Page 6 - The Canadian Jewish News, Friday, March 19,1976
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By MIRIAM HERMAiSi
1T?S PARTY TIME
There's always a reason to have a party, whether it's Purim celebrations winding down or a feeling of springtime in the air. —
On Saturday, March 20... Congrega-■.. tidn Habonim holds its Purim dance at.8 p.m. to the music of the Hans Kaufman trio. Light supper, door prizes and •costumes add up to a good evening of entertainment at 12 Holloman Road, Glencairn and Bathurst area.
On Sunday, March 21.
Beth Emeth-Bais Yehuda's drop-in centre for singles (ages 25 and up) celebrates the first day of spring and Sol Zidenberg is on hand with the dance music, at 8:30 p.m.
If you are wearing a costuhie, admission is free to Beth Sholom Single Swingles Purim masquerade ball set for 8 p.m. Disc jockey and light refreshments add to the fun for this group" of 21-35-year-blds.
This Sunday also calls for the initiation of an Open House for unattached Beth Tzedec members between the ages of 35 and 55. Relax with friends over a cup of coffee at the synagogue, 7:3Cl p.m..
A belated Purim party is the occasion for the Labor Zionist Alliance Professional Club's dance. It takeis place at the LZA centre on Viewmount at 8 p.m. with disc jockey Bill Griffin setting the beat.
TIME TO THINK
For those with an intellectual bent this Sunday, March 21 has a lot in store to digest.!.
Friends of Pioneering Israel, in their fourth annual seminar, takes a hard look at PijAt-Zlonlst Jewish DOenunas, with >^^i&r;i'«uals Bernard Avishai, Joseph Shatzmiller and Sol Stem (co-founder of the radical magazine, Runpaits). all fielding different topics. It's an all^day affair, starting at 10:30 a.m., luncheon included. For preparatory material call FPl at 635-9977. -
The Contemporary Affairs Institute of B'nai Israel Beth David Congregation presents guest speaker Frank-Talmage, chairman of the University of Toronto Jewish Studies Program. TTie lecture on jfewish Mysticism begins at 8:30 p.m.
With PassoVer a few weeks away, Ner Israel Yeshiva College invites you to become a yeshiva student for the day. Their seminar dealing with the laws of Pesach gets under way with shachris services and continues throughout the afternoon. Seminar leaders are Rabbis Gedalia Felder; Yaakov Fordchheimer and Yaakov Perlow. of New York, and
Yaakov Hirschmann. Admission to the school on 625 Finch Avenue West will include lutich. .
MUSIC MONTH
^Two different, but equally popular entertainers hit the Toronto area this weekend... On Saturday, Maicb 20 at 8:30 p.m. Yehoram Gaon, Israel's vocal and movie star, entertains a sell-out audience at Adath Israel Congregation ■ We have just heard there will be 150 rush seats available before the show and because of the demand a second evening is planned for the 27th.
On Sunday, March 21... Internationally reknowned cantor David Kusevitsky celebrates Jewish Music Month with, a concert which, at the same time, salutes Beth Torah Synagogue on the occasion of its Bar Mitzvah anniversary. Time — 8:30, place — 47 Glenbrook Ave.. Tickets are available from the synagogue office: 782-3561.
HOLY BLOSSOM LECTURES
The Israel-Diaspora Committee of the Holy Blossom Temple has set itself an ambitious task with its new series of lectures designed to train congregants to undertake social action responsibilities on behalf of the Jewish homeland. The series takes place weekly on Wednesdays, at 8 p.in. On the 24th. Prof. Eugene Rothmain of Carleton University handles the subject ismd: Roots and Devek^ment. The Middle East and its relationship to the world powers and the UN, will be discussed by political philosophy professor Howard Adelman of York University, on March 31st. The following Wednesday* Rabbi , Gunther Plaut will deliver an address on Hie Israel — Diasgwra Connection and Possible Scenarios for the Fntnre.
YOUTH IN ACTION
Two stories passed our desk that affirm our confidence in young people. Two grade six classes at Bialik Hebrew Day School, under the direction of teachers Guta Gnishka and Helen ' Selskey, entertained residents of Bay crest's home for the aged on Purim eve before the megillah reading. The students, aged 10 and 11, worked for two months on Itzik Manger's Yiddish musical, Purim Spiel.
The student councils of the United Synagogue Day School's main and Bayview branches, recentiy apportioned their weekly tzedakah collection for Guatemalan Jewry,'a total of $50. A cheque in that amount was sent to Guatemala City's Jewish day school, the Institute Alberto Einstein.
