6 — THE BULLETIN — Thursday. August 11,1994
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Friday, August 12,8:16 p.m. Sedra Shofetim Havdala Shaisbat ends August 13,9:18 p.m.
Friday, August 19, S:03 p.m. Sedra Ki Tetze Havdala Shabbat ends August 20, 9:03 p.m.
Beth Hsmldrash (Sephar-die Orthodox). 3231 Heather St. Rabbi Y. Benar-roch. Daily? a.m.; Shabbat, 9 a.m.; Sun. and public holidays, 8:30 a.m., Fri. 7 p.m.; Sat. sunset. 872-4222 or 873-2371.
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Beth SsraeS (Conservative). 4350 Oak St. Rabbi W. Solomon. Cantor M. Nixon. Torah reader D. Rubin. Choir S. Pelman. Daily 8 a.m. (public holidays, 9 a.m.) and 6 p.m. Fri. 8:15 p.m. Sat 9:15 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Sun.9a.m. and6 p.m. 731^161. f
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Beth Shalom Sanctuary (Traditional). OJCC, 108 North Glenmore Rd., Kel-owna. 852-2312. ; f
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Beth TIkvah (Conservative), 9711 Geal Rd., Richmond. Rabbi M. Cohen, Torah reader T. Wollnsky. Fri. 8 p.m.; Sat. 9:30 a.m. 271-6262. -
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Burquest Jewish Community (Traditional). Oneg Shabbat services second Friday of each month, 8 p.m. 526-7235.
Chabad House Kabbalah Centre (Chassidic), 3673 W. Broadway. Rabbi L. Dubrawsky. Sun. morning minyan 10 a.m. 737-1574.
Chabad-Lubavitch (Chas- 261 -9376.
sidic). 5750 Oak St. Rabbi Y. Wineberg. Daily 7 a.m. Sat. 10 a.m.; Sun. 9 a.m. 266-1313. ^
Eltz Chaim (Orthodox). 8080 Frances Rd., Richmond. Rabbi A. Feigelstock. Daily minyan 7 a.m.; weekday evenings sunset; Fri., sunset; Sat. 9 a.m. and. sunset; Sun. 9 a.m. 275-0007.
Or Shalom (Traditional Egalitarian). 710 E. 10th Ave. Wed. 7 a.m.; Fri. 7 p.m.; Sat. 10 a.m. 872-1614.
Emanu-EI (Conservative). 1461 Blanshard, Victoria. Rabbi V. Rein-stein. Thurs. 7 a.m.; Sat. 9:15 a.m. 382-0615.
* » * . Har E6 (Conservative), North Shore, JCC, 1735 Inglewood Ave., West Van. Rabbi I. Baila, cantorial leader R. Edel, Fri. 8 p.m., Sat. 10 a.m. 922-8245 or 922-9133.
Jewish Community Assoc. of Lower Fraser Vailey (Orthodox), #1-1349 Johnston Rd., White Rock. Fri. sunset; Sat. 9:30 a.m. 535-3251.
Sohara Tzedeck (Orthodox), 3476 Oak St. Rabbi M. Feuerstein, Cantor Yaacov Orzech, Torah reader Rev. J. Marciano. Daily 7:15 a.m., and sunset; Fri. 7:30 p.m.; Sat. 9 a.m. and sunset; Sun. 8:30 a.m. and sunset.
736-7607.
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Shaarey Tefiiah (Traditional) services at Laurel Room, Ramada Centre, 898 West Broadway. Rabbi Mordechai Seher; Torah reader Rabbi I. Birnbaum. Sat. and Sun. 9 a.m. Daily 7:30 a.m. at 6792 Granville St. 266-4612.
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Temple Sholom (Reform), 7190 Oak St. Rabbi P. Bregman, cantorial soloist A. Guttman. Morning minyans; Mon. and Wed. 7:15 a.m.; Fri. 3:15 p.m.; Sat. 10:30 a.m. 266-7190.
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drivers detained until police arrived. Subsequent questioning showed that the vans were connected with a group scheduled to tour the museum, and the drivers were released.
At almost the same time, a college student phoned police from a public phone directly across Pico Boulevard from the Wiesenthal Centre, and said that a bomb would explode at the Museum of Tolerance at 4 p.m.
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Police immediately apprehended the caller, described as a U.S. citizen of Asian descent, and after determining that he and his roommate had just finished visiting the museum, ordered an evacuation of the premises.
According to Cooper, the caller may have been emotionally unblanced. His roommate quoted the caller as claiming earlier that G-d had told him about the supposed bomb explosion.
During the three-hour evacuation, Pico Boulevard, another major east-west traffic artery, was cordoned off for several blocks, as well.
Since the attack on the main Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires on July 18, in which about 100 people were killed, police throughout the metropolitan area have been partrol-ling Jewish institutions more frequently and in greater strength, said Rabbi Gary Greenebaum, Western regional director of the American Jewish Committee.
Greenebaum is a member and immediate past president of the Los Angeles Police Commission.
At the Jewish Community Building, housing the Jewish Federation Council, its agencies and other Jewish organizations, added security measures were implemented following a meeting of executives.
No one will be allowed to park in front of the building, employees and visitors will have to wear clear identifications and police will maintain a constant surveillance, said Gary Wexler, the federation's communications director.
