Ah Editoridi
Ethnio Pre88 Section V^^^y. ;: Ottawa, Ontario f^-STb^ ,
iFpr'the second time in most rer ceiit years, th6 CBC, Canada'is goyernment-subsidized broadcasting corporation and theiargest TV outlet in this country, is ignoring public opinion by importing political obscenities into tne homes of Canadian citizens.
When infamous George Lincoln Rockwell, self-proclaimed neo-Nazi leader of Virginia, was projected into the livingrooms of Canadians, this insult to the good taste of the people was attacked in Parliament,
criticized in the press and protested b^ p^ple of various ethnic and religious background as incitement to hatred.
Beattie's appearances in the park here are child's play compared with the spread of Nazi propa^ ganda disserhmated by Rockwell's show on CBC.
Yet nothing happened.
CBC seems to be the eleventh province of Canada, separatist, completely independent of the federal government except for sub^ mitting its bills to the taxpayer.
A similar incident in the field': of sexual pornography occurred \ several weeks agd when GBC "demonstirated"! indiscriminately ; intimate bedroom scenes on its Sunday program.
Now its directors are swinging again from sex outrage to p<^itical irresponsibility,
Adolf von Thadden is scheduled f to appear on the Sunday program 1 of January 29th. On that Sunday ^ evening, at 10:00 p.m., by the invitation of the Canadian Broadcasrt^ ^ ing Cori^ration, this "ihteUectual!' i
leader of the neo-Nazi German party — thus described by Bonn's Minister ..of Interior — -will tell ; Canadians why his groiip is so-o-o democratic, so-o-o liberal, so-o-o freedom loving that it really i^ a sin to reject him and his party.
Speaking for the government this week in Parliament, Transport Minister Pickersgill declared: "There is no place for neo-Nazis in Canada "
X Montreal M.P. MUton Klein, at the same session, made a fine point by stating that neo-Nazis are more
criminal than the old Nazis because they, the new' Hitlerites, already know/ what Naidsm stands for. :'^:y\:::.::^[■■■■■■[ v
In fact, the German magazine Der Spiegel revealed that the neo-Nazis of von Thadden's NPD party orientate themselves on an alliance of a nationalistic Germany with Red China. This may sound impossible, remote, unbelievable — but so did the Stalin-Hitler pact before it had materialized.
Von Thadden, when he appears here, will appeal especially to those
of German origin who in their innocence and political naivete may cohfulse NPD with the well known German sentiment for Heimatsehn-sucht ■— nostalgia for the homeland.
That is why he is so dangerous. That is why many free men and women here may employ all democratic means to prevent von Tliad-den's appearance unless, at the last moment, CBC is told firmly that it is not a separatist, sovereign state within the state.
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CANADA'S NATIONAL-JEWISH NEWSPAPER
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• LARGEST CIRCULAtfON OF ANY JEWISH NEWSPAPER IN CANADA •
FRIDAY, JANUARY 13th, 1967.
FRENCH JEWISH AMITY IN QUEBEC - For the fifit time, the influential Quebec .Societe Saint-Jean Baptiste invited a Jewish leader to be a hostat its New Year reception. He is Sam Levy (left), head of the French speaking Jewish community. Others (from left to right): Me Yvon Groulx, President of the S.S.J.B.;i-listorial Dr. Lionel Groulx; Ukrainian community leoder, J. Prysriak. Courtesy A1onfr«o/.yMof/n
Rabbinical court waives 'halitsa' in case of virgin
Haifa, Israel (Jerusalem Post Service) - The Rabbinical High Court permitted a 20-year-old widow to remarry without having to undergo a halitza ceremoity. Her former marriage was declared null and void because it never had been consummated.
"tHalitza' Is the ceremony which releases a widow and her brother-in-law from the duly of uniting in a levirate marriage. It consists niainly of the widow's drawing off a shoe of her brother-in-law and uttering a prescribed formula.)
The Court was ruling on the woman's appeal against the Haifa Rabbinical Court's refusal of her request.
Three years ago, she had married a young man who later committed suicide when he realized he was impotent. When she fell in love with another, man, the Rabbinate refused to marry her without halitza, which would
be impossible to obtain for consulted with a Torah sage some time. The deceased's the U.S., Rabbi Moshe brother was only five years Feinstein. In his opinion, he old, and, according to the stated that the appellant law, the widow would have to could be exempted from the wait untU he reached 13 be- obligation of halitza by de-fore the ceremony could be claring her marriage nuU held. . , - . aP4yS^dr||!f>P? she was The RabbinicalJHighCourt a virgin.-^ ''■^f::'^"'"^
COMES TO CANADA
Jerusalem (CJ^D - President Zalman Shazar of Israel has accepted the invitation of the Governor-General of Canada to visitthe country for the Centennial.
The President, accompanied by Mrs. Shazar, will arrive in Ottawa wi May 21. Hie will attend Israel Day at Expo in Montreal on May 23, and wUI also meet representatives of Canadian Jewry.
