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Page 6- The Canadian Jewish News, Friday, September 14, 1973
Organizations and People
what's new.
by Miriam Herman
FJWO COMMUNITY AWARENESS
, As part of their community awareness program, the Federation of Jewish Women's-Organizations is planning an all-day information program to show how some of our Unifed Way dollars are being spent. On Tuesday, Sept. 18, representatives of Toronto's Jewish women's groups will be meeting at Adath IsraelSynagogueat 9a.m. to board the special bus that is to take them on tour. The morning stop is the North YMHA, and following lunch, they will proceed to the Canadian National Institute for the Blind for a tour of their facilities. The program is planned to end at 3 p.m.
FOR JEWISH TEACHERS
Another segment of the Teachers Growth Seminar has been scheduled by the Board of Jewish Education in Toronto, for teachers in Jewish schools. A course in puppetry as a teaching aid in the classroom will be given in three Sunday sessions, Sept. 16 and 23, and Oct. 7,at3 p.m. Lecturer is to be Michael Runiack, teacher and professional puppeteer who has appeared on the CBC and lectured through- . oiit Ontario on the subject. Registration is necessary - call Minam Schneid at the board office.
Also - Mrs. Schneid. school consultant to the l)oard. tells us that the school year is opening with a welcome party for the teachers who have returned after a summer of studies at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, the new teachers and shelihim from Israel and other teaching staff. The "do" takes place Monday, Sept. 17,. at 8:30 p.m. at the Zionist Centre, Marlee Ave. It is sponsored by the Board of Jewish Education, the Canadian Zionist Federation and the Friends of Bar-Ilan University.
SONG-WRITING CONTEST
The Jewish Music Committee of Canadian Jewish Congress, Central Region, has announced a Jewish song-writing contest for Jewish youth, ages 6 to 18, reside ing in Ontario. The idea is to involve and educate children through Jewish music about their Jewish heritage. The topic is divided into two categories - applying available texts (poems or liturgical texts) to original music, or original words and music. Prizes are to be in the form of cash scholarships to further studies. Entries must reach the committee at 15€h^ Beverley St.. Toronto, by Dec. 15, 1973. ' Contact Congress for detailed information.
RECONSTRUCTIONIST SYNAGOGUE
The Reconstructionist Synagogue of Toronto embarks on its first full year this month when it holds its High Holy Day services at the North YMHA with Mitchell Smith, a student at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Philadelphia; as guest. The Toronto synagogue, the latest affiliate in the Reconstructionist Movement - there are synagogues in most major U.S. cities, Montreal and Jerusalem - was established by a group of Torontonians under the guidance of Mbn-trealer Lavy Becker. The synagogue's-activities for the year will include regular monthly services and study groups.
Stephen Berger
LZA INS-f ALLS NEW BRANCH
On Sunday, Sept. 16, at 3:30 p.m. the Labor Zionist Alliance officially installs the 99 in embers ofthe newly formed Bran-deis Branch #517. its membership consists of Jews of Hungarian descent and joining the organization wiU enable them to perpetuate their ancient rich culture. Stephen Berger, president of UJA of Metropolitan Toronto, is to be guest speaker and possibly LZA executive vice-president Jacob Katzman will fly in from New York for the event. The installation takes place at the LZA Centre, Viewmount Avenue.
CHOMEDY WOMEN'S DIVISION
Chomedy Women's Division ofthe Combined Jewish Appeal of Montreal and Israel Emergency Fund is on the move! On Thursday evening, Sept. 13, the women's special gifts division was honored at the opening of an exhibit of paintings by artist Steve Yurani at the new Allied Jewish Community Services-Cummings House. The artist, who is also a sculptor, caricaturist and set-designer (he designed the sets for the film Exodus) was on hand to greet the participants, as was Zvi Garcy, director of immigration, Haifa. And on Sept. 18, 19 and 20, Chomedy Women man the phones for their annual Phone-A-Gift a mammoth telephone campaign to raise funds for the 1973 CJA-IEF campaign.
