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A GREAT CAUSE
MOUNT SINAI DRIVE
The drive for enlarging the facilities of Toronto's New Mount Sinai Hospital, the pride of Toronto's Jewish community, in our opinion should receive priority during the forthcoming season of philanthropy.
Mount Sinai has contributed largely not only to the progress of medical research and the practical healing of the sick, in both theoretical and applied me-
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dical science, but also has helped make Toronto a great center of medicine. It is a non-partisan, non-sectarian institution of immense significance, though established under Jewish sponsorship. It is Toronto at its best and the people surely will go out of their way to see to ^ it that the funds necessary for the equation of Mount Sinai to the demands of the latest scientific development and for more space for the sick will be met.
Tht Canadian Jewish Newt, Friday, Augint 26rii, 1966 — Poge 3
the livelj arts
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AUFBAU, New York
• Israel's Cadna Symphony Orchestra is in Kerkrade, Holland, competing against 170 other groups in the World Music Contest. Sgan-Aluf Moshe Zohar, 0. C. Gadna, heads the 84-member group which will play under the baton ot Shalom Ronli-Riklis. The Gadna Orchestra took first prizes at the contests in 1962 and 1958. If they win a third time, they will be given permanent possession of the Silver Lyre, to be Dresented by Queen Jtiliana.
• Two Biblical paintings of the 17th century recently were given to the Israel Museum. One is an oil painting. Song of Miriam, by the Italian Luca Giordano, given bv Mr. and Mrs. K. Lichtig of London; the other, also an oil painting, Elia and the Angel, by the Dutch painter Govaert Flinck was given with the assistance of Mr.
NORTH AND SOUTH OF THE BORDER
For the first time since World War II, alarming news concerning the international Nazi conspiracy is reaching us from the United States. Up to now neo-Nazis, including the so-called American Nazi Party of George Lincoln Rockwell, have not been even on the State Department's subversive list. An official of the American government, visibly embarrassed, told newspapermen that the ignoring of neo-Nazi activities had been intentional since what these groups desire are notoriety and a lot of publicity.
Now, while this State Department official still believes officially in shunning these manifestations of anti-Americanism, others are concerned and determined to take earnest action.
Though the last neo-Nazi manifestations and statements affect the Negroes, everybody who believes in defending democracy is involved. The neo-Naais have failed in their antisemitic campaign; they did not succeed in arousing anti-Jewish hatred which still is limited to a very thin lunatic fringe. Nevertheless the
new slogan of the American Nazi Party is to defend the white race against the upsurge of the Negro. All objective observers of the present tension in the big American cities where racial feuds are potential or actual agree that this new Nazi movement may succeed where anti-Jewish bigotry has failed.
'To us in Canada this warning from south of the border is of importance for it shows clearly the existence of a neo-Nazi underground where tactical decisions are made according to opportunistic, political demands. It finally may prove that those among the would-be Nazi leaders here who look innocent are not the lambs they seem. They are or rould be used by these sinister forces which would like to see the North American continent plunged into permanent interracial and interreligious conflict.
Thus Prime Minister Pearson's commitment to bring the anti-hatred recommendations of the Cohen Committee before Parliament is of utmost urgency.
TIBERIAS
— by Viscount Somuel —
and a Jewish Mayor.
Together with Jerusalem, Hebron and Safed it was one of the four ancient Jew-j ish "holy cities". It is in Tiberias that Rabbi Meir Ba'al chief town - Nazareth, Ti- HaNess, Rabbi Yochanan berias, Safed and Beisan.    I ben Zakkai and Rabbi Akiba
Although Nazareth \^'3s buried, and still is — a great Christ ian pilgrimage centre. Ti
Thirty years ago, when 1 was in Galilee as an Assistant District Commissioner under the Mandate, I had four sub-districts in my charge, each with its own
berias, even then, seemfd to show most promise for the future. It was, in 1946. the only one of the sub-districts with a Jewish majority (6,000 Jews to 5,000 Arabs)
letters to the editor
OUR POSTER CHILDREN
Dear Editor:
.As chairman of the Foster Home Committee of the Jewish Family and Child Service, I wish to express our interest in the letter by Rabbi David Grossman (The Canadian Jewish News, August 12th) regarding suitable Jewish homes for foster children of the agency. 1 should like to take this op- i portunity to clarify some facts. !
First the agency is not at; ^^^^ Editor: all defensive about its ef-
! ish Children's Aid Society., munity to request their This application already has . cooperation in our campaign
been made and is in the process of receiving the attention of the Provincial authorities.
