The Canadian Jewish News, Thursday, Deceniber 24, 1981 - Page 9
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[Michael Ranuickpl^to] Lonlse Rosenbloom (left] and Wendy Piatt show off new Hadassah-WIZO iMWter.
By SHEILA DROPKIN TORONTO —
Chanukah has special significance for the close-to 500 children from 30 countries who live at Hadassim, the village and educational institution near Haifa sponsored by Canadian Hadassah-WIZO- It was on Dec. 18, 1944, the last day of the Festivalof Lights, that the first furrow was plowed on a tract of land near the malaria-infested Wadi Falk. which, in less than three years, became the first stage of thelOG-acre campus.
Today, the members of Toronto Hadassah-WIZO are deeply involved in assuring their annual support ifor Hadassim, 14 day care centres and t\yo kindergartens. Throughout the city, they are selling $1 raffle tickets in the hope of raising $60,000.
Each year, as soon as the Hadassah bazaar has closed its doors, the Hadassim committee begins work. Louise Rosen-bloom, 1981 chairman, and her vice-cahirman, Wendy Flatt, are proud of these facilities and their role in assuring that the services continue. "Hadassim is consid-
ered the best academic school in Israel," Rosen-bloom says. "Most of the children arrive in despair, in trouble with the authorities, as refugees, without hope or a sense of happiness. At Hadassim, they find a loving substitute family, which helps them reach their potential, teach them and prepare them for a productive and successful life.
"Of the 5,000 most recent granduates, not one has been in trouble with the law since leaving school and many have gone on to institutions of higher learning, business of professions."
The first residents were 50 Hungarian and Polish , orphans of the Holocaust and an equal hnmber, of sabras. The newest students Include refugees from Soviet Russia, Iran and Cambodia, the school has developed a unique method of hitegrating the immigrants through a. combined teacldng plan in both Hebrew and their own native languages.
The day care centres and kindergartens are scattered throughout Israel and are used by Jewish arid Arab children. They have' served as a
vehicle for teaching impoverished and backward families about life in a modern society. Special classes and services are also provided for the mothers.
The Rose Dunkelman Day Care Centre in Jerusalem is supported solely by IForonto Hadassah-WIZO.
The raffle tickets each have a "$1 off" coupon for a hairstyling at Magicutts, as ah added incentive^ The drawjpr three top prizes — $5i200 cash, a trip for two to Barbados and a 20-inch color television •— will take place On March 1 at an open meeting at the Adath Israel Synagogue.
Sujjport for Hadassim and the day care centres and kindergartens can also be provided through the purchase of donation cards at $5 each minimum and liniited posters, with the same design of children dancing the hora, at $25 each. In iaddition, the siipport-a-child prpjectof-fers the opportunity to sponsor a child at one of the centres.
For information on the Hadassim arid. day-care centre projects, call the Hadassah-WIZO office at -789-4373.
By MARSHA EINES
TORONTO —
More than 400 parents, suppoirtlers and alumnae of Beth Jacob High School and Teachers (Allege recently heard a, New York scholar discuss what he described "Ss "woniien's extra measure of nnder-taktag."
The   event was^^he school's 21st annual ban-— quet, which also featured:
• Presentation of a special award to two students, Tsivi Chase and Robin Wolfe by Hilda Nussbaum.
• A symbolic explanation of the school's philosophy, by principal Akiva Stefansky.
• A medley of traditional Jewish songs, by Cantor Harold Klein of the Shaarei Shomayim Con-gregiation.
Beth Jacob, on Lawrence Ave., is an Orthodox girls' secondary school stressing treacher education. Most of its students are graduates of Eitz Chaim.
Guest speaker at the . banquet. Rabbi Israel Miller of Kollel Beit Yitzhak in Pittsburgh .described several incidents in past and present Jewish history demonstrating his ' thesis "that women are capable of perceiving things that men, while equally intelligent, can-riot." He is the author of several traditiona:lly-oriented works, including "Ten Jewish Women in Contemporary Society.''
"About 2,000 years ago, Rachel, the daughter of a wealthy and respected man in Israel, fell in love with an illiterate shepherd. She saw in him untold greatness. Her father saw nothing more than an uneducated peasant. She married the man and urged him to begin school, at 40 yea!rs of age.
"That man |s known to us now as Rabbi Akiva," said Rabbi Miller. (Akiva, an outstanding sage of the Talriiud, became the , period's leading spiritual light.)
