Friday, October 12, 1962 IREV SUKKOT 5723
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TORONTO* MONTREAL, FRIDAY OCTOBER 12, 1962
Toronto Zionist leaders at Notionol ConTention. Left to right: David Peteri Q.C.; D. Lou Harris.
Three Toronto Zionists with maior mponsibilitities In the Convention. (Lett-to-right) Mort Margolius, coordinating chairman of the Toronto Arrongements Committee; Harry Zifkin, Convention treosurer and Max Goody, choirmon, Israel Trade Exhibit. In oddition, each is toking an active port in one or more sessions.
REJECTS U. S. PUN
To Meet In Toronto
At the end of October, Zionists from across Canada will begin converging on Toronto for the 36th National Convention of the Zionist Organization of Canada which will mark the Diamond Jubilee of the Zionist Movement in Canada. The Convention will be held Nov. 2 - 6 at the Park Plaza Hotel.
As the host city, major share of the responsibility for the pljinning and preparation of convention agenda and activities rests with members of the Toronto Region, Z.O.C.
Convention general chairman is Robert H. Soren. Another key spot, convention treasurer, Is being held by Harry Zilkin.
Toronto Zionists on the National Convention Committee include: Stephen E. Berger, Mannie Brown, John R. Devor, Cont. Philip G. Givens, Q.C., Max Goody, Julius HajTnan, Mrs. Louis James. Jack D. Pearlstein, Q.C., David Peters, Q.C.
Responsible for the many technical preparations in connection with the staging of the convention is the Toronto Arrangements Comniit-tee. The chairmen are: Vlort Margolius, Coordmat ng; Mrs. Louis James Reception and Hospitality; Johnj J. Glass, Publicity; I r v fn g Frisch and L B. Weinsfein, Registration; Irving Matlow, Accommodations and Welcoming; Norman Graht, Community Organizatioias; Mrs. M. A. Lavine, Hadassah Chapters; Max Goody, la-rael Trade Exhibits; Dr. Mark Zimmerman, Isnel Art Exhibit; Jack Papenrfcki T e c h n leal Arrangements; Sydney Spiegel, Decorations; Leon Katz, Soimd; Gordon Mendly, Transportation, tbt work of the Arrangemdtits
Committee is being channel* ed through the office of Dr. George Liban, director, Toronto Region, Z.O.C. and Karl Silberman, Jewsh Agency representative. ----"
TROUBLE IN SOUTH AMERICA: Dr. Nahum Geldmann, Weriil Jvwith Congress President, will confer with Jewish leaders from oil over Latin America on recent anti-Semitic incidents such as tlioso that bombed Argentinian Jewish houses and smeared iwostikos on others (above). The conference will take place in Soo Paulo, Broxil, October 22-25.
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Eecausfl o' the Hoildcy S-eason some of our staff members are on vocation. Thus this week the Montreol Feotures ore omitted, together with other reports and feotures.
Succot begins this evening and will continue till Sundoy night Mondov. Tuesdov, Wednesdov and Thursday, will be Hoi Homoed Succot; Fndcy is Hoshonoh Rabah; Saturday — Shemini Atzeret, Sundoy 21st Simhaf Torch.
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A Happy Succct to all !
Youth Fills Polish Synagogues
Warsaw, (JCNS) — Services were held on Yom Kip-pur in about thirty synagogues throughout Poland and almost everywhere the Services were very well attended.
Most Gf thf. synagogues in.
Warsaw, Lodz and Cracow were crowded. Young people and quite a number of chUd-ren were to be seen' in some synagogues.
According to the Chairman of the Jewish rel5i.>loiis orgaaiiiiiou in Polanu,^iWr.
Frankiel, the synagogue heimerly Breslau) and in Lig-attended at Lodz was filled, nice, which is the head-to capacity. In Cracow, ser- j quarters town of the Red vices were held in the an-1 Army stationed in Poland.
fUlSS OPPOSES JOHNSON
JERUSALEM, (CJN) — Israel's Foreign Ministry confirmed that Dr. Joseph Johnson, special envoy of the PCC, has informed Israel of his plan for dealing with the problem of the Arab refugees.
