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VICTORIA — A fund-raising dinner for Congregation £manu-El will launch the Empress HoteFs new kosher kitchen.
The multicultural event will be held Sunday, Oct. 2.
Organizer Stephanie Gilbert said representatives from various ethnic organizations will be invited to attend. Invitations will also go to federal, provincial and civic politicians.
Gilbert told J W^iB the Victoria Jewish community is looking for support from outside the Victoria area.
"I'd like to see a large turnout of people from out-of-town, from as far away as Winnipeg and other western centres," Gilbert stated. "It's going to be a major event and I hope other groups will join us for the simcha."
After-dinner entertainment will be provided by the Lafayette Quartet, soprano Lauren Wagner and guitarist Harold Micay. Proceeds from the dinner will go towards an addition to Emanu-Ers present heritage
building. A portion of the ticket price is tax deductible.
Congregation president Dr. David Brook said the addition will likely provide classroom space for the Hebrew school. Classes, ranging from pre-school to Bar/ Bat-Mitzvah training, are currently being held in the sanctuary.
Brook said the need for classroom space is "urgent" and he appealed to Western Canadian Jewish communities for aid in the campaign^
The Empress will be the only hotel in Victoria where kosher facilities are available. An unused kitchen is being kashered and menus have now been approved by B.C. Kosher, according to Marc Saunier, the hotel's food and beverage director.
A mashgiach from Vancouver will be brought in for special events. Up to 300 people can be accommodated at dinners, Saunier said.
For information or reservations, phone or fax Gilbert at 4.77-5244.
By JUDY SHAPIRO Calgary Jewish Free Press
The Jewish Federation of inform people that such a
Edmonton has written to the publisher of Kulisy PoloniU the Polish-language newspaper based in Edmonton, protesting publication of excerpts from the infamous anti-Semitic tract "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" in its June 30 edition.
"Reproduction of this material is offensive to all members of the Jewish community," wrote Len Dolgoy, vice-president of the Jewish Federation of Edmonton.
The "Protocol" excerpts were preceded by a preamble stating that "as promised," the newspaper is publishing this anti-Semitic document that for the last 90 years, has promoted worldwide interest. As a disclaimer, the newspaper said that the publication, of the material was not intended to start ethnic or religious disagreements or to demonstrate a true historical fact.
Following the disclaimer, excerpts from the falsified document, which has served as ammunition for anti-Semites since its publication in the late 1800s, were printed. These included allegations that Jews were responsible for many of the world's most violent altercations from the French Revolution to World War I. Other segments allege that Jews control the world gold supply and the news media and want to establish a World Government under Jewish control.
Kulisy Polonii publisher Josef Lenik, defended the publication of this material.
"As a publisher 1 have to
book exists," he said. "It was not my intention to make people hate Jews, but only to provide information about this book."
Lenik said that the disclaimer did state that the "Protocols" are not true and were probably written by somebody who hates Jewish people.
"People know about this book but don't know what's in it," Lenik said. "It is my duty to inform people."
The newspaper's disclaimer did not satisfy members of the Jewish and Polish communities.
"The fact that they added a disclaimer doesn't justify publishing such material unless it was done in the context of being critical," said Dolgoy. "This appears to be uncritical. I can't see any justification for this." Sigmund Sobolewski,
Massachusetts psychiatrist Dr. Joseph Albeck will be guest speaker at the third annual Vancouver Conference for Children of Holocaust Survivors.
Co-sponsored \>y Second Generation Group and Vancouver Holocaust Centre Society for Education and Remembrance, the event will be held Sunday, Oct. 2 at Beth Israel.
Dr. Albeck, a member of the Harvard Trauma Study Group, works in the area of trauma, healing and Second Generation issues. He is a pioneer in using encounter groups to bring together
children of Shoah Survivors with children of Nazis.
He is past president of One Generation After, a member of the New England Holocaust memorial committee and has authored two books. Songs for the Last Survivor and Intergenera-tional Consequences of Trauma: A Second Generation Perspective.
