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~      By RABBI \y. GUNTHER PLAUT
Reader's Digest used to have Fseries of articles entitled '"The Most Unforgettable Character 1-Ever Met." There are mamy people in Toronto and for that matter in Canada w'ho_\vould list the latT" Heinz Warschauer as fitting that niche in their lives. To me he was not only unforgettable, he was also iiispiration, support and best of all, friend. ■ He is gone now after a long bout with cancer,-but his influence is very much alive.
Sortie 800 people attended his funeral, amongst them scores of Canada's iiiteliec- Rabbi Plaut
lual and artistic elite, professors and painters, journalists and poets, judges and a host of other professionals and business people — a cross section of that significant sector Of our community to whom he was someone special.
He himself was neither professor nor politician; he held no public office and was in fact retired from the position he had held for 35 years, that of director of religious education at Holy Blossom Temple. Most people have a stereotype image of the mclamed: one who drills children in Hebrew and davvening. tells pleasant biblical stories or propounds specific religious doctrine and would otherwise be classified as a harmless "nice guy."
Heinz Warschauer was none of these and he most certainJy was not Mr. Nice Guy. Quite the contran. He was an irascible bachelor and passionate Jewish educator and was often totally unpredictable. One of the oft-repeated stories about him tells of a birthday party in his honor for which he never show»>d up.
Rather than teach unquestioning faith, he taught its approaches and pathways and considered doubt the handmaiden of truth. To him. the searching doubter was a more secure believer ■ than the one whose faith had never undergone critical assessment.
He questioned aod he taught his students and teachers to question. He considered social commitment and action an ineluctable part of the religious qiiest. He believed in standards — and once the curriculum was set he demanded of his students that they achieve its goals.
From the smallest grade on. his religious school was organized like a community.of scholars. "If you did not want our standards." he would say, "there are other places where you can get some form of religious training. Ours aims to create mature, intelligent and literate persons."
No wonder that out of his school would emerge future teachers, rabbis, and academicians. Chief
Justice (then Prof.) Bora.Laskin was one of those • closely.associated with him.. .
He was a masterteacher. For him there wereno children that mattered, there was only the child. Teachers en masse didn-U count, but the individual teacher did. He was a historian at heart: the knowledge of one's roots was essential to him " and he loved to teach history.
He was a brilliant analyst and wielded i facile pen. Early in his career lie had edited Magazine Digest.
Above all he was an intellectual. The word emerged in the 1860s in Russia to designate that section of the educated youth who were critically thinking personalities. Later It came to mean those who questioned all traditional values in the name of reason and progress, and only thereafter did it assume the meaning which it has today: to describe those who are the culture bearers of society, the defenders of humanistic values. Heinz (as he was linown to young and old] belonged to the clerisy* that givwip from which the poets, phiiospKers and scholars of a nation are drawn. He was one of our clerisy's most noble representative.
We both came from the same environment in Germany. We both studied for a little while at the Jewish Rabbinical Seminary. Subsequently. 1 went to the United States and he to England where he was interned and then sent with that famoiis transport of which Eric Koch has written to Canada, and here joined that panoply of future Canadians — men like Emil Fackenheim, Walter Honiburgcr. — who contributed greatly to the
. culture of this land.
But that uas still faroff.in the early 1940s when in Germany he was interned because he was a Jew and in England because he.was a German. The double tension deeply affected his later outlook on
■ life and made him doubly Committed ,to the c.vploration of his identity and the firming up of the commitment to which he gave his best years.
In his last days, w^hen his mind was no longer clear, his imagination took him back into the clutches of the persecutors. Screaming in pain, he begged for the chance to be free. Such were the nightmares of one who was freer in spirit than most of his contemporaries.
The thousands who not only respected him but considered him their spiritual mentor bear vivid testimony to the possibility of teaching as one of the great professions. Heinz Warschauer had no children of his own, yet he did have the devotion of scores of friends and disciples who treated him with a kind of love that the best children give to-their parents. Always there was someone with him. and night watches reassured him that he was never alone.
He was and is for many that truly unforgettable man.
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Hebrew is taught in one public-school, in Cincin-. nati, and 18' of the 20 pupils, in the class are Black.
Teacher Winston. Pickett sees the class at largely black Woodward High School as a bridge between Blacks and Jews; that's why he began teaching it two vears ago.-■ "In  1979.  1 ; feh the polarization   from the^ Andy .Young affair,"-explained Pickett, a doctoral student at Hebrew Union College ■ here. Young resigned as U.S. ambassa-
dor to the United Natioris after an unauthorized meeting -yvith a representative of the Palestine Liberation. Organization. His resignation infuriated Black leaders who thought Ypurig had become a scapegoat' in- a government policy change .regarding Israel. Some Jerws .were angered by what, they thought was the gov-, ernment's betrayal of Israel.
The incident prompted Pickett .to take over the class in Hebrew.
"It was my first expe-
rience teaehiiig,." he said. "When I began to feel more self-confident, 1 began to think about what the role of the program could be at Woodward."
Pickett said he felt awkward bringirig. a Semitic language, to Black students, who were still trying to come to terms with their own culture.Then he met a Kentucky professor of Semitic languages.
That professor, who was Black,-- said that ■ his interest in languages had helped him put into perspective his experience as
ah inner-city child.
That's when I got re- ■ ligion," Pickett said. '.'1 promoted the program."
Flebrew,   has been taught  for  10 years at Woodward.  When the . class began, the school had a large Jewish enrolment. Instead of parents, seriding their; children elsewhere to learn Hebrew-, it was arranged for ^ the  Hebrew .Bureau of' Jewish Education to provide a teacher and pay part of his. salary. Now;: the school is predominantly Black.: -
By SHELDON KmSiBVER
Syria and Jordan, both of which share a frontier whh Israel, are engaged in a cold w^ar which has been at least a year in the making. .
