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FRIDAY, MARCH 20,1970
Teachers' sirlke possible
Toronto community aroused; demand for support growing
WILL CANADA STILL DELIVER MILITARY MATERIAL TO PAKISTAN?. King Hussein o1 Jordan (left) on visit to Pakistan ,is greeted by President Khan Monday. Pakistan promised Hussein more military aid and cannot now be considered a neutral in the Middle East conflict. (Radiophoto)
Exclusive CJN report '
The possibility of a Hebrew teachers' strike in Toronto' is not ruled out in the near future unless the organized Jewish community finds the means to raise the salaries of those professionals, our most dedicated servants.
The Canadian Jewish News learns from impeccable sources that negotiations are scheduled between representatives of Toronto's Hebrew Teachers' Alliance and all Hebrew Day Schools and
other Jewish institutions of learning.
(Other sources state that ill approaches on the part of the teachers have been non-official.)
GOODWILL ON BOTH SIDES
According to our information, there is goodwill on both sides.There isa profound understanding for the plight of the Hebrew teacher on the part of those laymen responsible for the functioning of
Jewish ecfffor fells Senate-
— m HAD GOOD PRESS DURING WORLD WAR II; NOW THEY WANT TO SURVIVE
Ottawa. - For the first time members of the Senate of Canada had the opportunity last week to hear the voice ofthe independent, non-subsidized, Jewish press when M. J. Nurenberger, editor of The Canadian Jewish News, appeared before the special Senate Committee on Mass Media.
Nurenberger had been invited at the beginning of the hearings by Senator Keith Davey, chairman ofthe Committee, to present his views on the press and other media. However, at that time he was , overseas and thus unable to deliver his paper. The invitation was renewed last month and The Canadian Jewish News editor accepted. He addressed the Committee last Wednesday at the session dealing with the Canadian weeklies.
It so happened that Nur-r enberger's testimony, was heard a week after the appearance of A. C. Forrest,
the anti-Israel editor of the United Church Observer.
Rev. Forrest made use of the occasion to disseminate extremist anti-Israeli propaganda, unwittingly foHowing the Soviet line that all Canadian newspapers and all clergymen of Christian denomination, except for a small minority, are sold to Israel and do not see the true picture in the Middle East. He singled out the Toronto Globe and Mail for its "objective" report on the Middle East.
Before the session, Nurenberger informed Senator Davey he would participate in the' discussion only if he could make a statement answering Dr. Forrest.
The Senator told the editor of The Canadian Jewish News that he supports his (Nurenberger's) right to follow Forrest with an explanation of his position; it would be considered in order.
In his address, Nurenberger told the Committee that,
lemarkably, the Globe and Mail had been selected by Forrest for its fair treatment of the Middle East. This compliment by Rev. Forrest, Nurenberger continued, made it imperative to analyze the entire situation.
According to a report by The Canadian Press, which was printed in almost all Canadian dailies from coast to coast, Nurenberger accused the Toronto Globe and Mail of doctoring reports it reprints from the New York Times syndicate coverage of the Middle East. Items favorable to Israel are eliminated from the text.
Also, according to The Canadian Press, Nurenberger criticized Forrest for "asperations" cast against newspapermen and church-. men in saying that some had accepted free transportation and hospitality from Israel; because of that they wrote favorably about the country.
Wurenberger also told the
Committee he had visited Israel four times last year and his one free meal was at a dinner tendered'by Foreign Minister Abba Eban for Secretary of State for External Affairs Mitchell Sharp.
Concerning the Globe and Mail, Nurenberger cited a frappant example of misrepresentation of news when the editors of that paper eliminated a paragraph from a James Reston story unfavorable to Nasser.
Last Thursday the Globe and Mail, in reporting the remarks by The Canadian Jewish News editor, corrected itself by publishing the paragraph omitted from the Reston story.
During his address, and in talks with individual senators, Nurenberger made the following points:
^ The time has come when-the-world musrreallze that the Jews of today survivors of World War II --are the Generation of Jewish Revolt. * We all are survivors
BY M: J. NURENBERGER
WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR IMAGE ?
