Page 8 - The Canadian Jewish News, Friday, December 30, 1977
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B> RABBI MEIR GOTTESMAN Parshat Shemot
Vayaseemn alav sand e mesim .. . . And they set over them taskmasters : . . .
There's a time to be silent — and a time to yell.
A rabbi once visited a highrranking Russian official to protest a recently issued anti-Semitic decree. He became so emotional that he raised his voice.
"Jew. why do you talk so loud." the official grimaced. '
"Because the voice of thousands of suffering Jews are speaking thSfeugh me." he answered.
VVhen Menachem Begin visited the White House recently, even the" president listened be-K cause thousands of years of Jewish martyrdom echo in his voice.
Moses also. When Pharaoh's daughter found the infant Moses floating in a basket in the Nile, she opened the lid, and behold — "na'ar bocheh" — a young lad was crying.
A young lad"? Since when is a few month old ?: baby called a young lad? He is a /eled, a baby, an infant? Where did he get such a loud voice? Ah. s but it teaches ... the voice of thousands of Jewish babies who faced drowning and burial alive in the : walls of the pyramids, cried through the throat of :: Moses.
But who speaks today for the thousands of : heart-broken parents and young people who face the spectre of having to marry out of the faith because there's no one to bring young Jews together?
Pharaoh was a fool, the great genius, Reb : Shlomp Kluger said. If he wanted to make the Jews disappear he shouldn't have tried to torture and brow-beat them to death. He should have sent ; them to Vienna and Paris and Toronto and in the midst of comfort, education and prosperity — Jews woukl..iinell--away by themselves through ■ assimilation,.
Doesn't anyone care about the charban going on bpfore our eyes? How great is intermarriage in Canada, even in Toronto^ 15%. 25%, 30%?
Where is the Jewish Family and Child Ser\ice to establish a modern shadclian service to bring ; together Jewish men and women of all ages who are looking for partners?
Where is the Canadian Jewish Congress, which is so bold about Russian and Syrian Jewry, to stand up and declare that marrving out of the faith " is the worst treason against Jewish history and future?
Where are the rabbis and the synagogues, Orthodo.x, Conser^ ative and Reform alike? Why is therp no emergency intermarriage crisis centre to dissuade young Jews from taking the final, suicidal step?
Who cares? Does anybody care? '
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Of course, we mustn't be too gloomy. There are Jews who are loyal, and raise large traditional Yiddishe families.
One religious couple had trouble finding an apartment because they had so many children. They approached a landlord on Meadowbrook Road. "Do you have any children." the landlord asked. *
"Ich? Nien!" the religious man shrugged. The landlord agreed to rent to him. The next
week he moved in — with nine children.
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Every Jew can be a Moses.
Consider ... when the Torah describesthe birth of Moses, it declares . . . ."And a man from the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi
But bet ween you and me — why beat around the bush? Why doesn't it just say theif names? But it shows — the Torah wants to make it clear. Moses didn't drop down from Hea^n. He was a man. flesh and blood like all men. conceived in the same uncornplicated way as all men — and yet he became an incredibly holy person.
May all Jewish children become Moses and ; Miriams. Shabbat Shalom. '
Founder of Jewish Rabbi Israel
TORONTO —
The guiding light behind the establishment of a Toronto Jewish public library. Rabbi Israel Fran-kel, died recently. He was the library's first director until his retirement in '■'1975. ■ ... . V . ■ A native of Poland, Rabbi Frankel came to Toronto in 1950 and served as e.xeicutive director here of the Mizrachi prior to ills involvement in the library renowned today for its collection of Judaica. He started with a few hundred books in the 1950s.
Rabbi Israel Frankel
Metro Caravan entry planned for next year
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She Speaks of frustration of separation
TORONTO [Staff] —
"It's a tragedy," said the Riga-bOrn, 30-year-old woman, wiping the tears from her eyes^,Desgite the countless repetitions of the ordeal confronting her father, -a Refusenik, Luba Perlov could not restrain her emotions at yet another recital.
"It's hard to speak," she said. choking*%)ack her sorrow, as the story spilled out. Mrs. Perlov, a resident of Haifa for five-years, is the only daughter of Mikhail Eidelman, a 61-year-old former merchant marine captain, who has " been refused* an> exit visa from the Soviet' Union since 1971.
In Toronto on part of a North American trip, she described with a mixture of frustration and hope the years of separation and waiting. Her father, a sailor for 42 years, worked as a stevedore before losing his job.
His application for emigration has been repeatedly refused, including the most recent one in October. Eidelman's wife. Faiga. left for Israel in October of "76. in the hope that her move would hasten her husband's release.
The Refusenik is being "adopted" by the Beth Tzedec sisterhood and its committee for Soviet Jew-t\\ said to be the first synagogue sponsorship here for such a.case.
"My father is alone, without family, without friends." said Mrs. Perlov, a piano teacher and mother of two. (Her 4-S-ear-old son," a Sabifi. has yet to see his grandfather.) "He's in bad health and now is ver>' depressed."