Observers don't believe a hot war is necessarily inevitable. Indeed, Damascus and Amman have begun to mend their mutual relations. Earlier this month, a Jordanian delegation visited Syria on a fence-mending mission.
NeverthieliBss, Syrian-Jordanian relations are at alow point, and no one in either capital is predicting a speedy resolution of the problem. In fact, given their differences, Syria and Jordan are bound to be eyeing each other nervously for months to come.
Sparring verbally, the combatants are embroiled in a whole host of issues, ranging froni the Feb. 6 abduction in Beirut of a Jordanian diplomat, to the opposite views they've adopted vis-a-vis the Iran-Iraq war.
This bitter war of words erupted last summer, when Syria accused Jordan of providing aid arid comfort to the outlawed Moslem. Brotherhood, a fundamentalist group which seeks the overthrow of Hafez Assad, the Syrian president.
Jhe Jordanians denied the charge, going as far as co-operating with. Syrian intelligence in tracking down a number of individuals who live in Jordan, where the Moslem Brotherhood is legal.
For good measure, Jordan handed over several of the suspects to Syria, and they were summarily executed, much to Jordan's embarrassment- Syria's rush to judgment may explain why Jordan subsequently refiised to deport to Syria ,tw6 Syrian pilot^ who- defected, /rte Jordanians returned .their MIG fighters but drew the line at the pilots' deportation.
A few-weeks later. Syria moved up 1,000 tanks.and
some 50,000 troops to the Jordanian frontier, in a bid , to disrupt ari Arab'^summit hosted by King-^Hussein and to ^erve notice on Jordan that its pro-Iraqi sympathies were not appreciated. 7;
Within a couple of weeks, because of Saudi dip.lomacy, the borde.r crisis cooled. But its roots remain intact.       . ■"■
Jordan and Syria havd diametrically opposed views on the six-month-old war; between Iran and Iraq, with King Hussein backing the latter and President Assad supporting the former.
TTie Hashemite monarch has come down on Iraq's side for several reasons: Unlike the Syrians, who have little oil. the Iraqis are loaded to the gills with petrodollars. Since 1978. the Iraqis have channeled hundreds of millions of dollars into Jordan's treasury.
.'\s well;the Jordanians resent the Shi'ife revolution in Iran, which, they fear, could spread its contagion to predominantly Sunni Moslem regimes. King Hussein had a cordial relationship with the late shah of Iran and apparently he has not forgiven the mullahs in Teheran for having ousted him.
. Finally, King Hussein, who has often suffered the pangs of isolation, does not wish to find himself outside the Arab nationalist mainstream, which is pcr^ionified by Iraq in its strliggic with Iran;
Syria., which is at odds with Iraq over other matters, -deeply resents Jordan's position on the Iran-Iraq war. Until the early part of^j^79. Syria and Jo^n were \veH on theu-u.iy to coas61idati,ng a previously - annoiinced 'j^dministrative" merger 'f- a proposed\uiii0r;.whic.li' •iihravelled as a result of acrimonious Syrian charges that Jordan was helping the Moslem Brotherhood.
In this atmosphere of mutual recriminations,
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the stlU-mysterions kidnapping of the Jordanian; - charge d'affairs hi Behnt, Hisham Mohelsen, came as another blow to Syrian-Jordaniah reliatlons.
Claimiftg responsibility : for the abduction was a pro-Syrian group, the Eagles of Lebanon. The' Eagles demanded the return to Syria of two pilots who had defected. The kidnappers promised to strike at other Jordanian embassies if their demands were not met.
In reaction, Jordan tightened internal security and increased surveillance of Syrians entering the country. Syria denied it was responsible for the abduction, which remains unsolved. But Jordan's state-controlled radio retorted: "The crime committed by the Syrian regime against the Jordanian embassy to Lebanon showed beyond all doubt that the sectarian Syria regime has chosen to : develop terrorism inside and outside Syria."
The Jordanians view alleged Syrian subversion with the utmost serious-
ness, vehement Syrian denials notwithstanding;^ Jordan's prime minister, Mudar Badrah — the object of a recently nn-covered_SyrIan iassassbia-tion plot — Is reportedly convhiced that Syria Is bent on a campaign of sabotage iagalnst his nation. "There is widespread Unease," he told The Christian Science Monitor.
Meanwhile. The Washington Post reported Jordan's crown prince Hassan as saying,"The situation is really as serious as the Syrians Want to make •it." '
The Syrians, though, are just as indignant.
TTiey pointedly say that Badran sympathizes with the Moslem Brotherhood. And Tishrin. the official organ of Syria's ruling Ba'ath Party, describes the abduction of Hisham Moheisen as "a pretext for waging a campaign of lies against Syria;"
Ahmad Iskander, Syria's information minister, says thait his country will press ahead with plans to "punish'' Jordan -
Ian leaders who, he asserts. Instigated large-scale riots in Syrian cities last year. .
^ Iskander and senior Syrian officials arej_ incensed by what they call Jordan's "propaganda campaign" against Syria. Petra, the Jordanian news agency, reported recently that 200 Moslem Brothers had been killed in Aleppo during a Syrian search-and-destroy "mission. The Syrians deny the veracity of the story, and add that it is part of a joint Jordanian-U.S. plot to destabilize Syria,
Exacerbating the ten-. . sion is$yria^8 aissumptlon, proven false so far, that Jordan hitends to Join the Camp David peace process .. Syria threatens to use force against Jordan If Its leaders go that diplomatic route.
In spite of all the rhetoric spewed forth from Amman and Damascus, Syria and Jordan maintain' political and trade relations. But If the accusations they've hurled at each other are substantiated by hard, irrefutable facts, the situation could change drastically.
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