Page 12 - The Canadian Jewish News, Thiirsday, October 30, 1980.
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CONGRATULATIONS, PROF. SELA
Prof. Michael Sela, president of Israel's Weizmann Institute, was in Toronto recently to receive Gairdner award for hJs research in lmmunolog>'. Shown at a reception in his honor are from left: Dr. Martin linger, chairman of local Weizmann medical committee; Sela; Murray Koffler, chairman of the Canadian Weizmann Society; and Dr. Sol Goldstein.
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Serving for 25 is one of 500
By MURRAY MALKIN
TORONTO ^
Around the Jewish Community Centre's northern branch, Brian Bender is what is Icnown as a super volunteer. He gives his time to that organization — and several others — in a very unselfish fashion.
Bender is at the top of the JCC volunteer ladder and besides.runniiig a voir leyball.house league, he serves on the management committee for the building.
According, to Barbara Lampcpv.' the' JCCs coordinator of volunteers, the management committee helps to run the building. "They decide what to buy. what programs to ■run'. They're the policy fhalcers." . ,
Bender told The Canadian-Jewish News that "I didn't solicit any of.this, But it appears to be a na-. tural role for Bender to fill. He's been a volunteer at
the JCC for 25 years. Starting in the days when it was still known as the YMHA, he worked as an, arts and crafts instructor for leaders of teen clubs.
■•'Eventually.'* said the 43-year-old packaging consultant for Hallmark Containers. "Ibecame the art director of the South Y paper. 1 had always loved sports and art. and the Y wasjust a great place to be around.
"In fact. 1 gave fitness classes for 20 years. ■ ■
Asked if he had ever considered, giving up his consultingjob to become a full-time worker at the JCC, Bender said he pre-. fers being his own boss, . "but as a volunteer you can help out.
"I still . get a -lot; of • nachus when 1 .run into .some of the kids I've worked with over the 25 years. I like it when they come up to chat."
Bender said he's noticed many changes around the JCC since h!s
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early days there; Now, It's a huge operation with more than 14,000 . members. He said it is ver)' profesionally run; In the early days "anbody who could help would." : Lampcov said that Beri: der is just one of about 500 volunteers who helps out at the JCC. but "he is an outstanding man'' because in addition to all the time he devotes to the JCC, he also works as the national chairman for the Canadian M.accabiah Games Association's badminton selection committee, and he is vice-chair-manof the Jewish Welfare Board's volleyball tournament. ■ . Bender is particularly
proud of the vice-chairmanship with • JWB because he is the first Canadian to serve on the JWB e.\ecutive, "and they've been going for 30years."
Besides his full' time job. Bender owns the King Valley Day Camp.
During his years around the JCC he was a good enough athlete to be chosen the outstainding baseball player of the Y's major league. :'in 1955. And from 1967 to 1969 he was named the outstanding adult athleteat the Y.
If Interested In vplitD-' iteering tof'JeJtAtk^lb^ : munai service, please caD ' Jewish Informatibii Service at 789-7278, or 633-SlOOj the phone.number for the Inter-Agency Recruitment Centre.
By ANDREA PARKER
NIAGARA FALLS, Ont.
The Niagara Falls Sis--llerhopd and Hadassah-WIZO presented a prog-ram describing the Jewish: holiday and related symbolic objects to members of local service organizations and. teachers from public and senior public schools, in the B'nai Jacob synagogue, recently.
Karen Juliar. one of the convenors, said the program was held because "the time is right for a little public relations." Similar programs have been held periodically in the past.
At the beginning of the evening, Beverley Black-stien, presiderit of the two organizations, explained to the 50 women who attended, that Sisterhood and Hadassah merged in Niagara Falls because although they have different purpoises, they have the same members.
Mrs. Blackstien gave » brief outline of the development of Zionism and the formation of the State of Israel. Then she invited the audience to watch "the tour of the Jewish home beautiful."
As Sylvia Parker, the other convenor and narrator of the evening spoke about how "the beauty of the Jewish home resembles the ever-changing beauties of nature ... the beauties of the Jewish home pass through an endless cycle of repetition, but not of exact duplication." a spotlight shone on the specific holiday table to which she referred. i
At each of the tables, Rosh Hashanah. YomKip-pur. Sukkot. Chanukahi Purim, Passover, Shavupt or Shabbat, one of the members of the congrega^ tion displayed the object Mrs. Parker referreditb ^hethe^it wias the chill the lulav and etrog or dreidle. Then the ihein*: ber lit the festival candle^f and by the eiid of thS program, a soft glow was cast by the burning can-
dles atop seven of the eight'tables.
The women were joined by children from the Hebrew school . Julia Green, David Roff. Wendy Gold -and Mark Green sang songs and recited the appropriate prayers which afe~special to each holiday. During the explanation of the Rosh Hashanah
table, Rabbi Nathan Liber-man blew the shofar.
Although there was no table for Yom Ha'atzniaut (Israel Indepeiideiice Day), Parker told how the holidayTs celebratesd with "official and unofficial parades and street pair-ties" in Israel.
The evening concluded with inembers of the audi-
ence examiiiing the religious objects on the table and asking numeroiis iquestionsi Most tasted the gefilte fish and other delicacies before turning to coffee and cakes. : There are approximately 40 Jewish families in Niagara Falls and 10 children in the Hebrew school.
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came, saw, went
By DAVID BIRKAN
TORONTO —
He: came to North America, he saw, and he went back home to Israel.
Mark Finkelstein, 30,. took a two-month leave from his municipal engin-eeriiig job in Tel Aviv to look up old clasismates from the Soviet Union who settled in New York and Toronto. He and his immediate family emigrated to Israel from a town near Rigainl973.
\'For j'eare, they were writing me how good things were for them," Fhikelsteln tol^ Ilie Canadian Jewish News. "They told me to come down and see for myself and to consider JoiniBg them."
One former classmate was "a genius in computers," according to Finkelstein. He initially moved to-Israel where he took computer training; his progress and performance were outstanding, earning him management of the company's Jerusalem branch within a year. He was scouted by an American firm and taken to a Nelw York position three vears ago at a starting •salary of$50;000. .
"Since then," said Finkelstein, "he started his own firm of computer management and consul-J tatibn, atid also teachejs at college. He has a suite of
offices in the Pan Am building."
In Toronto, besides family, Finkelstein visited . a former sbhool chum now working for a large construction compainy; "He has a house in the Bat-hurst-Steeles area and makes about $25,000 a year. This, 1 understand, is not exceptional here.
"My New York friend wais busy much 6f the time and could not spend time with me, although I stayed - at his apartment. But his ftiends and other Jews from Russia did not seem really happy;" Finkelistein said that although afflu-eiit, they projected a "forced gaiety" that was belied by occasional displays of melancholy.
Their aimless, vulnerability — in New York, for exainple, missionary and cult members were forever roaming their neighborhood,, according to Finkelstein — and lack of community affiliation were dismaying. ,
"It is true that in Israel things are far from perfect for us," admitted Finkelstein, who said his father in Migdal Haemek recetly lost his job. He also claimed that Dayid Levi, Israers immigration min-: ister, seemed to be less than sympathetic to the plight of recently arrived Soviet iirimigrants.
''Batlsradis a Jewish coontry. Whatever we do
there are efforts for the Jewish people, The excitement and sense of living there are real. Just to walk through the streets gives one a sense of destiny and the real beginnings of a sense of purpose."
MIZRACHi-HAPOEL HAMIZRACHI
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