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Thursday, May 8, 1980
THE CANADIAN JEWISH NEWS IS AN INDEPENDENT. NONPROFIT NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE Cj^NADIAN JEWISH COMMU^^^
Graves to be restored
MONTREAL -
Temporary markers have been installed on graves of Jewish Canadian servicemen which were desecrated recently in France ^according to Daniel J. McDonald, Canadian minister of veterans affairs.
In a message to Alan Rose, excecutive vice-presiident of Canadian Jewish Congress, McDonald said new headstones have been ordered, from. Italy and will be im-placed as soon as possible.
"I share your shock at the desecration of war graves headstones of Jewish Canadian servicemen buried at the Bretteville-Sur-Laize Cana^ dian war cemetery in France April 5 and 6," said McDonald's telegram. "The Commonwealth Wat Graves Commission-initiated the installation of temporary itiark-ers on April 7 and 8. Replacement headstones will be ordered from Italy and im^ placed as soon as possible. You will be informed." .
McDonald said also that "the mayor of Cinthaux Commune, in which the cemetery lies, has apologized to the commission. This constitutes an apology to all Canadians as the. commission is the sole representative, of all Comm-monwcalth countries and bears complete responsibility on their behalf for related matters."
By JANICE ARNOLD
MONTREAL —
A miemorial service, was held here Monday night for Shamdel Mermelsteln, 19, 'formerly of Montreal, one <rf the five Jewish students shdn^ by PLO gunmen in Hebron as they walked from, sabbath prayers from the Tomb of the Patriarchs. Sevienteeh were woimded, a few critically.
The Montreal service was held at the Rabbfailcai CoUege of Canadit [Lubavitcher ^'yeshiva] where Mermelstein Jiad been a student since 'idndergarten and graduated from the high school hi 1977.
Last fall be went to Jerusalem to study at—the Yavneh yeshiva. He had been visiting Hebron for the; weekend ■ when he was murdered, along with two American aiod two Israeli students.
Rabbi Hersh Feigelstock, principal of Hebrew studies at the Rabbinical CoUege, recalls that Mermelstein was ; an exceptional student and weU liked by all.
"He was a really outstanding but.modest student, par-ticulariy in mathematics and physics. He would get marks in tiie high90s or 100. All his marks were In the high 80s or above,'Vsald the rabbi.
Mermelstein had been ac- since Jhe Six Day War. Israel live in many Lnbavltch activl-^imposed a strict curfew and ties, includhig Chabad House! deported the mayors of Heb-
and Camp Can Israel, where he was a counsellor. .
He was the son of EmU and Udell Mermelstein, of Mountain Sights Ave^, and brother of Abraham, a medical student. The family went to Israel on. Siuday for' the funeral.
The Rabbinical College Is planning a larger, memorial service when the famUy returns to Montreal after the 30-day mounidng period.
The attack at Hebron was the worst by Arabs on Israeli cIvUians in the occupied areas
ron and neighboring Hahlonl to Lebanon. _ -
the PLO, which dalmed responsibility for the ambush, said the expulsion of the mayors would be referred to the UN. PLO chairman Arafat dechu«d: "We are a torrent of blood and we will not stop until we achieve total victory over the Zionist enemy."
Israel defence minister Ezer Weizman said: "We're Ui the midst of the battle on the future of the land of Israel."
Irwin Cotler, barely 40 years of age, become Congress' youngest president last Sunday. In his iupMptattce Sjpeech he made a strong plea for unity in CJC .approach and operation.
TORONTO ^
Four days prior to this 40th birthday, Montreal law professor Irwin Cotler became the youngest ever national presidentof Canadian Jewish Congress.