Fran Axsmith
B'nai B'rith Women's Council of Toronto informs us that Fran Axmitfa has just assumed the post of president. Mrs. Axmith, a young mother of three, will now take charge of co-ordinating the programs for all 17 chapters under her domain. A member of Makor chapter, she served as Council's vice-president for two years before moving up the ladder to the top job.
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Yael Slon, joumalist. novelist, army officer — and daughter of former Israeli defence minister Moshe Dayan — is scheduled to visit Hamilton and Toronto next week. On Tuesday, March 23, she tackles the topic of intended U.S. arms supplies to Egypt. Her address, sponsored by the Labor Zionist Alliance and Canadian Zionist Federation, can be heard at 8:30 p.m. at LZA's Viewmount Avenue centre. The following day. Mrs. Sion heads for Hamilton's Jewish Community Centre where she will address a 1:30 p.m. meeting sponsored by the. women's division of the United Jewish Welfare Fund.
Reliable sources from Israel report El Al's top man for Canada^.will_be Doy Adly, the airline's marketing chief. He will take up his new,office April Vl in Montreal, Joram Kagan, El Al's general manager for Canada, will returning to Israel. \
Toronto has a new trilingual radio show — Hebrew, Yiddish and English r— featuring announcer-interviewer Micha Ben ABza. Actiially. the true identity of the man behind the mike is Michael Givan (his miother's maiden name was Aliza). an Israeli who first conceived the idea when he moved to Toronto in 1969. A teacher at B'nai Jsrael-Beth Dayid's congregational school, Givon also prodnces tte show "A.M. Israel", wUch b aired from 10:30^ 11:30 a.m.. Smidays. On CJMR radio, 1190 on the AM dial, hi ad^tion to music, cnhural entertainnient and local interviews, the show offers direct live newcaste frmn Israel via the facilities of the Israel Broadcasting Authority-
"My mother was so adamant that her children should grow up in a good atmosphere, that she forbade us to play games with toy weapons," said Menachem Meir. 'Mother' is none other than GoUa Mebr and this little loiown fact about Israel's former prime minister came to light at thefaniily celebration of her grandson's bar diitzvah in Ramat Aviv. "Unfortunately" her son added, "when they grew up the time was still not ripe to dp away with the
real thing."
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Six Hadassah-WIZO women from Anne Frank Chapter are still bubbling with excitement oyer their recent victory — which netted them a respectable $1,000 — following a hard-fought battle in, of all things, a table-setting contest. Rtted against women's committees of six other charitable organizations, in the,contest sponsored by Gabriel Lucas Jewellers on Yorkville Avenue, the Hadassah women were the public favorite. Sietters of the winning table were: Lynn Albert, Virginia Bafai, Bonnie Gottlieb, Sydney Krebtein, Lynn Sigel and Elayne Wortsman. ♦ ■ ■        .♦       ,, ■ •■■
Congratulations to Fanny Finkebtein,
a pioneer member of Adath Israel Congregation, who celebrated a milestone brithday — her 90th. The congregation paid tribute to this great-great-grandmother jit a Sabbath morning service recently. Mrs. Finkelstein's late husband, Morris, was one of Adath Israel's co-founders in 1902.
Dtw Wniiam Korey, a specialist on Soviet Jewish affairs and B'nai B'rith's non-governmental representative to the UN, has been appointed director of the BB International Council. He succeeds Herman Edebberg who retired this month after nine years in the post. Mr. Edelsberg continues on with BB as a consultant on foreign afbirs^
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Here is a popular and , exciting Israeli s w e e t from the Citrus Marketing Board,.made with six or /-seven ripe, juicy oranges. I served it to The Canadian Jewish News Associate Editor. Lewis Levendel and his wife, on their recent visitto Israel, and they confirmed that readers would want to, share the recipe too.
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By MARCIA KRETZMER
JERUSALEM —
These days, Israel would far rather be known ' for otl\er commodities than oranges. Talk about Israel's exports of polished diamonds, high fashion and textiles, chemicals and precision tools, and Israeli industrialists will glow with pride — but the "orange-^picking image" has been gentiy discouraged over the last decade or so, although citrus fruit is. and remains, a big dollar earner.
Nevertheless, the image persists. So much, so, that overseas visitors are in , for a cruel disappointment when they arrive in the middle of the summer, and find empty orange groves and a few sad specimens of oranges available in the stores.
