Page 6 - The Canadian Jewish News, Thuisday^ January 3,1980
Or^nizatiohs and People
PALMERSTON SHUL PERPETUATED
After many years of service to the south Toron^ Jewish community, the Palmerston Shul closed its doors during the pasli>ear-and the property was sold. Now an agreement between the Associated-Hebrew Schools and tha^congre-gation of Agudath Israel Anshei Sfad (Palmerston Shul) has been completed ; whereby the synagogue will be perpetuated by the dedication of the auditorium in the schools' new Leslie Street education and recreation campus. At the foj^nal dedication the shul's five Sefer ToraTTSTrftQW^oij, loan to various synagogues in the city, will be presented to the Associated. ■
JEWISH RELIGIOUS LEADJERSHIP
On Sunday, Jan. 6, at 7:30 p.m.. Shaarei tefillah Congregation's aduh education program continues with Part 3 of its symposium "Searchlight on Jewish Leadership". This session, entitled Jewish Religious Leadership, deals with questions of Orthodox activism. ka:sh-ruth, inter-marriage, education, the Orthodox community's role in lay leadership of Toronto's communaPaffairs. Speakers include Rabbi Irwin Witty of the Board of Jewish Education. • Rabbi Aaron Grossbaum of the Luba-vitch Conimunhy Centre and representatives from the Kashruth Committee of Canadian Jewish Congress. Rabbi Zig-mund Woikenstein of the Israel Frankel Jewish Public Library is chairman.
SHABBAT STUDY LUNCHEON
At Beth Tiedec Congregation, there's a Shabbat study luncheon after services on Saturday, Jan. 5. with guest speaker Ben Kayfetz who will discuss Are Jews Secure. Prepaid reservations are a must, so drop in to the synagogue office at 1700 Bathurst St. to niake your reservation.
BRAMPTON-BRAMALEA COMMUNITY
The North Peel Jewish Association is going great guns! Its third annual and very successful Chanukah party attracted some 100 parents and children in the Brarnptoh-Bramalea area. The program was highlighted by folksinging, a play performed by the Hebrew school children and candle-lighting by adults and children. In addition to establishing the Hebrew school and arranging holiday celebrations and social activities, the NPJ A is involved.in a variety of programs and services for its members and the Jewish community in the area. Anyone interested in knowing more about the Bramptori-Bramalea Jewish community, contact Susan Bloorn, public relations chairman. North Peel Jewish Association, P.O', Box 2094. Bramalea, ' Ont., L6T 3S3. or call Information Bramalea at 457.-9612.
CHANUKAH AT QUEEN STREET
Regular Shabbat services are conducted on Friday mornings at Queen Street Mental Health Centre by Rabbi Sheldon Steinberg, director of Chaplaincy Services of Toronto. Jewish Congress: A special Chanukah service was held on Dec. 21, just prior to the end of the holiday. The Canadian Mental Health Association distributed gifts to all patients on .Dec. 25. with those for the Jewish patients designated as Chanukah .. gifts. : '
NCJW COFFEE AND CONVERSATION
For women in the Willowbrook-Kings College area — The National Council of Jewish Women invites you to coffee and conversation on Wednesday morning Jan: 9.. to meet your neighbors and. to find out about ail the activities NCJW. has to offer. You can bring the children along.as they will be supervised while
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you are having vour coffee. The time is 9:30-11:30 a.m/at28 Gretman Cres, (off Linderman): For information, call Penny Krowitz at 889^0210 or Terry Goldenberg .at 493-8753.
FILM ON POET A. M. KLEIN
• Be sure to tune in on CBC-TV oji Wednesday. Jan. 9. at lOp.m. for A. M.. Klein — The Poet As Landscape, the life and art of the Montreal poet Abraham Moses Klein recalled by his family and friends. Filmed on location in areas of Montreal where he was born and spent his youth, this documentary shows, through his writings, the effect that city had on his life and art. Among those commenting on the man they knew are Sophie and David Lewis, Leon Edel. Max Garmaise (Klein's partner in their law practice). David Rome, Irving Layton and Ruth Wisse. Film was directed by David Kaufman and produced by him in association with the CBC.