The proposals, Dr. Johnson explained, were his own, anrt have not yet been adopted by-the (PCC) Palestine Conciliation Commission. The spokesman added that Israel will publish its reply "at the proper time." "
Although the spokesman declined to reveal details of Dr. Johnson's proposals, they are understood to call for the appointment of a U.N. administrator and staff to conduct a referendum among the refugees to determine whether they wish to return to Israel or be resettled either in Arab states or elsewhere.
TURNED DOWN
Official sources pointed out that the proposals had already been discussed and rejected by the Cabinet and the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Security Committee, and that Israel's position had been made clear both to Dr. Johnson and the PCC constituent nations, France, Turkey and the U.S.
REFERENDLTM UNACCEPTABLE
The Government it is understood considers completely unacceptable the idea of a referendum. It rejects Dr. Johnson's basic assumption that the refugees would be permitted to make a free choice whether to return or be resettled elsewhere on the grounds that the Arab states, in order to pursue their aim of destroying Israel, would coerce the refugees into opting for return.
It is also fell that appointment of another U.N. arm to serve as a go-between with the Arabs would only cause grave complications and further set back chances for an eventual settlement.
Diplomatic sources indicated that the final U.S. posirion on the proposals was not yet clear.
REFUGEE PROPOS.\LS
cient Ramu Temple and in several auxiliary ha)ls. , There were also crowded services at Wfoclaw (for-
Several hundred Polish Jews who have retmned from Russia have settled in new homes in Lignice.
n the subject of Dr. Johnson's new proposals, Haareti, J's foremost newspaper, declared: "The road from a realistic appreciation of a problem and solution to a complete lack, of realism is a long one; but Dr. Johnson has managed to traverse it in the relatively short period of one year. In the report he submitted to the UN General Assembly a year ago, Dr. Johnson stated that the Arab refugee problem could be solved only within the framework of a general settlement of Israel-Arab relations. Judging from his new plan, he has managed to forget this wise injunction. As a result^ the baisis for any sort of a realistic solution has disappeared."
ISRAEL RE
TED AT ECUMENICAL COUNCIL
JERUSALEM, tJCNS) — Israel received an invitation to send representatives to the
opened in the Vatican yesterday. October 11. a sjjokes-man for the Israeli Ministry
opening ceremonies of-,^ the I of Foreign Affairs announc-Ecumenical Council which led.
^(Si>ffim^ By M. J. Niirenberger
New Threat To Russia: Black Market in Bibles
Poor, old Rabbi Yehuda Leib Levine of Moscow
probably was not less astounded by the visit of the
iorcign newspapermen on the eve of Yom Kippur
than were the. correspondents who listened to him.
J-eviue is .ptie o.fjhej.'er\iJew rabbis known to be
practiciiii^ iji the'SofiefUhion. According to official
(iKurcs. the ihrec-Uiillion Jews of Russia have less
tJuDi it'll, rabbis ui office. . '
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Dr. Levine's greatness — being chief rabbi — was thrust upon him, as Shakespeare would have said. He never dreamed of becoming chief rabbi of Russian Jewry. Elections for tins office were never held. However, no-matter how much the Soviet government is opposed to religion, it cherishes authority. It likes to deal with a "chief rabbi", with a head of the Greek Orthodox Church, with the leader of the .Moskvi ulemas. Every authoritarian regime needs a representative through whom it gives orders to its stihjects.Mo.oue should envy Rabbi Levine, an old, pious jeac'ier who, following the demise of Rabbi Schleifcr, suddenly was brought into' the limeUght by the guvcnmient as the cfiief spiritual leader of Russian Jewry.
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Levine is a pious, venerable man,.one of the old' time rabbis. According to the NEW YORK TIMES reporter who intervie\yed him. Rabbi Levine spoke in Yiddish. Shabad of the TIMES, who speaks this language well, noted that the purpose of Chief Rabbi Levine's press interview on tlie eve of. Yom Kippur had been "his concern":for the "black market" which made the synagogue its center. — . —
iVhai, in essence, is this black- market? According to Chief Rabbi Levine (or the secret police ghostwriter whq_ dictated the statement to the rabbi)r foreign visitors leave prayer books, prayer shawls and. other religious objects in the synagogue.. Again, as far (IS the rabbi is cohcerned, these bibles and prayer books, of: which "there are[ plenty in Russia for those who really need them", become a "dangerous item" of viercfiandising on the black market.