One group leader (a Canadian — but no names, no names...) found himself in something of a quandary when
asked to explain this by his disappointed charges. He told them the crop was grown for export, so no oranges were available to Israelis except at very high prices.
The real reason, of course, is that the orange scjason rufts from around Chanukah to Pesach. So visitors arriving here at this time of year will find Israelis enjoying a bumpercrop. Oranges are purchased by every family in bulk during this season when they are cheap, healthful and delicious.
Families rarely buy less than five pounds at a time. They are squeezed freshly every morning, used generously in cooking, and eaten one after the other during evenings spent chaitting with friends, or round the tdevision.
Oranges are exported together with other citrus fruit, under the trade name "Jaffa," by the Citrus Marketing Board of Israel. Several growers* co-operatives supply the
Ignores
US. Jews[ interestSy saMs American rabbi
Board and last year, citrus exports totalled. 891,000 tons and earned Israel S123.015.400. a peak figure.
This year, production is so high that a special "pic|cing campaign" — mivtzahcatif — is encour-- aging high-school students to spend a couple of weeks in the orange-groves to help out with harvesting. • •
Jaffa Torte
2 112 cups flour
1 cup margarine
1/3 cup sugar (for pastry)
2 tsps. baking powder
2 cups freshly-squeezed orange juice
4 tblsps. cornstarch , ■4 tbhps. sugar (for fdlirigj
3 whole oranges
5 egg whites
3 iblsps. su^ar (for topping)
1. first make the pastry. Mix together the flour, margarine, 1/3 cup sugar and .baking powder, until you have a soft ball. Press evenly and lightly on to the base arid up the sides of a greased, round, shallow pie dish or spring-form pan, 10"-12" in diameter. Bake in a preheated 350° oven for 50 minutes or until baked through and lightly gilded. Remove from oven
2. heat orange juice with 4 tbisps. sugar and when boiling, stir inthe cornstarch, mixed well in advance with a little cold water. Lower heat and stir with wooden spoon until the mixture thickens, then remove from heat
3. peel oranges, removing all white pith and pits, and divide into segments. Lay segments atop pastry, fitting together closely. Cover with cornstarch filling
4. whip egg whites with 3 tbisps. sugar till stiff, and pile on top of torte. Raise heat in oven to 450° and leave torte in for a few minutes until the meringue turns golden. Serve
cold. At least 12 portions
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Shabbat Shalom! copyright Marcia Kretzmer, 1976
By LOUISE CORNBLUM
TORONTO —
Rabbi; Fabian Sdwn-feld, president of die Rabbinical Council of America, lashed out at hb secretary of state, Henty Kissinger, for ignoring the interests of the American Jewish oomma-nity in the course of hb Mideast shuttle diplomacy.
Addressing an audience of 230 at Shaarei tefillah Synagogue recentiy, the rabbi admitted tiiat "altiiough Dr. Kissinger is a refugee from Hitler Germany, he turned his back on the Jewish people and even returned to Germany to forgive and forget."
While he claimed no right to criticize the secretary of state, Schon-feld added: "Dr. Kissinger says on behalf of the United States. 'We have to do what is in our own national interest'; but he's not saying it the same way the real native-bom Yankees say it."
Rabbi Schonfeld had come from his Young Israel of Kew Gardens Hills Congregation in Queens. New York, to share the siyum-dinner celebrating the completion of a five-year study of the Talmudic tractate Shabbat undertaken by Shaarei Tefillah's Rabbi Meyer Berglas and members of his congregation.
"We live today in times of unprecedented danger in Jewisl^ life, whether in North America, the Soviet Union or the land of Israel," the; Orthodox American rabbi s a i d. "The Arabs have Russia, France. Britain. Europe; we Jews have only our-selveis and the , Almighty."
Rabbi Schonfeld told of visiting a yeshiva in Israel. 1 Vi miles from the^ Syrian border, just a couple of weeks after three of the students were attacked by Arabs.
"What could I say to them from the safety of Kew Gardens in New York City of Bathurst' Street in Toronto? Could I say to tbertCstudy-Torah? Whatoo our young men risk studying at yeshivot in [North America? There
is no Torah study like that in Israel."
Murray Frieberg. pre«dent of Shaarei Tefillah. said that although leaming and prayer are the omwrstones of isyna-gogne life, that b not enbdgh.
"At thb point in our hbtoty, a synagogue most be much more than that. We are the centre of Jewish : life in the Diaspora 'and our purpose must be to foster Jewbh life in all its aspects-"
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