The Canadian Jewish News, Friday, October 29, 1971 - Page 3
Organizations and People
... about people
Dr. Murray Cornish of Toronto, International President of the Alpha Omega Dental Fraternity, took advjejntage of the presence in this city of Avraham Harman. president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, to present him with a $25.000cheque. This represents a payment towards the Fraternity's Research and Graduate Centre at the University's Faculty of Dental Medicine at Ein Karem.
Seen with Dr. Cornish and Avraham Harman, is Dr. John A. Sherman, National Chairman, Dental Division, Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University.
Dr. Rivkah Harris has been appointed Scholar in Residence at Temple Sinai. In addition to her duties at the Temple conducting adult education lectures andieachers training sessions, the Toronto-bom Ph.D. in Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Literature is currently completing a book on ancient Babylonia. By Uie way, she is the wife of U. of T, Professor Monford Harris.
The Agudath Israel Youth Council of Toronto has engaged Kaobi Heshi Nussbaum as youth director. Rabbi Nussbaum has many years of experience in all areas of educational and recreational activities. He also co-produced the well-known Pirchei recordings of which number four will be released very shortly. The rabbi is also on the staff of Eitz Chaim schools. ' . • ■ . • . ♦ ■ • • ♦ ■
Israel Goldstein, Rabbi Emeritus of Congregation B'nai Jeshurun in New York (oldest in the Conservative branch of Judaism in the nation) was honored on his 75th birthday by the dedication of a six-storey Community Center in his name. Among the congratulatory messages received by the world-renowned Zionist leader was a telegram from President Richard Nixon.
In the realm of the Arts - Composer Os-kar Morawetz has been commissioned by the CBC to write a work for contralto and orchestra to be premiered by Maureen Forrester. A previous work, based on excerpts of the Anne Frank diary had been performed by the Toronto Symphony with Lois Marshall as soloist.
Sculptor Sorel Etrog designed the medallion that has been cast to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Toronto Symphony. Governor Roland Michener was the recipient of the first medallion at the symphony's opening on Tuesday.
Israeli journalist and critic Amos Elon will be in Torontoon Friday evening,Nov. 12. Mr. Elon; the author of The Israelis: Founders and Sons will be speaking at Holy Bios-somTcmpIe. ;
Prominent Toronto businessman Charles Kent was elected president of the Toronto Zionjst Council on Oct. 13. Mr. Kent, for many years active in the Zionist organization of Canada and the UJA is shown in the above picture with Col. Jacob MonlMiz, Consul General of Israel, Robert HallrQ.C, treasurer of Toronto Zionist Council and seated from left to right Dr. Anna Gelber (wife of the late national president of the Zionist Council of Canada, Edward Gleber) who has assumed the chairmanship of an Israel Committee for the building of a special ZOC project in Jerusalem and Mrs. David (Cecily) Peters, vice president of the Toronto
Zionist Council.
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How much is a wife worth?
The Institute of Life Insurance in New York has put out a bulletin with this: "She should be paid $8,500 per year to serve as food buyer, cook, dishwasher, gardener, practical nurse, laundress, seamstress. If she really knows her jobandisingood health she is entitled to $9,000 plus vacation and sick leave."
On Sunday afternoon, Oct. 17 Lou and Ann Cadesky were feted at a reception hosted by their children, Harold and Eleanor Miller and Burton and Sybil Cowitz. The occasion -their 50th wedding anniversary! More than 200 relatives and friends "dropped by" to share in the celebration.
The CBC program Man Alive, hosted by Roy Bonasteel, will feature an interview with Elie Weisel on Monday Nov. 1 at 10:30 p.m.
Weisel recounts his experiences in Auschwitz, where he lost his faith ■ in God. He discusses how he reconstructed his life and reconciled his experiences. «
According to Catherine Smalley of the CBC. "the whole interview is reverential... he is personal and honest about his feeling about God."
She also said that the show concentrates on' Weisel's feelings and ideas rather than his books although he does quote from Introduction to Night.
"To the faithful, the most horrible thing to see is the death of God in ihe face of a child who has witnessed evil."
The half hour show titled From the Ashes was taped in New York in mid October.
London issues pica for kosh^
Jewish butchers in Toronto compete so fiercely with one another that the possibility of bloodshed, if you'll pardon the expression, is always imminent.
