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CANADA'S NATIONAL-JEWiSH NEWSPAPER
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: Friday, Maf 12th, 1967
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FRIDAY. MAY 12th> 1967
eve of Israels
PREMIER ESHKOL "We Are Engaged In Historic Task"
On the eve of, Israel's independence day, Premier Levi Eshkol issued the following call to the Diaspora:
" On the approach of the festive day when we celebrate the State of Israel's 19th Independence Day, Israel and its citizens send their cordial greetings to the entire Jewish people, where-eyer theydwelL...
"The consciousness ofls-rael's existence is taking deeper roots the world over; more and more it is becoming the focus for the perennial life of our people. It is our duty to make the bonds between Israel and the Diaspora stronger and' closer, and to ensure that the mutual influences that operate between the various parts of our people take their proper place in the heart of the Jew wherever he may dwell.
"The nature of our people has always been, and still is, complex and mysterious.
This people, whose historic laws are so differient from those of any other, lives ijti-iy; der conditions and circus-' stances, to vyhich there is no parallel. It has wandered through many lands, enduring days of tribulation and days of terrible glory, but always it has preserved its unique and distinctive character; always it has faced the challenges of oppression, persecution and
destruction.
"All segments of our people are riesponsible for each other, and It is incumbent on all of us to \y6rk to strengthen the tieS tmd the mutual consciousness of all our parts, so that all who wish to be Jews shallbe able to express their Jewishness with head held high and without fear.
"In Israel, we are engaged today in a great effort to
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strengthen the state. We are still confronted with ejcteirnal perils, with aggression and threats from some of the neighboring countries. We are sparing no effort or labor, therefore, to fortify and consolidate the. State.
Our efforts are continually devoted everywhere to the complete absorption of the immigrants who are already with us and their integration in our society in the spirit of
Jewish brotherhood. We are doing our utmost to enable every Jew who so desires to settle in Israel, and to increase the love for Israel of our brethren living in the affluent lands, who have been privileged to acquire educa-. tion, skill and experience, so that they may intensify their bonds vWth our people and our land, and come to Israel to build with us the future and the pride of our people. It
is the common responsibility of all sections of Jewry to give support and aid to the strengthening of the fraternity of Qur people and the safe guarding of its future.
'♦Israel regards itself as responsible for the entire Jewish people. Other communities, too, must contribute their share - in resources and in men and women who are ready to work to re-
new the youth of our ancient people on its own soil.
"To our brethren everywhere we wish a year of peace and progress^ a year of the strengthening of our people and the intensification
of the ties of brotherhood between Jewish Communities' everywhere and our country, the Jewish State.
WILL BE CANADA'S OFFICIAL GUEST
Ottawa (CJN) - President Zalman Shazar of Israel will be the offlcial guest of the Federal Government of Canada and of two provincial governments during a ten-day period commencing May 19th. Officially the tour of President Shazar, who arrives here for the dedica-
tion of the IsfaeU"'Pavilion at Expo '67, will begin May 21st when he arrives in Ottawa.
The Canadian Jewish News learns that Mr. Shazar will be brought to Canada by an El Al plane directly from Jerusalem following special arrangements with the De-
partment of External Affairs. It wiU be the first time that an El AI plane lands on Canadian territory.
Should Mr. Shazar arrive in Canada before May 21st, he will remain incognito until the official opening of the visit.
In Ottawa Mr. Shazar will
be welcomed officially by the Governor General, the Prime Minister and members of the Federal Cabinet. On Tuesday he will inaugurate the Israeli Pavilion at Expo '67 and be the guest of Mayor Jean Drapeau of Montreal; the following day he will proceed to Quebec City where
Premier Daniel Johnson will prieside at a dinner in his honor.
Similar arrangements are being made for Mr. Shazar's visit to Toronto, which will commence on Friday, May 26th, and conclude Monday, May 29th, when he will return to Israel.
In Toronto Mr. Shazar will be the guest of honor of Premier John Robarts and his Cabinet.
In all tiiree cities the President of Israel will meet with outstanding Jeyvish personalities at special meetings.
Atmosphere in Montreal cdmmiwity still tense
HAYES POSiriON LAUDED; MITICIANS CRITICIZED
Quebec City (CJN) - The average Jewish citizen «jf Montreal, as well as those in the smaUer Jewish communities such as Quebec City, essentially agree with a statement made last week by Saul H^es, executive vice
president of the Canadian Jewish Congress, about the "atmosphere" created in Quebec's legislature. However some members of the Jewish communily also agree with Premier Daniel Johnson that certain liberal politi-
cians are e:?)loiting the "Jewish issue" in order to gain political captial and undermine the prestige ot the ■oresent government
The opinion of these members of the community is that tolerance vis-a-vis neo-
Nazi groups agitating the people of Quebec is not a problem confined to La Belle Province.
The problem of i^o-Nazi activities is one which can be solved by federal legislation only, they say. To
blame Quebec's Provincial Minister, Jean Jacques Ber-trand, for the situation is "unfair".
The Jewish community oi the Province at Qudiec, we are told, is a conununi^ of faith, a religious group
which, as such, has no political preference and should not be involved in the tou^ political game of this province.
