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TORONTO* MONTREAL, FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 14, 1962
FRANCE FOR ROLE IN EUROPEAN MARKET
ESHKOL MEETS FRENCH PREMIER
TORONTO'S JEWISH LIBRARY TO OPEN
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LEVI ESHKOL, Isiael't Fin-onee Minister, orriving here •oen fellowmg negotiqtioni with French government.
GEORGES POMPIDOU. Frencli P.M. promised eld to Israel
LEON WEINSTEIN, Toronto Israeli Bond Leader, will be honoured at Eshkol dinner.
TORONTO'S GREAT EVENT: SEPT. 25
"The Event of the Year" most aptly describes the 1962 State of Israel Commendation Dinner honouring Leon Weinstein. It will take place on Tuesday evening, September 25 at Beth Tzedec Synagogue.
Social guest speaker at the dinner will be His Excellency Levi Eshkol, Minister of Finance of the State of Israel,
and one of his country's most outstanding statesmen. Mr. Eshkol is .delaying his return to Israel from important conferences in Washington, D.C. in order to attend the event, in recognition of the role Toronto has played in the world-wide Israel Bond picture, and as a personal tribute to Leon Weinstein, Israel Bond Chairman for
The new 15,000 volume Jewish Public Library, located at Glen Park and Gleri-mount Avenue, will be officially opened on Sunday, September 23, it was announced by president Bert Godfrey. "Rapid population growth and a general shift to the north of the city has called for improved and increased library facilities in a new lo-(Continued on page 12)
Commentary • By M J. Nuronberger
about freedom and tolerance
The old Yiddish saying, "A smack wears off, white a word remains", is certainly a, propos the recent controversy South of the Border, caused by the Jesuit weekly, AMERICA. The basic problem 'here is not whether all Jewish leaders who organized the lobbying against religion in state-supported schools are right, but whether AMERICA had the right to -warn" Jews against such an attitude.
I, for one, do not believe that the American Jewish Congress has the authority to speak in religious matters for American Jewry as a whole. The editors of AMERICA, and the Catholic Church at large, know very well that American Jews are not governed from above in matters pertaining to their faith. There is no Jewish Vatican nor is there any rabbi in America who exclusively represents the religious point of view of American Jewry. There are Jews who believe that religion should be taught in schools; in fact, the Jewish Day School movement has been the most successful trend in American Jewry during the last decade. There are others who insist on the strictest separation between state and religion. Whether the Jews as a minority should be in the forefront of those who battle for the separation of church and state is also a matter that can be argued. Yet no matter how many arguments will be forwarded, pro and con, no one will be able to unite American Jews living in a free country to follow one pattern and one idea. Moreover, no one organization or group speaks for the majority of American Jews in any religious or political matter — except in the area of defending their rights as citizens. An organization may have a _ better public relaions machinery. This, however, does
- not make it the leading, or even a leading, Jewish organization. The Jews in the United States have no -democratically elected Jewish representation; they vote only as other Americans do — in presidential, congressional and local elections.
There are no religious statistics in the United States. We don't know definitely whether the Catholic Church actually embraces thirty or forty million Americans. But even had we agreed with the Catholic leaders — that all those who were born of a Catholic parent are Catholics and are represented by the Catholic clergy ~ even so, in the United States the Catholic minority certainly does not represent more than twenty-percent of the population. Therefore, when a Catholic publication attempts to teach Atneri-can Jews how to behave as Americans and threatens another minority, it certainly is something which wilt not frighten the Jewish community. ^ The Catholics have never been popular with the Protestant majority on this continent. Jt is this Catholic attitude (in religious matters, only the Church" o Rome IS right and the rest of humanity, wrong) that has caused this unpopularity. Those among us who have studied the inier-group relations in American society have deplored this prejudice towards Catholics. And. certainly the Jews have been in^tru-tnental in helping to combat any anti-minority bias, ^' -including that vis-a-vis thej:athoiics.
The CathoticChurch, under the present Pope John XXIIJ^has shown a remarkable sense for a reatpoti^ tik. It too has entered a new liberal era in iti relations with the non-Catholic world.
All of us should forget thejecord of some Catholic leaders, beginning with the Inquisition and ending^ ,
- \yith the enigmatic role of Pope Pius towards Hitler-ism. The Jews believe that by-gdnes should be bygones; that North Americans in general shotdd fidly realize that the challenge of the. New World not only reaches the field of economics and technical progress but also, and perhaps first and last, the realm of inter-grot',, relations.
11 woiild be wise for us who live on the North ' American continent to leave behind the petty quarrels of Old Europe which caused so much misery. But this aspeiidance towards a multi-religious North American society cannot :b& achieved when one group insists that it holds the fcey to a supefnatural truth which has to be imposed tlpon all Americans. V The Church of Rome, under John XXIII, now realizes that intoday*s world Christianity has became a minority religion. And the Catholic Church is a mi-/ nority within a minority. This new world, diverse ais it is because "of the growing strength and influence of siich powerful religious forces as Hinduism, Budd-,-.hism and Islam, must learn thei^ssori of co-existence. The time/of religious crusades is over ~— forever. . Runie realizes it. So should the Jesuits of AMERICA,
1961-62.
