nothing can match the reward of partnership in this momentou.s turn in the hi.story of our people."
If the Jewish people and the State of Israel are to grow and thrive, today's challenges can be met "on- . ly if we act as one people," , the Prime Minister said.
Referring to the plight of Soviet ,,Jewry, Shamir stated that most of the 400.000 Jews whrt have expressed their desire to join their families in Israel are still denied their elementary human right to leave.
".It will take dedicated and untiring efforts of every Jewish community in the world to effect their release," he added.
Similarly, Shamir said, there are still thousands of ■ Jews in Ethiopiiai many of
Yitzhak Shamir
them parents cruelly separated from children fortunate enough to rCach Israel, who mu.st be saved.
"None of us in the Free World can feel free until our brothers and sisters in the Soviet Union and in Ethiopia are free, To save them is our national mission, our historic privilege,^^, our sacred duty."
The Prime Minister said ii is a matter of regret that Israel has not yet achieved peace with all of its neighbors.
"We should all make a "concerted effort to convince the world that as long as countries at war with us continue to be armed to the teeth, and as long as terrorism against us is openly or tacitly encoui-aged, there will be no peace in the region," Shamir stated!
*'It   is   time our
neighbors realized that we are here to stiay and that they should follow Egypt's example by coming to the negotiation table for direct talks with
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Shamir termed the lack of aliya from the West a failure of the Zionist dream and a threat to the Jewish character of the state. He called upon the leadership of the Jewi.sh communities including its rabbi.s, teachers, movements and organizations to give priority "to introducing the young generation to the Israel experience."
The Prime Minister al.so decried the fact that most Jews in the Diaspora have never visited Israel, saying, "I can think of no finer way to celebrate this anniversary year than by having Jews from all over the world, especially those who have never been here^ join us in the festivities.
Shamir said that Israel and the Diaspora have been abletoovercome thcmost daunting obstacles and have been able to realize a dream few deemed possible. •
"Together we can pave the way for a future that will surpass even the incredible achievements of the past.
"I wish the whole house of Israel a Happy New Year 5748. May it be. a year of consolidation, peace and further progress for Am Israiel and Eretz Israel.
extend warm greeti to the Jewish Community.
May the coming year be one of peace an d pros peri ty and Jews throughout
Albert j. Latner^ National President
(Res.) Yaacov Erez, National Executive Director
agricultural, scientific, medical, historical, scholarship and Torah : studies, as well as literary, musical and artistic creativity."
The President called for a rededication to the cen-trality of Israel in Jewish life and to the principle enunciated in the Declaration of Independence based on the traditions of the Jewish people and guaranteeing equality to all citizens of the state without distinction of race and religion.
He said that tolerance and understanding between the Orthodox and secular elements in the population is "ab.solutely essential" for Israel's full and harmonious development.
"It should not be out of the question for mutual respect and even spiritual fructification to take the place of fanaticism and violence," Herzog .said. "In this problem, as in .so much else, Israel becomes the proving ground for the evolution of Jewish hi.story."
It is not a cloudless sky that Israel faces Jn its 40th year, but it confronts its problems with a sense of having proved its capacity to carry out sometimes inconceivably difficult objectives, he said.
must be redoubled to strengthen Jewish education everywhere and the Jewish identification of youth in the schools and on the campuses," Herzog said.
"An atmosphere must be created in which the idea of youths settling in Israel
becomes natural and self-understood. For Israel represents the greatest and the most rewarding of challenges to Jewish youth. ■' The President concluded by sending "from Jerusalem to all of you the blessing of: Ktiva vcchatima tova.'
Chaim Herzog
"Clearly, peace with our neighbors is one .such great objective, still far from realization, except for the heartening instance of Egypt. Yet even in this field there is movement now and there is hope."
There is hope, as well, the President added, for increased Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union, and, with increased worldwide understanding of the significance of Jewish education, there is hope for a significant change in the spiritual and cultural life of Dia.spora Jewry. .
"The inroads which have been made into the ranks of the Jewish people by as.similation have reached very dangerous proportions, and efforts
The Name Game
There is a story in almost every Jewish surname and Toronto lawyer FRED M. CATZ-MAN has been researching their origins over the past few years. Mr. Catziiian reports on his research in The CJN. If you have any information relating to the origin and meaning of your surname, please pass it along to Fred M. Catz-man, c/o The Canadian Jewish News, 10 Gateway Blvd., Suite 420, Don Mills, Ont. M3e 3A1.
OLEISKY - BILGRAY - WEISENBAUM -FALCO
My friend, Nat Gaisin, a transplanted Monireal-er, spends his winters in Tucson. Arizona. Being of an inquiring mind, he submitted four-unusual names of clerics in Tucson— three rabbis and one cantor. • j
OLEISKY is probablv from OLESKO east of ■LVOV.'.V,/
BILGRAY is from BILGORAJ in southeast Poland, not far from LVOV.
WEISENBAUM  is literally white tree in
Yiddish,;
FALCO is from FALKOW. a village in central Poland: ; . You wonder how they all got together in Tucson.
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