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By JANICE AJRNOLD
MONTREAL -
The larger Jewish day schools In Montreal are facing serious long-term space shortageproblems and at least two of them will require cornmunity-wide capital fund drives: for the construction of new branches.
Jewish People's and Peretz Schools and the Hebrew Academy are the most urgently in need of expanded facilities.
JPPS President Daniel Kingstone explained: "The situation is extremely seri-
ous and has been getting worse over the past three years. The community says it can't aifprd capital assistance; it has other priorities. This may mean we'll have to embark on a big campaign in the spring. Whatever happens we will make some decision in September — whether to build."
JPPS's two branches, \yhich can accommodate about 1,250 students now has 1,500 and the list is growing. Bialik which merged with JPPS a couple of years ago has the opportunity of buying a parcel of land in Cote St. Luc and th^is would serve as an ideal location for a new school.
T^e Hebrew Academy's case is somewhat different. While it too has a lack of space, it also faces possible forced eviction from its premises in Outremont where it rents from Adath Israel synagogue. The area has a declining Jewish population and Adath Israel would like to move to a more suitable location such as Cote St. Luc. Hebrew Academy, which serves the Orthodox, would also like to move its elementary and high school to Cote St. Luc, where it already has a pre-schooj branch, but not before accommodations can be found. The Outremont schools have also beeitthe site
of numerous acts of vandalism.
"We have bought a piece of land in Cote St. Luc and will begin to build in March or April,, if we can. h all depends whether there is a capital fund drive," said Cantor A.-Subar, president of the Hebrew Academy. He said, though, there was no immediate danger of the schoor having to change locations for this school year but next year was not certain.
United Talmud Torahs, the largest Jewish day ^hool system in North America is "just making it.'r said President Max Schuchmann, with its four branches. Solo-
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WASHINGTON [JTAl —
Two resolutions have been introduced in the House urging the United States to take the lead ill seeking, international co-operation in stamping out airline hijackings.
Seventy-thVee Congressmen from 18 states joined in co-sponsoring a resolution introduced by Republican Jack Kemp and Democrat Edward Koch, both of New York, which urges President Ford to initiate negotiations for an international treaty eliminating sanctuaries for terrorists and providing enforceable sanctions for countries which give asylum to hijackers.
The other resolution introduced by another New York Republican. Benjamin Gil-man, urges Ford to seek formation at the U n i t e d Nations of a permanent international commission which would define international terrorism and propose methods to deal with it.
The resolution also asks , the president to renew efforts begun at the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) meeting in Rome in. 1972 to establish an international convention providing aviation sanctions against countries which "refuse to punish or extradite persons responsible for unlawful acts against civil aviation."
Noting that more than 800 persons have been killed and 1,700 injured by terrorist incidents, since 1968. Kemp declared that "we shall be a long way from stamping out terrorism unless it is possible to penalize countries harboring terrorists and to achieve some kind of uiianimity in the treatment of terrorists," ■
Kemp Said he believes that Ugandan President Idi Aniin would never have provided sanctuarj- for the terrorists who held the hostages on the Tel.Aviv-to-Paris Air Fraince plaiie if he knew that this would have resulted in the suspension of Uganda's loan privileges at the International Monetary Fund.
A U.S.-British resolution in the Security Council last month denounced terrorism and called for international punitive action. It' received unusually strong support but fell short of the minimum votes to ensure approval.
TORONTO -
Prime Minister Rabin has invited leaders of Toronto's 1977 United: Jewish Appeal campaign to participate in a special Prime -Minister's Mission in Israel. Aug. 29 to Sept, 2. '
In extending the invitation. Rabin said he and other Israeli: leaders "are looking forward to the opportunity of providing you with first hand information on all aspects of the overalll human situation in Israel today."
He added that the misiSion — which will include also UJA leaders from all over the United States — "is taking place at a critical juncture in the history- of the state. Your understanding of the problems and needs facing Israel's people, and of our continuing-hopes and aspirations, is more essential than ever."
