Canadian Panorama
-- BY ;MORDECAI HIR5HENS0N
THE TALK OF OUR TOWN: Aftermath
at Orillia
Summer Resort Survey
Beware of Income Tax Exemptions . . . Diefenbaker and the Bill of Rights .. .
CAMP ISRAEL REBUILDS
The bJackened ruins of Camp Israel's main building still reek of smoke and soggy, charred lumber, but down by the lake front it's "Business as Usual." It's truly a remarkable feat that only a matter of a few days since the fire-bug lit his match, 90 children are settled in at the camp, a complete kitchen for both meat and dairy food preparation it is an operation, and the first classes are underway.
It's only a' few miles from pur cottage to the camp-site, just the other side of Orillia. A workman directed me to the newly-converted dining-hall, and there I found the director. Rabbi Zev Fames, a young New York Rabbi who is the assistant principal of the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach when he's not camp-directing. This is Rabbi Fames' second year at Camp Israel, but this year his duties include many not in the
veyed, Jewish families would NOT receive equal treatment, in one form or another. It might be that Greenberg would be charged a higher rate, or would receive inferior accomodation, than the mythical "Mr. Green."
Things are looking up now, however, according to a more recent survey undertaken by columnist Pierre Berton. comparative 'study of the two survey results, indicates that there are less outright refusals today, than there were 12 years ago. To be precise, —one out of three test cases, instead of the one out of 2, prior to this.
It still beats me, though, why any Jew would want to help pay off the mortgage of a resort owner who openly says he wants only Christian guests!
INCOME TAX AND
BAS MITZVAH
Two in^resting cases come up'lrecentlr'before
agreement, for he has had to Appeal ^^^^ ^^^Ij^^^''^^^ be plumber's mate, electrician's """" helper, and carpenter, as well as religious leader. His yarmulke is askew, and his hands paint-spotted, but by golly, he's got his camp going, and on schedule too.
I learned from Rabbi Fames that Camp Israel is an educational project of the Agudath Israel—a non-profit organization incorporated to disseminate and teach religious principles. Five and a half hours of the child's ■day is spent in a specific religious activity, under the direction of counisellors who are recruited from Rabbinical seminaries in the U. S. and Canada. All counsellors have shown a proficiency in the study of Talmud, Mishna and the Bible.
In addition to normal camp activities, the education 1 r;--j^^^^^-^ ^^e business asso-
jects are geared to give he JJ-^ entertained at a re-
child a sampling of true Jewish -^-^^^^^^^^^^^ life—the la\v3, customs, pray- "S'""^
have the tax
returns which may well serve as a warning to us all. Both concern Toronto Jem
In the first instance, claim for exemption was made on the grounds of a charitable donation to a Hebrew School. Upon investigation it was discovered that the "donation" was actually a tuition fee. The verdict— NO EXEMFTION.
In the second case, the individual concerned, a Toronto lawyer, claimed an exemption on the money expended on his daughter's Bas Mitzvah. In his view it was a professional expenditure because among the guests were bank managersr judges and other court dignitaries. In other words, why should it be classed other than a permissable expense account deduction for entertainment
TARIO POLICE
STUDY RACEC^^
RELATIONS
Lois Herman, a Toronto Queen's Counsel, delivered a lecture to 60 police inspectors last week on the role of the police in racial and religious inter-relations. A former president of the Jewish Immigrant Aid Society-and of B'nai B'rith's Eastern Canadian Council, Mr. Herman's lecture was given in the Muskoka centre of Graven hurst ..^here policemen from all over Ontario had assembled under the aegis of the Attorney-General to take a police train ing course. (Metr© Toronto'^ gendarmerie is not included in this as Toronto has its own police course.)
To illustrate.the lecture which dealt with the police and theu relationship to the community, the human relations film "The High Wall" v/xs shown. The dis cussion after the lecture was quite revealing. Questions wert put by the police inspectors oi. the problems of immigrant in legration; on why some new Canadian groups like the Dutch Reformed establish their own parochial schools, on the role of the foreign language press, etc. etc. Folice officers attended from Sault Ste. Marie, Brant-ford, Niagara Falls and many Ontario cities.
