Page 6-The Canadian Jewish News, Thursday, May 1 v 1986
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HOLIDAY CHEER
More than 1,000 hospitalized children throughout Israel were brought a bit of holiday cheer in a nationwide enterprise when they were given packages of toys and goodies by Bank Hapoalim volunteers, including teenagers organized in the bank's Passim club, staff members find clients.
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Turned down for Saudi job
NEW YORK (JTA) -
A Jewish engineer who charged Ralph Parsons Company, a California-based international contracting firm, with religious discrimination for turning him down for a job in Saudi Arabia, has i"eceived a $72,500 se;tUeraent from the company.
The complainant, Mor^ ris Hochberg, claimed in a U.S. district court that although his professional qualifications were never questioned, he was rejected after a Parsons official asked hiin if he was Jewish, and he answered in the affirmative. Hochhcrg was supported in his suit by the Anu'rican Jewish Coh-gress.
The engineer.was working in Chicago in- 1981 vyhen . he repi ied to an advertisement in the Chicago Tribune calling for a "principal project manager." After checking his qualLfications, a Parsons official invited him by telephone to come to California at company expense for a series of interviews.
In California, he learned that the work location was in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia. Then, according to Hochberg, a Pfirsons executive told him that they would like to ask a "sensitive" question: "Are you Jewish?!' When the engineer replied that he was, the official reportedly stated:
The Name Game
There's a story in almost every Jewish surname and Toronto lawyer FRED M. CATZ-MAN has been researching their origins over the past few years.
In a series of articles Mr. Gatzman reports on his research. If you have any information relating to the origin and meaning of our surname, please pass it along to Fred M. Catzman, c/o T|ie Canadian Jewish News, 562 Eglinton Ave. E., Toronto M4P1P1.
GREIF - PRACHE
I have previously referred to the; Frankfurter Judengasse — the Jewish street where hou.ses were identified by insignia rather than municipal numbers. The illustridus surname Rothschild (red shield) springs from this,source.
.A number of shields dejjicted animals like Fuchs (fox) and Lamm (lamb). Others owed their origin to mythology and have endured as surnames in cur-..fenfuse.. ' Vy ^ ■
Greif is the Gemian for griffin, a fabulous animal having the head and wiiigs of an eagle and the body and hind quarters of a lion. The Polish word is Gryf.;.;^ ' .
Drache is German for dragon — a mythical winged monster, part serpent, pail crocodile, usually represented as breathing put fire.
By coincidence, after I had written the foregoing, I received a letter from Dr. Cyril Gryfe of ■Toronto reciting Graif and Grajf as alternative spellings of his surname, but which have the same pronunciation as the Germaft Greif and Polish Gryf. It is pos.sible that the name comes from Gryfice, a toy/n in Poland, but I prefer its identification, with the majestic eagle and the mighty lion.
'•I wish I had asked you that question on the telephone while you were still in Chicago."
Hochberg was turned down for the job, although, he noted, his professional " qualifications were never questioned or in dispute. He filed a eoniplaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and won:thecoitimissipn's permission to bring ^uit in a U.S.. district court in California. .
.His. suit charged the Parsons. Company with violating Title Vllof the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination on grounds of face or religion •
.The company agreed to pay $72,500 iri damages as part of ah out-of-court settlement. The Parsons Company, without admitting guilt.— a custorhary prac-, tice in siich agreements .— promised it would adhere in the; future to a policy of processing all applications and applicants for employ-rhent with Saudi Arabian ernployers "in- a nondiscriminatory, rnanner. without regard to the religion of any applicant."
Parsons also declared that, in the future, it will enforce a company prohibition against any inquiry concerning ah applicant's religion.
PARIS -
A state funeralAvas held -l!,ere last week, at the Chapel of St. Louis Desln-valides for Marcel Dassault. The multimillionaire industrialist, died several days earlier at. age 94. He;was the founder and leading light of the French aircraft industry.
