4.Tlie Canadfon Jewhh^eyfs, Friday, Feb. 10, 19^1
TORONTO ORBIT
BY BERNICE DYMENT
MOVING AHEAD IN DRIVE
Women's Apparel
Pace In 1961 U. J. A. Campaign
One of the largest and most energetic divisions In the 1961 Toronto UJA Campaign Is that of the Women's Apparel. This division is comprised of eight separate imits covering the women's and children's wear trade in the manufacturing, wholesale and retail levels and has a record of outstanding perform
THE- TALK OF OUR TOWN: Impressive roster of speakers for "Brotherhood Week - 1961 ... Momentous meet-ingjon controversial question of Reli- ance in previous campaigns gious Education in Toronto-schools . ''Blood andithe Bible". _
Mefs in-flie world." _ Preparing youn^ people
for
FUHRIERS' GROUP MEETS
This year the Division is ready well imder way and many
ThlS' year's roster of speakers on_behalf of Brotherhood Week
(February 19—26); has never been cttizensnip m a woria communuy j groups have already met
more impressive since the .da. , Is the-goal of enlightened educa-; organizaTron and card as-ception of the idea some 14 years j tors and parents, and beyond that ; sjg„jnent.
ago. The Canadian Council of j surely, to every responsible citizen i Yhe Furrier's Group held Its Christians and Jews under the , In the community. ^ For this ' fjj.s^ meeting at the home of executive direction of Mr. Richard ! reason, I recommend to you this gcjdie Creed who gave an im-
Jones has steadily grovsm in .scope decisive meeting on February 13th : passive report of his experiences ! 1961 UJA Study Mission to Am I Topper as co-chairmen of the and Influence over the years and — put it on your calendar as a ' ,,g ^ member of the 1961 UJA ' sterdam, Vienna and Israel. An I entire Womens' Apparel Division, through a broad program of press • "must". The address is 15 gj^^jy M,ssion to Israel, lUustratr i Injerestine discussion ^as also i together with the following
ed by an excellent collection of colour slider portraying the fine progress being made by the young state with the immigration, absorption and settlement of newcomers.'
CANVASS ORGANIZED
The opening Meeting of the Cloak's Group took place at the home of Josepb Lokash where
fast coverage.
Simon Ramm~was host to th£_ Ladies and Children's Wear Retail GroupL meeting at which a city- wide canvass of all retail outlets was organized.
A gathering of the, Dress Manufacturer's Group at the
held on the increased need in Toronto for capital development to meet the rapidly expanding enrollment in Jewish schools.
Louis H. Taube, who did such a fine job in the 1960 campiaign covering the cards of the Dress Agents and Garment Salesmen's Group almost single-handed, again accepted a leadership position. Aft^r only one week he reports
all cards Where distributed iorr^"siderable progress, with approximately aooiuof the cards already con^Pl^*^- •
ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENTS
Max Tenenbaum, chairman of the 1961 Toronto UJA Campaign,
home of Irving Posluns viewed , has announced the appointment a coloured slide report of the of Joseph Kerbel and Harry
Oakburn Crescent, off north Yonge Street in the Willowdale area.
THE CASE AGXTnST TRANSFUSIONS
"Blood and the Bible" is the rather gorj' subject of an address ; which will be delivered to the : Toronto Lodge of B'nai B'rith ! at their February meeting by I a distinguished Toronto lawj-er. The Cabinet Ministers Include Mr. i Mr. Glenn Howe, Q.C. Mr. Howe (Northern Af-' a member of the Jehovah'.-^
and radio publicity, school essay contests, student exchanges, and distinguished speakers bureau is putting forth real effort towards making Brotherhood a year-round commodity.
Five Cabinet ministers are included In the list of speakers who will be addressing service groups, Chamber of Commerce clubs. Church groups, and Inter-falth assemblages throughout the province In the coming weeks.