Called to the KGB in December of 1975, Eidel-. man was told personally that the condition of secrecy, the grounds for his refusals, had been remov-
Mikhail Eidelman ed and nothing technically
regular phone communication and letters from his family do reach him.
On her first visit away from her children and husband Noach, a mechanical engineer. Mrs. Perlov is on a six-week trip that will eventually take her to , England. While in Toronto, her only Canadian stop, she stayed with her Russian cousin. Dr. Abe Zhuk.
As well as a physical trial. Eidelman's situation is an emotioiial drain. Ruent in Yiddish as well as Hebrew, the former ■ seaman has lost contact .. with friends who are afraid
sumer Affairs Minister Lawrence Grossman and MPP David Rotenberg.
TORONTO [Staff]—
The Jewish community will again be represented at Metro Cairavan next year, in honor of Israel's 30th anniversarj': And a roster of events have been arranged for the occasion.
The Jerusalem pavillion — which last appeared on the occasion of the state's 25th -birthday — will be co-ordinated by the Canadian Zionist Federation and representatives of all major Jewish organizations in the city.
CZF's Central Region Executive Director Eliot Sargon said he hoped the pavilion could become a yearly operation with sufficient manpower and interest. The theme this year is centred on 30 years of progress and development, particularly in in-dustr.-, technology, science and Third World aid.
Additional exhibits at the pavilion will feature kibbutz life. Holocaust remembrance, a marketplace for Israeli produce, kosher food and musical entertainment.
The second time Toronto Jewry has operated a display in the eight-year historv- of the multicultural Caravan, the pavilion will be funded through the sale of passbooks (organizations reap SI from each "passport") and a Caravan program sponsored by advertisers.
stood in the way of his."!-to associate with a Refuse-emigration. He has been nik.
refused twice since then.
"1 was sent to Israel." said his daughter in English. "He wanted the children to be Jewish." Eidelman. who spent four years in a German concentration camp, has not seen his daughter since, although
Alumni to form chapter
TORONTO —
Israel Roi, vice-provost of the Hebrew University's School for Overseas Students, was here recently to meet young people from this area who h&A attended the Hebrew Uni-versitv, most of them as
dies
participants in the one-year program.
Plans were discussed for the formation of an alumni chapter which would arrange a program of interesting activities to contribute to the strengthening of ties between the university and its alumni in Toronto and the surrounding area.
Roi also announced that an international conference of Hebrew University alumni will take place in Jerusalem, June  15 to
June 23. One of the purposes of this conference is a reunion of classmates from abroad, teachers and fellow alumni in Israel.
Participants will also be able to acquaint themselves with recent developments in research and study •
Former students of the university resident in Metropolitan Toronto are asked to contact the office of the Canadian Friends of the Hebrew Universitv at 787-0136.:
His daughter said there appears to be no rationale for his detention. "He has heart problems." she explained quietly. "1 think they are trving to make him ill. to use him as an example." Although a strong man. her father's will appears to be weakening, she added.
Letters in support of Eidelman have been secured from Opposition Leader Stuart Smith, Con-
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Chairman of the 30th anniversarj- committee! is Max Goody, a vice-president of CZF Central Region. Last year, he told The CJN it was difficult to recruit staff to operate a pavilion regularly because of insufficient interest.
Estimates of the cost of the exhibit range from $10-20.000, The location of the pavilion has not yet been determined. Caravan runs from June 23-July 1 (although the Jewish community will close its facility on the Sabbath.)
The Jerusalem display is one in a series of activities planned to celebrate the anniversar>'. in which musical programs play a key role. On May 10 ne.xt year, the official opening of Yom Ha'atz-maut celebrations takes place at Beth Tzedec Synagogue marked by the premiere of a musical tribute commissioned by the communitv. The choral
number has been composed by Paul Hoffcrt.
On May 24. Israeli vocalist Chava Albertstein appears at Beth Tzedec under the co-sponsorship of the CZF and the synagogue's sisterhood. A full-day event of Israel music and artists is tenta-Uvely scheduled for the Ontario Place Forum -in-the spring.
Jewish day schools will join the festivities with a joint program to be coordinated at a central location yet to be determined. Schools will also be involved in presentations at a community-wide "Yom Yerushalayim Picnic" slated, so far. for May 28. The UJA will be operating a rock-a-thon at that time:
For organizations or individuals interested in participating in the pavilion or other events, contact Norma Mamott at the CZF. 787-6171.
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GALA FESTIVAL OF YIDDISH MUSIC DRAMA AND HUMOUR
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Famous Israeli Monologue Artist
LOUIS OANTO
Outstanding Lyric Tenor
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Pianist. Toronto Symphony
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The expected date of nioving will be eariy January JLa a formal announcement will be made prior to tliat date. At the same time the B^rd has decided that it is no longer economical to operate its Clbthing Centre.
The Board wish«s to take this opportunity to thank all those who have helped maintain the Clothing Centre by their generous donations. The Community can be assured that J.I.A.S. clients will not be affected.
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MR. ABRAHAM SHKOP: "REFLECTIONS ON SCRIPTURE" Taught in Hebrew. A linguistic and historical approach to problems in the Hebrew Bible with speciaL reference to the prophets.
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