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The Canadian Jewish News, Friday, January 13, 1978 - Page 3
Vational News
'Quiet diplomacy is^^^m enough \
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(David Groskind photo)
Anatoh' Scharansky's relatives in Toronto want Ottawa to do more for the Soviet activist. From left: Herb Landis, Rcene Katz, Debby Solomon and Boris Landis. Last named is first cousin of dissident's father.
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HAMILTON —
Despite allegations by national leaders that this city's community r:^iscs the least amount of money for the United Jewish Welfare Fund.. Hamilton is "right in line with the rest of the countr}' and with what is going on in North America;" says Dr. Michael Sherman, chairman of the 1978 Hamilton campaign.
"in this city, each year wc arc raising a little bit less." he stated in an in-tcfvicw . but at two recent agency meetings in Toronto he learned that what is happening here is also happening all over North America. Nevertheless, "that's no excuse that we have to be in line. It would be nice to be different and to be on the increase-"
The amount raised last year was ,about b^o short of the previous year's total
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Philip Fleishmaii views r§^io as a "learning resource" rather than as an' "attractive package" and this is not surprising in light of his Work. . , ,
A CBC producer, Fleishman considers his job one big learning experience. Indeed,' this is exactly what happened when he and colleague Karl Schuessler produced "The Future of the Jews", a !0-part series on the FM Ideas program.' which made its debut Jan. 11 at 8:04 p.m. .
"This series gave me a cl^ance to learn more about Judaism and Israel,'' the 27-year-old native of London. England, admitted in an inIer>■ ie%v." 1 come from an Orthodox family, but after my Bar Mitzva I became an assimilated : Jew basically. 1 used the program as a first-hand learning experience."
Headded: "It has opened the doors, so j6 speak. I now have a great ihterest and investment in wanting to lihow- about the subject ,
.One year elapsed from the time Fleishman oor-ceived the series to the time it werit on air.
•'Programs had been done on Islam and the : Church, but Judaism had been carefully avoided," he said. Quite a few of the piroducers at Ideas are Jewish..he elaborated, andJhere wys something of a fear that a program on
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and the community's reserve funds had to be used to meet 197b commitments.
A stepped-up campaign this year will make education the key issue in convincing people that they must increase their pledges. There will be greater emphasis on canvasser training and possibly parlor meetings.
Last year's campaign was run with very little assistance from the national organization, he said, "but we have better dialogue now with national and with our repion." .Also, a whole new group has come in'and after last year's change-over, "we are now starting to really organize."
Local needs suffer most w hen insufficient money is raised and people still tend to think of their donations as charity. "But it is not charity. "Dr. Sherman insists. "It is a commitment we have as responsible Jews and each year we havb to reinforce our identity by giving." . There could be considerable savings if Hamilton's five major institu^ tions, the Jewish; Community Centre. Hamilton Hebrew Academy and the three synagogues "were
- By SHELDON KIRSHNER TORONTO —
Anatolv Scharansky'T relatives in Canada are generally critical of how -the Canadian government has handled the case of the world famous Soviet dissident.
"What Ottawa has done isn't worth a nickel." complained Dr. Noah Landis. the first cousin of Scharansky's father. A retired doctor, and one of Scharansky's 30 known relatives in this c(>untry* he accused the lederal government of scheming to disengage itself from the cas^e.
Landis' 74-vear-old bro-
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Dr. Michael Sherman
more responsible and would get together in a cooperative mood and start to get their activities attuned to each other." Some such discussions, he intimated, are already tak-
■ ing place.
There is also the question of what community funds should subsidize and by how miich. Hamilton schools, for instance, do not charge absolute tuition! "which means that cscrybody in the city, including millionaii-es, gets a reduction on their chil-
. drcn's education."
In Toronto, he said, about SC'V pay the full fee and the rest,are subsidized "and I feel that is the way it. should be here. Those
who have the ability to pay. should do so," Dr. Sherman said.
But Israel is still the primary concerii and his recent first trip with his wife. Gwenn, only served to reinforce his convictions. He has arranged to take his family, which includes four^. children, with the youngest still under one year, to Israel next summer and will work as a dentist on a kibbutz for a month..
iher-^ Boris, echoed his remarks."The government should have come out openly right from the beginning."- hc^feaid.-"Ouiei diplomacy didn't-work. (President) Carter has done more for Soviet Jews tharf Canada. That's whaj 1 think.."
Herb LandisMhe son of Noah, noted: "I'm not really satisfied with Canada's attitude. From the be-, ginning, when Anatoly was imprisoned. Canada could have done more for him." Debby Solomon, the daughter of Boris, wrote to her MP. Defence .Minister Barney Danson, last year. The minister replied that Ottawa's abihty to deal \\ ilh the matter was liniiied.
"I wasn't satisfied with D-iiii.son's answer." the 3 5 ■ > e a r - o i d part-time leather said. "It didn't sound helpful. But to be quite honest. 1 didn't know \shat to expect from the govern,ment."
.Asked w hether she was pleased with Ottawa's recent offer to grant Schar-ansky landed immigrant status. Mrs. Solomon said: "1 never expected the government to move along this line. The government obviously realized that quiet diplomacy uas not enough."
However. Recne Katz. Debby's cousin. disagreed with her assessment. "I've been very disillusioned with the Canadian government." the 35-year-old housewife said. "It's a little too timid for
my liking. The U.S. has done mare. Ottawa could' stop selling wheat tojhe Soviets if they don't release Anatoly."
The 29-yefii»bld activist, who has been held incommunicado by the Soviets since last March, has had a varied effect on some of his relatives in Toronto.
Boris Landis— a native of Brest Litpvsk. Russia — said he didn't even know Scharansky was a relative until he saw an item in The Toronto Star last year. He contacted his first cousin in New York. Stanley Sharon, who. it turned out. was Scharansky's uncle.- r '
A year after the discovery, Landis reflected: "Anatoly's case has deepened my interest in Soviet Jewry. But I've always been ihterested'in the fate of all Jews,"
"it's had a tremendous effect on me." admitted Noah, who is 79. "The Soviet government has angered and revolted me. . Anatoly is not a spy. He wants to get oiit of that prison and live in Israel among Jews. I believe they'll let him go,"
Mrs. Solomon, who has spoken to Scharansky's mother. Ida. through an interpreter, told The Canadian Jewish News that the case has awakened her to the plight of Jews in the
Soviet Union and the en-, tire question- of humane rights. —
"I try to be optimistic about Anatoly's chances of being'released," she added. "But the Russians are so unpredictable, so there's always a nagging doubt. Maybe they'll let him go. Who knows?"
Herb Landis, a 49-year-old pharmacist, said he has written letters to Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev and the KGB about Scharansky but has received no acknowledgement. A member of Beth Tze-dec's Soviet Jewry cditi-mittee. he said the events of the last 12 months have sharpened his interest in the Jews of that country.
"It's pretty difficult to say what will happen to him, but if they release him they'll do it quietly to save face . . . I'm proud of, Anatoly. the way he's standing up to everything."
Commented Mrs. Katz: "It's made us stop and look at things closer. It's drawn our family closer together. I've discovered two remarkable human beings — Anatoly and Avital. The case has had a phenomenal impact on me. It's given me an appreciation of political freedom. People don't realize how lucky they are and what thev have here."
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Fleishman said he and .Si:huesslcr ie'ached, no conclusions,: And neither was there an attempt to exploit listener emotion. "We want to engender an intellectual response.".
Despite his aversion to ni a k in g judgments, Fleishman responded to questions on the fiiture of -North American Jewry and Israel.
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