, _^Pagc 6- The Canadian Jewish News, Friday, October 12, 1973
£^k)rganizations and People
what's new.:.
by Miriam Herman
A journey from isolation to activity
Rabbi Erwin Schild
^ LEAGUE WINS GRANT
^ The League for Human Rights of B'nai C B'rith has been awarded a $10,000 citi-S ..>zenship development grant by the Secre-'C -*ary of State department. The grant will g ".be used for the league's multi-cultural =• " institutes program headed by Rabbi Erwin ^ ='Schild of Toronto's Adath Israel Congre-g gation. The project is designed to develop S'i.i«!i^inderstanding among cultural communities on a people-to-people basis. Three institutes were held last year in co-p-bperation with Toronto's Jewish, Black f and Italian communities involving the f faculty and student body of Toronto Teachers College. Max Aiken and Edith Raab have been appointed vice-chairmen to serve as liaison with B'nai B'rith.
ARCHIVAL MATERIAL WANTED
The federal government is appealing, by ads in the press, for individuals and organizations to send them any material they might have of an archival nature. Victor Sefton, chairman of the archives committee, Canadian Jewish Congress, Central Region, reminds us the CJC has been active in this field for the last two years and recently appointed an archivist, Stephen Speisman, to handle this work. Said Mr. Sefton: "We feel that it is important that as much as possible ot archival material relating to the Jewish community should be channelled through Mr. Speisman who may be reached at 363-7190. ,
TO HELP RETARDED CHILDREN
The Temple Sinai Nursery School for Retarded Children fund-raiser Is to be a tea (with boutiques and cocktails) on Tuesday, Oct. 16, from 12. noon to midnight at the home of Mr and Mrs. Donald Kirsch, 93 Old Forest Hill Rd.
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It's coming! It's coming! The 1973 Hadassah Bazaar - on Wednesday, Oct. 24, at the CNE's Automotive Building. _This year's co-chairmen are, Beverley Gordon and Gail K-lebanoff. .
BROTHERHOODS CHAl DINNER
- The Council of Jewish Brotherhoods of Toronto celebrates its "chai" year at the annual dinner-Monday, Oct. 22. The dinner is hosted by Beth Emeth Bais Yehuda Brotherhood and guest speaker is to be Rabbi W. Gunther Plant.
OPEN HOUSE
Montrealers will be getting a birds-eye view of the new Allied Jewish Community Services - Cummings House which opened this spring. On Sunday, Oct. 21, from 2
- 4 p.m., an open house at the four-storey building on Cote St. Catherine Rd. will show each of the eight agencies under its roof in operation and guides will be on hand for a tour of the premises.
CHILDREN'S MOVIE,
B'nai B'rith Women's Sha'aron Chapter is showing the musical advienture film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang with Dick Van Dyke, on Sunday, Oct. 21 at Seneca College, Minkler Auditorium. Show times - 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. Tickets available at the door.
SINGLES - SWINGLES
A Singles Succah Surprise Supper for singles 21-35 is being held atBethSholom Synagogue, Eglinton Ave. W., Sunday, Oct. 14 at 8 p.m. The program includes Israeli singing and dancing plus a reading by Toronto poet Joseph Rosenblatt, editor of Jewish Dialogue and author of The Bumblebee Dithyramb.
ANNUAL TEA
The Hebrew Weston Charitable Services, in existence for more than 50 years, is having their annual tea Sunday, Oct. 21 from 1-9 p.m., at the home of Mrs. Bernard Leibel, 291 Forest Hill Rd. Proceeds are for the Meals-On-Wheels program and to serve Jewish patients in the Weston Sanitarium.
Ron Atkey, MP for St. PauFs, sign New Year's greeting cards to 'the Prisoners of Conscience as Genya Intrator of Women for Soviet Jewry shows photographs of unprisoned Soviets in labor camps. (David Latchmari photo)
With the focus on Soviet Jewry, Ron Atkey also appears on a special Channel 10 cable TV program with National Committee for Soviet Jewry chairman Sydney M. Harris. The show is scheduled for, Wednesday, Oct. 17 at 9:30 p.m.
-A native Montrealer, Rabbi Joseph Deit-cher, has been appointed executive director of the Eastern Canada Region of the Union^ of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America and National Conference Of ; Synagogue Youth. More than 20 congregations in Greater Montreal, Ottawa and other Jewish communities are affiliated with the region. Rabbi Deitcher was ordained by Yeshiva University in New York and has held pulpits in Halifax and at the Young Israel of Val Royal in Montreal, as well as being educational co-ordinator at the Hebrew Academy of Montreal.
Toronto lawyer and community leader Carl Keyfetz was the Good Citizen Medal winner for September. The medal is presented each month by the CitizenshipCom-' mittee of Metro Toronto and Labatt's Ontario Breweries Ltd; to a local citizen N for outstanding community service over a long period of time.
Morley Pape, a past president of Holy Blossom Temple (and a Jewish story teller and actor in his spare time) takes over, as director of the Canadian Council of
Liberal Congregations which represents 15 Reform congregations across the country.
Rabbi Gershon Winer^former dean of Jewish Teachers' Seminary and Herzliah m New York, is Beth Tzedec Congregation's first Great Week-End lecturer. The theme of the weekend is The World of Yiddish. And the lectures will be delivered in English and presented at three separate sessions, .Saturday morning and afternoon and Sunday morning; Oct: 13 and 14. Formerly of Toronto and now residing m Israel, he has been visiting rabbi at; Beth Tzedec for the High Holidays.