Mr. Shazar is ejqiected to
be in Canada for about a week and to return directly from there to Israel. He probably will visit Quebec City and Toronto.
Commentary
By M.J. Nurenberger
ISRAEL'S POSITION
Friends of Israel suddenly have become most solicitous of its peace and happiness.
Whenever a chauvinistic Arab regime decides to play footsie with the internationally recognized sanctity of the borders of the sovereign state and in the process wounds and kills peaceful citizens, the Israelis are asked to be patient and "Christian". It sounds almost like an appeal to the Israelis to expose the other cheek or a second border for potential attackers.
It has reached a point where respected organs of international public opinion have acquired the habit of practicing a very subtle, delicate differentiation between assault and defense in the Holy Land.
■ ■ *,*■ ♦ ..♦ • '. ■ Whenever Israelis defend themselves against terrorists or conspirators who openly proclaim their intention to destroy them, the Israeli action is called, attack and aggression. But if Shukeiry's bands decide to kill Israelis, these murders are termed, excesses. It almost reminds us of similar terms used by the defenders of antiseihites in pre-World War II Europe, when well brought-up gentlemen refused to use the word, pogroms, whenever pogroms did take place.
After all, the Jews ought to know their place and look the other way.
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■ For the umpteenth time, it is pertinent to remind those who are so concerned with the gobd name of Israel that Israelis and their friends will hot be terrorized by propaganda slogans.
No one believes Israel wants conflict and war. Everyone knows certain Arab circles propagate and practice belligerence against Israel. These, candidly, are the facts. And the new generation of Israel will not fail prey to the hypo-cracy of some Western, ivory tower strategiste in the war for th^ survivalfof the Jewish state.
In factw'sorjie are misled bv the beli^ tliat Israel is alone-in its struggle; it is not. It odcuples an important strategic point on the map of the world. And a country that Is important in geography is also a political power. \ "
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OTTAWA "STUDIES' NPD LEADER CASE
GERMAN INTELLECTUALS PROTEST AGAINST FREEDOM OF SPEECH FOR NPD LEADER VON THADDEN Banner corned b/Munich SMenIs reods: "He wlio wonts ADOLF picks THADDEN.'V
ISRAELI EMISSARY BEATS AMERICA'S
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JNe)^ork, (JCNS) Thanlts to a quiet campaign by a
^ young Israeli emissary, Ab-braiham Ben-Zvi, some 350
,' Israeli students and profes-s ional people who had intended to stay permanently in the United States have returned to Israel in the past 18 months. The figure represents only 70 per cent c£ the total those who returned; the others went back without any prompting.
RevesQing this in an interview in New York, Mr. Ben-Zvi; who was sent by the Israeli Ministry c£ Labour to try and beat the "brain drain" of Israelis, said that he first had to know the reasons why so many students and professional people had chosen to emigrate,
Mr. Ben-Zvi obtained the aid of the Bureau of Applied Social Research of Coiumbia University, which, made a
study on the motives for ' continued or permanent residence of Israeli students and professional people. "We have to know the reasons before we can really know how to go about trying to get them to return", he said.
There were about 3,000 Israeli students in America, Mr. Ben-Zvi said. The fact that some of them took immigrant visas does not mean
that tiiey closed the door can be extremely important, permanently to Israel. Peo- He pointed out that since the
_ple with student'visas are not ' allowed to work so many gave them up for immigrant certificates even though they expected to go back.
He said that the number of persons involved may not seem big, but in terms of
existence of the Technion, only 6,000 engineers had graduated from it. "If 600 are in America, thai? s a loss of 10 per cent", he said.
His office was established to try to "minimize the loss". It does this by trying
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the Israeli population a loss to keep in contact with Is-of 3,000 prtrfessional people raeli students and guiding
them into fields needed by the State.
Mr. Ben-Zvi arranges loans for travel back to Israel and for low-interest mortgages on very convenient terms for housing there. He also arrangies lectures by prominent Israelis in all fields and professional people who come here for whatever! reason are invited to speak to the students.
He has found that the number of years spent here do not necessarily make any difference in getting people to go back. Among the 350 who have decided to return, ten were here fourteen years, a large number from five to ten years.