Louis Herman, an active Freemason, is also a member of
IN POLISH
Toronto's Folish readers may now read Sholom Aleichem, famous Yiddish classic, in the Polish language. The newiest catalogue issued by the Toronto Public Library's foreign language department lists his book as "Motel, Syn Kantora" which even to one non-versed in Folish, is easily translatable as Mottel, the Cantor's Son."
Other books of Jewish interest in other languages recently acquired for the city's growing
public of foreign language readers are Lion Feuchtwanger's "Success" (in Sussia) Martin Buber's "I and Thou" (in German), Angelika Probst's "Short History of the People of Israel." (in German.)
NO ANnSEMinSM
HERE
Another "antisemitic" scare was deflated last week when it was learned that the fire at Camp Israel near Orillia ~was set not by a Judaeophobe but by a demented boy from the nearby institution. It is true that The Canadian Jewish News and Agudath Israel officers denied the "antisemitic" motive which at first had been thoughtlessly mentioned to the press by a hasty spokesman, but the story had been too widely circulated by press and radio to check in any effective way.
CALGARY PAPER
OPPOSES SCHOOL
RELIGION
In Calgary the Herald, Southam newspaper, took a stand against religious education in the city's public schools: "Religious education is something which falls in the province of a personal responsibility and individual choice of the head of the home.
"Teaching it in the public schools, where views on religious matters are likely to
the Joint Canadian Jewish Con- ^fer very considerably, is un-
gress—B'nai B'rith Public Rp/ fikely to be a staisfactory way
lations Committee. ©f teaching religion, and it is
avm niu Ai vimvlut almost surely likely to lead to SHOLOM ALEICHEM ^^^-^^ ^^^^^^ ^ff^^t is
made.
"It is not the function of the public schools in this province, although provision is made for the Lord's Prayer in the morning and half an hour\3 instruction at day's end.
'Religion should be taught in the home. If the parents are of" the opinion that they do not want their children raised in any organized faith, that is their privilege. If they are of faiths which are likely to be offended by some of the religious views
held by the majority, then surely it is unreasonable to ask them to pay taxes for a public school system which may indoctrinate their youngsters with beliefs the parents d© not accept. It is aho a problem for teachers, for their own views on religious matters may color their teaching. Even if it does not, many parents will think it does."
MEAT FOR THE
MEATLESS DAYS
IN WINNIPEG
In Winnipeg the kosher butchers have announced a week's holiday. A strike of shochtim? A lock-out against meat buyers? None of these — just that the score or more of Jewish retail meat dealers want a summer vacation. There is only one flaw in the announce-nient. The week's vacation will take place from July 18th to July 25th which ineans the butchers will re-open their shops on the first day of the nionth of Av, just in time for the nine meatless days observed by many religious Jews until Tisha B'Av — the Ninth of Av.
A TURKISH JEW
PASSES IN
CANADA'S WEST
Winnipeg has always been considered as a haven for Russian Jews — from Volhynia and the Ukraine primarily, followed by the "tribes" of White Russia, Lithuania, Poland and other varieties of Nusach Ash-kenaz.
An obituary notice in the Jewish press of Wuinipeg notes Ihe departure of Nissim (Alfred) Kazan at 74. From the name it is clearly that of an Eastern Sephardi. The late Mr. Hazan was Turkish bom and came to Canada in 1907.
