12 -^TflE BULLETIN — Thursday, August 11,1994
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Hear and there — Friends, Rosh Hashana is just around the corner (it begins at sunset, Monday, Sept. 5, which is Labor Day) . . . The Jewish National Fund is again holding its annual High Holy Days Appeal, this year to help develop the Jerusalem Peace Forest. JNF president Ruth Free-m a n has revealed that Emmy Mae-rov will chair the appeal... Circle your calendar Wed-pnesday, Nov. 9 at Beth Israel, Krlstai-Inacht keynoter will be Prof. Leonidas Hall of UBC's department of history, a very good friend of the community.   His topic: "The not so twisted path to Auschwitz: 1933-39" . . . Localite Susan Brown, who many will have worked with when she was director of Canadian   Friends of AM AL, has been appointed residential campaign coordinator of the Multiple Sclerosis Society of B.C. West Side residents who'd like to help out with the MS campaign, can call Brown at 689-5144 . . . When the Better Business Bureau elected six new board members last month, among them was Susan Braverman . . . Local actor Howard Siegel (see Arts Scene interview this week) plays a bartender in Deception 2, filmed here and coming soon. "Don*t blink," he says, "or you might miss me*'. Siegel directed  last year's JCC production, Horowitz and Mrs. Washington.
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Some maior mazeltovs.
BEIWBEN OUKSELVES i^TSVlSHN UNZ ALEIN)
ceived a $10,000 national award for teaching excellence, the William Paul McClure Kennedy Memorial Award, from the Weir Foundation of Queenston, Ont. . . . Slutsky teaches corporate law, is director of the legal research and writing program and coordinator of the competitive moot program ... He received the award from Justice Richard Lovekin of the Ontario High Court. «     « «
UBC Prof. Raphael Amit has been named to one of two new chairs funded by the Peter Wall Endowment . . . Along with Nobel Prize winner Michael Smith, he has been designated as Peter Wall Distinguished Professor — each of the chairs is funded by an endowment of $3 million . . . Amit is director of UBC's centre for entrepreneurship and venture capital in the faculty of commerce and business administration.
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Star-studded list of speakers at the CJC Pacific Region Western Conference upcoming here at the JCC, Oct. 22-23 will include both Prof. Irving Abella, CJC national president and Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella . . . CJC invites the Jewish community throughout Western Canada to join ethnic and religious leaders, business, labor, government officials, academics and the media to discuss social justice and human rights issues of common concern . . . The Bulletin will keep you informed of featured speakers as the conference date approaches.
UBC associate law pro- Catching up since the end fessor Harry Slutsky re-   of June . . . Prof.
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Nicholls gave the Seventh Annual Dr. Imre Rosenberg Memorial Lecture in
June at Temple Israel, Ottawa . . . His subject was "The Many NICHOLLS Faces of Anti-
semitism" . . . The lecture series was established by Dr. Truda Rosenberg in memory of her late husband, a distinguished lawyer and diplomat, born in Czechoslovakia, who made a remarkable contribution to Jewish life in Europe, Israel and Canada . . . Recent previous lecturers included Rabbi Gunther Plaut, Prof. Irwin Cotler and the Ambassador of Israel to Canada. «      * «
New immigrants to the community are still in need of several items — televisions, vacuum cleaners, kitchen tables and chairs, two carpets (I Tx 18'and 9'4" x 10'4''), pots and pans in good condition and linens ... If you have any of these items, wonchya please call Charlotte at 266-2396.
Around Shalom Branch RCL . . . Mark it down: Sunday, Aug. 28 for annual Shalom Bar-B-Oue . . . Shirley Rose, branch treasurer, plans to celebrate her 60th birthday a little differently — she has stepped forward to become the first female challenger at Shalom RCL annual darts tournament . . . The annual High Holiday memorial service Sept. 11 at Schara Tzedeck Cemetery will see Legion veterans staging a "short march" to their monument.