EXECUTIVE BOARD OF THE VAAD HA'IR
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r. - Rgbbi L. kramar (Lubovltch)/ G. Jakobovitx (B«th Jacob), Rabbi '/fi. Borsakowiky (Yoshiva Moor Hagola),. W. Bialijt (Zionist Organization), Morris Traital (Choirmon of the Ex«cgtive Board), Isaac Eiloy,-I.R. PraioH, B.A., LL.B.. and -Louji 9r«nit«in.iQ.C., mvmbers of th« Praasidium, Israel Coh«n/(Polk.Shula), Rabbi A: Undsrsdorfar (Klolszenberg), F. Yumdn (Young Isroat), J. Cohan (Habraw Sick Banefft , Assoc.),' Moe F.' Llabman (Adath Israol Syndgogua), and Solly Urhian^XpuniB Israel of Mohtraal). ' , ^. [ •■)/■• \
Standing from i, to r. - S. Waldman (Satmar), Lbuli Richlor (Unlted^Xidltnud Tbrohs), , S. London (Lubovltcher), Rabbi: M. Rabinovitch (Yashiya MarkazHotorah), Rabbi Isaac L.Hechtmon (Exacutlva Director of tht-Vdod), Oscar Chazon (United talnrud Toroh), Ben amin Malowitzky (Mizrochi), Max Brightmon (Habraw SickBanafitAssoc.),lsrcielDdcks .(MalclsKAruni'in Society), Sam C. Levlna (Zionisf Org. of Canada), J. Momalak (Labor' . Zionist Movement), J. Shiomovltz (Rusiiian«Polish Habraw Sick Ban.). J.'Dari (tashar Yesblvah), ond J. Deotsch (Bel:|). SEE SfdRY PAGE 2
ESHKOL APPEALS TO THE JEWS OF NORTH AFRICA
Jerusalem (JCNS) - Levi Eshkol, Israeli Premier, last week urged members of Oded - the movement of [ North African Jewish intellectual youth to press the hundreds of thousands of their co-religiwiists whohad found haven elsewhere into settling in Israel where the State needed them.
Mr. Eshkol was addressing the first conference of the Paris-based Oded organization, held at the Hebrew University where about hundred members are studying at: present. (A similar number is stuc(ylngattho Haifa Technion.)
. Mr. Arieh Pincus, chairman of the Jewish Agency executive, told the conference that members Oded who had already settled in Israel had begun to make their influence felt inassist> ing the integration of the . less educated North African immigrants. ;
Mr. David Ben-Gurion, the formsr Prime. Minister, will address the conference at its closing session.
Von Thadden
(Exduslva to The Caiiadlsh Jewish News)
. OTTAWA — In one_of the most dramatic ^ifiit' "miasl'^'impassidn^^^ statftiriehts against neo-Nazis in the history of Canada's parliament, Mr. Pickersgill, Minister of Transport and a former Kinister of Immig^tion, told the House of Commons, "We dont want any Nazis in Canada".
Though the hour was late — 10:30 p.m. on Monday night — when Mr. Pickersgill made this declaration in Parliament, the relatively few members present were deeply impressed by the Minister's sincerity. (Mr. Pickersgill had lost a brother in a German camp.)
TTie Mmister's reply came as the result of the intervention of Milton Klein, M.P., Cartier (Montreal), who spoke against the admittance of Adolf von Thadden, the Deputy Leader of the German neo-Nazi NPD party.
Mr. Klein's speech was his second intervention during the day on this issue pertaining to the announced visit here of the neo-Nazi leader.
During the mommg session on Monday, Mr. Klein asked the Minister of Immigration, Mr. Marchand, whether this agitator would be admitted here. Mr. Marchand declared that the problem is being studied by the government.
At ten .that .evening, Mr. Klein rose again to declare:
• The difference must be made between Germans and Nazis. There probably are a million people in Canada of German descent. Many of them have fled the Nazis and they abhor Hitler-ism. But while there are good and bad among Germans^ there are no good Nazis.
• In fact, the neo-Nazis s/hould be considered more dangerous than those who were Hitler's followers in 1933. For one always should remember that the Nazis of 1933 can claim they had no previous knowledge of what Hitler would do. The neo-Nazis, however, are those who do know and approve of killings and war preparations.
• The statement according to which von [ Thadden as a citizen of the friendly nation cannot be refused admittance bears no significance; Rockwell, who had been expelled frohi here, also is a national of a friendly country.
• A neo-Nazi must be considered a member of Murder, Incorporated — though much more dangerous, as the neo-Nazis are a part of a con-sphracy which could provoke a Third World War.
It was then, following Mr. Klein's speech, that Mmister Pickersgill rose from the Government Bench and declared on behalf of the Government of Canada: "We don't want any Niazis ■here." ' ■■■v,.-^
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STRIKE OVER HITLER'S PICTURE
Oslo, (JCNS) - Dock workers in the Norwegian port of Stavanger last week refused to unload a German cargo ship until a picture of Hitler In the mess-room was taken down.
The captain, who pleaded ignorance about the picture, said he would thro^ It overboard in international waters. He was criticized In the newspaper for not throwing It into the harbpr. / Letters In the newspapers strongly,, suppoi^tcd the dockers. ^^v^,>^
AT TORONTO'S EITZ CHAIM DINNER - Bah Wort.-man (left), dinner chairman, and Rabbi Solomon-JakbbovifsV guest speaker. The annual Eitz Chalm Dinner wlM take place Sfjndoy, evening ot. Toroth Emoth Jewish Center.
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