Walter Dlnsdale, fairs), Mr. William Hamilton (Postrnaater-General), Mrs. Ellen rairclough (Immigration). Mr. Michael Starr (Labour), and Mr. Donald Fleming (Finance). In addition, speeches will be delivered by Ontario Attoreny-general Kelso Roberts, Toronto Rabbis Kashdan and Pappenheim, while Rabbi Reuben Slonim will go on
Withesses, and has pleaded all cases on behalf of his sect before Quebec and Ontario courts. He has carried cases to the Supreme Ck)urt of Canada in defense of the rights of the Witnesses which have had far-reaching consequence t-o thf cause of civil liberties In Canada, beyond the particular issue .it stake in A
lel, iUustratr i Injerestine discusjlon ,»as also | together with the
Canadian Pqli|HrO
--■-- BY MORDECAI ■HIRSI^ENSiNl';'' I"- I ■■■■
Leadership appoii)tments:
Cloaks — co-chairmen: Jack Ladowsky; J[oseph Lokash; Samuel Milgrom.
Dress Manufactnrers ^ — co-chairmen: Victor Giblon; Nathan Gold; Irving Posluns; CJeorge Roth; Lloyd Title.
Accessories — chairman: Julius Wiener as.soc. chairmen: Milton Brody; Gerald D.' Cohen; Richard Greisman; Simon Ranim.^
Furriers — chairman: Irving Berger; assoc. chainnen: George Faber; David (Joodman -Saul[ Goodman; Robert Salsberg.~ "Dress agents & garmi-nt gales-men — chairman: Louis H. Taube; a.ssoc. chairmen: Irving Milgrom; Benjamin Rosenberg.
Knitters, ho.siery & underwear — chainnan: Oscar Shainhouse.
Shoes & handbags — co-chair- : men: Sydney Banks; Leoniird | Simpson; Gordon Winthrupe. j
a speaking tour through Manitoba '^''""'s'- ^ rec-ent issue
of "The Bar Review" carred a
and Alberta,
On February 12th. Dr. Watson Klrkconnell, President of Acadia University In Nova Scotia will address an inter-service dinner In Oshawa; Mr. Soil Bamji, a
masterful article by Mr. Howe on the legal, philosophical and moral Implication.s of the law compelling blood transfusion, when deemed medically urgent. So ma5sive and compelling werp
ARE CANADIAN J EWS
AN ETHNIC GROUP?
Though this aspect has not ibeen generally discussed in the public press, there is definitely a Jewish point of interest in the recent ruckus in Parliament and elsewhere on the question of "ethnic origin" in the 1961 Canadian census. In 1957 and 1958 John Diefenbaker announced a "brave new policy" of introducing a new category into the census lists called "Canadian" whereby (radical thought !) those persons who never knew or had forgotten their remote
this ancestor 1932 or 1702. 1 course. Is to
arrived here in And ethnic, of be dlsting\aished
i called, racial) origin 156,726, by | rant generation, while not hesi-! religion 155,614. fating to claim Jewish relieion.
In 1941 the figures were by preferred to be identifiwi h,s of
JEWISH DEMOGRAPHY IN THE YUKON
\%\ ihey were for the first time permitted to "write in."
RESEARCHERS' VIEWS
1 ancestors' origin, and those who ' it encompassed not merely a re-I wished to eliminate official hy- Hgion but a laiiguage (in fact
European Indian wilt .speak before j^rth bv the
the Richmond Hill J.Cs; pro
mlnent Canadian Negroes Portia White, Bill White, and Phyllis , Marshall will speak In Kitchener. Uorth Bay and Timmins respectively; Mrs. Ethel Brant Monture,; descendant of CMet Brant of the \ Six Nations Indians, Dick Shatto, the football star, leader of industry and theatrical stars round ] out a full list of personalities ■ laboring In the cause of greater understanding between Canadians |
writer that a lawyer friend who mentioned the article confessed to me, almost with chagrin, "I know, and ha\'e always believed that 'in a case of life and death, a parent does not have the inalienable right to decde whether his child shall be administered a life-giving transfusion or not. But, when I finished reading that article I had to admit — Glenn Howe has an iron-clad case!"