FAMILY-TEACH-FAMILY
Bring Sabbath Back into the Home is one of several projects funded by the Institute for Jewish-Life, a <li vision ofthe Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds. It is a program whereby Jewishly knowledgeable families act as Friday evening Sabbath hosts to learner families. Before, during and after these home visits the learner families meet with a trainer to learn songs, skills and prayers and are provided wih readings and background regarding both Sabbath ritual and concept. It began in Washington, D.C._ last spring utider the direction of Lily Edelman and Mort Feigehbaum ofthe B'nai B'rith adult ; education department. Many other communities are now organizing similar programs.
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Last summer when David Eli Harris was Bar Mitzvah he contributed $200 from his Bar Mitzvah gifts to the Hebrew University for the purchase of two bookshelves at the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem. Well, earlier this year when David was m'Israel with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Harris, he visited the library and was able to see first-hand the bookshelves plaqued in his name.
*■-.*■* * Helen Sperling of Utica, N.Y. wiU be guest speaking at Beth Emeth Bais Yehuda's Selihot Services, Saturday, Sept. 22. Mrs. Sperling, a survivor of the Holocaust - she was a medical student at the Warsaw University when war broke out and was subsequently interned in concentration camp - is often referred to as the "female Elie Wiesel" for her. searching approach to the Holocaust experience. As chairman of the Women's Division of Israel Bonds for N.Y. state, she comes, to-town on behalf of the High Holiday bond drive.
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' The five-man art show enhancing the lower foyer of Beth Sholom Synagogue these, days is the work of five Toronto artists - father and son team Dr. Joseph Leventhal and lati Leventhal, and Renee Beranbaum, Glenda Siggner and Ronald M. Kolbrick. The 25 piece exhibit of paiptings^ pea and mk drawings and silk screens runs through the High Holiday season to Oct. 10.
Mildred Kolodny joins the/stafrof the Jewish Family Services of /^ntreal (Baron de Hirsch Institute) Op. 1., as new 'director of the agency's [legal aid department: She succeeds S. Louis Kurs-ner who retires at the end of\the year after 23 years of service. Thedepa^ment emphasizes family and: child protection . lawi':
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Among the 30 college students to leave for Israel this month for a year of studies
at the Hayim Greenberg College of the World Zionist Organization's education and culture department are three young Canadians - Janice Karlinsky and Frayda Wiesenthal of Winnipeg, and Ofra Landman of* Toronto. They will aU be taking advanced training m Judaic and Israeli studies especially geared for students entering the field of Jewish education, youth work, Jewish communal life and the rabbinate.
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Rabbi Gershon Winer, a native of Toronto, will visit Beth Tzedec during the High Holiday and Festival period, according to the congregation's bulletin. A teacher in Israel now, the rabbi is author of the book The Founding Fathers of Israel, Rabbi Winer, who occupied several pulpits in the U.S. is a former dean of Herzliah and Jewish Teachers' Seminary in New' York. Also at Beth Tzedec, "The World of the Bible" is the title of the first of four Weekends of Study, Sept.^M to-16. Rabbi Shalom M. Paul, senior lecturer m Bible at the Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University, will be the guest rabbi.
Torontonian Arthur Gelber was re-, elected vice-chairman of the Associated Council of the Arts at its recent annual meeting m Aspen, Colorado. Long prominent in the Canadian arts scene and one of the founders of the ACA 15 years ago, he IS the only Canadian on the ACA executive. The ACA is a research organization for the arts and acts as co-ordmator of programing for provincial, state and com-'munity arts councils in Canada and the U.S.
I Psychologist Dr. Reueven Feuerstein of Israel will 'be in Toronto to meet with Toronto Hadassah-WIZO executive on Wednesday, Sept. 19; Known forhis work with culturally handicapped adolescents, :.Dr. Feuerstein is director of the Deitcher Research Institute in Jerusalem which is involved in research, training andclinical services aimed: at the socio-culturally disadvantaged. :
Unique cardiac prevention program at Y'
By JAY STONE TORONTO-
. Upstairs on the running track is the old program: running away from heart attacks^ .
Downstairs in the gym is a new planjj-unning into them.
The idea at the northern branch of the Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association is to help 300 members recover from recent coronary attacks, andto prevent the other 8,000 members from ever having them.
The 'Y' pioneered in Can-ada its successful program of post-cardiac rehabilitation, centred on exercise and jogging. In the nine years since it started, some 550 members have been treated. ^ The need for a cardiac prevention program was discovered in an unusual experiment, the results of which should send many of us scurrying for the family doctor.