Levi Eshkol is recognized as the architect of Israel's present economic policies which aim at the attainment of self-sufficiency. As Israel's j Minister of Agriculture and Development before he be-
came Finance Minister. Mr. j SYRACUSE, Sicily. (JCNS)-
RABBI PINCHAS M. TEITZ of Eliiobeth, New Jersey, (left) who will address Toronto's Ner Israel Yeshiro Dinner this Sunday night at Shaorei Tefillah, with the announcer of Israel's Broad-. casting Station where h« delivered a course in Talmud.
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FIND ANCIENT JEWISH CEMETERY UNDER SEA, OFF ITALIAN COAST
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TODAYS
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contains 16 pages, including a 4-page travel section devoted to The Wonderful World of Cruises
Ze Ha-Kever shel..." These words, found a few weeks ago engraved on large stone labs rescued by divers from the waters of Syracuse harbour indicate the existence of a once large Jewish ceme-ter>' now sunk beneath the placid waters of the little port. The discovery is expected to supply some important data on the life and size of i the Jewish community of ! Syracuse as well as on the ! topography of the town itself ; a s they both presented 1 themselves during the
Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
Several historians have already ascertained the existence of a considerable Jewish cpnMnunity in Syracuse in ancient times. A Catholic abbot, Giovanni di Giovanni, in a volume published in the year 1748 under the title "Judaism in Sicily", estimated that the Syracuse community was second only to that of Palermo in size arid wealth. Probably a good third of the estimated 50,000 Jews who lived in Sicily before 1492 had their homes in
this town. The archives of SjTacuse contain sev e r a 1 documents dating back to the 14th and 15th centuries, including one concerning a controversy between the Jewish conununity and the friars of the monastery of Santa Lucia, who asked the King of Spain to order the Jews to leave their neighbourhood. Today, only the Church of Santa Lucia remains, well below the present street level. Everything else has been swallowed by the sea.
JERUSALEM, (JCNS) — The Supreme Court begaii the hearing of an application by a Canadian woman immigrant asking to be allowed to give up her Israeli citizenship and be given tourist status instead.
Mrs.-Barbara Golan said she came to Israel in 1959 and was given an immigrant visa although she never asked for it, but declared her desire to retam her Canadian citizenship. In an attempt to nullify her immigrant status she
left the country, ostensibly for good, but returned a month later as self-proclaimed tourist. This did not help. She was again classified as inimigrant.
Mrs Golan stated she wanted to invest $1,000,000 in Israel but was refused
the special faculties ordinary granted to foreign investors, on grounds thai she was an immigrant and thereforeoiLIsraeli nation-ahty.
This is the first case of this kind to be dealt with by the Supreme Court.
PARIS. (CJN) — Levi Eshkol, Israel's Minister of Finances, stopped here for a weekend of consultations and negotiations with the French government. He is en route to the United States and Canada. (Mr. Eshkol is expected next week in Toronto.)
TALKS "VERY FRIENDLY" In Paris the Israeli Minister of Finances had talks with the highest French officials, including Premier Georges Pompidou.
The thirty-five-rainute conference between Premier Pompidou and the Israeli statesman was described by a spokesman of the Israeli Embassy here as "very friendly" but of no great consequence.
DISAPPOINTED Details of this important meeting dealing primarily with Israel's interests in the European Common Market, in which she was promised associated membership, are not revealed by the parties concerned. However your correspondent learns from impeccable sources that Mr. EshV in his talks with the French Premier, did not hide - wc disappointment of his government in the manner in which Israel's interests vis-a-vis the Common Market are treated.
RECALLS PROMISES
It is understood that Mr. Eshkol especially stressed the fact that the Quai d'Orsay (French Foreign Ministry) treated lightly the interests of Israel, which has cordial relations with France.
Also Mr. Eshkol recalled previous assurances to respect Israel's interests as exporter to the European Common Market countries given by the French Foreign Minister, Couve De Miirville. himself.
So far Israel has failed to obtain a positive solution. Nor has she been given a clear position in overcoming certain reticences, mainly on the part of Italy.
FINDS "UNDERSTANDINrt" According to French sources. Premier Pompidou . listened with keen understanding and great sympathy to Eshkol's explanations on the importance and urgency of The problem ttgarding Israel's economy. The French Premier gave the Israeli Finance Minister a general promise of support, without any firm undertaking as to its form or the date of an agreement between the Eiu-o-pean Community Council and Israel (according to; political observers here), owing to France's fears that any settlement with Israel at the present tune might prove a barrier for the association of three North African Arab states with the Common Market, both for poUtical and economic reasons.
Major decisions on policy and activities are expected to emerge from the four-day Diamond Jubilee Convention opening in Toronto at the Park Plaza Hotel on November 2nd.'
The agenda that will deal with the important issues and problems of World and Canadian Zionism has been prepared for the record number of more than 800 dele-
gates, alternates and obser- to serve for the coming two
vers expected to attend.