How strange.it was, then, to receive an agonized plea from London, Ont., begging for a Kosher butcher to settle and -service the Jewish community thercT •
We arc reprinting the request of Martin Cohen executive director of the London Jewish Community Council, in the hopes that a Toronto butcher would like to trade the hectic pace here for a quiet community in southwestern Ontario.
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After more than a half century with anap-proved Kosher Butcher Shop and "Jewish" Bakery, members of the London Jewish community are looking to Toronto and other, larger communities to meet their Kashruth needs. A shuttle service to Toronto has been; . put into effect by the London'Vaad Hakash-ruth under the chairmanship of Mr. Harold Vaisler. A meniber of the community was employed to take orders over the telephone, drive to Toronto,;>-patronize' an approved Kosher facility and bring the orders back to
London for distribution. Is this the solution? Who knows for sure, and further, how many people care? (I was just ready Jo forward out; dilemma to Toronto and I received a telephone call. "Sorry, .something's come up.^No more shuttle service;)
Ideally, the community wouldlikesomeone to step forward and offer to opein up a completely Kosher Grocery Store with meats and challahs and everything else with {"Yiddish torn." A community of 450 Jewish families could support such a venture and provide a comfortable living for the shop's "ballabus" but for a modem day fact, 450 families all don't care about Kashruth. In London, it is estimated that 70 - 80 families kept kosher on a regular basis and an additional 40 - 50 families patronized-the shop from time to time.usually around the holidays. Many in
- the community feel that with the right conditions a man could make a living and
'business would increase each week.
The right conditions! The right person, the right location, the right quality of meat, the right cutting techniques^ the right amount of salt, the right p^ric'e and so it goes on! Is there a butcher in hiding?
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by Larry Anklewicz
The recent unrest among Oriental Jews and the rise of the "Black Panther" movement in Israel are not the result of discrimination, according to Shulamit Aloni. a former Knesset member who spoke last week at York University. These problems are a result of conditions in Israel when these people arrived in the country following Israel's independence.
Many of these people came from the backward areas of Africa and Asia, Mrs. Aloni continued. Not only were they coining to a new land, but they were also entering a different era. These immigrants were primitive, unskilled, poor and uneducated.
The rich and the educated emigrated to France or even Canada. Those coming to Israel were the poor, the sick and the downtrodden. • '
The Israeli government at that time. Mrs. Aloni said, did not ha> the se' I rn m ig rai^t^^
would be best~ofr. Instead, these ptopje were told where to live.and were given homes. As a resilt, many people felt they had someone to look after them and began to rely on the government and on welfare for. their existence.
This led to a wide gap between the Orientals and the Europeans. Many of the Oriental Jews had large families and their poverty forced them to pull their children out of school at an early age in order to help support the family. They livied in cheap housing and slum areas and their lack of skills and education kept them from leaving these areas.
After their military service the young people returned to their old neighborhoods and felt themselves discriminated against. The Six Day War accelerated this process. Their army service made them feel equal to the European Jews yet their homes made them feel part of the lower class.
This inferiority. Mrs. Aloni pointed out. was reinforced by the influx of Jewish immigrants from North America and theSoviet Union. These people received better housing than the. Orientals had and the young people felt deprived.
In an attempt to shock the Israeli govem-ment into action these Oriental young people called themselves the "Black Panthers."The mass media gave the group a great deal of coverage and this brought to light a problem which had been postponed for many years and pushed the problem to the top ^of the list ofgovernment priorities.
Mrs. Aloni reiterated that the problems of the Orientals were not a result of discrimination. Immigrants today receive the benefits made possible by Israel's standard of living as it exists now. The Oriental immigrants received all the benefits the Israeli government could afford at the time they arrived.
. But an effort is being made to clear up these problems, Mrs. Aloni said. More housing is being set aside for the lower classes and Oriental children are receiving a better education.
Several questions regarding Soviet Jewry 'arose during the question period which followed. iMrs. Aloni noted that there^are some problems absorbing these people into the Israeli society.
These people have lived-all of their lives within a regimented society. Upon their arrival In Israel they are surprised by the ' freedom they are allowed and are often confused. They are used to waiting for orders and find it difficult to adjust.
Some Soviet Jews, Mrs. Aloni said, are surprised that they do not need permits to travel from one city to another. Some, having been given a store, find it difflcultjo understand why the govemni^nt-has'not also provided them with customers. ^
A record number of Trust-, ees of Israel - leaders in the National Honorary Societies of Israel top categories -were in attendance at the Bond Reception hosted by Nathan Reitter at the homeof Trustee Michael Finkelstein on October 19th. Yet. one after another, they responded ajgain to Harry Frank's direct appeal for additional investment funds for Israel at this critical time of foreign exchange deficits - and they matched their commitments = with cheques attached.