His election marked the culmination of the 19th
plenary assembly of CJC, held at the Hilton Harbour Castle Hotel from May 1 to May 4 — a trienniail event which attracted more than . 1,000 delegates and observers (a 30% increase over the last pleiiary held in Montceal in 1977) from across Canada, to disciiss and propose resolutions on miatters of concern
the plenary, intense and vocal opposition to the rule forced officials to allow Cotler and Satok to address delegates for 15 minutes each following the keynote speech of Israel's ambassador to the United Nations Yehudah Blum. The speeches were greeted with much enthusiasm and applause despite the fact' that
TORONTO —
Europe's liberation from the darkness of Nazi Germany 35 years ago .was marked at' a rally under a brilliant Sunny sky, in the shadow of the Ontario legislature last Sunday afte;rrioon.
Present were several hundred o n loo ke r s, i n c I u di n g concentration camp survivors and their children. Jewish war veteranswho bore Canadian and Israeli flags, Canadian Jewish' Congress plen-ary.assembly delegates, the federal solicitor general and the provincial attornery general.
Solicitor General Robert Kaplan: saidtheissueofwar criminals at large remains on the conscience of the world. And Attorney Generar Roy McMurtry voiced support of federal efforts to resolve the issue.
Rabbi Gunther Plaut, outgoing national president of the Canadian Jewish Congress, recalled thehorror that defied imagination,when he set foot in a death camp at the
Cotler against Toroiito's David Satok, outgoing chairman of the national, executive, was described as "the most exciting presidential campaign Congress has ever ehd of the war, and.called on seen,"^by outgoing president Canada to prosecute war RabbrGunther Plaut, and in criminals: the words of one delegate, "is
toiG8nadjan^JcwTy.*^; particular sees|On ended past
The election,, which pitted midnight;
• Congress plenary covdrage —. see also pages 2 and 3.
The resolutions, there were a total of 57 dealing with such miatters; as .Zionism, Nazlwarcriminals in Canada,
the Falashas, Soviet prisori-
.......— u u • • - ers of conscience),.'reflected
Fay Shulmani who fought ^^^g^^'ng 9'brand new the commitment of Canadian o __n_i:_u f____era for Canadian Jewish Con- iu:.~^„i.,„^
as a partisan in Polish forests for three years, expressed thanks .to Canada for having taken in survivors and let them build a new life here. . Rev: Stanford Lucyk, of grassroots community. There Toronto's Timothy Eaton ^^'^^00young-people at this
:gress.: .
.This newera, if the plenary is any indication, will be one focus I on youth and the
Jews to address themselyes to the concerns arid problems of small V 'often isolated Jewish commiinities throughout the country, as. we|l as a reaffirmation towards young,
future leadership. ; Because of time limitations, iriany of the proposals could not be voted upon at the plenary and at the suggestion of-, resolutions .chairman Donald Carr.^ delegates agreed to allov each regional council either i u pass or strike rernairiirig res'..;!itions.
For the fir.^^ime. mainly ,becaiise of:;i'cipation of 35 Atlahtic region delegates, a resolution was passed pledging Congress to provide staff to develop programs for small communities of Canada, "for their cultu-' ral, religious and educational reqiiirements. directly on a nationalbasis without regard to geographic location."
As.well, because df the often prohibitive cost, of at: tending pienaries; it was resolved that in the future, elisctioh of national officers willtake place on one day in each specific region.
By JANICE ARNOLD
IViOINTREAL-
The riding of D'Arcy ■McGeegavc the. fewest votes to the Parti Quebecoi.s of any of the 110 ridings in Quebec in the 1976 provincial election.
PQ candidate Davi was • trounced
Memorial Church, noted how Canada's immigration policy . had undergone a positive change in the wake of the war. Addressing survivors in the crowd, he said:"You've given this land the rich gift of people who do, and will shape, her destiny."
Jacob Egit, of the United Organizations for Histadrut, spoke in Yiddish. Like Plaut, he urged that war criminals in this country be tried for their crimes.
McMurtry said the Holocaust was not just a Jewish problem but rather a universal one.