Former Vancouverite Carol Doane Worsely, president of the Greater Toronto Women's 10-Pin Bowling Association, became the first Canadian in the 75-year history of the 2.4 million member Women's International Bowling Congress to be appointed to the organization's prestigious nomination committee'. . . Her proud mother, Lorice Stein, and brother here, Keith Stein, are among family members klibing naches.
Now through the end of the current academic year, former localite Prof. David Dewitt, director of the Institute for Strategic Studies at York University, Toronto, is scholar-in-Residence at the Dayan Institute Tel Aviv University . . . His justly proud parents are Marian and Vernon Dewitt.
According to Hana Wosk, Or Shalom High Holiday services will be led by Or Shalom's own Hillel Goel-man ... He will be assisted in his rabbinical duties by various other cantors and daveners ... O.S. will be searching for a full-time rabbi "in the near future". «      * *
Rabbi Yosef Wosk is returning once again to lead High Holy Day services for the Bur-quest Jewish Community, according to Burquest president Mark Winston . . . Services will WOSK be held in Coquitlam and Tashlich on the first day of Rosh Hashana will take place at Coquitlam's Como Lake . . . Information: Susan Katz ,at 526-7235.
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handed out in June, Laara Sadiq, whom played the title role in CarouseFs excellent Diary of A,nne Franks received the Sam Payne Award for outstanding newcomer . . . Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream-coat returns to Toronto summer '95, starring Donny Osmond — The Divine Miss M., a Yiddishe maidelahy performs at the PNE in August.
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Nu, it's zeit gezunt for now, Kinderlachy until we meet again in this corner next time . . . Hope you're having a really great summer . . . Shabbat Shalom and Shavua Tov to absolutely everybody!
Newcomers to the Vancouver Jewish community are being invited by Shalom Vancouver to attend a two-hour information session to familiarize them with their new home.
The event takes place Wednesday, Aug. 24, 7:30 -9:30 p.m. at the Jewish Community Centre.
According to organizer Janet Kolof, attendees will receive a general overview of the local Jewish community.
The evening will also provide an opportunity for questions and the chance to meet other newcomers in a warm, friendly atmosphere.
Garth Drabinsky, chairman of Live Entertainment of Canada and manager/co-owner of the new Vancouver Theatre, participated in a ground breaking ceremony July 21 for the city's new performing arts facility, 775 Homer St. . . . The building is being designed by architect Moshe Safdie, who also designed the new library just across the way.
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If you need to reach Brenda Karp after Aug. 31, try the nearest golf course.
She's "going to play golf with a vengeance" when her resignation as Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver assistant executive goes into effect.
Karp told The Bulletin that after four years on the job, she has accomplished many of her professional goals and wants to "turn the reins over to new blood."
Among those completed goals are inclusion of adult programming at the JCC. Karp is also proud of the sold-out Sports Dinner held earlier this year. She hopes it will become an annual event.
The golf course will not be the only course on Karp's
MONTREAL — Daniel Thursz, B'nai B'rith International honorary executive vice-president and president of the National Council on the Aging, will make the keynote address kicking off the 1994 Global Classroom Conference, which will examine the needs of older adults in educational travel.
Light refreshments will be served.
The newcomers get-together is a program of the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver. It is co-sponsored by B'nai B'rith Women of B.C.; the National Council of Jewish Women, Vancouver Section, B'nai B'rith Vancouver Lion's Gate Lodge; Seniors Advisory Council of Jewish Federation; and Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver.
The evening is free of charge, but registration is appreciated. For information, call 257-5111.
future agenda. She has been accepted into the Vancouver Board of Trade Leadership Vancouver program.
"The program accepts 40 bright, up and coming community leaders and trains them to be even more of an asset to the community," Karp explained.
The Winnipeg-born executive was raised in Vancouver. She received an MA in human resources and administration from the University of Calgary.
Prior to working for the JCC, she was immediate past president of the Calgary Jewish Centre and an educational consultant to the Calgary Board of Education.
Karp emphasized that her resignation doesn't mean she won't be haunting the JCC hallways anymore,
"One thing I can promise," Karp laughed, "is that i won't be a stranger around here."
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