Page 6-The Canadian-Jewish News, Friday, May 17, 1974
Organizations and People
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By MIRIAM HERMAN
New Jewish feminist body takes shape
JEWISH MARRIAGE SEMINAR
This Sunday, May 19. the Jewish Mar-: 1 riage Education Committee, chaired by Phyllis^Mayer and Dr.,Joseph Berger, is holding another of their one-day_seminars for young people getting married in the near future. Up for discussion will be such subjects as the marriage ceremony.communication in marriage, kashrut. sexual relationships, budgeting and family planning, u^peakers will include Rabbi and Mrs.'Meyer Berglas, Rabbrs'David Dre-bin, Yitzchak Kerzner and Howard Sack-nowitz; Yussie Lebovics. accountant, and Dr: :Rolf Lederer, psychiatrist. The program begins at 10:45 a.m. at B'nai B'rith Youth House, Hove Street.
EDUCATION CONFERENCE
The Secular Jewish Association of Toronto hosts this year's Conference of ■Secular Jewish Education the weekend of May 24-26 at York University's Glendon College campus. Theconference. anannual meeting of 30-40 diverse secular Jewish organizations.and institutions across Ca-ada and the U.S.. wiU dealwith adult organizations as well as children's education. For information caU 493-4681 (evenings). ;
BRIT MILAH
To date, the P'evlim Organizations Toronto group/has. arranged Bnt Milah for six Russian,immigrants'whose ages range from 10' to 23. years. The circumcisions were performed at Doctors Hospital, by Dr. Tibor Juda, with. .P,:eylim director Rabbi Chaim Jaffe.e present. These; same young men will have their bar. mitzvah Saturday. June 1. at B:'nai Tpraih.Synaigogue in Willowdale; Adinnei-; the fbllowing; evening. June 2. will combine celebrations of the Brit Milah and the bar mitjvot. .
BIBLICAL GARDEN
With, the coming of warmer weather. Temple Emanu-El's BiblicalGardeti will soon be in fiill bloom. This year's garden is enhanced by the recent additions of a peacock, a work in copper by Barry Shaw Rimmington ("For the King- had at,sea a navy of Tarshis /. .bringing gold-silver-.' ivory and apes and peacocks" 1 Kings T0:.22).an almond tree (the Tpd of .A.aaron' was a branch of; almond tree), and a new oleainder plant (-1 was exalted.like a palm tree in ErigaddL and a rose plant in Jeri-. cho" —. EccL 24:14). Each was a gift of a member family of the terriple.
SISTERHOOD DONOR DINNER
Shaarei Shoinayim sisterhood's annual donor dinner this Wednesday evening combines fund-raising and fun with the cul-
■ mination of their calendar ad oook cam-^ paign. and the presentation^of a musical
. play writteirbv Cvnthia Gasner and Lil Reiss. Proceeds .w:ill-go. to the newly
^^formed Senior Friendship: Club and the-, vouth prog rani.. , ^
FUND-RAISING DINNER
■ Another donor dinner is the one being held Tuesday evening, the 21st. bv the Young Women's Branch ,of the Sons of Jacob Benevolent Societv. Formed l>ack in 1951 bv- 13 women, the branch now has a membership of about 50. It is a non- ■ political organization with charitable, educational and social activities. ThroughUie years the ,members have given donations to The Hospital for SickChildren. Mount Sinai Hopsital. Bavcrest Centre. Israel , Emergencv Fund. ..among others. This year, with just a small group, thev will .have raised and distributed close to S9.000.
FOR ART LOVERS
.A.nd speaking of fund-raising --Temple. Har Zion IS having their verv first fundraiser, a spring art show, ne.xt Saturdav. ■ Mav 2:"v. at 8 p.m. at the temple on Bav--view .Avenue, north, of Steeles.. The show . will include Canadian, international and Israeli art — oils, potterv. metal wall hangings and tapestries. . ,•
LZA LECTURE SERIES
Rev. Roland de Corneille:. national ' director. League for Human Rights of B'nai B'rith.-.will' be speaking .on Anti- : Semitism at the Tuesday, May 21, lecture ot the Labor Zionist Alliance lecture se'r- ■ ies. The priDgram takes"place at 8:30p.ni; ., at the LZA centre. .
LIFE-DETECTING INSTRUM.ENT
A portable heart-activity detecting device has been developed by.\Veizmann In-..; stitute's. electronics department,. The device. .the size of a flashlights is- easily, operated under adverse field conditions.. It came about as the result of the urgent" need, during'the recent war. for a portable Instrument. for conclusively determining signs of life in make-shift field conditions. Also, medicalor pari-medical personnel can operate; the device with only minimal t.raining.
PINCH HITTING
this columnist will be on vacation the last two w:eeks in May.; Filling in will be CJN Associate Editor Lewis Levendel. .'
