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OF ANTI-SEMITISM
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JERUSALEM, (GJN) -Premier David Ben Gurion may again officially become the head of a new coalition government by the end of this week. Mr. Levi Eshkol, Minister of Finance in the present caretaker govern ment indicated that he has received the assurance of the Leftists labour parties
MEIR CONFERS ' WITH RUSK ON ARMS CUTS
WASHINTON. — Israel Foreign Minister Golda Meir conferred for an hoiir last week with Secreta"i7 ol State Dean Rusk.
She told reporters the talks concerned general matters. She said she hoped the plan she outlined in the U.N. General Assembly on Monday to make the Middle East a "pilot plant" for disarmament would receive quick support.
She said in response to a question that her regional disarmament plan w a s touched on in her tjflks with Mr. Rusk.
Meanwhile, unusually favourable reaction in U.N. quarters greeted Mrs. Meir's address.
that they would join a narrow coalition government.
SURPRISE MOVE
JERUSALEM. (JCNS). — Mr. Ben-Gurion this week to most peoples' surprise, proposed an approach to the left-wing parties for the formation of an all-Labour Government. The movf follows a show of reluctance pn the part of the Liberals to join Mapai.
Achdut Avodah and Ma-pam, in statements issued last night, welcomed the idea but laid down stiff con-
ditions. These include: the abolition of military government over the Arab areas; reorganisation of defence matters, and the re-opening of schools to "pioneering youth movement",
Mr. Levi Eshkol, continuing his negotiations on Mr. Ben-Gurion's behalf is meeting separately with representatives of both parties to explore the possibilities of an agreement.
LEFT TO INFORM MAPAI
TEL AVIV - All was quiet on the domestic politi-
cal front,'with anticipati focussed on Friday, when Ahdut Ha'avoda and Mapam respectively are scheduled to inform Mapai^ of their views on the formation of a "narrow coalition" including them, Mapai and the Nation^ al Religious Party.
Such a government would command the support of 71 Knesset Members.
Mapai hds also informed the Liberal Party that i? plans to invite the letter t<i a meeting "sometime" this week.
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OVER 400 IN B'NAI
DELEGATES B'RITH
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Arnold Forster of New York, General Counsel of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith and its Civil Rights Director, will address the 75th Semi-Annual Conference of the Eastern Canadian Council of B'nai B'rith which will take place in  the  Seaway Hotel, To-
A FULL REPORT THE 25th CONVENTION OF ONTARIO ZIONISTS (WITH PICTURES) PAGES 10 AND 12.
ronto, from November 3rd to the 6th.
Over 400 delegates are expected from the 105 lodges and chapters in the Council whose area extends from Sydney, N.S., to Windsor, Ontario.
DIST>Ki<?iiiSHED SPEAKERS
A n o t li e r distinguished speaker at the Conference will be George E. Gordon of Boston who is President of District Grand Lodge No. 1, the largest District in B'nai B'rith.
Bonds Inaugural Dinner
Mr. Gershon Avner, dyna-. mic Israeli diplomat and head of the American division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has been appointed by the Israeli gov-emment to come to Toronto to address the guest at the "Inaugural Dinner" of the Israel Bond Campaign on October 23rd. Guest artist will be Mr. Jan Peerce, leading tenor and star of the Metropolitan Opera Company, who will present a program of songs.
Mr. Araer is now in the United States as head of an
18-man group of top-ranking Israeli government executives. He will leave the sessions at the United Nations "to attend the Toronto event. Mr. Avner has been in Israel's Foreign Service since 1948, when he became the first director of the Ministry's Weist European Department at the age of 29. In 1952, he was named political adviser of the delegation which negotiated a reparations agreement with Germany at the Hague Conference.
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Commentary • By M. J. Nurenberger
POLITCS IN ISRAEL
The gossip columnists in Israel's evenitjg press are now having the time of their Jives.