Once again, as we approach the High Holy Days, our agency is in contact with the rabbis of the Toronto com-
to bring to the attention of their congregations the continued need for Jewish foster homes. From our recent experiences which have been successful we have no reason to" believe that we would not receive their ful-
lest interest tion.
and participa-
Toronto
UUian P. Uvy
(Mrs. Mark A. Levy) Foster Home Committee Jewish Family and Child Service
Since 1946 Tiberias has doubled its population to 2.1000 (almost all Jewish) and has become a major tourist centre. Situated on the largest freshwater lake in Israel (some 70 square miles in extent) and admirable for bathing, water-skiing and fishing. Tiberias is only 85 minutes by car from Haifa. It is unique as a resort, for it lies 650 feet below sea level, with a warm climate all though the winter.
North of Tiberias, on the . Lake shore at Migdal, where 1 have some land and a cottage, the soil is rich and well-watered; bananas, tomatoes and roses flourish. As it is so much below sea level and a suntrap, ever-thing in the valley ripens weeks ahead of the rest of Israel. At the southeren end
Unhappy About Funds^ Distribution
forts since 1962 to make good quality Jewish foster homes available to the Jewish children requiring this kind of home care. In 1962, 72% of the Jewish children under our care had to be placed in non-Jewish homes because there was a great deal of difficulty in securing Jewish homes for them. In 1965-66, all of the 57 children who required placement have been placed in Jewish homes only. In order for this to work, a continual and unrelenting effort on 1 he part of the agency to .seek out and make available Jewish foster homes is necessary. This is the task which the committee I chair undertook a number of years ago and we feel we have been able to accomplish a great deal in changing what had been an emergent problem for the Jewish community.
The only cases of which we are not able to take ju risdiction are those very few which by law come under the protection service of the Province.
These cases are charged to the Children's Aid Society, of Metropolitan Toronto and only when the magistrate has heard the case and made his findings will it then be assigiied :to the Jev^ish Family and Child Service for child placement. To deal with this problem and^ some others of i similar nature, the agency some time! agb took advantage of the/ passage of the new GHildAVelfareiAct in 1965 to request that the Province ,grant»it ia charter'asa Jevj-
I am shocked and grieved by the embarrassment our publicly supported United Jewish Welfare Fund causes our proud Jewish community. The wholehearted support given by the Jewish community to the UJA is with the belief and conviction that funds are being distributed honestly and properly to the needy at home and abroad to preserve and fortify Jewish liv ing. In the past few weeks The Canadian Jewish News has brought to our atten tion the heartbreaking and sad truth.
The case of Slomovitz Family was my first shock. Our Jewish welfare agencies had the arrogance to refer this distressed family to the care of the Salvation Army since, as you reported, the UJWF claims it has no funds ifor such emergency cases.
The letter of Rabbi David Grossman (The Cartadiain Jewish News, August I2th) in which he accused the UJWF of neglecting our orphan and foster children by mercilessly placing them in Gentile homes came as the greatest shock.
The Jewish Family and Child Service, an agency of the UJWF, supposedly cares for our poor Jewish families. However, by sending a homeless Jewish family to a Gentile charity for help and by placing helpless Jewish children in Gentile homes—is this the manner in which they serve 6 ur Jewish community? How long will we permit the, highly paiid executives of the UJWF/rto"^administer
freely charity monies for anti-Jewish and anti-religious actions?
Funds must be made available for local emergency cases. A home must be built temporarily to shelter all destitute Jewish children.
Our commurlly must rise ages   brought   honor and
in protest anl demand a public inquiiy into the whole state of affairs of the UJWF. It is iny sincerest hope that sucl inquiry will result in our community's return to tie traditional Jewish art of Charity giving
which down
through the
glory to our nation.
I thank The Canadian Jewish News for its fearless presentation of the bitter and alniost hidden facts about our welfare fund. Toronto
J, Markovic
WHAT THE BISHOP SAID
Dear Editor,
May I submit to a correction to the conservative views ascribed in your paper to Bishop Carli?
Asked if he believed that the persecution and sufferings of the Jews were justified and deserved, as a corollary to his published view that the Jews are to be considered collectively and perennially guilty because of the death of Jesus,
Bishop Carli "We are nc
cplied: authorized to
judge or intefpret as mani-
festations of nishment or ward any e\ vourable or which has Jews, whetHr
Divine pU Divine rent, either fa-unfavourable, cjcured to the they were
being perse< ted or were successful in lusiness.