The Toronto contingent will be headed by Joe Ber-man. campaign chairman, and will include: Jerry Sheff, chairman of the construction and heavy industry- division; Saul Merrick, co-chairman of construction; Harry Grorman, vice-chairman, major gifts department; Harold Strom, chairman of the 1977 Toronto UJA Eh-esideht's Mission to Israel;- Iry in g-G r a no v sky. member of the UJA senate; David Marks, campaign director, and Perc Young.
While in Israel. Joe Barman will confer with officials of Keren Hayesod regarding plans for the forthcoming campaign. Strom and Marks will finalize the itinerary for the President's Mission, which will leave Toronto on Oct. 6. •
A sight not seen too often occurred at the Olympiad for the Physically Disabled in Etobicoke when an Egyptian and^ an Israeli linked hands. The handshake took place between silver medallist Abdul Haifiz (left) of Egypt and gold medallist Uri Bergman of GWatBrennet,ioll0wiiig.the 100-metre freestyle swimming event on Monday. (Stephen S. Epstein)
TORONTO —
The Israeli team participating at the Olympiad for the PhysicaJly Disabled at Etobicoke's Centennial Park won many gold medals and finished high up in the final standings.
Israeli athletes did well in basketball, weightlifting, track and field and swimming! As of early this week. Israel had captured 22 gold
medals, eight silver and seven bronze. The U.S. led with 40 gold, 27 silver and 28 bronze.
There were more than 80 men and women on the Israeli squad — paraplegics, amputees and blind.
Security at the Olympiad site was not tight and an unacredited reporter from The Canadian Jewish. News was able to get around with
very few questions asked by guards. The Israeli team stayed in a downtown Toronto hotel. Some of the other competitors — estimated to number in the vicinity oi 1,700— were quartered at York University.
The games were intiated by Sir Ludwig GuttmJann of Britain, who established the world famous Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville
Hospital during World War II. The Olympiad started in Rome in 1960, moved to Tokyo in 1964, went to Tel Aviv in 1968, travelled to Wiest Germany in 1972 and now Canada is hosting the largest Games eyer.
The games began Aug. 3 and ended Aug. 11. The CJN will carry a feature on the Israel athletes in its next issue.
Omission in map No. 3
By LEWIS LEVENDEL CJN Associate Editor
TORONTO -
Another Mideast map omitting Israel has appeared in a Canadian publication. This marks the third map published recently w h i c h eliminates Israel.
The latest case brought to the attention of The Canadian Jewish News is the May-June issue Of The Canadian Banker arid ICB Review which contains a map to illustrate an article entitled "Banking in thie A r a b World." Arab countries are shaded in, with surrounding nations such as Niger, Ethiopia and Iran identified. But Israel disappears into the Mediterranean.
Executives of the Canadian Bankers Association, publishers of the magazine, seemed embarrassed and upset when contacted by The CJN this week. A correction and an apology were promised in their Septeinber-October issue coming out at the beginning of October.
Canada-Israel Committee leadership expressed concern when called by The CJN about the map. Said CIC Co-chairman Rabbi W. Gun-ther Plant: "Maybe we're face to face with a subtle undercover propaganda ring
as part of an attempt to delegitimize the _ state , of Israel."
Previous maps which omij-ted Israel were found in a promotional circular of Con-' struction Today, a Maclean-Hunter publication and en-Route, the Air Canada magazine published by Southam Murray. The circular was pulled ftt)m distribution, but
not the airline publication. However, the magazine pro-niised a correction and apology in its next issue.
Secretary-treasurer J.F, Riegert of the Bankers Association, told of the map by The CJN, reacted by saying "you're kidding... I am amazed and shocked and very upset this has occurred."
M.B. Guadsen, CBA director of public relations, said it was "a simple error of art work." Hie said the magazine's copy was reviewed by an editorial committee^: but "they hardly look at illustrations."