Caldwell Residences, a Montreal nonprofit organization involved in constructing low-rental apartments for the elderly, has a new president. Leonard Ellen succeeds founder-president Gordon Brown. It was during Mr. Brown's term that the first project, a 136-unlt, ll-storey building,: was completed in Cote St. Luc and there are plans for two more developments in the Snowden area.
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Senator Henry Jackson is to be
aifiong^the recipients of honorary doctorates ^warded later this year by Tel Aviv University to celebrate its 20th anniversary. The senator is being honored' for Kis^ "indomitable championship i of human/rights."
Pensioner Simon Shinder
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MONTREAL -
Light and lively are the key words for the upcoming theatre season at the Saidye Bronfman Centre. Sophisticated Montreal audiences want a respite from their steady fare of "heavy" plays according to Muriel Gold, SBC's director of performing arts.
"It is a false notion that merely because a play is entertaining, it cannot have any substance," she,said in an interview. "The 1973-74 season at the Saidye Bronfman Centre will provide a balanced diet of plays that are both enlightening as well as entertaining." "
And just what can theatre goers look forward to on this balanced diet? The season will open in November on an international note. Sean Mul-cahy will direct Black playwright Lorraine Hansbury's The Sign in Sydney Bnis-tein's WindQw. With an ethnic combination like that it can't lose and Muriel Gold stresses that the play has a universal theme.
The Saidye Bronfman Centre then becomes "Broadway North" as it presents Neil Simon's smash success. The
Giiigerbread Lady. A Broadway star is being considered for the lead role, but negotiations are still under way. The Simon play will be directed by Daniele J. Suissa wh9 directed last season's production of Kaddish.
The third play has still not been finalized but it will definitely be Canadian. The fourth play also has not yet been chosen. Subscription sales are doing very well and senior citizens are reminded that they can purchase tickets for Monday or Tuesday nights for only $1.25 instead of the regular price of $4.
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By ELLIE COLEMAN o
MONTREAL-
Simon Shinder still doesn't remfembier the exact circumstances of his stroke. He only knows that the calamity turned him from a self-supporting capmaker into a disabled person needing special assistance,
Today, three years later, if you meet him at the Golden Age Association's Senior Citizens' Centre, you'll find him saying, "My morale is good." The Association has helped the 61 - year - Old bachelor journey from a state of fear and isolation to independent activity.
"Three years ago 1 couldn't talk, 1 couldn't move my left hand. Now I manage, 1 try. Everyone should try."
When he was discharged
from the Jewish Conva* lescent Hospital, Shinder was faced with the problem of maintaining himself inr dependently, although he was still partially paralyzed. Barely able to walk with his cane, he found it very difficult to , prepare balanced meais and to keep his room on St. Kevin„in proper condition.
A social worker from the convalescent home contacted Evelyn Lax of the individual services division of the Golden Age Association. Soon after that, he was receiving three hot meals ,per week from the Meals-on-Wheels department.
Meals-on-Wheels operates six units, providing kosher, diet - supervised ineals to shut-ins across the city. In each unit, two vol-
unteers and a driver are responsible for delivering the meals. Mrs. Lax found that Shinder was still in need of assistance, so she referred him to other departments.
Since last spring, the home help department hjffi^been supplying Shinder with a worker _who is one of many senior citizens obtaining part-time employment through the job aid program the association operates.
"He comes to clean up, make my bed, fix up the place," explained Shindei-. "But I've learned a lot of things myself. I've learned how to make my meals and go shopping myself.
"At my place, I've got seven steps to go up and three to go dowui - three
outside and seven inside," he added.
For the p'ast two years, Simon Shinder has been a part-of the centre's weekly group program, ''Reach-Out". It is geared toward members who need' special supervision and to those who need to be introduced to centre activities gradually.
Although the ultimate aim is to integrate the "Reach-Out" group into the mainstream of the centre and produce independent mem-' bers, several participants, Shinder included, remain in the protected setting because of their limited physical capacity.
Exercises, . singing, discussions, arts and crafts provide stimulation for the group members who, like Shinder, often stay alone for the rest of the week.
Personal unhappiness is caused by biblical misinterpretation: rabbi
By MARCIA SINGER
TORONTO -
Joseph Gelberman is a man in love with life - so much its lover that, as a believer in reincarnation, he jokes about his sins, confessing, "I purposely sometimes do wrong things. I want to come back."
Dr. Gelberman is also an unusual modern Chassidic rabbi.
After 15 years, he left his New York City congregation to obtain a doctorate in psychology and to establish a "free" synagogue where members do not pay dues and he, as its rabbi, does not receive any wages. As a psychologist, he helps operate a counselling centre which uses religion and psychiatry to help people.
In Toronto last week, the rabbi stressed man's ability to enjoy life to an audience , of 150 people at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. The New Value Association, a group "organized to present new ideas tothe public," sponsored the lecture.
Describing his talk as a
a migdash, God wanted man to create a sanctuary within his heart, said Dr. Gelberman.
Thirdly, mankind has not followed the Sixth Commandment. "Thou Shalt not kill means one should not kill anything. This means ' we
shouldn't kill men, animals, or even insects."
Not only can man be happy, according to Dr. Gelberman, he can also be holy regardless of his religious faith. However, he cautioned that the "rung by rung" climb to holiness is long and difficult.
Dr. Joseph Gelberman
"spiritual encounter," Dr. Gelberman said most persons are unhappy because they have misinterpreted three important biblical passages.
Instead of enjoying each day, people waitforasimcha to celebrate life, he said. Man's misery is an insult to God who created a beautiful world for man alone.
Secondly, man has committed a"cop-out" by erecting empty buildings to serve as sanctuaries. When God instructed man to build him
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