- "However, about, and v ber, those
news
we can talk must remem-punishments
which are mentioned in Holy Scripture, like the des. traction of Jerusalem. But we cannot be considercc responsible, if in the centuries that followed. Christian teachings we're falsely interpreted, nor the use which others may make of Christian doctrine. Our duty is merely to proclaim this doctrine clearly."
Rome A. ROSSI
E.C.M. AID ISRAEL
SIS
LONDON, (JCNS). - Israel's decision to apply tor association with the European Common Market comes as no surprise. The incorporation of Western lEurope (i.e., Europe outside the Commuaist bloc) into two trading blocs which may yet inerge, threatens Israel's largest marlcets and, njakes association in some form or; another with the Cominon Market essential. Genuine association-r-along the lines of that granted to
certain Nato members ' — would be a ; vere test for the Israeli e momy which has until no\ enjoyed protection ap4 s bsidies.
If Israel w its the right to compete a European markets, it w I have to allow Europeai to cotripete in Israeli ms rets. Labour productivity \ 1 have to be iinproved, Ga agreetnents on subsidies (served mbre scrupulously, a sense, Is-real's ability accept and live by the ri s of a more
competitive economy will be a test of the economic policies and management by Premiei" Eshkol and Finance Minister Sapir over the past decade and of the Histad-rut's claim to represent hia-tiphal as well as class inter-ests. /'\-;
It, is to be hoped that Israel's^ application" will .succeed aid that the^fforts required to 'make association work will- bring about a new upsurge in Israeli economic
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of the lake, along the Jordan River, is a cluster of prosperous kibbutzim, among them the mother of all Israel communal villages — Degania — founded even before the First World War.
The whole valley is redolent with history. Jewish and Christian. The ancient synagogue at Capernaum on the north-western shore of the lake, was visited by Jesus of Nazareth. It was one of the places Pope Paul visited on pilgrimage two years ago. I stood with the crowd in the streets of Tiberias and watched him pass through.
Tiberias today consists of the Lower Town, along the lake shore, with its ruined Turkish castle and walls built of black basalt On the hilliside above is the Kiryat Shmuel quarter (named after my late father when High Commissioner for Palestine).
The hilltops are crownec by even newer quarters built for the immigrants who have been settled n Tiberias since the establish ment of the State. These houses lie 600 feet above sea level; the road down to the lake drops neariy 1,300 feet and, half-way, is a notice roadlng "Sea Level!"
South of the old walled city, a mile farther along the lake shore, lie the ruins of the ancient town of Ham mat, built around the famous hot springs and men tioned in the Book of Joshua (19,35). The whole region is volcanic, and in 1837 4,00(j people, most of them Jews, lost their lives.
Up from great depths comes the boiling, radio-active water, heavily impregnated with sulphur. It is specially good for rheumatism
There are 17 springs in all, from which 100 cubic metres of extremely hot water flow per hour. The average temperature at the source is over 140* fahren-heit (60' centrigrade) am the water must be cooled down before people can bathe in it. Most of the old Roman
Lichtig by the sons of Mrs. Helen Gardner, also of London.
# The Deserter, a French antiwar folk song banned during the Algerian war is rising to the top of the French hit parade as a protest against the war in Viet nam. The song was written bv the late Boris Vian in 1955 when the French war in Indochina had just ended and the Algerian war had just started. It was an immediate popular and financial success but after about three months it was banned by the French authorities.
Recently it has been performed in France by Peter, Paul and Mary, American folk singers. Presentiv it is fifth on the French hit parade.
• Peter Weiss' controversial nlav about the I%4-65 Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt, Germanv, The Investigation, will be televised on NBC eariy in 1967, according to Don Durein, president of NBC-TV. The decision to televise "one of the most shattering dramas' ever brought to the American stage was "a major step forward in the use of the television medium."
TV rights cost NBC about $500,000. It is believed to be the first time a television network has purchased the rights to a Broadway-bound play before it even has gone into rehearsal.
The play by the German-bom author of Marat-Sade runs about 140 minutes.
The Investigation, which created a storm of controversy in Europe, was hailed there as a major theatrical event. It is based on the official transcript of the trial in Frankfurt of the guards and officials for the murder of millions of Jews at Auschwitz during World War II. Weiss attended part of the trial and read the testimony of 300 witnesses.
many survivors of the concentration camp, before writing the play.