Those who read last week the editorial in Time Magazine (Is There a Jewish Foreign Policy? ) probably wonder what happened to.our,image in the larger North American community. Many may want to know whether the anti-Pompidou demonstrations really alienated us from some of our former friends. Others will say that perhaps these demonstrations would have been more effective had the leaders of the American Jewish community either disassociat(;d themselves from them or else left Miami Beach for a few days to lead these marching crowds as had the, late Martin Luther King in defense of the Negro. Others will be eveii more acrimonious when they insist that, had the Prime Minister Of South Africa been the Official guest of President Nixori, probably hundredsof thousands of Negroes would have paraded on Park Avenue..Had it been so, Nixon would have found it difficult to apologize for those "who do not represent the American people."
However, what occurred during the Pompidou days illustrates the lack of coordination among presidents of Jewish organizations. Apparently, up to the last moment the Jewish leaders were uncertain whether or not to demonstrate.
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Something similar is happening in Canada.
In Ottawa last week, I was profoundly disturbed by the lack of information among some outstanding Canadian statesmen, men of goodwill, about Israel's true position.
Prior to my appearance at the Senate Committee on Mass Media, a senator approached me, saying she had been impressed by Forrest's statements on the lack, of objectivity in the Canadian press. I hope I succeeded in explaining the facts to her.
J found similar misunderstanding of the Jewish position among other parliamentarians and newspaper editors, especially among French Canadians.
I wondered how^long"weccould tolerate this discrepancy between/the performance of Israel on the battlefield and/the inept information of the public concerning the basic i<>sue involved in the Middle East conflict: Israel's right to sur,vive.
For example: I discu,ssed with a Canadian leader the question 6f why Israel would not evacuate occupied territory without^ a peace -treaty - if she's ready to withdraw. My answer, I hope, was under-: .stood. . ■
As I see it, all that would happen in such a
situation is: the terrorists would occupy the West Bank, they would be able: to harass Israel from a position ten miles from Tel Aviv and the Syrians would resume their bombardment from the Golan Heights. Israel's strategic "advantage" would then be similar to its political helplessness following the hijacking of planes or the murder of air passengers.
Without negotiations between Israelis and Arabs — the only ones involved in this conflict, — without a peace treaty, there can be no end to the conflict. -No problem can be discussed — whether the plight of refugee-Arabs in the camps and refugee-Jews from Arab lands v- unless thes^two nations sit down at the negotiating table.
Foreign intervention never succeeded in eliminating strife./. ***
The biasic problem in public relations.is our failure to mobiHze non-Jewish friends, the silent majority,-who sympathize with Israel's plight.
What prompted Time_ Magazine to editorialize on the three percent Americans who back Israel was the fact that Israel's enemies succeeded in reducing the Middle East situation into a Jewish* _^:issue. This misunderstanding was one of the causes, of the World War II holocaust.
All who support the Moscowcampaign against "Zionists" are sitessing the. Jewish aspect oflsrael's 'Struggle. They emulate the Nazis, even to the point of eliminating, in international negotiations, any points of contention, offering concessions in other areas so that the pressure against.Israel is accepted.
Pompidou, on his American visit, tried to sell the idea that once the United States accepts the Libya-deal, the other problems would becon^e minor. Even in relation to Canada, Schumann offered Secretary Pelletier a new propo.sition suitable for Canada so that Ottawa swallow the Tripoli medicine. Moscow, super-master of deceit, will cover its ' "designs in Czechoslovakia with "anti-Zionist" prop-'''aganda.'' „ ■ :./,
I repe^rwhalx
\ I said upon another occasion:
the Rabbis of Old la,ught us that a calamity which is a Jewish cal'hmity only is no calamity at all; but a world calamity is a Jewish calamity as well. / ilfThe conspiracy of pressure against Israel, to give up its strategic negotiating strength, if successful could lead to a world calamity.
from Nazism .-- whether we were here during the holocaust or had succeeded in escaping the furnace.
* For five years, it was illegal on the Continent for Jews to remain alive. The government-machinery of a most sophisticated nation was geared to the extermination of the Jewish people. Those who escaped the extermination camps acted against the, law in force: every Jew -- man,, woman and child -- liad to die.
* Those of our Generation of the Jewiou'"tievolu-tion know that Hitler's "Final Solution" of the "Jewish problem" was not an accident of history but the culmination of many events and contributing factors first of which was the homeless-ness of our people, their lack of modern instruments of defense and the accumulation of hatred and prejudice that polluted the air in many parts of the world.
