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The Canadian Jewish News, Friday, July 12, 1974 - Page 9
In_MyJView
In retrospect^ CJC results seem favor able
By CHARLES LAZARUS
MONTREAL -
Eriontrli timehaselaps-ed since the Canadian Jewish Congress plenary asseinblv to clieck the fallout from the confrontations, and explosions, and' from this pei-spec-tive. It's mostlvtood.
Lookum at the situation strictly from the viewpoint of tlie Eastern Re.-, mon of tiieCJC. whicii includes that vast area from Ottawa to Newfoundland, one thine that. l)OComes perfectly clear (it 1 mav borrow an unpopular ex-' pression) is that the local division between Con-eress and Allied Jewish Community Servicesover fundwm anrl areas ol )ur-. rsdiction (education, culture, for example) could be consulerablv eased with sonie common sense
and eoodwill.....
■. On tlie future role of tlie-Eastern Recion within the community structure, a few imi)ortant and occasionally m no red points:
OVERLOOKED
.Almost completely overlooked in the contin-uinu dei)ate . aljout the areas.ol lurisdiction and responsil)ility of the Eastern Re.eion. is that it . sioes far hevond the confines, of. .Montreal, with overlaps into outlvinp Quebec communities such as Sherbrooke. Quebec City and Ste. Asathe.
In lac't CJC. as the clearing house, voice and ••parliament of Canadian Jewry, has the oblmation -to meet the needs of every Jewish head and heart in the country: which means ■in cultural and spiritual terms to sav nothing of speaking tor them when vital community problems arise, whether the. language issue m Que-l)ec: hate literature in Ontario: or government subsidies for Jewish education in British Columbia;
The Eastern Region, therefore, like the;.other
■CJC .regions.- must be concerned with all com-
■■ munities and contingencies from the smallest, tree and sturdiest oak — far bevond the centreof Jewishdvnamics in Montreal, to Corner Brook. Newfoundland -and Hull, Quebec. .
BLAME
One of the frequently-made points beforehand 'duriuL^ the plenary session: was that CJC s Eas-.
tern Region had no one' but Itself- to blame'be-cause its ••s.qua 11 er:'s •rights" in suclrfields as Jewish education and cul-: lure. ■ have been sacri-. ficed'on the altar ol benign neglect for many years.
.. Assummp: that —. un-; til no\^ — CJC locally hasn t'alwav.s functioned., as intended, and therefore bow out of Its traditional, role, ineffectively as It: may have been plaved some time, IS again to overlook some liasics:
You don t call an end to the American system of. demnc ra c v. ■ bee a use tliat system resulted in Richard Nixon and Watergate, but.rather eliminate the liad andstren-then the good.
The blamers should look inward and i-ecofrnize that a key problem in the effective working of the CJC's Eastern, Region. IS the niggardly attitude
; on belia 11 01 t ti e c0nt r011 -ers of the public purse (in other words, the "'ba-
, lehbatim' ) to properly finance its program with sufficient staff, because thev simply fail to appreciate the comparatively esoteric worth and work 01 Congress, compared to the bread-and-butter
. mitzvahs Of AJCS. OVERKILL Having made all these practical points, it is only fair to emi)hasize that in
■the past year and in the hands of Charles.Bronfman, AJCS president; and efficient administration of Manny Batshaw, AJCS has once again shown it has a unique appreciation of. and sensitivity.to Jow-
. ish needsm the area ol social service.
The Eastern Region, meanwhile: has taken or should I sav returned to— a new path toward •■people" participation., largely through the ef-
: forts of. the Labor Zionist' inovement:;
What 1 am frankly concerned with; however. IS that Since , the ' Labor Zionists supported such figures as Leon Teitel-baum for chairman of the region, and Nachum Wil-chesky as national treasurer-, their influence on Congress- affaii's, parti-
.cularlv m the Eastern Region, may not tend to
. eflectivelv place that Ea-
. tern Region, under Labor Zionist ••control".
This would, be overkill, and let's hope it doesn't happen
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Toronto Friends conduct
' campaign to raise $2 million for new Shaare Zedek Community Medical Centre-Jemsalem
SENATOR HENRY JACKSON ( Washington state ) - guest speaker
PRAISES THE SHAARE ZEDEK PROJECT , AT A BANQUET HELD RECENTLY IN NEW YORK BY THE INTERNATIONAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE HOSPITAL. WITH SENATOR JACKSON, IS
WOLF SZYDLOW ,FOUNDING CHAIRMAN OF THE TORONTO FRIENDS OF SHAARE ZEDEK AND
MEMBER OF THE INT'L BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
"JPl^^ TorOrVtO""* of Shaare Zedek are campaigning to raise $2 million~as their share of a $25 million fund to
builda ten-storey-medical centre including, a 500-bed hospital, which will replace the old Shaar Hospital in Jerusalem. . : -
: . Th Toronto*"" campaign has raised over SlmilUon to date andit is hoped to reach the $2 miUion target within the . ' next 2 years; The mon'ey will be spent on construction of the Ontario Pavilion at the medical centre^
Wolf Szydlow-
the founder and chairman of the Toronto-Ontario Friends of Shaare Zedek, Rabbi.Monson and Max Tehenbaum - -Co-chairmen, and the committee, Joe^ Tenenbaum (President), Mark Levy, Sandy Hoffstedter and Sydney. Plunka, appeal to the .Jewish communities to support this worthy- campaign.
«T.- . _ .•^'L j-\vv% TVi 1 iVi 1 ti Ari around the world are being called upon to finance what will be one of the most modern health centres . JC^VISXI C.OIIlIn W in the world," the chairman said in a campaign message. "We for our part must not fail in our task:"
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