"The point is, Rachel saw something that. her father and others didn't. She spotted his hidden greatness and encouraged liim until he really did become as great as she knew him to be,'' said Miller,
He related another incident that took place in the same period. The prodigy Rabbi Elazer ben Azaryah was offered the position of academy head at the age of 18, by Rabbi Akiva and his illustrious associate, Rabbi  Gamaliel. Rabbi
Azaryah. declined, saying he rieeded advice before giving his decision. "To whom could have Azaryah   turned who would have known better than  those  two sages whether he was fit for the job?" said Miller. "His wife or course." —-She pointed puttoAzar-,yah. Miller said, that his. youthfulness might foster disrespect among the stu-
dents. The great stress and responsibility riiight cause his own learning to. suffer. Azaryah decided to ; decline the position when, overnight, his hair turned
. Azaryah accepted after all, because of the mitacle that underscored his wife's concern, said Rabbi Miller.. '   .;. ^\
Miller also" discussed the   case   of  a recent
"baal'as t'shuva" by thie name of Patti, who was studying in a yeshiva in Israel. She had wanted to find out more about her Judaism for years, but it was not iintil shie heard a song by two other baal'ot t'shuva — on a kibbutz in Israel, as it happened that she found tha right spa!rk. "They knew what she needed,'' said Miller. ' 'Neither the religious pro-
fessors, men, at the campus where she had been studying, nor the speakers had been able to respond to her needs," he said. .: Rabbi Stefansky, prin-cipal, compared Beth Jacob's teaching philosophy to rain, in a -simple parable..
Water from rivers cm-wells can be controlled by the strong, by biidlles. Mist from  above may
water the_ valleys, but not. the hills. Just as only rain waters both hills and vaOeys and is beyond monopolization, so Beth
Jacob's edncation is geared to every child's needs and k tnrae available regardless of financial citcdmstancesj said Stefansky.
Master of ceremonies for the banquet, held at the Constellation, Hotel, was Samuel Klein. _
TORONTO —
Jewish education has become, and in the next decades will become, ever niore synonymous with Jewish survival, according to Rabbi Irwin E. Witty, executive director. Board of Jewish Education.
Quoting Prof. Salo Baron, Witty said that assimilation as a force in Jewish life "is only beginning." When this situation is taken together with the decline in Jewish birth rates, the community must seek, in increasing degree, to have quality Jewish education serve as a vehicle for the preservation of Jewish life,.he sa,id.
"The decline in Jewish-population statistics everywhere in the Jewish world outside of Israel means,':' according to the rabbi, "that there will be smaller numbers of Jewish children to populate our schools, desp.ite the continued growth of enrolments in Toronto Jewish schools. In a very short time, we will face an ever-constricting pool of professionals from which to draw teachers and principles."
Witty spoke at a conference of Jewish day school administrators and ■educational directors held recently at Niagara-pn-the-Lake.-
jRabbi Marvin Pachino,
' headmaster, Communiity Hebrew Academy, underscored the need for Jewish educators to develop greater sensitivity to special educational needs of the learning disabled. He also stressed the need to convey to students the "unique destiny" of the-individual Jew. ;
Arthur tannenbaum, executive admiriistrator. Associated^ Hebrew Schools, discussed the pressing financial circumstances faced by the schools. During the past seven years, tuition fees have increased by almost 100%. He expressed concern about the ability of day schools to pay reasonable teacher salaries in the face of serious ecoriomic hardship which is beginning to confront the day schools.
"Our precarious position must be the concern of every Jewish individual in Toronto," he said.
Dr. Donald Musella, professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, presented workshops in Management Techniques. Evaluation Procedures, and Time Budgeting.
Conference co-ordina-tors were Harold. Malitz-^ky,,associate director, ,.6oard of Jewish'Educa-, tion, who also served as closing  speaker at the seminar, "and Gary M.
MR. & MRS. LEON ALEXANDER
of St. John's, Nevyfoundland,i .     are happyto announce the . . engagement of their daughter .
FRANCES to DR. GARY BLOOMBERG son of MR. & MRS. SAM BLOOMBERG
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of.Johannesburg, South Africa. ■ Wedding to be held June, 1982.in Toronto.
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All eyes are on Harold R^p at recent Young Adults UJA telethon. Beside him Is David Brown. Standing, from left, are, Tova Kelman, Sheila Hochman, Ros Krakowsky, Harriet Sidler, Susan Marcus and Cindy Singer.