Also The Canadian Jewish News was informed that the situation involvii^ neo-Nazis
in Quebec h^s not arisen recently since the change at government; is existed under the former administration as well. However no effective steps were taken then.
At the same time leading
personalities within the Jewish conmiunity believe that Premier Johnson should make- it clear that the recent unfortunate statement to the House by a cabinet member should not be dis-
missed as humor although i may have been one of those cute remarks made by politicians. It certainly does not befit the position d a Cabinet minister; this should be e}q)lained, the Canadian Jewish News was told.
Commentary
By M.J. Nurenberger
IWASJMJACHAU
Twenty-two yeiars "&ib a youiig tj.S. army correspondent came to Dachau.
It was a beautiful, sunny Sunday morning. The peaceful Bavarian village with its picturesque family homes seemed quite remote from
what the visitors expected to find.
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The young man and his friends, mostly journalists from North America, observed this pastoral picture as they stood next door to what had been until recently a factory of corpses, one of the headquarters of the Angel of Death.
The visitors eyed each other with perturbing glances which seemed to ask: where are the guilty, those responsible for the atrocities committed behind the walls confronting us?
After all, Dachau, less notorious than the more infamous extermination camps of Auschwitz and Maidanek, Was not chiefly a "Jewish final solution" center. It predated these horror, centers established by the Hitlerites in Eastern Europe. It was opened, like the camp in Buchen-wald near the famous Goethe city of Weimar, as a political "retraining area" for offenders against the Nazi rule. ^,
Dachau and Buchenwald began functioning
with the firm establishment of the Hitler regime. * * * ♦ *
Now, in the case of the people dwelling in this peaceful village close to Munich, the prer dominating thought was: here the tortures began early and the selection of victims were non-sectarian; there were Jews and "pure Aryans" hurdled together in a new kind of iniFerno devised by the new Reich; here the "enemies of Germany"
/ were supposed to be taught to respect the new reality. Those of "Aryan" stock may have been beaten and tortured a little less than the incorrigible Jews whose political malady was in their blood — but "Aryan" or Jew, the people of Dachau arid the surrounding villages went about their daily routine without losing any sleep. The village, during the years of atrocities (and they went from bad to worse during the war years), was as calm, as peaceful, as Sundayish in its outer
- garb as on this day of our visit.
But were those Sundays the Days of the Lord? Or — were they the days of the devil?
the young correspondent became the interpreter for his colleagues. The foremost buergers of Dachau gathered round the guests who came to see their village. There/were the new burgomaster and the priest.„And the young man asked the priest: V ■
.. .Was your church open during all this? as he pointed across the country road toward the gate of the concentration camp.
... Of course.
... And did the zealous workers from the camp attend services?
.. .Oh, ja, many did. .
,. .And the girls who werethe. bookkeepers in this factory? Did they also frequent the church?
... Ja, there were many nice girls. X
I was not in Dachau last Sunday \yhen the monument to those/^ who had perished there was unveiled, when Kaddish was recited for all who died. But I was there in spirit I still could see the homey faces of the Dacnauers, now twenty-two years older/who had to explain to their children — why this monument, why Kaddish. I hope the elders have the answer so that the children finally understand.
Terrorist Main Speaker
Hold Anti-Israel tally
The University of Toronto refused to cancel the permit given the Moslem Students Committee for the use of a schoolroom for an anti-Israeli meeting. The decision was taken despite the fact that the so-called student
committee distributed leaflets throughout the city without mentioning the name of its organization. The leaflets calling upon the public at large to participate in a "Palestine Day Conference"
this coming Sunday, May 14th, from 3-6 p.m. at the Ontario College of Education (Bloor and Spadina), were signed by the "Palestine Day Conference Committee". Also, one of the speakers
is featured as "His Excellency Saadat Hassan, Permanent Representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization at the United Nations." Hassan cannot be a United Nations representative as the Palestine Liberation
Committee is not recognized by the UN. In fact, it is the terrorist anti-Israeli gang banned by Jordan.
The Canadian Jewish News, when it first inquired about this misrepl'esenta-tion, was told that a breach
of discipline definitely was committed in this case. Later on we were told that the University authorities accepted the "explanation" of the Moslem committee that it "had forgotten" to mention the students' com-
mittee name, on the leaflet.
Thus the most vicious, terrorist Arab group was given free use of the University auditorium for hate propaganda and misrepresentation of its speakers.
Monument Consecrated And Desecrated
Munich (JCNS) - A Jewish monument to the victims of Nazi brutality, built by the communities in Bavaria on the site of the former concentration camp at Dachau, was dedicated on Sunday.
The Bavarian Stateand the Munich City Council have each contributed 30,000 miarks.
DESECRATED
Dachau, (JCNS) -Unknown hooligans early last week
desecrated the Jewish mem- the local police which open-
orial erected (m the sitectf ed an investigation, a swas-
the former Nazi concentra-. tika and the words "HeU
tion cahip here. According to Hitler" were daubed on the
stoae with red paint. of Reconciliation) of the
The desecration occurred Evangelical Churchwasded-
only a week after a "Ver- icated by Church leaders ot
soehnuhgskirche** (Church the site of the former camp.