....., , It appears that the brothers
whatever their ethnic origins or i t^^.^^^^. Lodge have a- really
phenization (such as Mr. Diefenbaker himself who is of Pennsylvania Dutch and Scotch antecedents) could list themselves as simply "Canadian." ^
But, as we've seen, this well-intentioned plan was withdrawn after drawing the heat and fire of French Canadian nationalists who feared that ihey- would no longer be able to know the number of their flock in Canada should this new classilicaiion be adopted even in small part.
These figures seemed reasonable for it was quite acceptable that Uiere could be one or two thousand persons of varying C'lirisiian faiths who m a technical sense were ol Jewish etiinic urigi!). They could be children 01 mixed marriages, or Jewish converiJi Clirisiiaiuty. It was a source ol iiitrisjiiing specu-lati-ii lor those who browse in statistics to •two languages, Yiddish and/or Plate the laet that in Yukon Ter-
j from "national" origin. Persons ethnic ongiii 170,241, by religion Canadian etluiic oriciii which in of Ukrainian ethnic origin could ]68.367. have ancestors bom in Rus.sia. Poland. Austro-Himgary, Czecho-1 Slovakia or Rumania, there not having been — except for a brief period after World War I — an independent Ukrainian political entity.
, Similarly with Jews. The vast majority of Jews in East European countries were clearly not of Polish, Russian, or Rumaniim ethnic stock but simply Jews. "Jewish" wivs an ethnic cla.'-si-fication in those coimtries for
Hebrew), a culture, a literature, ei«., even a diet.
JEWS CLEARLY AN ETHNIC GROUP
ritory in .19:il there were two Jews by reiigion and four 'Hebrews',' by ethiuc origin. There Wius also a smaller number revealed ill the stati.stics ol persons who were Jews by religion
What do Jewish demogr.iphers think of this? They would prefer, .of course, to have the classification arranged in iieat piles v/itl.out woro'ing whicli Jews are of "Canadian" origin, which are of actual non-Jewish anceMry and which are the "monolithic kind. The actual Jewish population will still be known, jus it will be determined by the reli-like to .gion listing. However. cros.<-olas-contem- sificaiion such as occupational distribution, liieracy and uther data are made on ethnic origin not on religion and, if tewer Jews opt tor the Jewish ethnic origin in favour of another listing such as "Canadian," .it will throw the figures on Jewish data
no question then Canada until re-
but of otiier etnnir origin - {ler- it, the cross listing somewhat'out
haps .■\nglo - Saxon, Slavic, of "ocus. not hesiute to Vve etc. These-would l*ke- kj » a l xui
wise be children of mixed mar- U.S.A. Does Not Ask Thit
ria;;es where the father was Gen
There was that Jews in cently did
their ethnic origin as Jewish (in addition of course to their religion). When we look at the census figures of 1931 as assem-
religious convictloa
ISTORIC MEETING AT NORTH YORK
's regrettable that there will not, after all, be television coverage of the February 13th meeting of the North York School Board for the contentious issue of religious education in North York Schools will reach a decisive culmination at that time — a decision which will undoubtedly affect the future course of events elsewhere through the city.
The Board has asked for the submission of briefs by the Ca-
' oustanding treat in store for them at this month's meeting. Their program chairman ia to be commended for imaginative plan-
i t^ng.
