The Canadian JewiA News, Friday, Febraaiy 2S, 1972 - Page 3
Organizatkms and People
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by Miriam Herman
RabM Ben}aniin Hancr, and Nacfaam Sokol presentfaig one of the 17 Sifrei Torah to Commander B.Sela in Jerusalem on Itehalf of Canadian Mizradii. Major Dr. Maurice Jaffe^ director-general, in die background. It was the gift of two Winnqieg congregations.
TORAHS PRESENTED IN ISRAEL
The Canadian Mizrachi delegation to the World Jewish Congress presented 17Sifrei Torah to newly formed Georgian Jewish congregations," arms units and Bnei Akiva Ye-shivot. The presentation of the scrolls, received from two Winnipeg congregations, Tiferus Israel and Achdus Beth Yehuda, was held in Hechal Shlomo. Jerusalem. An additional city-wide Torahprocessionandcelebration took place in the city of Bnai Brak.
ORT DAY DINNER
March is ORT Month and p-7"=—r'^^-ce* gion has designated Wed.. Mj .     . . Day, At the annual dinner, ta ... Murray House. D. Lou Han the Canadian Organization fc .'. * ' v; " . and Training, will be honored.    • _ of his 75th birthday and Charles J. BensleyT chairman of th executive committee of American ORT is coming in from New York to be the guest speaker. Israel ambassador Theodor Meron will also be attending.
PURIM IN MONTREAL
Purim celebrations in Montreal will be the traditional songs, dances and drama - all in historic costume - on Sun., Feb. 27 at 2:30 p.m.. at the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, St. Kevin. One "of the highlights will' be a performance by a folklore group of Jewish Moroccans who have settled in Montreal. The program is jointly sponsored b> L'Association Sepharade Francophone. Jewish Immigrant Aid Services and the Jewish Public Library.
DENTAL APTITUDE TEST
Following a request from the Canadian Dental Association, the Board of Jewish Education has made arrangements for Sabbath observing students to take a dental aptitude test on Sun., March 26, at the Associated Hebrew Schools on Bathurst St. Students interested in this examination should contact the Dental Association office in Toronto.
SPEAKERS ON TOUR FOR CUJS
Student groups in Tive Canadian cities will be addressed by two well-known Jewish speakers, under the auspices of the Canadian Union of Jewish Students. Yiddish poet and author David Roskies, a Montreal-bom graduate student of Yiddish literature at Bran-deis University, will speak in Winnipeg, Calgary. Saskatoon and London. Rabbi Arthur Jacobovitz, professor of Jewish studies and director of the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation in Seattle. Washington, will be in Winnipeg on the weekend of March 4 and will then meet with students in Saskatoon, Calgary and Edmonton.
Darkl Roskies
ARMS AND THE MAN
The Holy Blossom Temple Players are busy, rehearsing for their presentation of the George Bernard Shaw comedy Arms and the Man. The performances are scheduled for 8:30 p.m. Tues.. March 7 to Thurs.. March 9 and Sat. March II and Sun. March 12.
Cantor Salomon Amzallag of MontreaPs Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue will be in New York on Sun., Feb. 27. to sing at tf|Q fourth annual Sephardic Cultural Festival at Yeshiva University. The festival's theme. The Music of Sephardic and Oriental Jews, is particularly suited to the Moroccan-born singer who was a recording artist on radio and television as well as a composer of Hebrew and Arab-Moroccan songs, in his native country.
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Sgt Henry Aiken
Accordfng to government records there arc 80 Jewish servicemen in the 80,000 man Canadian armed forces. But as of March 16, there-will be only 79 ---:Sgt-Henry Aikenj is Tetiring. He completes 31 yearns of service which began in Nov/1940 when he ^iilisted in the RCAF as an airframe technician. A native Torontonian, he fis- presently posted-at De Havilland Aircraft. \
Gerta Frieberg is the first woiiian to be appointed chairman of the Warsaw Ghetto' Uprising Observance which this year is set for April 11.. She will be approaching her
new position with the background of personal experience - she is herself a survivor of a German concentration camp. A busy community leader, she is the present president of the Federation of Jewish Women's Organizations of Toronto.
Rabbi Reuben Slonim. former Telegram as-sociate editor, is in hospital recovering from injuries - a broken hip and a fractured shoulder - he received when hit by a car while out jogging.
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The three top winners in Montreal's 1972
annual Bibie contest for senior students of
the United TalmudTorahs.MafkKatz.Rpslyn
Perez and Elyse Tolchinsky, are now eligible
to take part in the national Bible contest to be
held throughout Canada and the U.S Winners
of that competition will be going to Israel for
the annual contest there.
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The Mayor of the-Moming is celebrating-an anniversary! He is Hantilton radio commentator Paul Hanover who has been with station CHML for 25 years. He devotes many evenings to Jewish community causes - he has been^ B'nai B'rith Sport Night's master of, cere-^ monies for the past eight years and is presently co-chairman of the Hamilton 1972 UJA campaign.
Last week it was mentioned in this column that Yehuda Noy was leaving his post as director of the Central Region of the Federated Zionist Organization of Canada. However, he remains executive director of United Israel Appeal Inc., Ontario Region.
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Torontonian Ronald Isaacs is presently serving a rai^binic internship with a congregation in New York in preparation for his ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary in June. A 1969 graduate of Columbia University, he has received both a bachelor's and master's degree from the^seminary where he was awarded the Joseph Bragin prize for scholastic pichicvement. y
Youngsters put Mitzvah into Bar Mitzvahs
By MIRIAM HERMAN
One of the most frequent criticisms directed at modem-style Bar Mitzvah celebrations has been the fiact that there is too much bar and not enough mitzvah.