Magazine editor, W.G. Ivens, on vacation, was asked by his employers.to call The CJN. When he did, he
explained the map was done by the art director of the association who drew it from an atlas map. "It was strictly an omission and an oversight." he commented. "It was a straight bad job."
The map was brought to the attention of The CJN by Fred Mintz, president of March Chemicals Ltd., who picked up a copy at his bank.
Commented Nicholas Sim-monds of Toronto, CIC director of communications: "One would like to think it's purely an oversight. But I'm beginning to wonder. It seems to me to be the beginning of a trend of Canadian business publications looking for Arab business by giving into Arab boycott demands."
The article in the Canadian Banker by University of Ottawa economics professor Gordon Boreham, is the first of a two-part series. '
Part of the first piaragraph reads: "Arab successes in the opening stage of the "Ramadan-War" (wjiich vlasted from Oct. 6 to Oct. 22, 1973) showed that these nations had"begun to master the skills of the age of technology and the lateF use of the "oil weapon" by the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) meant that the Arab world could now. talk from a position of relative strength.
"Today the Arab states are treated by the rest of the world with deadly seriousness. And just as significantly, these oil and military achievements have rekindled an Arab sense of progress and a billowing conviction that a turning point has been reached in Arab fortunes."
monSchechter Academy, which basically serves the Conservative stream, has had to refuse children. President Andre Landsman said.
Beth Tikvah Foundation School, an afternoon and day school in Dollard (ies Ormeaux, a community that has grown rapidly over a short period of time, had to add a second storey to its building to meet the demand. It was built before the money was raised and the school now/ owes $220,000.
Two years ago, JPPS notified Allied Jewish Community Services that their enrol-
ment pattern indicated they would soon not be able to accomihodate more students. Meetings with the building committee of AJCS proved fruitless.
While AJCS realized the problem, the attitude taken was that it would be too costly to build another school when statistics showed there was a decline in the number of children enrolling in Protestant schools and consequently school space would be available for rent or purchase in future years, (While the birth rate has gone down,
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TORONTO^
By SHELDON XIRSHNER Staff Reporter
Board gives rabbi one year in wtiich to find new post
A high-powered national commissioh made up of the "bestniinds!' in the country hopes to refute a secret federal cabinet memorandum which minimizes the effects of the Arab boycott on the Canadian economy.
■ McGiil University law professor Irwin Cotler said the commission, which will be assisted by several advisory panels composed of Jews and non-Jews, will attempt to prove that the Arab boycott interferes with the civil liberties of Canadian citizens and infringes on tKe independence of Canadian foreign and economic policy.
"We intend to produce a first-class professional piece of work that can stand on its own merits," said Cotler, who was appointed by the Canada-Israel Committee to head the commission, the,members of which will be named next week.
"The case we put forward will speak for itself," he added: The CIC report will be released by mid-November, at a time when the Trudeau cabinet is due to make a decision on the sensitive question of government policy on the boycott.
For more than a year now, ever since Prime Minister trudeau declared in Parliament that the boycott is "alien to everything the government stands for and indeed in general to what Canadian ethics stand for," the Jewish community and many legislators have been waiting for the announcement of a policy that would protect Canadian companies from pressure to include boycott clauses in business contracts with Arab countries.
Cotler, a onetime aide to John Turner, former minister of justice, said pro-Israel lobbyists have not been exaggerating the effect of the Arab boycott. He said the impact of the boycott had been "materially depreciated" by the secret cabinet memorandum leaked to The Globe and Mail last week. The Toronto Star. Canada's largest daily, described it "as an odious mature of fancy and facts that are often distorted or wrong."
The copyright Globe story disclosed the memorandum concluded that the boycott did not appear to discriminate against the Jewish race or religion. '
It suggested four approaches the government could take in formulating anti-boycott legislation, but warned that if Canada acts on its own without similar stands by other Western nations, "too strong a stand would probably provoke the Arab states and seriously undermine Canadian trade and economic activities" in the Middle Blast. . In an interview, Cotler noted: "This is not an Arab-Israeli issue but a. Canadian one. If Arabs want to boycott Israel that's their business! However, if they take that boycott and impose it on Canadian citizens, and dictate our trade and foreign policy, the government is obliged to remedy the situation."