CLUB CANADA AT YESHIVA U.
Club Canada, made up of about 100 Canadian undergraduates at' Yeshiva University. held"the last Shabbaton of the decade" last Friday night and Saturday. Dec. 28-29. at the university's midtown centre in New York City. The scholar-in-residence of the program. Rabbi Irwin Witty of Toronto's Board of Jewish Education, spoke on Canadian Jewry in the 70s— Proposals for the 80s. Also present were guest speaker Michael Spingarn. youth director of Beth Tikva Synagogue, Doliard des Ormeaux. Quebec, and' Vice Consul of Canada C. Collins Robertson. The student committee responsible for the event was comprised of Alan Perimutter and Vidal Keslassy of Toronto, Lawrence Shafran of Vancouver; and Tova Wohl of Montreal.
SINGLES TAKE NOTE
North-East Jewish Community Services, single parents group has planned a family program for Sunday, Jan. 6,at 2 p.m. at Seneca Village Square Community Centre (Finch E. and Don Mills). It is the second arinual unbirth-diiy party. Parents and children are requested to brirtg running shoes as there will be sports and games for all ages. For RSVP and information, call Eileen Garber at 493-8866. '
King David Lodge B'nai B'rith, how in formation, is holding a general meeting for single men and women on Monday,; Jan. 7. at 8 p.m. at the BBYO House, 15 Hove St. There will be discussion about the format for the group and future functions and programming. For information, contact Murray Reiter at 783-n or Neil Natahn at 497-3525.
SENIORS' HAPPENINGS
The Senior's Discount Plan is in full swing! The Centre for Creative Living has compiled a loose-leaf booklet containing a list of 160 stores in the Steeles-Eglinton, Yonge-Dufferin area where senior citizens are given discount. The initial cost of the booklet, $1.50, and includes additional lists as more stores are contacted. You can pick one up at the centre at 15 Hove St. (Bathurst-Shep-pard area). The phone number is 630-3200 for information.
Beth Tzedec Friendship Qub -+- 50 meets on Tuesday, Jan. 8, at 1:15 p.m. with humorist Philip Cohen who will speak in Yiddish.
The Workmen's Circle Chanukah party was filmed for. TV and airs on Thursday. Jan. 3 at 6:30p.m. on Metro cable Channel 10, and on Sunday, Jan. 6, at 9:30 p.m. on Keeble Cable Channel 10. For more information, call Shirley Grotell at 222-7727.
...about people
'Mixed Metaphors', an exhibition of color photographs by Pat Fleisher, editor of Artmagazine. goes on display at the Koffler Gallery of the Koffler Centre of the Arts for three weeks starting Sunday, Jan. 6. The show,, making its first Canadian appearance, comes direct from the Palm Springs Desert Museum in California where it received highly acclaimed reviews..
Toronto musician-composer and. CJN" ' music critic RidrKardonne is listed in
the 1980 International Who's Who of _Music which is published in Cambridge^
England, every three_years.
Four members of the Toronto community have been named to the board of directors of the Council of Jewish Federations — Dr* Arnold A. Epstehi, Philip Granovsky, Jack M. Rose and Rose Wolfe. CJE is the association of more than 190 federations, welfare funds and community councils which serve nearly 800 commutiities in Canada ■ and the U.S. The board is the Council's central governing body supervising policy, finance and programs;
Torontonian Can Goldberg
Marks writes from New York that works of hers are on display at Yeshiva University Museum in New York and also at the B'nai B'rith Philip Klutziiick Museum in Washington, D.C. The Yeshiva ,U. exhibit, called 'See and ^anctify'; features Jewish symbols. The show in Washington, 'Seal Upon My Heart', celebrates the Jewish wedding. One of the more unique pieces is a gingerbread house Cara was commissioned to bake and decorate. It is a 'Bayit ne'eman B'klal Yisroel* (a home faithful _to Judaism). They are also selling a book co-authored by the artUt and her hlisband entitled 'Behold Thou Art Consecrated Unto Me.' ....