His morning presentation is open to the public.
The full conference program includes the video of the 1993 BBC documentary on the dialogue between chil-dre of Holocaust Survivors and children of Nazis, a
workshop and small, group discussion.
Previous conferences have featured folklorist Lisa Lip-kin and writer Helen Epstein.
Second Generation Group is dedicated to promoting education and awareness about Second Generation issues and Holocaust remembrance. They are also dedicated to providing support for children of Shoah Survivors and their families.
The Second Generation board includes Sylvianne Feder, Jonathan Festinger, Romi Fox, Jack Micner, Max Pinsky, Deborah
ALBECK Ramm, Alina Wydra and Corinne Zimmerman.
Tickets for the conference are available in advance or at the door. For more information or to be included on the mailing list, call Deborah Ramm at 325-2208.
By PETER CAULFIELD
A woman who moved here from Russia with her family not long ago is looking for help from the community in her search for a cure to her breast cancer. (See "A family in distress needs communal help'!, JWB, Aug. 18).
Susanna Margulis, a 39-year-old mother of two, hopes an experimental, non-traditional treatment program prescribed by a Vancouver naturopath will succeed where conventional methods have so far failed.
The non-traditional program, which is very expensive, is not covered by the Medical Services Plan of B.C. As a result, her family is asking the local community for assistance in meeting the costs of the treatment.
Margulis told The Bulletin she was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 1988 while still living in Moscow. Chemotherapy and radiation treatment in the Russian capital appeared to stop the cancer.
In Oct., 1990 Margulis, her husband Boris, and their children Corrina and Alex immigrated to Vancouver. The couple told JWB they were both disillusioned with communism (which was still the "system" at the time), and didn't want to raise their children in the Soviet Union. "There was no future for them over there," Mar-
gulis explained.
The family settled in Richmond, and got on with building a new life. Boris, a mechanical engineer in Rus-
in pain, Margulis went to the doctors, one in Vancouver
Vancouver Cancer Clinic, and one in Victoria, who
The clinic found the source began treating her with an
of the pain: a tumor in her intensive program of injec-
chest. Chemotherapy was
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residents of McAdam Avenue east of Main Street dur-
Roman Catholic survivor of ing the 1940s, '50s and '60s, Auschwitz who lives in Fort recently held a reunion. Out-
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of-town guests included Vancouver's Richard Israels, Q.C.
sia, got a job as an auto mechanic with Honda, and Susanna, a high school teacher in Moscow, began taking college courses to learn English and upgrade her skills.
Things unfolded as they should until 1992, when Susanna began to feel pain in her chest again. She visited a local doctor who assured her, after performing the requisite tests, that, in Margulis's words, "I was OK."
Despite the doctor's reassuring words, the pain persisted, and Margulis sought out another doctor. Doctor #2 performed more tests, but was unable to detect any signs of cancer.
By now it was 1993. Still
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prescribed, and, eight courses of chemo later, the tumor had stopped growing.
The respite, however, turned out to be only temporary. Two months after the chemotherapy treatment had ended, the tumor started to grow again.
A local physician told the family he believed "traditional" cancer treatments would be of no use to Margulis. He suggested she try "non-traditional" and naturopathic approaches instead.
Margulis took the doctor's advice. The family found two naturopathic
tions.
Results of the program have been mixed so far, Margulis admitted. "Maybe the program needs to be longer," she said.
Cost of the non-traditional cancer treatment program is steep, and is not covered by provincial medical insurance. Boris noted the family has spent $8,500 in the last month alone trying to treat his wife's cancer.
Boris admitted the treatment is experimental, and nobody knows for sure whether it will work or not. "I know it has successfully treated sorne people," he said. "I met people in Victoria who had been close to death, and are now completely cured."
"In any event, it's our last chance." Margulis's condition is getting worse; the cancer has spread to her rib cage.
Contributions can be made to Susanna Margolis's account (070-2273910-20) at Montreal Trust, 1302-6551 No. Three Road, Richmond, B.C. V6Y 2B6.
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