Everyeffort, he said, must be made to try war criminals. And he added that he enthu-
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Associated begins building campaign
TORONTO -
Associated Hebrew Schools has launched a $7 million campaign forits Leslie St. education and recre--ation campus. i '
—^in announcing the campaign, John H;. Daniels,
■chairman of the building committee, stressed that "Jewish education is the most important and greatest of all Jewish causes ... it is the.
. foundation upon'"which the whole structure of Jewish life is built. If it becomes weakened, that; structure is undermined and gravely jeopardized.".
Daniels said that in light of _the iniportance of Jewish education, "I hope the community will respond favorably." He added that pledges are payable over five years.
Daniels reported that more . than $2.5 million in pledges have been received to dale. "We have a jlong way to go,"
he said, "but we are encouraged by this start and are confident there will be wide community response:"
Associated Hebrew Schools is believed to be the_ largest Jewish day school in . the world; with -over 2,500 students. The new school, to accommodate 1,200 students, will be built on .five acres at 6100.LesIie St. (south of Steeles)', surrounded by 10 acres of greenbelt.
Chairman Daniels has a strong team of experienced campaigners that includes: associate chairman, Samuel Shainhouse; top gifts, Morris B. Kaufman and James F. Kay; organizations : and public support, Henry Koschitzky and)Louis Lock-shin; parents-teachers, Morris Starkman, public relations, Bert Petlock; advertising, Morris Saffer; executive administrator, Arthur Tannenbaum, and campaign director, Monty Mazin.
convention (more than ever before), their participation possible because of funds made available by a leader-, ship training grant. According to many, it was the activism of the young which pushed Cotler over the top.
Further, a resolution was passed, almost unanimously, pledging to the Atlantic region, specifically that grants be provided for a regional system to provide kosher meat; the commencement of Jewish school programs in isolated areas; a. permanent outreach staff member; and the expansion of the national youth program into the region.
One resolution which^ was held over to be dealt with by the regional councils covered the reaffirmation of CJC support of the aims and objectives of Congress "to develop the highest standard of citizenship in the Jews of Canada by encouraging, carrying on and participating in activities of a national, patriotic, cultural and humanitarian nature,'' particularly within the context of the. aim of national unity of Canada.
Although the presidential candidates originally were not-allocated time to address
Israeli diplomat is freed from Golombia embassy
TEL AVIV [JTA] —
Israel's ambassador to Colombia, Eliyahu Barak, returned home after a two-month ordeal In the Dominican embassy in Bogota where he and a score of other diplomats and. foreign nationals were held hostage by leftist revolutionaries. The hostages were, finally released last^ ■ week.
Foreign Mbiister Yitzhak
Shamir was at Ben Gurion airport to welcome the returning envoy who looked thin but appeared in good health and good spirits. "It's good to be home," he said. "We're glad to have him back,'' Shamir told reporters.
Asked if Barak would return to his post in Colombia, Shamir said that would, depend on his discussions with the ambassador.
The Fonz' will ixxjt for UJA walkers
aate of omcers
Following is the slate of national officers of Canadian Jewish Congress elected for a three-year term at the ClC plenary:
National president, Irwin Cotler; chairman, national executive^ Sam Filer; assocl-.ate chairman national ezecn-tlve, Milton Harris; secretary, Nachum WUchesky; treasurer, Edward Wolkove; honoraiy ' counsel, Noiman May; chairman of the board of governors, ,Sol Kanee; honorary president, Monroe Abbey.
TORONTO —
Henry Winkler, better known as' 'The Fonz, "will be rooting for participants in the 1980 United Jewish Appeal walkathon on Sunday, May 25.
. Although he is unable to join the walkers in person, the star of the long-running TV seriesj, Happy Days, has signified his full support in a letter approved and signed by him, which has been mailed to students in Toronto's Jewish school system.