# Peter Shaffer's new play. Black Comedy, has been added to the schedule of producer Alexander H. Cohen.
• The Haifa City Theatei is presenting a revival of Moshe Shamir's plav, He Walked in the Fields. It was first shown to audiences in Jerusalem during the siege of 1948 and later revived in 1956.
Apparently the plav still is very much alive. It is shown i n commemoration of 25 years of the foundation of the Palmach. Two of the actors, Mordechai Ben-Zeev as Biberman and Abraham Ben-Yosef as Willv, arc playing their parts for the third time.
9 The Moscow Circus is on its first trip to Israel. Ivan Fyodorovitch T c h i c h ira, head of the circus cooperative, said the troupe plans to tour Israel during its free time. He hopes the circus will not disappoint the Israelis who are accustomed to top talent. • Sam Levene replaces Alan King as the psychiatrist and harassed father in The Impossible Years.
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EVERYTHING EVEN A MEZUZAH
A Jewish family moved into a swanky, uncontrolled and overpriced apartment. First thing they did was to put a mezuzah on the door.
A letter arrived from the management asking them to remove it. They were advised that the house was equipped not only with Master TV antennas, but with master mezuzahs as well.
town, which lay north af
Hammat, is still to be excavated. It was named after the Emperor Tiberius and covered an area of over 100 acres and must have had a population of some 30,000 to 40,000.
Thirteen Tiberias syna-;ogue$ are mentioned in the Talmud, and the nuns of six. around the hot springs, have already been identified.
One has a beautiful mosaic floor and its walls were decorated with marble brought all the way from Italy. Tiberias was evidently a town of affluence..
Most of: the old Roman baths have long since "disap-. peared. But one building, with a doimed roof pierced with glass globes to let In the llght,:bullt in 1832 and niiich admired by. Sir Moses Motefiore on his visit a few year later, can still be vi-I'sited.-' . • '.x :
SERMON FOR THE WEEK
Purpose and Survival
The shattered remnant of Israel, agonizmg in their Babylonian exile, were fast sinking into the slough of unrelieved despair. But the words of a great healer—the scholarly world calls him the Second Isaiah—brought the balm of a sublime existential faith to their wounds.
"For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but My steadfast love shall not depart from you, and My covenant of peace shall not be removed, says the Lord who has compassioned you". They were miracle words; they gave new heart, new strength, new vision and purpose to a moribund nation. The prophecy of redemption proclaimed the dawn whilst it was still night — and the Day of Geulah came.
Hebrew prophecy exists in two dimensions of time: it was called forth, in the first histance, by historical events set in chronological time; but it lives on in eternal duration, speaking its message in all generations and for all relevant circumstances. The Babylonian exile came to an end; Judea was reborn. The Commonwealth lived and achieved, but all too soon the Second Exile enveloped our people. Yet the darkness was never complete; the lamp of prophecy, radiant with the Divine promise of redemption, was never quenched.
The healing words^ echoing through all the corridors of the ages, restored a despairing people's hope and will to live, imtil a new miracle was wrought—the rise of the new State of Israel in our own lifetime. To this day, the indomitable spirit of Zion's builders flows from the fountain-head of Isaiah's immortal utterance.
Yet survival can never be considered an end in4tself. Life is but a vessel; It is the content with which we fill it that gives It its true worth. The longevity of the Jewish people Is void of significance unless it is related to its achievements, to its future potential for civilization — in a word tp its Jewish content. The inescapable truth is that it is for the sake of Judaism and on account of it that the Jew has survived. The prophet makes, this pellucidly clear.
God's love and His covenant are inextricable interlinked, The covenant is a world necessity; its principles and ideals are "the everlasting arms" that uphold ethical civilization and make possible the forward march of history. So long as Israel remains the bannerbearer of this covenant he remains as, imperishable as the Torah-faith that forms the raison d'etre of his existence.
The struggle for Jewish survival is primarily not a succession of gory encounters, with persecutors, but an Inner battle for the soul of the Jew. Tlie secret of Jewish national deathlessness is the mystery of our purpose in history. We live a covenanted life. Faith is our citadel; Jewish education our bulwarks. The living waters of the Torah, re-imbibed in every generation, is the elixir of our phoenix-like self-renewal.
Times change; the kaleidoscopic pattern of history assumes, age by age, new images. Ainidst this ceaseless flux Judaism remains a constant; not-that it falls (pftce the fundamentalists) to evolveliewv metuaing 6nd fresh doctrine for the thirsting spilrit of man, but that it remains uh-failing a prbblrig search-light illuminating Heav-eii's precept to strive for truth, jiisticew^^^ brotherhood of man.
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