It is interesting to note that this statement by Moscow's cliief: r(t!?bi was preceded by ati. earlier dispatch from- the.Soviet Union to the .effect that the Moslem mosques also have .become, according to Russian authorities^ "centers of black inarket".
Of course Jews^ji/e not condoled by the similar persecution of tfieir fellow Mdslems in the Soviet Uiiiuit. Quite tp the contrary. If. seems that ALL the religions i)i the Russian Empire j>re facing some . kind of trouhii{. If the world power which launched the first SpiitiW fears a black, hunket in bibles, prayer shawls or koroii's — then dfmclhing is hrc\^'-iiig. behind the lr()h Ciif-t(Lai_._,^.^ ■ - ;
Four delegates are attending. The Israeli Ambassador to Rome, Mr. Maurice Fischer, the Director of Christian Affairs at the Ministry of Religious Affairs, Dr. Saul Kol-bi, and two others whose names will be announced later.
GOODWILL GESTURE
ROME, (JCNS) — The Vatican has addressed invitations to all governments having diplomatic missions accredited to the Holy Sea or the Italian Republic, including the State of Israel, to attend the opening ceremonies of the Ecumenical Council at St. Peter's. The invitation specified that women will not be allowed to attend among the delegates.
Pope John's decisioii to invite Israel is interpreted here as a gesture of goodwill since no diplomatic relations exist between the Vatican and Israel, nor even a formal recognition of the Jewish State.
NEW LEGHORN
SYNAGOGUE CONSECRATED
LEGHORN, Italy (JCNS) — A Catholic priest, representing the Bishop of Leghorn, attended a synagogue servicie for the first time in the history of Italian Jewry* This was on Simday to con-
GERMAN BARONESS TO WED SON OF PUINGTON RA^^^^^
WASHINGTON, (JCNS)-The engagement has be en announced between a Washington rabbi's son iaiid the daughter of a German baron.
Mr. Roger W. Gerstenfeld, son of Rabbi and Mrs. Norman Gerstenfeld, is tb marry Miss Walburga von Mecklenburg, daughter of B a r o n and' Baroness George Von Mecklenburg^ of Hohensch-mark, Holsteiii, Germany.
Rabbi Gerstenfeld is spiri-tualleader of Washington's Reform Congregatiqh.'" H i s' sorr is a student at the Massachusetts Institute; Of Technology.
secrate the ne\^ Sephardi synagogue.built on the site of the baroque synagogue which was destroyed by bombing during the Second World War.
Members of the Italian Government and of Parha-rnent, Leghorn's civil and military authorities and rep*-resentatives of Italy's 22 Jewish communities participated in the impressive and moving ceremony.
After the Sefarim carried by communal leaders were taken seven ti^mes around the synagogue and placed in the Ark, Dr. Sergio Piperno, President of the Union of Italian Jewish communities, and Professor Mario Cabib; President of the Leghorn comniunity, greeted the congregation and. the many guests present.
Signer Nicola Badaloni, the: Communist mayor of Legh-
orn, praised the Jewish contribution to the town's artistic, cultural, scientific and commercial growth during the centuries, and acknowledged that "religious faith was among men's deepest feelings".
Signor Giovanni Giraudo brought the greetings of the Italian Government. He stressed his Government's determiilation to fight any resurgence of neo-fascism.
The Dean of the Hebrew University, Italian^bom Professor Giulio Racah; read a message from President Ben-Zvi which said: "I am happy to learn that Italy's oldest Sephardi community in Leghorn is inaugurating 'its new synagogue. This will symbolise not only the attachment of the Jewish community to the eternal values of Judaism, but also the community's ties with
Tsrael and the Jewish people."