In the letter, Wmkler rcr minds youngsters ^f their. good fortune as-compared to . that of deprived. boys and girls in Israel, and urges them to line up as many sponsors as possible. All money raised in this year's event will help to finance the constrtuction of a sports complex and training centre for future athletes in Mazkeret Batya.
The walkathon committee, under the chairmanship of Verne Chelin and Jerry Panet,.decided on a different ploy this year ui the distribution of sponsor booklets. The booklets were mailed to students at their homes, along
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witn the Winkler letter, in the. hope that it will generate excitement from the age group that makes up the legion of ardent fans of thC: Fonz.
In the past, youngsters picked up sponsor booklets at their schools, synagogues or community centres.
The route is the same as last year with one exception. Tlie walk starts at Earl Bales Park instead of the Jewish Community Centre. >
Lcvine Liberal opponent Herbert Marx, who garnered close \o, 97^? of the vote, in the by-election last November.
ll is ihercrore somewhat . surprising to see the Windows of the office above the cigar store at Queen Mary Rd: arid Decarie covered with Qui : poster,s;. This is the hcadquai> -ters of the Yes committee for D'Arcy McGee arid the Committee of Angiophpnes for Soyercianty-Association ;,(CASA).: ■ •
Both groups are headed by Jew's. CASA president Henry . M.iiner, the 33-year-Gld Vanie.r College political . .science teacher, is by now well; known for his advocacy of Ouebee. independence. He was among the founders of the movement more .than a \ year ago and his articles have .frequently; appeared in the English prCss.
Notsuch a familiar name is Claude Ananou. co-chairman with Alain Mongeau. of the D'Arcy McGee Yes committee and president of the PQ in thairiding.
Ananou, 29,. is a Sephardic .lew. born in France of Algerian parents. He came to Montreal 12 years ago and is presently completing his law studies at the Universite de . Montreal.
Ananou does not think his position on Quebec is so unusual or contradictoi^i for a Jew. He believes "a good .25ft" of Sephardic students and young workers will vote yes in the referendum, but the great majority of the Sephardic community as a whole will ■not. ■ ■ ■ ■ .
.Ananou, who projects a trim. business-Uke image with his three-piece suits and coif-fed hair, explained that his political orientation is just, a "logical" choice for one who can look at the situation objectively.
Ananou has always lived in D'Arcy McGee, one of the few francophones who does. (There are about 4,000 francophones among D'Arcy McGee's approximatelv 43.000 eligible voters.) H'e started at the University of Montreal soon after his arrival and did not, as he says was the experience of many Sephardic immigrants, become absorbed into the anglophone Ashkenazic com-,munity and its way of thinking. Ananou to this day speaks very little English.
-He became a PQ member , in" 1974; stunned by the jrovincial election the year )efore which saw only six PQ MNAs elected although the party received 30% of the popular vote, and he deter-: mined to right this imbalance, n
The seeds of his support for the PQ platform had been sown earlier. "Coming from another country I could take a more objective, view of the situation of Quebec- in Canada... In 1972 1 traveled across Canada, right to Van-
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couver.'where lliyed for three month.s, 1 found the people there not,only did not under-, stand Quebec., they were actually hostile to it. I found myself saying I was nbt a Quebecer. \ was .from France." remembers ,4knahuu.
. Ananou concluded that there was, ho common bond betweeh Quebec and the rcst-of Canada. "In other countries there are: regional dif-fefc n ces .b u t t h e re is so me -. thing thai cements all the people together. In Canada there is no such affinity: . Quebec i.s n6t Just another province and sovereignty-association is.a nornval.outgrowth of its difference."