His Miraige, rings the Middle East todays Sleek
Fls and 2000s form a bulwark of Arab air forces, while Kfirs, locally updated Mirages, have been prominent in Israel's de^ fences. Israel's refinements of the original deltai wing launched the Jewish state into aerospace technology.
The Ouragan and Mystere Jets Dassault produced in the early 50s were used by both French and Israeli forces against Egypt in the Suez War of 1956. His Mirage delta wing plane caught the imagination of the world when deployed with un-priecedented boldness by Israiet in the Six Day War.
Although he never visited IsraeJ, Dassault was on intimate terms with many Israeli leaders and reportedly t<x)k pride in the way Israeli pilots handled his high performance jets.
Dassault was born Marcel Bloch. the sickly fourth son of a Jewish Parisian physician. His first sighting of an airplane, in
191.0, ignited his lifelong passion. He became the first graduate . of an aeronautical engineering school, and quickly gave his country the benefit of his talent. His design for a; propeller gaive; France's World War I aircraft a disfinct advantage over their German opponents. , He developed an aircraft company in the 3bs. When it was nationalized by the governmeint, he managed to stay in charge, as head
of its design bureau.
During World War 11, he ; refijsed German demands to Work for the Luftwaffe. He was sent to die in Buchenwald concentration camp in ,1944, He surviv:. ed through Communist and other inmates who kept him fed unfil liberation.
A few ' yeairs 'later, he converted to Roman Catholicism and launched his Avions Marcel Dassault, the sole supplier to the French air force.
to CJC plenary
MONTREAL -
To eric6urage the participation of persons aged 18 to 35, the Canadian Jewish Congress, Quebec Region, is offering travel subsidies to the national organization's plenary assembly in Toronto May 7-11, A chartered bus will leave Montreal May 8 and return May 11.
: The subsidies were made possible by a grant from the federal secretary of state for miilticulturalisrti.
information on how to apply in CJC's Quebec Region, call Michelle Trafikani, 931-7531. Pre-r^istration is required.
The CJC offices will be closed April 30 and May 1 for Passover. ; ' * ■. . - *
Editor's note: According. to the Canadian Jewish Congress national office, each CJC region has been allocated a portion of the federal grant. For further information, call the , regional CiC offices.
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and military installations, and killed his adopted infant daughter, seemed in control of Libya despite nirxiors that he had been overthrown in a coup.
Qadaffi's nemesis, Ronald Reagan, sounded a warning that the full weight Of American military power would be used to counter terrorism..
Reagan made two points. He called on Arab nations to join the U.S. in combating terrorism. And he said he could not rule out retaliation against Syria and Iran if they were irrefutably linked to terrorism in which Americans were the victims.
However, Secretary of State George Shultz toned down Reagah's remarks by saying the U.S. had no plans to attack Syria and : Iran. ■
The contradictory statements underscored the fact that no consensus has been developed within the Reagan adrninistriation on how far to go militarily to counter terrorism. _
Nevertheless i. .the Americans plan to focus on international terrorism at this week's Tokyo economic summit, where the leaders of the leading; seven Western industrial nations will meet. ^
Throughout Europe and the Middle East, there was no letup in terrorism. •In North Yeihen, an
^ American cbmmimications officer in the U.S. embassy was shot and wounded.
•In Lyons, France, the British manager of an American company was killed, and an explosion ripped through the deserted office of American Express.
•In London, a bomb damaged a British Airways office in the early hours of the morning.
•In Vienna, a bomb went off in the office of Saudi Arabia's national airline.
Mohammed Abbas, who is accused of master^ minding last year's Achille Lauro bracking, said last week that he was pirganizing revolutionary groups to act against American and Israeli interests.
. At a cpnference on terrorism in St. jean, Quebec, participants were told that Canadian terrorists trained in Libya and South Yemen are preparing to kidnap and assassinate politicians m this country.
The forecast was made by.Peter Shoniker, an Ontario crown attorney and consultant ,6n terrorism.
John Thomi^n, of the Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies, predkted that terrorism in Canada was likely to increase.
He said that one indigenous Canadian terrorist group, Direct Action, had received traitiing in South Yemen and Libya.
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