The" Canadian Jewish News, Thursday, January 7, 1982 - Page 7
LUCY KUGLER ACCEPTS AWARD
Lucy Kugler, a guest at services in Beth Emeth BaisYehudaSynagQgueonShabbat-Chanukah, Dec, 26, was presented with an Award of Righteousness in memory of her husband, Victor Kagler. This was in recognition of Kugler's humanitarianism in hiding AnneFrank, her family and friends in Holland during World War 11. Six trees have been plantedin Israelin ;Lucy Kugler's honor. .
MAMTQBrirn)RO CHAIRMAN
Saol Chemlak has been appointed chairman df~ Manitoba Hydro, replacing Kris Krlstjanson. Cher-niack, a long-time NOP member of the Manitoba legislature,, who announced hjs- retirement from politics when the November provincial election was called, was described by Manitoba Premier Howard Pawiey. as one of the most respected and distinguished members.
The 65-year-pld Winnipeg lawyer, who was first elected in 1962, served as finance minister for five years under Edward Sclireyer, and was also minister reporting for Manitoba Hydro and the Manitoba Telephone System.
FELLOWSHIP FOR GORDON
Dr. Michaci Gordon, senior physician at Baycrest TerraCe, recently completed the first fellowship in geriatric medicine examinations held by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada^
NEW HUMAN RIGHTS CHAIRMAN
Premier William Davis has announced the appointinent of Canon Borden C. Pnrceli of Ottawa as chairman of the Ontario Human Rights Commission. The appointment is effective Feb. 19 and continues until Dec. 31.1984. .
■ : Canon Purcell will succeed Dr. Dorothea Crittenden who was appointed the first woman chairman of the commission in 1978 after a distinguisified career as an Ontario public servant. '
'\Dr. Crittenden has been an a3ileandxQinpassion-ate servant of the people of this province," said Premier Davis.
Canon Purcell, 53, who has been canon of Christ Church Anglican Cathedral in Ottawa since 1973, was first appointed a meniber of the OHRC in 1978 and was reappointed in 1981. _^ _
' Born in Athens, Leeds Conty, he is a graduate of the Universityof Bishop's College in Lennoxville, Que., and also completed three years' officer training with the Royal Canadian Army Chaplains Corps. He obtained a Bachelor of Sacred Theology in 1954 from ^ Trinity College, Universityof Toronto.
•His work has involved the implementation of many events, such as conferences on racism, refugees and other disadvantaged persons. He is a member of the United.Nations Association, and was also a membier of a special Anglican Church task force on the church and human rights in 1979, presenting a paper which has served as a guide for the church's human rights activities.
MT. SINAI APPOINTMENT
Dr. Pamela M. Fitzhardinge assumes the position of paediatrician»in-chief of Mt. Sinai Hospital on April i. She is currently a senior staff physician and also director of medical education at the Hospital for Sick Children.
With the opening of the new perinatal unit. Dr. Fitzhardinge will also become head of paediatric perin'atology.rin the meantime. Dr. Bernard LaskI is continuing as acting paediatrician-in-chief.
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A Torah scroll which once lielonged to Rabbi Isaiac Mayer Wise, a foonder of Reform Judaism, is presented in Boston to Senator Edward M. Kennedy [left] as a gift to the Kennedy library by Rabbi Alexander M. Schlndler, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. OriginaOy presented to the senator's brother, President Jblm F. Kennedy hi 1962, the Torah was kept hi the UHAG^s Religions Action Centrej Wasliington, after his death. The presentation was made l>efore 4,000 delegates to the concnrrent conventions of tlie Union of American Hebrew Congregations, the central body of Reform Judaism in Amerl<^ and Its sister organization, the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods.
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By MARSHA EINES
TORONTO —
Germans today have a personal responsibility to support Jews and Israel and to denounce racism throughout the world. Rabbi Erwin Schild of Adath Israel Synagogue said here recently at a lecture sponsored by the Christian-Jewish Dialogue of Toronto, B'nai B'rith League for Human Rights and the synagogue.
"As I said in a chorch in Cologne, the city of my family and my firiendst'm theirname, I hold yon re? sponsible r- not for the, past, l>ecaase yon were not there, but for the fntnre," lie declared.
Schild was in Germany recently, where he was in-: vited to speak ^t Christian churches. In discussions he held with Catholic and Protestant ministers, said Schild, he raised the ques- • tion of how the Holocaust could have happened in a Christian country and how Christians could . be accomplices to the atrocities suffered by Jews.
He said Jewish-Christian relations are still troubled by these unresolved questions and that Christian-Jewish dialogue is essential in Germany.
Schild said a reconciliation with Christians must be initiated by Germans and' involve Jewish vic-tims."Tp buy the Nazi past without an autopsy will . bring on repetition," he said. "After Auschwitz, you can't deny the evil of humanity and even Christian nature. Christianity must have a basis without denying the basis of Judaism."
Part of the German reconciliation must involve supporting Jewish snrvlv-al, said Schild: economically, to help offset the increasing power of the hostile oil-rich economies, and spiritoaOy, to appreciate the truths of the Holocaust, by going to Is-rael to learn abont Jews. ''Some groups douljt~the~~' Holocaust, so Germans must get information first hand . . . speak to Jews who were thfere,'' he said.
Despite the general apathy prevalent towards the "Holocaust in Germany, the presence of cer-:. v : tain individuals was en-. couraging, said Schild. One of his hostesses was" the daughter, of a Pror testant minister who died in a concentration camp. The hostility of her father's own church, which thought him a trouble- ; maker, galled her more than that of the Nazis, said the rabbi. ; ; ■
Screening in Germany of the : TV mini series "Holocaust" prompted many young people to ask . their elders what they were doing during the time of the persecutions. ; The interest of the young and the apathy of the old " were demonstrated in a
yideofilm, by German youths, entitled "The Traces of Jews in Germany in 1939." In it, said Schild, "the elderly want to ignore that the Jewish fact existed."
The total destruction of the 1,700-year-old community prevents present-day Germans from visualizing its contributions —a "tremendous victory for Hitler, "he said.
Diespite the present goverrimer* 's accommodation, the small new Jewish community does not truly feel part of Germany, according to Schild.
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