,The sjTiagogue, which Is the work of the Jewish architect Angelo di Castro, who said he sought his inspiration from the Tabernacle built by Moses in the Desert, will accommodate all Leghorn's 1,000 Jews. It has cost $500,000 of which $350,000 were contributed by the Italian Government as war damage reparations, and the rest by the American Joint Distributioii Committee and the local community.
The first time that Jews came to Leghorn was at the beginning of the I6.th century, thanks to a decree in 1593 by Ferdinand the First, of the Florentine Medici family," which eiicouraged a large number of Jewish refugees from Spain and Portugal to settle there. Prominent philosophers and phy-
sicians enriched the Leg- often consulted by tha Itat
horn community, and were
ian rulers.
SS RALLY IN mHJANY
Bad Winsheim, (JCNS) — About 1,000 former members of Hitler's Waffen S.S. met at Bad Winsheim in West Germany, behind closed doors on Sunday before staging a "silent march" to the city's war memorial.
This -was the -fifth -postwar rally to be held by the Nazi S;S. It was organised by ex-members of the Sixth Mountain Division of Hit-
ler's storm-troopers.
ARABS CAMPAIGN IN LATIN AMERICA
Rio de Janeiro (JCNS) — A three-man delegation of Palestine Arab refugees has arrived here to laimch a propaganda campaign against Israel.
Israeli "massacres'* had forced the Arabs, to flee from Israel, members of the delegation claimed at a Press conference.
B'NAI B'RITH RALLYING FOR CONFERENCE
The recent decision of the Board of Governors of District No. 1, B'hai B'rith; approving the petition for the establishment of a District Grand Lodge -in Eastern Canada, will be a major item on the agenda of the forthcpm-^ ing Conference of the East-^ em Canadian Coiiiicil,, B'nai B'rith, meeting in Ottawa froin November 2nd to the 5th. B'nai B'rith leaders and member*-, throughowt Eastern Canada have been impressed by the speed>: unanimity and warm friendship with which District No. 1 responded to the Caniadian B'nai B'rith appeal. V
As April 1st, 1964, has been fixed as the date on which the new Canadian District is to come into operation, a grekt deair of action will be. in evidence during the next year and a half preparing for the eventful day. A new structure will be ere-: ated. A constitution and By-law^^^^ll be developed, A new headquarters will be established. ^Staff will be ex-Ottawa Confer-
ence will deal with these.
An interesting program is shaping up for the Conference; It will get underway with an Oneg Shabbat on Friday evening, November 2nd. A Liincheon has been arranged for__the chapter delegates ait which the guest speakeir^will be__Miss Judy Lk Marsh, M.P. for Niagara Falls. A detailed account of the activities of the International Council of B'nai
B'rith-will be presented by Saul Joftes of Washington, D.C.
The first pleiiary session wili take place on Sunday morning. The agenda -includes the electioiT of the nominees from Canada on the Board of- Governors of District No. T for next year. The Canadians now serving on__ihe Board include .Dr. Alexander Lipson, Toronto, First Vice-President, E. M.
Sprackman. 'Torohtb. David S. Katz, Montreal and Irving Meshwork, Montreal. Past-Presidents of the District from Canada who are e.x-officio members of the Distract Board of Governors ■ arej J. Irving Qelbauni, Maxwell S. Lewis, Q.C, and Isa-dore Markus of Toronto and Samuel Moskovitch, ;^C., and Horace Cohen, O.B.E. of Montreal. The guest speaker at Sun-
day's Luncheon will be S. Arthur Gli.xon of New York, President of District No. 1. An active participant in the Conference will. be Mrs. My-er J. Wolf of Boston, President of the B'nai B'rith Wo-_ men, District No. "iT
The Grand Banquet will-follow on Sunday evening. The guest speaker will be Rabbi Stuart E. Jlosenberg of Beth Tzedec Synagogue, Toronto.
FIGURES AT OTTAWA CONFERENCE
NAP KApIMSKY (OTTAWA)
ARTHUR\DIAMOHD . (MONTREAL)
SAUL E. JOFTES (WASHINGTON)
RABBI STUART LROSINBERa (TORpNTO)
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