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A founder^and Past President of Beth Emeth Bais Yehuda Congregation, Gerald Shefsky is prominent as well in the Israel Bond campaign for which he will be officially recognized by the awarding to him ofthe "Shalom Award" for 1971. This will be presented at the November 4th Dinner at the synagogue when the guest speaker will be the renowned Christian leader Dr. Carl Voss. Dinner participants will include congregation president Harry Ler-man; Bond Chairman Sydney Moscoe and Dinner Chairman Barney Barenoltz.
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which participated in an advance reception hosted by Mr. Shefsky at his home. Left to right: A.E. Diamond, Chairman of the National Honorary Societies of Israel; Emanuel Shimoni, Councilor
of the Embassy of Israel in Ottawa; Gerald Shefsky, Harry Frank, Chairman Planning Committee, State of Israel Bonds of Toronto, and Sydney Moscow, Congregation Israel Bond Chairman.
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Shaarei Shomayim Congregation recorded the highest percentage rate of increase in both number of commitments and amounts over last year during the recent High Holy Day Appeals for State of Israel Bonds. Phase two of the congregational Bond efforts began on October 26th when Jack Kosoy will be the
Award Recipient for Shaarei Shomayim at the November 29th Dinner iii acknowledgement of his outstanding service to Israel's economic development. Sydney Greeh-stein will be host for the second Phase Two Reception on Novemberllth,all building towards an exceptional 1971 Israel Bond campaign at Shaarei Shomayim this year.
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William Eisenberg,apion-ieer in the accountancy profession in Toronto will he guest of honor at the Aqard Dinner on Tuesday, November 23rd, marking the Organization's structure in Toronto. A recognized leader in his profession as a meml>er
of the Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants ofOntario, Mr. Eisen-berg is an ardent advocate of investment funds to ad-Vance. Israel's economic potential, and is well-known in numerous other communal endeavors.
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Freedom songs of Soviet Jews smuggled out of USSR on tape
Mrs. Aloni also pointed out that Russian Jews have a great nationalistic feeling. They are not religious and they do not want Yiddish schools. They only want to express their nationality and to become absorbed into the country.
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The first freedom songs ofdissidentSoviet Jews to reach a Western audience were played at a news conference here recently as the American Jewish Congress released Silent No More, an LP stereo record album featuring actor-folksinger Theodore Bikel.
The album is based on tapes smuggled out of-the USSR by a visiting American scientist who uses the pseudonym Ben Tzion. They were re-rccorded by Mr. Bikel with orchesr tral accompaniment arranged and.conducted by Issachar Miron.
All profits from the sale of Silent No More will go to a scholarship fund for Soviet Jews at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Bikel and Miron have contributed their services to the projects
Bikel, who is a co-chairman of the national (joveming Council of the Congress, said the musical album had "obvious political implications.'* He told the news conference at Stephen Wise Congress House:
"Pablo Casals said his cello washisweap-on. The Soviet Jews who wrote and sang these freedom songs have used words and music as a kind of battle cry, the only weapon ofthe dispossessed.** /
The story othow the album came into being
was told at the conference by the scientist who met secretly with Soviet Jews and taped their songs while on a scientific mission in the USSR. He reported:
"There was some uneasiness at first because there was a stranger with a tape_re-corder in their midst. Soon, however, one of the Jews began to hum a lilting, haunting melody and others joined in.
"The melody was basically Russian," he recalled, "with hints of Israeli strains. The wordsj«veaIed their hopes and joys, their deep and abiding love of Israel." The song was Yerushalayim (Jerusalem the Beautifiil).
Although the lyrics were not subversive, he said, there was fear that Russian authorities might regard them as anti-Soviet.
"Yet these Jews wanted the songs they sing amongst thehiselves to reach the ears and hearts of their brethren outside the USSR," he added; "That is why we call the record-Silent No More. 7"~^'
"These are no longer the Jews of Silence, as Elie Wi^sel called thein in the book of <^that title which he wrote after his visit to-the Soviet Union in I96S. Now the Jews of Soviet Russia are determined to be free, silent no more as they voice their demand to live as Jews in the Jewish State oflsrael.'*