They love fund raising
THE SHE'ARIM HEBREW DAY SCHOOL
announces with regret ■■
the postponement of its Annual Benefit Concert.
. The program, which was to have, been held
on (Wednesday^ is being rescheduled, for the Spring;
An announcement indicating the new
date of the concert will appear
in The Canadian Jewish News.
. .She'arim thanks the many members of the V     Toronto Jewish Community who were ..• prepared to support this effort and apologize for any inconvenience which may have been caused.
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TORONTO —
Where do medical internes, articling lawyers, new graduates and those just entering the work force fit in? In the United Jewish Appeal scheme of things, it's the Young Adults division, now in its fifth year and growing stronger with eachj^am-paign.'
According to co-cnair-nien Ros jKrakowsky and • Ernie RolU the division now- has close to. 900 names on file and 400 active contributors and canvassers. There have been three telethons for the 1982 campaign through which $30,000 has been raised to date..
Members of the division ; generally fit in the age range between 22 and 28 years and once they have established themselves in "careers, move on to Young Executives.
■'It's a good way tp-be-come involved in fund raising," say both; Krakowsky and Roll. "We all feel very comfortable with
each other. The people we approach for contributions are pretty well at the same level in . their earning capacity, so we can em-phathize."
The division got off to a good start early in the campaign with a straw-
berry and champagne party to recruit new canvassers. That was followed by a leadership training seminar.
Now in the. planning stage for Young Adults is a -fund raising dance to be held in February.      —-
Friends of the late
JOSEPH SHOHAM i)
(Passed away, December 29, 1980) Former Director, Board of Jewish Education Media Resources Centre;
have established a fund in his memory, the. income from which will assist in furthering Jewish audio-visual services in the community.,
.  Those seeking to. honour his memory on the.occasion of his Yahrzeit are invited to contribute to this fund.
Contribultons should be sentjo: Joseph Shoham MeniQ/ial, Fund, Board of Jewish Education,. .22 Glen Parky Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M6B2B9.
■ Tfl.v deductible receipts will be issued.
COMING EVENTS
f       BETH TZEDEC
SUN., DEC. 20, 2-5 PM. CHANUKAH CRAFT & FUN FAIR. Folk dancing, movies, games, crafts, latkes. DRESS FOR A MESS!. SI .50 per person. Everyone welcome. Jointly sponsored by Sisterhood and Men's" Clabr —
TUBS.. DEC: 22, 1:15 P.M. FRIENDSHIP CLUB PLUS 50 CHANUKAH PARTY. Choir for Creative Living. Latkes etc. Come and enjoy yourself! Please reserve at 781-351 1. Everyone welconie..S2.75 per person.;:
WES.,. DEC. 29, 1:15. P.M., FRIENDSHIP CLUB PLUS 50 "Cherry Blossom" Dance, Group of,the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre. Semi-Classical and Folk Dancing. Everyone welcome. Non-members 75c.
SAT., JAN. 23, SP.M., TRIVIA NIGHT: Jointly sponsored by Sisterhood . & Men's. Glub, S5 per person; individual & table reservations available, .781-351 1. Everyone welcome! -
^       Friday, January 29 —     -TTAMILY SHABBAT DINNER
Sponsored by Sisterhood.. Services 5:15 p.m.,;Dinner 6:30 pirn., Si2^0-.adults, S9.50 children (12 years :uid under). Program to be anriounced-, candlelightmg available. Pre-paid reservations only: 781-351 1 by Monday, January 25,^982. _
Diamond, principal, general studies. Community Hebrew Academy.
Other program participants were: Dr. Aaron Nussbaum, principal. United Synagogue Day School; Rabbi Shlomo Jakobovits, principal, general : studies, Eitz Chaim Schools; Dr. Shos-haria Kurtz, senior consultant," BJE; Bernard Shoub, director of school finances, BJE; Pearl Goldberg, assistant principal, USDS; and Gloria Humphrey, principal, ele-.' mentary division, Associated Hebrew Schools.
Joseph Goldwasser, executive vice-president, Eitz Chaim, was conference chairman.
25 weekly draws to be held every Thursday, at 8 p.m. from January 7 to June 247T982
$1,000 will be paid out each week to a lucky winner! ONLY 1,000 TICKETS BEING SOLD AT $50 EACH Each ticket is good for all 25 draws -you may even win more than once!
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889-2252
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