Many weeks have passed since the elections which were meant to etid the government crisis-yet the crisis stiU exists. The caretaker government, of ^^r. David Ben Gurion is becoming a permanent provisional government. No one be: lieves that any narrow coalition cabinet, if formed this week, will have along life. The crisis in Israel is becoming slo\\'ly, but clearly, a crise de regime. Not in the sense that anything is: wrong, God forbid, with Israel's democracy. However it becomes icleqrly obvious that the electoral-system in the Jewish State must be changed so that Israel should have~iTnly two or, at the most, three parties in Parliament, with the group running the govern-ment having full control and full, responsibility.-
One gossip colujiinist relates that Mapailiad approached Herut asking jt to join in a two-party coalition on the basis of changing the electoral system and calling new elections. According to this report, Herut rejected the offer despite the fact_^ that many within the party believe in such a change. I think Herut was wrong in turning down such an offer. Further more I predict: that, if this crise de regime continues, ive may see such an unpredictable alliance arise. For, in the present .international situation, Israeli political leaders can ill afford to be pfW-Occiipied with politics. I note that, while Mapam and tliei Liberals criticized Ben Gurion's statement made last week on the refugee ' issue, the Herut daily supported the Prime Minister's point of view. The 'Mapai people may not know it, the Herut:people do not see it,but-I agree , with the editorialist of Haaretz that there is more ^ affinity betweett, Herut and Mapai than any of them ■ suspect. What characterizes these t'wo moyemeril^j^^ is the realization of the present international position of the Jewish State.
Exeter and Oxford Universities, where he specialized in economics and political science, Gershon Avner was elected President of the Oxford Union, world-famous student debating society. A gifter orator with a penetrating insight into foreign affairs, Mr. Avner is considered one of Israel's leading spokesmen in his field.
As for Mr. Peerce, his appearance at the "Inaugural Dinner" will be in the nature of an anniversary. Three years ago he aippeared at the Israel Bond Chanukah Festival when Toronto Jewry celebrated Israel's 10th Anniversary. He Mrill return now to sing at the Bond dinner in celebration of Israel's Bar Mitzvah year.
During the past year, Mr. Peerce toured Russia under the auspices of. the United States Department of, State. He was the fir s t A-mei-ican ever to sing at 'Moscow's^ S b 1 s h o i Theatre, and also performed triumphantly in Leningraid and Kiev. The State Department lauded him for his efforts as a "cultural ambassador of the United States to Russia".
The Conference will get under way with an Oneg Shabbat on Friday night, November 3rd. The program on the following day includes a Seminar on Israel which will be chaired by Max Shecter of Toronto, a Member of the Council Executive and in which Rabbi Jerald Bobrow of Holy Blossom Temple, Toronto, will participate. The panelists will include Sam J. Davidson of Montreal and Harry J. Pachter of Toronto.
The first plenary session will take place on Sunday morning, November 5th, one, of the most important itenis on the' -Cbnl>rt!nce "agenda will' be dealt with at thisj' session. The . question of establishing a Canadian District had been raised since 1925. Two years ago, a re-soliition was adopted at the St. Catharines Conference to institute procedures for the establishment of a District in Eastern Canada.
TO SELECT CANADIANS
The Conference \vill also select Canadians who are to hold office and niembership on the Board of Governors of District No. 1 for next year. At present. Dr. Alexander Lipson of Toronto is Second Vice-President. Elected members of the Board are Irving Meshwork and David S. Katz of Montreal and Montague Raisman and Harry J. Pachter of Toronto. Past-President of the District who are ex-6fficio members of the Board are Horace R. Cohen, O.B.E., Marcus M. Spurber, Q.C., and Samuel Moskovitch, Q.C., of Montreal, as well as Isadora Mar-kus, J. Irving Oelbaum and Maxwell S. Lewis, Q.C., of Toronto.
It is at this Conference that a decision will be made with respect to the next recipient of the Canadian B'nai B 'rith Humanitarian Award which is presented annually to a Canadian who has made an outstanding contribution to human relations and Canadian unity. It is the only national B'nai B'rith Award in this country. The recipient last spring was the
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TEL AVIV. - All El Al's trans-Atlantic schedules will be flown exclusively by the company's Boeing 707 during its winter schedule, the Company has announced. It will fly to New York from Lydda .five times weekr ly during the winter season, starting October 15.^ European cities riot covjBred by the 707 flights pn the Lyddai-New York, route will be served by| Britannias.   V .
world renowned Medical Research Scientist, Dr. Hans Selye of Montreal.