We hear a great deal of the East-West problem of the "kibbutz galuyoth" in Israel today and the many tensions and problems of "assimilation" in that idl-Jewish melting pot. * It would have been interesting to have the story of the
adjustments and dilemmas facr ed by an Asian Jew in a predominantly East E?uropean Jewish community such as that of Winnipeg (or Toronto). To judge from the name of the late Mr. Hazan's daughter, she "intermarried" with an Ashkenazi and has three sons. Will any of the grandfather's Ladino-Seph-ardic heritage remain in the predominantly Litvak-Russian Jewish coloration?..^
Dr. Moses Steinberg—a native of Ottawa—is a young associate professor cf English literature at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. What distinguishes him from most other Jewish professors of Eng-
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lish literature on this continent (they are no longer the rarity they were in the days of the late Ludwig Lewisohn) is that he is ah observant traditional Jew who dawens thrice daily and performs the mitzvoth. He if also an adherent Of the Hap-pel Hamizrachi ideology;r
Recently Professor Steinberg took part in a seminar on "living Judaism" in Seattle. His topic: "Tradition as a Force in Contemporary Jewish Culture."
NEW ISRAELI ATTORNEY GENERAL
Jerusalem, (JCNS). The Israeli cabinet, appointed Mr. Gidgeon Hausner, a company lawyier, to the post of Attorney General in place of Mr. Haim Cohen, who recently joined the Israeli Supreme Covat
Mr. Hausner was bom in Poland in 191S and came to Palestine as a child. During, the War of Independence he served as Advocate Cteneral and later was president of a military court.
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— ~--- ------tnis IS nOl SU, dl icaoi ...
Rabbi Fames gave "igh ^jg^f our Prime Minister, has
praise to many Toronto philan thropJsts who met the emergency of the fire with both ex-r ediency and generosity —Mr. Morris Nussbaum, Rabbi Benjamin Urman, Mr. Harry Wolfe,
come to light with the passing of the much-discussed Canadian Bill of Rights.
Mr. Diefenbaker revealed that it has always been a sensitive point with him,—to be a Can-
Rabbi T. H. Klein as well as j:^.^^ „„t bear a BHti-sh many merchants who donated French name. The origin of lumber to re-build, utensily ,.^^.^^^^^^^1^^^.,, jg Pennsylvania the dining-room and countless ^yteh and the bearing of this other needs. name,'rather than his mother's
One aspect, at least, has been'j^ich js Campbell Bannerman,
comforting. It was feared when
first news of the fire came out it was the work of an anti Semitic group. There wss talk
has apparently given Mr. Dief-
then ,of abandoning the location and perhaps the whole idea of the camp, for the present at least. With the discovery of the real culprit, a mentally-retarded youth from the Orillia .. Home, the Anti-Semitic label cannot be attched to the act. That has put the heart back into Camp Israel. We wish them well, and salute their courage.
SUMMER RESORT
DISCRIMINATON
Still in the vein of summer activities, the latest surveys. on the "Restricted Clientele" clause among Ontario resorts indicates that this form of racial discrimination is happily on the wane..
About twelve yeare ago the Canadian Jewish Congress conducted a survey to test the meaning of the words "restricted clientele." At that time, let-, ters were sent to 106 resorts under the names, "dreenberg" and "Green;" In every case, the returfisTshowed that where a 'r^ort used the Avords "restrict-/ed"—they really meant it! In 1 one case out of every' two sur-
cnbaker the feeling of bemg ■ a member of a minority group. Whatever the motivation be-
hind the Bill, and whatever it's watered-down state, let us be glad that it is now on the statutes; I wonder, though, how he'd have felt to be stuck with some of the tongue-twisters from Poland or Hungary — Zubroniewich, or Yusypcuk, for example. Diefenbaker, Shmief-enbaker—abie gesundt!
DR. GOLDMAN
ATTACKED BY
COMMUNIST PRESS
.Paris, (JCNS), The Communist Jewish Press in France has launched a violent campaign against Dr. Nahum Goldmann for having convened an interna^ tional conference in Paris yin order to discuss the Jewish problem in the USSR.
"Naie Presse",( the Yiddish pro-communist daily, has accused Dr. Goldmann of indulging in the cold war against the Soviet Union, while attempting to v.'hitewash German rearmament and the renewal of Nazi activities in Western Germany. v
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