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...about people
■ Last year a Mother's Dav kiss from singing star Vic. Damone-— thre yeur-a— ringside, table, at his Roval York Hotel nightclub act. It all happened to 88-vear-old Jennie Goodman.because her son-in-law and daughter. Dr. and Mrs. Sydney . Taylor, are good friends of the popular vocalist.- During his Toronto, engagement . a, year ago he visited her at her bedside ■ at Baycresr Hospital. For the-^singer's, ■■'i' appearance this April: Mrs. Goodman was presented: with an orchid corsage and in-troduced by the singer himself. In fact; he dedicated the evening's performance to her., No wonder Mrs.- Goodman commented, "His.voice is as beautiful asheis,"
.Quebec Industry and Commerce Minister Guy Saint-Pierre and Israeli Ambassador TheodorMeron are. to be guests of honor at the Canada-Israel Chamber of Commerce, and Industry luncheon scheduled in Montreal for Thursday. June 6, at Le Chateau Champlain. The luncheon will , be attended by Quebec government, busi- . - ness, industrial: and ' financial leaders. Luncheon chairman is to be.,CICC presi-dent Ray D. Wolfe
University of Toronto philosophy;pro-- ^ fessor Emil Fackenheim's April speaking calendar reads like a page fromaU;S.. -travel book; In lOdays he was at Washington University. St. Louis, and Brandeis . University Hillel Foundations in Massa--chusetts, Hebrew Union College-Jewish. Institute of Religion in Cincinnati; and :YaIe:University.: Speaking on the Holocaust • and its aftermath. Dr. Fackenheim noted that "It is . of special interest that the campuses have taken such an interest m . the Holocaust this year." Last Sunday he spoke at Holy Blossom . Temple,, along with Albert Vorspan, director oftheJJnion. of American Hebrew Congregatiofis'social action commission DnJTheEthics of Jewish — Survival. _
.: A memorial' meeting in memory of , Meyer Gasner IS being planned by a num- , — ber of organizations: with which he was ■ closely identified, A lifelong friend. Rabbi Joseph Lookstein,.president of Bar Ilan, University, will address theassembly. The date is Thursday, lilay,30, at 8 p.m. at Shaarei Shomayim Synagogue;
, A mathematics and psychology professor giving a pinao recital may seem a bit unusual, but Professor AnatoieRapoport, who teaches those courses at the University of Toronto, also holds two diplomas from the Vienna Music Conservatory --as concert pianist and as kapeinrieistiar (conductor),; He is giving the c(fncert Sun-\, day; May 26, at 2:45 p:m. Beth Habo-: nim, Hollaman Road. The program will be thoslly Beethoven and Chopin but will in-
: elude one 20th century sonata, composed --TTV^Alexander Rapoport. the professor's i7-vearrold son:, •:
Murray Goldman
' Appointments. : elections and such -.-, Business executive Murray Goldman has been appointed associate chairman of the 1974 Toronto , Israel - Bond -Campaign. Prominent in real estate and development; fields-, he serves on the Urban Development Institute . . : Clanton Park Synagogue elected accountant Aaron Frankel as president with Dr. Yehudi Shields and lawyer Aaron Weinstock as vice-presidents ... John Stuart Katz is the new chairman, of the film department of York .University's'Faculty of Fine-Arts, amove up from associate chairman. He was pTe- , viously assistanTprofessor at the Ontario • :'Institute..for Studies in Education and be--fore that.: a facultv memb'er of Harvard University
^JN columnist-A,J, Arnold was one of '.the 'Winners of the Manitoba Historical. Societv's. Margaret McWiUiams Awards for 1974. Mr.. Arnold, who writes the What ■ Really Happened 'column for The CJN, won for his setialized articles on Jewish immigration in Manitoba in the 188Q'"s'7~ which ran in The Canadian Jewish News; Mr. Arnold was elected to the councrl^ the societv for a three-vear term. ■
Herbert Sohn, who used: to work at the United Jewish Welfare Fund, is the new director of the Senior Citizens' Bureau of the province's ministry of community and social services. An experienced administrator, he; has held senior positions in that ministry as well as in the department of labor.
By SHERI BURNS
NEW YORK -
Are men and .women ready to discuss together those issues about which, feminists — and in our particular case, Jewish feminists — have been talking for some tiiiie?~ _Attenipting such a discourse were about 325 women and 50_nien from the United States and central-Canada who
met, in New York City for the National Conference onJew-ish'Women and Men,
Sponsoring this conference was- the North;AineriT can Jewish Students' NETWORK, an organization formed ajew years ago to serve as an information bureau.; News regarding activities of Jewish~conimunities; ih all parts of. the continent is available throulih the NET-
.WORK office in; New"York City.