Paul Brownstein, director of health and physical education at the 'Y,'decided one day early this year to run electro-cardiogram tests on the 35 fittest members of the branch ~ the Physical Fitness Achievement Group (F.A.G.s for short). These
are the fitness boys of the Northern branch, the "fanatics, which every 'Y' has," as Brownstein says.
They seem to be the last group which should haye heart troubles. After all, they work out five times a week, doing calisthenics and running five miles a day.
So it was With some shock that Brownstein read there-suits of the tests. The cardiogram showed three of the athletes, or alm.ost 10 per cent, had heart abnormalities.
And a written test showed that more than 10 per cent don't visit their doctor with anything close to regularity.
The cardiogram tapes were sent to doctors, who took further tests. One of the three members with troubles had to lose 15 pounds before he could continue in the "F.A.G.s." Another had to take medication to lower his blood pressure. The third was taken right off exercise.
"He was in danger," said Brownstein. "He could have been a guy who dropped a day, a month, a year later. On o'.ir track."
The results gave the health director a brainwave: a cardiac prevention program, the first of its kind in Canada,
to test every one pf the members.
The idea is stiU in the planning sfage, and its form depends on how the federal government reacts to a request for $32,000 to fiind the program. But Brownstein says regardless of government action, it wiU happen in some form. It is apparent from, the experiment, he says, that it is a vital public service.
The reason he sees, the 'Y' getting involved is twofold: the survey of the F.A.G.s, supposedly the most health-conscious group at the 'Y,' showed that some
had not visited their doctor in more than five years—
what about the average man; the second reason is that the 'Y' is better equipped, he feels, to give a more thorough heart test.
The test given to the F.A.G.s was not the kind you get in the doctor's office.
The severe stress test designed by Brownstein included an all-out mile run; a six-hninute step testontopof a 20-in. box; a flexibility test; the number of pushups they could do in a minute; the number of situps they
Voice of Youtli
By YAACOV HONIG
This week's edition of The Canadian Jewish News marks the inauguration of a weekly youth column, designed to inform the Jewish community of the programs and activities of our young people. The column is open to all youth groups wishing to publicize their upcoming events, as well as a weekly resume of an individual group. Anyone who is interested in having their group interviewed for this purpose should write to this reporter, care of The Canadian Jewish News.
The National Conference of Synagogue Youth is an organization with chapters spawning the continent. NCSY-ers can be found in Vancouver, B.C., Bangor, Maine as well as in New Orleans, Louisianna. This year finds NCSY in Ontario undergoing a massive reorganization. Moishe Kempinski has been appointed by the national office as director of the Central Canada Region. He has proceeded to rent an office at 365 Wilson Avenue in Downsview from which the region will function.
Many programs have been planned for the coming year, including one that will last nine months. This is the NCSY Torah High, a free Jewish high school which convenes every Monday at 7p.m. in the Shaarei Tefillah Congregation. Several local rabbis will be on the
faculty as well as guest lecturers on each Monday preceding a Jewish holiday. After each session participants are invited to make use of the synagogue's recently redecorated youth lounge and partake of refreshments. Applications are available from your rabbi. If for some reason you cannot obtain one, feel free to drop in anyway.
On Saturday night, Sept. 22, NCSY is sponsoring a city-wide Selichot program at the B'nai Toray Synagogue on Glencairn Avenue. A movie on Soviet Jewry will be featured, to be followed by refreshments.
On Thursday night. Oct. 18, NCSY invites all Jewish teenagers to participate in Sim chat Torah Hakafot in the Shaarei Tefillah Synagogue. This event should prove to be very lively and may last to all hours of the night.
The mainstay of NCSY is its bimonthly conventions, the first of which •will take place in Kingston in honor of that city's tricentennial. It is scheduled to run from Oct. 26-28. This event is being held in conjunction with NCSY groups in Montreal and Ottawa.
NCSY has several chapters in Toronto as well as Hamilton, Oshawa, Brantford arid Kitchener. For further information on these groups and others planned in small-town Ontario, contact Moishe Kempinski at the NCSY regional office. All NCSY activities and programs are planned in conjunction with the educational branch- of the Canadian Jewish Congress.
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