The recent statement by Donald Carr, outgoing president of the UJWF, regarding a levy on Bar Mitzvahs and weddings brought the subject under public scmtiny once more. However some Toronto families had been placing the emphasis on the mitzvah long before Mr. Carr's suggestion was put to . the Jewish community.
In keeping with tlje ^Jewish tradition of concern for others, Michael Tanenbaum (he is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Tanenbaum and the grandson of the Max Taneh-baums) established a Technion Perpetual Scholarship Fund in celebration of his Bar Mitzvah. That was back in I%9 and last November his younger brother Alan requested that his Bar Mitzvah guests contribute to a fellowship fund at the Technion rather than send the usual personal gifts. Proceeds from this fund y^iW be awarded each year to students in the department of bio-medical engineering.
It has been the same with the Murray Koffler family. The eldest son Leon, who had spent the summer t»efore his Bar Mitzvah in Israel, chose the WIZO Mothercraft to be the recipient of hrs Bar Mitzvah gifts when he discovered that they were in need of incubators and toys. He sent personal letters to his guests expressing his wish, three days after the formal invitations were mailed and the response was overwhelming.
Tommy found his project in Morocco, the Ecole Alliance d'Israelite - schools in Marakesh and Casablanca which provide full-time seven days a week school for Jewish children who would not otherwise be educated.
It is now Adam's turn. He has decided to
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Soviet activist
bravery of the Soviet Jewish activities as "comparable with the Jewish stand at Mas-sada and the Warsaw Ghetto.
"At this moment we in Israel are the highest taxed people on earth. Yet the doors are wide open." Mrs. Comay stressed.
"Every Jew in Russia who can get out will be made welcome. If the reason the Jews ^ are being let out is to see if we will go under, how wrong that thinking is! We will take them in," she promised, "and you will helpus."
The moming session was devoted to a symposium to acquaint the over 400 ladies present with the local service agencies supported by UJA.
In addressing himself to the symposium topic, "Any Woman Can Face the Problems of Our Time," Bernard Berger. Associate Executive Director of the Jewish Vocational Service, stated, "No woman has to face the problems accming from new relationships in society by herself. A network of services designed to ^elp people cope with these responsibilities is available." Gordon Wolfe, supervisor of youth services at the Jewish Family and Child Services, cautioning against complacency, argued that "it is very hard to keep up with a fast-moving world. I tell you frankly that there are no easy solutions that the agencies or you will be able to find. We all have to start listening and start changing."
Dr. Sydney Wax, senior attending physician at Baycrest. predicted that "volunteer services will be revolutionized by social and technological changes that will decrease the availability of work situations. Many highly educated women will look to, community service for fruition of their personal lives."
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"We did not feel it was necessary to formally bring the matter to any AJCS body for consideration because' it is a community problem, and as suoh, it is up to the Y to determine the course of.action it considers best." "the Y is a constituant. agency of AJCS, with individual organizations enjoying a high degree of autonomy".
NeriBloomfield. national Executive President of Hadassah - Wizo in Canada said, ^"Mrs. Meyer Sager went down to see the play and she reported thaTthe atmosphere in the theatre was very tense after the reading-after speaking to several officers of Hadassah, it was felt we could not offend the survivors".
A dissenting voice in the controversy was that of Harvey Cresthol chairman of the B'nai B'brith League of Human Rights, who said "our belief, expressed at a meeting of the Joint Congress-B'nai dEI'rith Community Relations committee >^as that we abhor censorship".
"If the play were a blatant expression of anti-Semitism, then we would condemn, it-however we do not feel this is the case," he said. The league's views, representing some 10,000 B'nai B'rith members, were upheld by th«^ cabinet, the league's senior decision making body. An ofTicial at B'nai B'rith said views were expressed "to faceup to the Holocaust".
support an organization called Akim, the Israel Association for the Rehabilitation of the Mentally Handicapped. Akim provides hostels and workshops for the teaching of manual skills and the use of machines.
In the letter to his guests Adam wrote, "During my visit to Israel last summer, I was looking for a project for my Bar Mitz-i„ vah. Like Leon and Tommy before me, I would like others to-benefit from it!"
March construction for school
Construction of a Jewish high school, costing $800,000. will begin at the end of March, announced Manuel Lazar. building committee chairman of the Jewish People's, Schools and Peretz Schools.Namedafter the famous 20th Century Hebrew poet. Chaim Nachman Bialik, the school is the first of its kind in Montreal to offer a non-orthodox approach to Jewish education.
"The existing Jewish day schools have a strong religious orientation, and as a result they don't offerasrelevantacurriculum. or courses" said Lazar.
According to Principal Nachum Wilchesky, the Bialik high school program is designed "to eliminate antiquated distinctions between Jewish and general studies". The school is the first in Montreal to offer Yiddish as
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A tender for the project will be accepted by the end of the month, and the first stage, in a two stage development, will begin. By September. 1972. the first stage - a separate wing to the Jewish People's Schools and Peretz Schools on Wavell Ave. - will be completed, accommodating 180 students in four, grade seven classes and two grade eight classes. The wing will have its own principal and administration.
Bialik High School's second stage, estimated to cost S600.000. will be on time to hold classes in I97S.
The Jewish People's Schools, and Peretz Schools were merged in 1970 to eliminate the high cost in duplication of school services. A Combined Jewish.Appeafcampaign raised funds for the merger.
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