VARIOUS WORKSHOPS
Sunday afternoon will be devoted to Workshops. A novel Workshop will be held in which there will be a piractical demonstration of how to organize and operate i a Jewish Study Group. There will be separate Workshops for lodge and chapter delegates dealing with membership and retention and also a^lWorkshop on Bulletins and. Publicity.
Ji^iher plenary session *I S;ike p:»kce 6n Monday ra p rii i n g, November 6th Resolutions and other ° mat ters of interest" will be considered at that time.
An elaborate social programme has been arranged for the delegates. It will include luncheons during each day of the Conference, a dinner-dance on Saturday night and a Grand Banquet on Sunday night. The Conference will conclude with a luncheon on the following day.
DELEGATES INCLUDE
A partial list of delegates includes Irving Meshwork, Arthur Diamond, Sydney Brovra, Sam J. Davidson, Hersh Garfinkle, E. T. Gar-finkle, Mrs. Phyllis Kositsky, Mrs. Joey Richman, David S. Katz, Henry Blatt, Julius Briskin, Q.C., Samuel Moskovitch, Q.C., Mrs. Joseph Ditkofsky, Mrs. Steve Frank. MrSi H. Jack Freedman, Mrs. David Harris; Mrs. David Wolff, Mrs. Sol Schwartz, Mrs. Esther Quint, J. Barney Grosser, Morton Hersh, Sol Greenfield, Ben-Ami Sanders, Gershon Zal-monoyitch, William Hersco-yitch, Herbert Goldensteiri, Moses M. Fine, David M-Miarks, Maurice H. Katz, Dr. Reginald Lewis, Sydney Maislin, Sydney I. Benjamin, Mrs. Claire Mendelson, Mrs. Lii Soriin, Mrs. Anne Stein. Mrs. Charlotte Gbrber, Mrs. Ruth Leznoff, Mrs. Liia Wolfe;^ Mrs. Florence. Agul-nik^Mrs. jShirley Slopack. Mrs. Dovie Elman, Mi-s. Elly Bornstem, Mrs. Adeluie Et covitch, Mrs. Ruth Simons, Mrs. Sarah Brampn, Mrs, Trudie Weinsteih, Mrs. Alicie Henneman, Mrs. Doris Far-geon, Mrs. Catherine Shiff, Mrs. Hilda Starr, Mr^. Doris Clayirian, and Mrs, . Gert Swidler, Montreal.
Murray Ehrlick, Mrs. Saul Nisker, Frank Garber, Max Shecter, E.^—Sprackman.
Mrs. Helen Stork, Maxwell S. Lewis, Q.C., Dr. Alexander Lipson, Isadore Markus, J. Ining Oelbaum, Harry J. Pachter, Montague Raisman, Mrs. Philip H. Bloom, Mrs David Kofsky, Mrs.^ Raye Sulman, Mrs. Aaron Wolfe, Mrs. Robert Strom, Sydney Faibish, Mervin Lass, Al. Batcher, Arnold Mandel, Albert Stal. David Robbins, Walter Roberts, Paul Cov-ant, Ernest Hurst, Meyer To-ben, Ben Porte. Alvin Zels-(Continued on page 12)
II. S. Secretary Of Labor
NEW YORK, (JCNS) — The United States Secretary of Labor, Arthur Goldberg created a sensation last Sunday when he made a public statement against the Soviet Union's "anti-Semitic" policy.
SEE KEHNEDY CONSENT
Mr. Goldberg's accusation against the Soviet Union aroused international interest as the first declaration of this kind by an American Cabinet member while in office. Political observers in Washington told The "'Canadian Jewish News that Mr. Goldberg, who is very close to President John F. Kennedy, would have never issued such a statement without the consent of the Government.