* Thus Jews rose not against a specific people or nation but against the lawlessness surrounding Historic Israel, The solution was to continue and conclude the reestablishment of a sovereign Jewish nation where every Jew could find a haven by right and not by sufferance.
* This Generation of the Jewish Revolution is immufte to such hypocritical and underhanded attacks as were heard at this forum last week from a United Church clergyman; it is immiine to polemics and intentional misrepresentation of Israel's case by friends of this clergyman, Toronto's Globe and Mail and the London Free Press.
* This Generation of Revolt rememtiers thie boats carrying Jewish refugees turned back to Hitler's inferno by the governments of Canada and the United States.. We had then the best press; Seas of crocodile tears from all good people surround the camps where a million^and-a-haJf Jewish children were gassed. Where were the pious then?
thus agam, -«ur Generation of Revolt has de- : cided that the Jew will cease . to be the proverbial "coward" who hates to kill, even-in self defense. He will fight. So the Fighting Jew was born.
* To those who threaten Israel, this Generation says: Israel not only is a'nation; it's not only Jews; it's not only an expression of courage
-- but, to aU of us it should represent the hope of humanity that ghettos and persecutions are not eternal.
Jerusalem and the Land of Israel have been, since the beginning of the Diaspora, a fundamental of Jewish belief. True, Jews have different opinions as to what Judaism stands for; there are various expressions and interpretations of religious observance. However, in its rapport with Israel, all Jews are inspired by one thought: the existence and preservation of the Jewish state is the primary task of this Generation. There is very little dissent as to this concept.
* By eliminating the problem of "Jewish national homelessness", Israel, the state, has liquidated the basic point of friction which existed among Jews and non-Jews for two thousand years. It has established new dimensions, a new approach among Jews and non-Jews the world over, conducive to coexistence; it inaugurated a new era in human history. The battle against the preservation of Israel is basically one of the last antisemitic bigots left in our society^ bigots who changed the semantics only: antisemitism has become anti-Zioiiism; but the aim persists -- to prevent coexistence among Jews and non-Jews.
Israel and antisemitism are not a Jewish problem. Any conspiracy against Israel is the world's problem, as was Hitler's conspiracy.
While promoting coexistence, one should never forget that without Russian encouragement the parties confronting each other on the battlefield of the Middle East would face each other at the peace table.
Close to one-hundred editors and publishers of Canadian weeklies, both English and French, participated in this session.
Following the address by Nurenberger, Prof. Yves Gagnon, new dean of the School of Journalism of Laval University and president of Les Hebdos du Canada, rose tostate that he fully supporte'df Nurenberger's statement with relation to the Jewish problem.
Alluding to the main topic of the session -.- the role of an editor in a-community -v Nurenberger said he does not believe the role of a newspaperman or writer is that of leader of a group; he should not be susceptible to flattery, not be in a position to dethrone idols and must be able to maintain his independence.
Also, the. project for the creation of a press council seems to be an important step towards the equation' of newspapers toihe level of our more educated generation.
To a certain degree,—: Nurenberger concluded/^a newspaper is an institution of. adult education./While
BEGIN TO SPEAK IN TORONTO
Toronto will welcome Menahem Begin, prominent Israeli Cabinet minister and leader of his,country's second largest political party, Monday evening, March 23rd, at Beth Tzedec.
Begin, who became famous when he led Israel's underground Irgun against British occupation of the Holy Land, will be the guest of the Allied Construction Division of UJA-ISF. (Editorial, Page 4)
J J!i U H EN8ERGER-CJN EDITOR. ADDRESSING THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON MEDIA: "We arc the Generation of Jewish revolt."
safeguarding the free press^ newspapers ' should^^ not be edited by ; public relations professionals or repre^en- . _ . tatives of pressure groups. ir~~Dgnize the obligation as mil-a newspaper is an institution itary victor in past combats of adult education, the tea- to make the first move tocher must be qualified.- ■ ■ wards peace."
QUAKERS PUZZLE U.S. JEWS
Washington (JCNS).-Members of Congress who recently signed declarations favoring direct Arab-Israel peace negotiations have been receiving protests from the Friends Committee on National Legislation, the lobbying arm of the Quakers.