In a.simple.ceremony on a Jerusalem hillside last month, the Jewish people paid homage to Raool Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who helped save 100^000 Budapest Jews from the Nazis. Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Memorial Foundation^ planted a tree bearing his name in the Avenue of Righteous Gentiles. Unlike previous reci^ents of this honor, Wallenberg w^ot present. He was seized as a spy by the Russians at the time of Budapest's liberation]^ The Soviet Union says, he died"" in Moscow's Lubyanka prison in 1957."Sweden is hot convinced and his family hopes that Wallenberg, who would be 67, may have ■survived. ■.■
BySETHMANDELL
JERUSALEM —
■\ Five youhg" Canadian men are currently helping to create a new type of Jewish consciousness_ here in Jerusalem] Bo Tradburks . of. Ottawa, , Ldrhe Franklin of Montreal, Peter Breuer of TOTr bntb. Bruce Cooper of . Winnipeg, and Joel Cohen of Kitchenec. form the core of a group of young Canadian Jews deeply involved in the study of Torah Judaism at a unique and. successful educational iiistitution. They are young men of limited Jewish education who have returriedto an identification with their people and its religion through the efforts of Ohr Soma-yach. The Joseph and Faye Tanenbaum College of Judaic Studies.
Ohr Somayach has introduced thousands of college age young people to Judaism over the past seven years, today, the Ohr Somayach network of educational institutions has grown from three original students, to five hundred full-time students from all over the world. In addition a few thousand people are participating in an adult education program, studying, in eight branches in Israel and one.ih America.
Jerusalem alone holds.. four learning centers. Separate men's . and women's divisions for English speakers and native Israelis include dormitory and cafeteria facilities for over three hundred people. An Ohr Somayach community, south of Haifa in Zichron Yaakoy offers yoUng families an opportunity to continue their Jewish studies while raising children in an idylic country setting. A little further south in Givat Ada a work study program is offered, designed for individuals wishing to continue the study of Judaism while, pursuing their professions. Other part-time study programs are offered in Tel ayiv, Haifa, Rehovot and Jerusalem;
The deans at Ohr Soma-vachv former Torontonian Rabbi Nota Schiller, Rabbi Mendel'. Wieribach, and Rabbi Carl Yaakov Rosenberg, helped begin Ohr Somayach with; the. concept of team effort.
According to Rabbi Schiller it was in" Toronto that he and Joe Tanen-, bau.m first.discussed the concept of what was to become Ohr Somayach. Tanenbaum wanted' to create:' major educa- ]. tional center in Jerusalem for students with no Jewish, background'; Schiller said] The area they pinpointed as the most fertile ground for. real accom-plishment was among Jewish . college ■youth: alienated from their hi^rit-age a;nd about to be lost to their people forever. '
One such young, man wasBruce Cooper of Winnipeg; BriJde was so alienated from Judaism, before coming to Ohr: Somayach that in previous, years he had played iri; a golf tournament on Yom Kip-pur. Todiay he studies full-time in -Jerusalem and . plans' to continue for, ^ second year before returning to Winnipeg. • Lorne Franklin of Westmount in Montreal had no in vol vcr merit with Jewish education after he had his Bar Mitzvah."As far as Twas concerned, there, w'ias no reason not to marry a non-Jew" he said: Three and a half years agoj^ile on a tour to; Israel; L^e's:^ uncle convincejd^him to come to a class at Ohr" Somayach. ''Ihad nothing :
Toronto indnstrlallst Joseph Tanenbaom met with Israeli prime minister for a chat recendy. From left: Tanenbaom, Nota ScUDer, Ken Spetner, Ezer Weizman and Beghi. Schiller lii dean of Ohr Soinavach and Weizman is defence minister.
to do so I sat in on the class." Lorne said. "The worst that could happen, I thought, is that 1 would learn something. •' The class was so interesting that Lome wanted to continue learning.