New awareness of the oppression, of women as expressed, by the feminist movement in general has led many Jewish women to seek examination of-tradi--tional Judaic attitudes- towards the woman and~her role: in the family, and., re-" lig-M3us communilv: The~tone wJuch pervades conversation
Women urged to attend convention in Australia
By ROCHELLE CARR TORONTO -
■■ Being the recipient of.a M.B.E. (Member oftheBrit-ish Empire). IS a personal honor, but Mrs. Mina Fink. 01 Australia, who received the;awar(i last Januarv,says the most gratifving aspect was to receive it for ser^ vices rendered to the com-munitv and especially service to Jewish women.
;it was especially noteworthy to ine because the .Australian government rec"-'bgnizeS; the impoi'tance of the continuity of Jewish life , as.; expressed through; my efforts," said Mrs. Fink, a past president of the National Council of Jewish Women of Australia andv con-
.vention chairman of the 10th .International Council of Jewish Women which will take, place in .Australia in April. 1.975: .. ^
Measuring each sentence carefully as she .expressed her concern about, the dual role of the Jewish woman in the Jewish and general, communities.. the. w e 11-groomed grandmother of six grandchildren explained that her recent; visit to Toronto was to issue an invitation to Canadian Jewish women to attend the forthcoming convention in. lai'ge numbers; (The last international convention was held in Toronto in 1972 under the chairmanship of Mrs. Debbie Vi-:, goda:).;
Mrs:- Fink IS .spending eight weeks travelling.-to various countries to publicize the convention, whose theme will centre around Jewish education as.part of Jewish survival. .(The inter-, national'organization, is represented at the. United Nations as a non-governmen-. tal organization and has 25 ■ affiliates in 23 countries in
• alL continents bnniting together some 8.50,000 Jewish women.) ;:
Her ; first stop was; San^. Fi-anciscb and., then ,bn. to ■Argentina-where, she noted, one-half-million Jews live, constituting - "a tremendous ' potential,, as far a's.women are! concerned, in commun-. ity participation."
From .there she went to
;Rio de Janeiro, Lima and on to ' Me.xico .City .where^ she witriesseda Yoni Ha'atzmaut
■ program put on by . 1:250 Mexican children at the Albert Einstein secondary school, a school endowed by the Jewish community; They played Hatikyah ami a Mexican schoolgirl read a poem ; calling for justice for the
'Isriielis. "Altogether-an un-forgetable :day,''. summed up. Mrs. Fiiik. ,
\, The rest .of her itinerary includes New York. Toronto
and then on to Israel in order to attend an Israeli seminar on -Jewish survival, ^ Mrs. Fink's, ties with Israel'have alwavs been strong. About a decade ago, her latehusband established the Australian Wool Industries Ltd. inAsh-dod
As well as promoting the convention. She feels that-a primary objective of the ICJW must be "to'create a strong bond of friendship, of Jewish womenthroughout the world,; as well as to. intror duce them, to yolunte'erism;'-
On the national scale, Mrs. Debbie Vigoda, vice presi:^: dent of the NCJW of Canada; feels that one of their pri-; niary objectives revolves a- . round the concept of human-, rights,, as well as to focus. ,on the ; Jewish family and .the woman's role in it.
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among concerned Jewish women is not belligerent but rather suggests that, unsatisfied, with the roles hand-
, ed to them by centuries of tradition, these women seek to redefine their roles within the bounds of Judaism;
:, for many this means Orthodox Judaism.
- At this conference discus-, ■ .sion of the concenis of Jev,'-ish women includedthemi-v nor role they play in the synagogue, the over-emphasis, on housekeeping and child-rearing, sexual intol- : erance, (homosexuality, living common-law, etc.), Jewish rituals, and the sexist nature of Jewish teaching.
Among the more noteable speakers that weekend were Rabbi Yitzhak Greenberg, a professor of Jewish studies at City College New York;: Israeli Knesset Member and . leader of the Jewishwoman's party Shulamit Aloni, and author Grace Paley.^
In the final: meeting, a; platform and structure for a new committee, the Jewish Feminist Organization
. (JFO); were presented to the meeting. In spite of the strong secular feminist, movement, many Jewish women feel the need to create
-their own organization dealing; with the particular prob- . lems they, encounter in the ■ Jewish community.Essen-, tiall'y, it will serve tp dis- ; seminate information about Jewish feminist projects ac-. ross North America and to : assist in local, programing. . All Jewish women ^in the continent will be encouraged to join; .
One man, speaking on be-^.j half of the others, told the';
. women assembled that this -. unique experience of sharing ideas and exploring': new realms among Jewish men has been only a prelude. The ; . focus of attefntion was; on
'next time' — mehand women together must examine tradition and modern psychology to re-evaluate their respective roles within Judaism. .;■
Jewish feminist activities in Toronto are gaming mo-consciousness - raising" group. In October 1974 gy.
it will host a Symposium on Jewish' women to which A-viva; Cantor Zuckoff, Rachel Adler. and other well-known Jewish women will be invited to speak.
Sheri Burns" is a University of Toronto graduate in zoolo-
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