What is ethnic origin and in , bled by Canadian Jewry's mas-what way does it indicate present statistician, Louis Rosenberg; etnic afliliaiion? For the Cana- . ■
dian census the former (ethnic ^« '^'-^ •'"'t* ^^^^^^v- I" 1931 origin) means the identity of the ' there were two totals of Jewish first ancestor on tlie male side population in Canada as folluws: who entered Canada whether by ethnic (or, as it was then
NEW JEWISH
FACILITIES TO IMPROVE PUBLIC LIBRARY SERVICE
By BERT GODFREY, President
, , , . , , , The Canadian Jewish Congress
Ue but where the progeny had ■ ^^ somewhat of a dilemma, been raised in Judauiin. Also L .,,
It did not wish to protest the
change as first proposed as it did not want to be in-a position of insisting on a query on ethnic origin (which it would strongly oppose if employment were involved). On the other hand Canada has always been in the unique position of possessing accurate and full data on its racial and ethnic components and has been a mine of information for social scientists studying Jewish life and it would be a loss to be deprived of,this fullness of material. In the USA no and the questcon is asked in the census marked; on either rpligion or ethnic ori-
there could be a small number ol coijvens to Judaism.
As these figures show, however, the general discrepancy was contained within a rather .small margin and it could be .said that "Jews by eilmic origin equal Jews by religion."
"UNETHNIC" JEWS
In 1951, however, a new development- appeared in the decennial census figures. That year the reiurn.s_^.shnwi-d for the first time more Jews "by religion" than by 'ethnic origin discrepancy was quite
The time has come when Jewr,' Library is able to acquire the — to bring to the attention of nadlan Jewish Congress the ■ °^ continent must play a best and most up-to-date books the Jewish and general com-
Kthlcal Education Association i P^^^^" ^^"""S the sur- in all categories pertaining to munity information about Jew-
and ministerial associations. It's i °^ ^^""'^^ '="""''^1 he- , Judaism. Consequently, books of j ish books; a red-hot Issue and this session "'^2^' "° were ; Jewish content, even in English,! .-to promote -inter-faith un-
of the Board bids fair to being ^^^^ '""^ cogent reasons for \ that are not carried by any other ! derstanding, cooperation and the liveliest on record. Speaking on'behalf of tho.^e Iti favor of restoration of religious iiistruction
204,836 in the former and only gin and as a result minorities 181.670 in the latter, making a (other than the Negroes who are Iciifference between Jews by ori-' counted) have no official figures gin and Jews by religion. How ■ on themselves.
did this come about? Was there such a high number of intermarriages in the meantime produc-
within the school-day period, wrill be Mr, Robin Hazell, recently-elected Tiiistee for Don Mills, who represents the ministerial groups. At present, a number ,of North York Schools schedule their religious in.struction period
the building and reinforcement of our cultural resources. The great European Jewish centres of learning and literature are in ruins; the majority of the Jews
library are available on our ' good will through books of Jew- \ '""re than 23,000 Jews of ' ■ 'ish content; |-Gentile fathers'.' Hardly. Though
— in short, to serve the com-: iiiiermarriage was .somewhat munity as a centre of Jewish higher it could not account for
shelves.
CATERING TO ALL. As an institution that caters to the community at large,'the Library has
of Europe have perished; the, books for both reference and cir-potential talent and creative ; culation, that represent ■ various energies of the Jewish popula-' schools of thought within Ju-
leaniing.
: this difference. A possibility
WHAT WILL 1961 SHOW
If the categon,' of •'Canadian" were retained as an official listing, some Jews who could not consider themselves as English, Sccittish or French, would have chosen for that category. Since
Recognizing the important role ; was that some assimilated Jews i ^^^^ category will not appear on of the Jewish Public Library in i who had come in from x'^^ document in print it will be
. V . „ -■ the commmiity. United Jewish .European lands iis refugees look-,.^^j.^^^^^^^
tion in Europe are destroyed. it|daism: Orthodox, Conservative, | Welfare Fund has made plans to ; fd upon themselves as Germans, i ^^^^^^ -^y-j ^^^^ continue ie is clear that the responsibiUty j Reform, Reconstructionist, etc.' move the Library to new ahd | Czechs or Poles "of the ^losaic rj,:|^.|^^j: jj^^j.^ ^^.^j, "i-m which tPflt'P.: thp rii<;<;pnt 1 ^"'^ restoring these ruins falls | Due to the steady increase of more adequate quarters in the' persuasion." Another and per-1 ' \ ' : ;
at 3.30, which leases the. dissent. ^p^„ j^e Jews of the Americas ! non-Jewish readers, attention is ,GIencaim and Bathurst district ; haps more telling factor is that «way from Jewish ethnic on-,
ACnVE IM DRIVE
(L to R) Samuel J. Granatstein, Oscar Shainhouse.