DE GAULLE TO VISIT AUSCHWITZ
Paris - French President Charles be Gaulle will toiir the Auschwitz death camp during his State visit to Poland in June, the newspaper "France Soir^» reports. The
General will inspect Reober-tow Military Academy,
where he taught infantry tactics to Polish officers whom he had joined in defence of
Warsaw against the Red Army in 1920,
President De Gaulle also intends to visit Walbrzych near Wroclaw (formerly Breslau), the town annex^
hy Poland from Germany at the end of World Warn,
where many pre-war Polish
emigrants to France have
now resettled.
Largest Reform Temple Leaves Fold
Quits UAHC: Anger Over Eisendroth
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New York, (CJN) - Dr. Maurice H. Eisendrath, a former Toronto rabbi ^and ; new president of the refoi-m Union of American Hebrew Coi%regations charged that Congregation Emanu-El's withdrawal from the union reflected a widespread tendency to use the war in Vietnam to "curtail free expression of opinion."
The president of the famous New .York Fifth Avenue congr^tiwi responded by charging that the head of the Union "favors dissent against eveiything except his own views."
The exchange between Rabbi Maurice H. Eisendrath and Alfred R, Bachrach, president of Congregation Emanu-El, followed the disclosure last Week that the congregation had withdrawn from the Union, national organization of Reform synagogues. Temple : Emanu-el is (regarded as the largest reform congregation in the ■ world. .: :';
Mr./1Bachrach said that the Withdrawal, which was
voted at an April 25 meeting of the temple's board of trustees, was intended to protest statements by Rabbi Eisendrath wi Vietnam and Other issuesi .
AN 'IMPOSSIBLE' ROLE He said the board felt that
the 64-year-old former Holy Blossom rabbi, a critic ot United States policies in Vietnam, has assumed the ^'unauthorized and impossible" role of spokesman for the entire Re for m movement.
Rabbi Eisendrath firstde-
clined . to comment on the' withdrawal of Temple Emanu-El, which is the union's largest financial supporter. He broke his silence last Friday however, and, in a 200-word statement, noted that this was the second time the temple had with-
drawn from the union. . "The background for this continued dispute between certain members ot the temple's board and the union has been a disagreemient with the union's whole program of social actions," he said, continued on page 8
THE MAN WHO BROUGHT BACK DE GAULLE AND CANNOT RETURN HOME VISITS ISRAEL - Jocqoes .5ouste//e (left), the French politician who has been living in exile for. six years, greeted by the leader of Hen/t, Menahem Begin, on arrival in Israel last week.
An Editorial
ISRAEL BIRTHDAY: WHAT WE OWE THEM
May 15th, the 5th of lyar of the Hebrew calendar, marks Israel's nineteenth birthday. Without any doubt, every Jew, wherever he may be, will remember that "this is the,day on which to rejoice". The gieneration that saw the destruction of Eastern European Jewry now beholds the miracle of the rebirth of the first sovereign Hebrew nation in two-thousand years. And in the words of the psalmist, we are as dre^ers when the Lord returneth the people to Zion.
We are as dreamers indeed. For when the guns of the enemies of peace and freedom attack the peaceful borders of that litUe country which is the home of survivors of the greatest calamity in human history, our reaction is but emotional.
We feel anger for those who commit these acts of aggression yet we forget that Israel not only conducts a permanent war of defense against the foe abroad but must fight, .day in, day out, the less glamorous though more strenuous battle for the mgathering of those who need a home.
It is the people of Israel who send their sons and daughters to defend the borders of the Third Jewish Commonwealth, and we are proud of them. It is their children who dwell in permanent danger of attack, who are in continuous-reiad*/-iness to fight. They do not/relish this position; but it is their destiny.
At the same time, they hope that we here in the Diaspora, in'the free and affluent society,' are prepared p share this grandeur with them hot by applause, not only by ex-
)ressing our pride but,by remov-: ng from this overtaxed people the
)urden of resettling those for whom the doors are open.
For many weeks the Jewish community of Toronto, in a period of greatest prosperity, has been urged to contribute three niillion dollars of which a substantial amount is allocated to help in the abson>tion program into the new homeland.
We cannot, nor will we, participate in any military expenditures of the Jewish state; the Israelis do not demand it. But they do wonder whether, in the spirit of Jewish solidarity, we are ready to share the burden of providing a home for newcomers — which is our duty just so much as theirs.
Many organizations and societies in this city will observe the nineteenth birthday of the Jewish state. These groups, such as Landsmaii-shaften and fraternal lodges, actually are swimming in money at a time when a million dollars are needed still to fill the quota of the United Jewish Appeal drive. Also many members who will applaud the heroism of the Israelis at these assemblies consider their duty accomplished wh^n they "participate" in the community drive of their Landsmanshaft or lodge.
Where, however, is their personal/commitment towairds helping rehabilitate their brethem, cousins, relatives in the new homeland? Is an emotional outlet in the form of tears o;* applause sufficient in tears or applause sufficient in these days when Zion is beleaguered?
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