CAPITAL PUZZLED
There are speculations in the American capital that the President who is very upset by Moscow's double talk on many issues, including that of the position of Soviet Russia's three million Jews, asked the Secretary of Labour to make such a pronouncement. Otherwise, Washington observers point out, a cabinet minister cannot make a statement in the field of foreign relations.
SPOKE AT CEREMONY
Speaking at the Stephen Wise Free Synag*| Sunday, Secretary Goldberg declared that Union is pursuing a vigorous anti-Jewish policy'-ii berg made the statement at a ceremony during-? received "the Man of the Year Award".
RIDICULES SOVIET EXPLAHATl
Mr. Goldberg continued that reliable repoi ed from behind the Iron Curtain indicate that % ism prevails in the Soviet Union despite protestat the Russian government that Jews have voluril tegrated thAnselves into the Soviet culture".
Mr. Goldberg concluded by a statement that evei^ cultural oppression and suppression in the Soviet Union is always explained as a "voluntary submission on the part of the persecuted group".
REJECTS CIVIL COURT DEMAND TO EXPLAIN ON DIVORCE
JERUSALEM — Religious a;uthorities in Israel appeared determined to force a test of their strength aginst civil authorities in matters , of marriage and divorce.
The High Court, the supreme civil juridical authority, ordered rabbinical authorities on Oct. 3 to explain their ruling that a man may take a second wife when his first wife, taken in civil marriage, will not agree to a divorce. Rabbi M. J. E. Wohlgelem-
ter, general secretary of the Chief ■ Rabbinate; said that Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Nissini has ruled that the High Court's order is interference in an area clearly, within the competence of rabbinical authorities and has forbidden them to respond to it.
There is no civil marriage in Israel. Under a law passed in 1953, rabbinical courts have sole jurisdiction in matters of marriage and divorce as they have in most other matters of personal status.
Jurisdiction Debated
Problems of jiiridiction still arise over marriages contracted before the law
was passed or performed outside Israel, as was the case with a Jaffa couple whose status is now being contested.
Mr. and Mrs. Zalvi Mashiah were married nearly fourteen years ago in a civil ceremony in Bulgaria. She was a a Christian but converted to Judaism six months later. Two years after that they emigrated to Israel.
Last year, Mr. Mashiah applied to the Rabbinical Court in Tel Aviv for a divorce, contending that his wife had not borne him any children and that Jewish law permitted divorce on this ground after ten years of marriage.
CHU BUliG DED
The new building of the Eitz Chaim schools; Toronto's famous Jewish educational institution, will be dedicated this Sunday, Oo tober 22nd, at 2 p.m.
"The dedication ceremony of the new building of the Eitz Chaim day schools, one oif tlie largest on the continent and the hoirie of 1100 students, will be observed by ,the entire Jewish community of^f city as a new milestone.^ in the comniun-ity's effort in the field of Jewish education..
The new Abrahani and Chippa Tanenbaum Building at' Viewmounl Avenue will provide new niuch need-
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ed space for the students of this now famous day school. The classes in the three new modern buildings start from nursery and cpn tin u e throughout grade nine. The thirty classrooms, a large gyrnnasium, lunch rooni, manual training room, home economics room; libary and junior congregation constitute the Eitz Chaim buildings on Viewmount.
. For students who live in the downtown area, thie Eitz Chaim schools retained its buildings on D'arcy' street andTBuriiside drive. '
During the dedication ceremonies the niemory of two well-known 'citizens of
MAX TANENBAUM
Toronto will be perpetuated by naming after them the new building. The south building will bear the nanrie of the late Abraham and Chippa Tanenbaum w h p were ainong the early found-ei-s of Eitz Chaim.
Their sons, Joseph; and" Max- Tanenbaum well-icnowri communal leaders who follow in their parent^' footsteps, will take part in the dedication ceremonies of the Tanenbaum building.
Beri Wbrtsman, chairman of the Eitz Chaim building campaign and othen distinguished personnel in the-religious and civic life of our community will join in this great event.
BEN WORTSMAN