Ananou was-elected to the executive of the PQ in D'Arcy McGee in 1976. After return-. ing.from two years' of university m Quebec Gity last
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year, he became an organizer for David Levine's campaign .in the D'Arcy McGee by--election. He was then elected president of the riding's PQ. The' PQ.has 120 members . in D'Arcy McGee and raised ' SIO.OOD last.yeai-. says. Anii-; nau, one.. of 'the. highest. amounts in . Quebec; per _ capita; ; ; . V , ■
"I would say between 10 and 15^. of ouf. members are Jewish:; mast ; of them; anglophone .. .When people think of Jewish members of the PQ they think of a few .well known individuals, but there are more lower-profile Jewish people working for us now: Most are students or young workers, are 'social-. oriented'-. ^ don't say socialist ■ — who are interested in. poHties;"-
He noted that in the St. Laurent riding. Emanuel
Aiisouiine,.a Sephardic Jew. is vice-president of the Yes committee.
An agreement exists between the D'Arcy McGee Yes committee and CASA that the latter will be responsible for any work with anglopho-nes. Although they share the same facilities, their pro-gramniing is separate, said Milner. CASA's work is province-wide and not restricted to D'Arcy McGee.
David Levine, who is a member of the national Oui conimittee. acts as a liaison to CASA.
■ Milher named several young anglophone Jews who • are voiunlccrs for GAS A. diiring the referendum campaign. He said CASA's programming for the referendum includes distribution of pamphlets and posters in English, placement of advertising in the English media, answering telephone calls and:
. organizing information meetings.. . • Paul Unterberg..the first and only other Jewish PQ cahdidafe besides Levine. is keeping a low profile during the'referendum campaign but says he IS speaking to some groups, but none of them predominantly JewLsh.
Concluded Ananou: "I. have never hid the fact that I. . was Jewish. 1 have, been., accepted like anyone else. The great majority of people . who elected me president of D'Arcy McGee were French-Canadian; :They did so neither despite nor because I
.was Jewish." ..
Scowen woos the undecided as referendum date nears
By REBECCA ROSENBERG
MONTREAL -
Just two days after Premier Rene Levesque spoke at the Saidye Bronfman. Centre, Reed.Scowen, Liberal member of the National Assembly for Notre Dame de Grace, addressed 150 people attend-, ing a breakfast meeting of the Beth Zion Congregation's Men's Qub to present the No; viewpoint on the upcoming referendum.
Recognizing that he . was-speaking to an audience al-' ready largely committe'd^to a No vote, Scowen concentrated on urging people to take the time and effort to-discuss with undecided voters the implications of a Yes vote.
In a low-key presentation Scowen denounced both what he called the "fundamental intolerance" of the PQ towards minority groups and the standard PQ characterization of dissenters as "having psychological hang-ups, being a traitor or acting as a tool of foreign capitalists."
Scowen claimed, that this attitude of disregard and disrespect for the opinions of. voters who disagree with party philosophy is a pressure tactic "unprecedented in Canadian political history; "-1 Scowen citedMhe elderly and women as ^particular :
victims of PQ intolerance. Any elderly person who does not agree with PQ aspirations is labeled "afraid;" with the PQ refusing to acknowledge that the person has legitimate reasons to make a choice for Canada. Scowen said;
Similarly, pro-federalist women have been dismissed by the PQ as "not sufficiently . emancipated" to understand the complexities of their program, he asserted. "No other political partj ^ works that way. Political parties are supposedio re soO''d to the people, not tell the people what thenational mission is and that they must subscribe to it." : Scowen concurred with the ^view expressed by Liberal ,MNA Solange Chaput-Rolland that "this issue has been taken away from the politicians and the people have taken it over. They are thinking the ~ thing through and they are going to make up their own minds. Our best response is to : have some respect for them and try to answer their questions honestly."
In response to Levesque's . recent comment that should the Yes lose by a small fraction, "it would require very steady nerves," Scowen told the CJN: "Premier Levesque is very inconsistent. On the one hand, he says
that in the caseof a victory for the Yes forces, he is sure the No camp will respect the democratic decision of the population. Then he says in the case of a No victory, we had better be prepared for violence by certain elements of the French community. Coming from the Prime Minister of Quebec, it acts as encouragement for violence to happen.
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