Louis Brier Home (Orthodox). 1055 W. 41st Ave. C. Kornfeld, D. Kornfeld, R. Rosenberg. Daily mincha, 4:30 p.m.; Friday 4:15 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. ^
Holocaust Survivor Pearl Ingre passed away July 27 at the age of 87.
The former Pearl Sto-biecka was born June 30, 1907 in Czestochowa, Poland.
A Montessori teacher and headmistress of a Jewish community kindergarten in Katowice, Poland, she escaped to England in June, 1939. On July 28, 1939 she married Adolph Ingre in England.
Although most of her large family perished in the Holocaust, some survived and live today in Israel.
The Ingres emigrated to Vancouver in April 1952.
The former Vancouver homemaker is survived by husband Adolph of Vancouver; son David of Vancouver; daughter Anna of Portland, Oregon; and brother Jacob Stobiecki of Haifa.
Graveside funeral services were held July 29 at Temple Sholom Cemetery with Rabbi Philip Bregman and Arthur Guttman officiating.
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By GIL KEZWER
TORONTO (JTA) — Three members of the white-supremacist Heritage Front, including a Jewish member and the group's president, were jailed here recently for operating a racist telephone hot line in defiance of a previous court order.
Justice Danielle Trem-blay-Lamer sentenced Heritage Front President Wolfgang Droege, 44, to three months in jail for willfully violating an August 1992 Federal Court injunction forbidding the white-supremacist group from broadcasting racist statements. He also received a fine of about U.S. $3,600.
Gary Schipper, 42, who as an adopted child was raised as a Jew but subsequently renounced his family, was sentenced to two months. His voice appeared on prerecorded hot line messages targeting Jews, indigenous people, blacks and other minorities.
Schipper recorded some 505 messages on the Heritage Front hot line from the spring of 1992 until it was shut down by the Federal Court of Canada last October.
Another member, Kenneth Barker, 32, was sentenced to one month. The judge said she v;as taking into consideration the fact that Barker was a single parent raising a child.
In May 1992, following a joint complaint filed by the Canadian Jewish Congress and the Native Canadian Centre, the Canadian Human Rights Commission launched an inquiry into the Heritage Front's use of telephone lines to transmit hate messages.
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EMOTIONS
SHOFTIM
. A TREE OF THE FIELD
In the Torah portion of Shoftim we are commanded to treat trees with respect for "Mew is a tree of the field," What is the resemblance between the loftiest creature, man, and lowly vegetative growth that prompts the Torah to compare the two?
The special quality of plants and trees lies in their constant attachment and unification with the earth and soil, the source from whence they derive their existence and nourishment. This is particularly true with regard to trees:
Other plant life, such as grain, vegetables, etc., do not exist in such an attached state on an ongoing and continual basis, for they soon wither and die.
Trees, however, are constantly attached through their roots to the soil and produce fruit year after year.
The fact that they are able to withstand the vicissitudes of the seasons, winter's frosts, summer's heat, etc., indicates that they have a particularly strong degree of attachment to the earth; an attachment that enables them to endure difficult times and continue to exist and bear fruit.
Man is a microcosm; just as the world as a whole is composed of the four general categories of inanimate, vegetative, animal and man, so too are these qualities to be found within each and every individual.
A person's emotive traits are likened to the quality of vegetation for they embody the trait of growth and development.
And although the quality of growth is found in intellect as well, nevertheless, intellect also has the additional aspect of "animal" in that it constantly undergoes movement and change of direction and is not Hmited to one quality, similar to an animal's ability to roam.
Man's emotive traits are in and of themselves limited to one quality — a kind person is inevitably gentle, a severe person will almost always deal with others in a stern manner. The emotive traits, thus, are not comprised of change and movement but only of growth. They are therefore likened to vegetation.
Comprehension, however, is objective and understands things as they truly are, not as the person wishes them to be. The conclusions drawn from a concept will vary according to the concept itself, leading off into many directions, sometimes to kindness and sometimes to severity.
Just as in the macrocosm, vegetation is unique in its constant unification with its source, so too within man, the emotive powers have the special quality of always being attached to the person's essence — the internal degree of the individual's soul.
This also explains why
emotional traits and tendencies are so pov/erful, and why it is so very difficult to change one's character traits; it is extremely hard for a kind person to change his nature and become severe, etc., for these tendencies are vigorously attached to the person's essence.
By likening man to "a tree in the field," the Torah is in effect telling us that the true test of an individual is not so much his intellectual qualities but his emotional ones, it is they that take the measure of the man.
It follows that man's labor and toil with regard to self-improvement and refinement is to be directed to an even greater extent to refining his emotional traits than to refining his mind; perfecting and polishing one's emotive and character traits have the greatest impact on the person's essence.
In fact, refining one's emotive traits is deemed to be so important that intellectual comprehension is not deemed to be complete if it does not impact on one's emotions — "Know this day and take (this knowledge) unto your heart."
Just as this is so with regard to each individual, so too regarding the Jewish people as a whole:
All Jews are descendents of the Patriarchs, Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaacov, and as such are constantly attached to them and their qualities.
The main qualities of the Patriarchs lay not so much in matters of intellect as in emotion, for Avraham epitomized the emotive trait of kindness and love, Yitzchak
— severity and fear, Yaakov
— mercy and beauty, the three traits that encompass all the emotional qualities.
These sterling emotional qualities — the "trees of the field" — are the birthright and part of the makeup of each and every Jew. They must merely be revealed, refined and developed to their greatest possible extent.
From the "Wellsprings of Chassldus," Kehot Pubiication Society.
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