The organization has been distributing a 20,000-word memordandum sharply-attacking Israel's insistence on direct negotiations, It was prepared by a working party of American and Canadian Friends, acting in association with the Friends Service Council (London) and the FriiSnds World Committee, for Consultation.
While the Friends profess to be the friends of both Arabs aiid Jews, their,"peace settlement" accepts major Arab demands.
They propose: that Israel withdraw from all territor-. les occupied in the Six Day War, except for the Jewish parts of the Old City; that occupied territories be placed under U.N. trusteeship; that U.N. forces occupy demilitarized areas; that the Palestinian Arabs _be permitted "self-determination" and be allowed to opt for repatriation.
The Quakers recommend that the Israelis "ceasetheir opposition to the Big Four talks and lay aside their insistence on immediate direct negotiations. . .Otherwise the conclusion: IS inescapable that the Israeli Government really prefers the indefinite prolongation of a no-peace-and-no-war situation."
They appeal to the Israelis "to reassess their present policy, of seeking se-^ur-ity^-^primarily through what the Israeli Defense Minister, Moshe Dayan, has termed 'seciire and strategic boundaries''( and to "realize the fruitlessness of. i. past rigid policies, and rec-
the Jewish schools and there is extreme hesitancy on the part of the teachers, mostly idealists, to deprive children of Jewish education. The problem is: there are no funds available in the Jewish community-chest for raising the teachers' salaries to a minimum wage.
SOLUTION POSSIBLE
Sources close tothe Hebrewteaching profession and parents interested in continuing and expanding the Jewish educational system, especially in the Day Schools, say that this problem of shortage of funds could be solved to the satisfaction of both the parent and the educators if funds, the distribution of allocations are updated.
As one spokesman told this newspaper: "The problem is not in the schools. Those running the schools would like to see a complete reallocation of priorities in our community-funds. We know, for example, that those contributing to the United Jewish Appeal are interested in supporting two causes, both equally important from the view of Jewish survival - aid to besieged Israel and Jewish education. All other efforts within the community should be supported privately by those in need of debating clubs, pressure groups and and so on."
PUBLIC DEBATE ON
For the first time a parent, mother of three children attending a Hebrew Day School, Mrs. Shirley Giblon, broke the silencie imposed by certain Jewish community-relations outfits where the Jssue of government support for Day Schools has been under discussion for years. She demanded,
in an article published by Toronto's Globe and Mail on Tuesday, that Jewish Day Schools be aided in their secular programs by government subsidies, as are other schools - public and Catholic.
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Teaching profession in Toronto schools
grossly underpi institutions in danger
BY STEPHEN BARRY, CJN REPORTER
The quality of Hebrew education in Toronto is in serious danger of declining and, according to a source close to the Hebrew teachers' union here, may disappear completely in the next twenty years unless serious consideration is given to increasing teachers' salaries.
The organization has stated that a strike by Hebrew teachers cannot be ruled outif theforthcomingnegdtiations between teachers and the boards of the various Hebrew schoplsare not concluded to their satisfaction.
The union has published figures comparingsalary scales in Toronto with those of major United States cities. The • claim that while a graduate Hebrew teacher in Toronto starts at a salary of $3,000.00, his counterpart in Chicago receives $6,500.00 and in Columbus, $8,000.00. . They also compare their salaries with those of public and high school teachers in Toronto. The current minimum salary for a public school teacher beginning at the lowest level, with only one yeai: of teacher-training after high school, is $5,200.00. A teacher at the lowest level in high school earns $6,800.00. In both these cases the maximum salary .is $14,400.00, almost two-and-a-half times the maximum of Hebrew school teachers.
Teachers refer to the organized Jewish__community m Toronto as one of the least generous m the world regarding education, "We have millions with which-to build fine synagogues, we raise millions for other urgent and less important drives, but when it comes to pay Hebrew teachers they constantly refuse, toallowthemalivmg, decent wage." • To assure the future of Hebrew eHucation in Toronto, teachers appeal for a decent salary scale which will. attract capable and intelligent professionals. Unless this is done; they say, "teaching Hebrew school in Toronto is a dying profession!"
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