According to Rabbi Schiller, the phenomenal growth of Ohr Somayach from three students to 500 fulltime students in sevep^ years plus a few thousand people in adult education programs, can be attributed to three factors. "The classical texts, speak of three requirements for success," he said. ''Time, place and people. The siense of searching in the '60s and '70s, of trying different alternatives to the lack of values in the technological era were not answered by the counterculture, the. anti-war movement, and so forth. "Torahi" he continued,-"is so old, it's new. The distance from, their Torah roots established by those who came to America wanting to achieve stability in a new land enabled their children and grandchildren to see Torah in a new way. The second and third generation do not have the" burden of achieving stability. Security, allows them to address themselves to the broader qiies- : tionsof why am 1 alive and might there bea purpose ' to existence."That is the time element." .
Robert '' Bo" Tradburks graduated from Carlton Univ. ihhis home city of Ottawa. "1 took philosophy in college because I was looking for meaning," he says with a smile. Bo felt that he could find meaning by living in Israel for a year and studying Judaism at Hebrew University. When he arrived for the preparatory Hebrew course, he found a complete void of any meaning.
Bo originally came to Ohr iSomayach to artange ] for a rabbi to give aclass at the university. The class was ,so interesting Bo decided to spend his nights studying at the Ohr •Sorriayach. After a summer bf Igarning Torah full time, he returned to Ottawa to finish his degree in. philpspphy. "I wanted to put Judaism to the acid test;" he said, "to see if it could stand up to rational thought, It stood the test.'' :. ■
The place element in the three part Ohr Somayach success story is of course, Jerusalem. "The mystique, the romance, the history of Jerusalem has an effect on every Jew," ; Rabbi Schiller says. "It's not riecessarily conscious. Evieh if he can't articulate jt, it's there. The stones of Jerusalem tug like a magnet on the soul of every Jew." 0 l.;^Pefer Breuer was born in Czechoslovakia 28 years ago ."'Ten years ago he moved with his parents to
Toronto. Peter had absolutely no Jewish background. During a business trip to. Switzerland someone offered him a free trip to Jerusalem. He jumped at the chance. " People had been thinking about and yearning for Jerusalem for thousands of years, and here I was with an opportunity to make that dream come true, to actually come here and experience it." Peter, a graduate of Carlton University school of architecture, was tremendously impressed with the physical plant of the cenjral campus in East Jerusalem. "I wasn't prepared for such an attractive place, which Was very important for me because I had all the stereotypes' of what a Yeshiva would be."
After studying as a. full-time student for eight-months Peter was able to find work as an architect with a religious firm with the help of the rabbis of Ohr Somayach. Today he works until the afternoon and studies at Ohr Somayach from three o'clock in tha afternoon until late at night, "r consider myself lucky tq be in thisyieshivt in Israel .It is uniquely possible to combine work and study because of the values of the people here who consider learning as. Va 1 uable as working." Peter plans to get married
in February to that young woman \yho originally interested him in a return to Judaism.
The final criteria for success is people. According to Rabbi Schiller, "Ohr Somayach was able to put together 'a structured program of scholars who could simultaneously articulate and synthesize-the geniuspf Jewish scholarship in a modern idiom'; It's like putting together an ail-star team of major people in the field dedicated to the ideal of bringing young people backto Judaism," he said. "They are people who believe in wjiat they are
doing." Joel Coheii of Kitchener says of his experience] "The rabbis try to; emphasize' a practical approach to every day affaifsT How to align our actions to what we study.'' Rabbi Schiller continues, " One of the issues always discussed by new students is the rabbi's ability to make the . transition of what is talked about in the classroom into everyday life."
^ "The difference between a' dreamer and a visionary," according to Rabbi Schiller, "is that if you pay your electric bill while you're pursuing your vision, you're a visionary; if you don't, if you neglect your resppn-. sibility to individual students, to the units thait make up the whole, you're a dreamer." ' '
Hor Somayach works closely with the army and the kibbutz movement in a joint attempt to reestablish a connection with Jewish heritage. The government is heavily involved in the finances of the Yeshiva, providing aboiit 25-30% of the budget. In addition, to the army and kibbutz projects the government is inter-eistedbecause of the effect Ghr Somayach has had on aliah. About 300 families have settled in Israel as a result of their, connection to Ohr Somayach*
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