(L to R) Ben Wortsmon, Milton Bro(dy, Ben Axmith
(L to R) Mickey Snow, Sol Saltzman, Arthur Paulin.
ing children free to attend, or go home, as they wish. Also, at these, schools questionnaires are sent to parents at the begirming of the school term, asking whether they wish their children to attend- religious Instruction periods, and presumably it is on the basis of these questionhaiifs that the decision as to in-or-oiit-of-school-hours Instruction is.
nja^g_ . j been the Library's primary ob-
_,*.,■ , -, ; '.Ijective to turn the Jewish Pul>-
J ..f.''°'^;J'''^fi'"'^ Jic Ubrary of Toronto Into a
teken by the CJC and the Eth.cal ..Treasure House of Judalca." Education Association up to this
point. It is pretty safe to a.ssume, past five years smce
that they will press for exemption
and Israel. A deep consciousness I also given to the acquisition of — an area located in the heart ■ many Canadian Jews, them- g>n" 'he (-oming census ()n
must be awakened, and it is hop- ■ books designed to improve the of the Jewjsh community, ed that Jewish Public Libraries I j-elationship between the Jew Will play an important role in ; and his neighbour. The rich col-' providing this impetus. j lection of valuable works on
A TREASURE HOUSE. In stri-i Bible, Talmud. Midrash, Code of ving to make the Jewish com- j Laws, Dictionaries. Encyclopae-munity conscious of the vast cul- \ diae, etc., make the Library a tural and spiritual treasures con-1 centre of Jewish learning where tained in our literature. It has teacher and student, scholar and
layman, meet to disciiss and yeri-
in ALL 'Township'schools. _:;In_ca8e your are not familiar •with "the objections on which the a^treligious instruction groups base iheir position let me quote from one jjf their brochures: Their objections are five-fold: "...^Democratic principles ate vio-lated when a majority imposes its faiih upon (h£„ children of minorities, through a public Institution ....For young children, conflict between the religious teachings of the home and those of the school will impair confidence In either the teacher or the parents..:. Exemption from religious Instruction in a public «Chool, offered as a privilege, is actually a penalty - a penaltv.ln-nicted upon the chUd segregated from his classmates on religious pounds... It is unfair that\littlc children be faced with either indoctrination in an alien faith or Isolation from their classmates,... Teaching one concept of rellg^ion, as if it were the only one, denies our children the bp-porionlty to examine and learn reapeet lor the many other be-
it has been reorganized, thousands of books in English, Her brew and Yiddish cpyering every phase of Jewish^ life, have been
added t6rthe_shelves for .circula:_,the„.traditionar zeal^ for Jewish
tion and reference;
JUPAICA, While the General Public Libraries . ably take care^ of secular subjects, the- Jewish Public-Library has been directing its efforts to, andspecializing ifi, Judalca only. From a paihstakuig study of various catalogues and by constantly following up book reviews In the. Anglo-Jewish, Hebrew, and Yiddish press, the
fy matters of leariilng. The availability of the Library, to any person "(in the whole nietro-pplitan area), for guidance on matters pertaining to Judaism, is a well established fact.
AIMS. The aims plthe Je'wish. PublicTLibrab' are '.y: 'To ."reylve
knowledge among young-and old;
— to strengthen the custom of setting aside time, for reading Jewish classics as 'weir^ con-tefnporary works; —"— to collect material hi English, Hebrew and Yiddish cover-
ing every, phase' of. Jewish life and make it available to the public;
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