Cotler said the objectives of the commission were to identify arid to determine what government legislation was necessary to redress the problem posed by the boycott, which affects' 119 Canadian firms. He said that if the commission can demonstrate that the boycott is iniriiical to the public interest and Canadian values and ethics, Ottawa would be obliged "to protect the civil liberties of citizens arid act against foreign laws."
"Will Canadian Jurisdiction prevail over foreign I laws?" he asked rhetorically. The constitutional law expert stressed that the Canada-Israel Committee is not opposed to, and indeed encourages, friendly Canadian relations with the Arab states. Neither is the CIC agairist Arab investment in _ Canada, providedTTdoes not undermine Canadian independence and sovereignty and carries no discriminatory riders.
Cotler insisted that the commission was not established in reaction to the Globe article but had in fact been organized sev(;ra] months ago.
CIC's Director of Communications Nick Simmonds said an announcement was not made earlier regarding formation of the com-
PETERBOROUGH (Staff) —
A bitter controversy here that had pitted the town's only active rabbi against some Of his employers has ended on a note of uncertainty.
Under tierms of an agreement reached between Rabbi Joseph Carmi arid the officeirs of Beth Israel Synagogue, the rabbi will be perinitted to remain at his pulpit for one more year if he fails to find another position before then.
The synagogue will also provide the rabbi with severance jpay of about $5,000. and both sides will endeavor to work in harmony.
Early last morith. Beth Israel officers voted 25 to 8 in favor of dismissing Carriii with one year's notice. The Jerusalem-born rabbi reacted to the decision by threatening to go on a hunger strike, an idea he abandoned after the congregation agreed to enter into "open dialogue" regarding his employriient.
The. affair, which . hais acutely embarrassed the small Jewish community here, was made public July 14 by the Peterborough Examiner.
Community leaders were hazy as to why Carmi was dismissed; But it appears that the ill-feeling between the rabbi and the officers of Beth
Israel was partly sparked by their loss of confidence in him.
Rabbi Carmi told The Canadian J e w i s h News that the officers treated him "very unfairly" — a contention which they deny. He said he is willing to stay on: as rabbi if the officers display respect and understanding towards him. However, it is highly unlikely that he will be asked to continue to serve for longer than a year.
Carmi. 46, said it will probably take him upwards of a year to find a new' post.."I have no job possibilities now," he disclosed in ah interview. "I hope my colleagues will help me."
He said he is personally willing to relocate almost anN-where in North America, but indicated that his wife wants to live relatively near Toronto because their daughter studies there. Carmi said he has not given any thought to going back to Israel.
Leaders of the Jewish community were extremely reluctant to discuss the matter. As Isadore Black put it: "I feel that what we're going through is not a,thing for publication. It's only going to do us harm." Black admitted he had failed iri an attempt to "kill" the original Examiner stor\;.
A prominent and lohgtiriie member of the community.
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I more revenue
I MONTREAL-
-= A "realistic" goal of an 18.6% increase in re-
_g venue from the 1976 Combined Jewish Appeal
1 and Israel Emergency Fund — $3,000,(XK) more
g than last year — has been set by Campaign S . Chairman Jack Zittrer.
I The 1975 campaign fell short by $500,000 of
1 meeting even local needs. As a result Allied Jew-
1 ish Conununity Services has been operating on
S an austerity budget and there yi^ais a shrinkage in
= thie money available for Israel.
5 AJCS resident Joe Ain earlier announced that
= a total of $1,211(000 was urgently needed for the
H community's'local and national services.
= Financial contributions sent to Israel in 1975 by E' ■■' the United Israel Appeal included aid for patients
1 in mpntal institutions, student Sqholarships,
1 youth programing, immigrant hostels and trans-
= portation of immigrants and their belongings to
S Israel. •
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