Attention will be given to organizational problems of overrriding concern, with the agenda planned so as to give delegates ample opportunity for far-reaching discussions.
In addition to discussions on important policies and future activities, the delegates will eleict national officers and a national executive
years. The Election Session will take place Tuesday after-nbon, November 6th, with the president-elect's address concluding proceedings of the Convention. .
COAST TO COAST
Communities from coast to coast have been electing delegates in recent weeks, representing constituent or
affiliated Zionist groups and United Israel Appeal contributors, with every indication from lists already submitted, that a hew Convention attendance record will be set.
SPECIAL SESSIONS
The range of topics to be covered in special sessions include: United Israel Appeal, Public Relations, Young Judaea, Keren Hatarbut,
BRITISH CUff RABBI, CANADIANS ON BOARD OF BAR ILAN UNIVCRSITY
JERUSALEM, (JCNS) ^ The Chief Rabbi, Dr. Israel Brddie, is among those nam ed as members of the re organised Board of Trustees of Bar Ilan University. Dr. Joseph Lookstein was elected Chairman of the Board and the Minister of the Interior, Mr. Moshe Shapiro, Chainpan of its Executive Council.
Dn^Sarauel, Bclkin, President of Yeshiva University,
New York, is among a large number of Board members from the United States. Canada and Italy are also represented.
NEW BOARD FOR BAR-ILAN U.
■The Acting-President of Bar-Uan University,. Dr. Joseph H. Lookstein, and the Minister of Interior, Mr. Haira Moshe Shapiro, also have annonuced the reorga-
nization of the Board- of Trustees of the University.
Dr. Lookstein has been elected Chairman of the Board a n d Mr. Shapiro, Chairman of the Executive Council.
The hew Board consists of: Dr. Samuel Belkih, New York; E)r. S.Y. Ben-Meir, Deputy Knesset Speaker; Mr. Hyman Bessin, Otta\ya; Chief
Rabbi Dr Israel Brodie, LoUt don; the Minister of Social
HYMAN BESSIN (Ottawa) Member Board of Trustees
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MEYER W.GASNER Member Board of Tnisteei
DR. JOSEPH. H. LOOKSTEIN Chairman Board of Trusts
Welfare Dr. Yosef Burg; Mr. Naftali Feingold, Israiel; Mr. Max Garmaise, Montreal; Mr. Meyer W. Gasner, Toronto; Mr. Herman Hollander, Israel; Mr. Benjamin Kaufman, New York; Rabbi Mordecai Kirshbliim, New York; Prof. Saiil Lieberman, New York; Dr, Astqrre Meyer, Italy; Mr. Maurice Pollack, Quebec City; Dr. Maurice Sage, New York; Mr. Mordecai Stem, Israel; Mr. Phillip Stpllman, Detroit; the Minister of Religious Affairs Dr. >Zerah Wahrhaf tig, Israel; Rabbi Seymour Zambrbwsky, Montreal. .
Jewish National Fund, A-liyah. Also slated are: Founding Conference of Canadian Zionist Camps Association; Seminar on Zionist Education; a report of Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University; a session on Young Judaea and Zionist Youth; a program by Teclmion Society and Israel Institute of Technology.
AGENDA HIGHLIGHTS
Every topic, in its own right, is of maximum interest. Examples: session on Young Judaea and Zionist Youth, Sxmday morning, November 4th. Panelists: NATHAN GAISIN, DAVID PETERS, Q.C., PROFESSOR E. STEINBERG, MILTON WINSTON, ARTHUR ROS-
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On Sunday, September 23rd, 6:30 p.m., the Mizrachi Organization of Toronto will celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the founding - of the Religious Zionist Movement at the Shaarei Sho-mayim Synagogue.
Upon this auspicious occasion. His Excellency Ambassador Yaafcov Herzog, son of the late Chief Rabbi Yitzhaq Isaac HaLevi Herzog who also had been a leader of the Movement during most of its sixty years of existence, will be the guest of honor. He will chronicle the accomplishment of the Mizrachi-Hapoel Haniizrachi in the areas of settlement, education, finance atid govern-
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FOR ma BOND HOLOm
The Israel Bond Organization has taken advantage of thei legislation enacted by the Government of Canada whereby any Canadian may deduct front his current earned income the* payments made into^ registered retirement savings plan and thereby reduce his taxable income. The Israel Bond ■ Retirement, Savings pro-
gramme is registered with the Department of National Revenue.
A special Committee dcd-ing with the Israel Bonds Retirement Saving Plan has been iset up under the chairmanship of Edwin Hyde, prominent Toronto attorney.
Further details are featured on page 3.
ment.
Over eighty religious farming settlements, fourteen B'nai Akiva Yeshivot, more than one-third of the total school population attending religious public schools, banking institutions, building cooperatives, housing companies—all these are a direct result of the dynamic growth of the Movement which has been represented in every cabinet since the establishment qfjhe State of Israel. At present members of the Mizrachi Movement fill four ministerial posts.
This Sunday the Jewish community of Toronto will celebrate en masse the diamond aiiniversary of the Religious Zionist Movement.
AMBASSADOR HERZOO
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