8 - THE BULLETIN — ThursdayfSeptember 13,1990
Victoria JCC unveils season
Victoria's Jewish Community Centre hias unveiled a wide range of activities for its 1990 Fall Season — everything from Israeli dancing to Mah Jong and Poker.
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The JCC, which opened last June, starts its new season Sept. 10 with an*6p«n House from 2-4 p.m., featuring magician Bert Gaine and Yiddish folk singer, Gary Cohen.
Amolig the activities being offered are: Adult cooking classes, Tai Chi, Table tennis and Bridge. .As well, Hebrew Chevra and Yiddish (?rw/7e/i get-togethers will help keep the Hebrew and Yiddish languages alive in the community, organizers said.
The Centre is also planning a Saturday night film series featuring several tecent movies. On Sept. 17 the Victoria JCC will screen the National Film Board's Half the Kingdom. The movie addresses the topic of how much influence Jewish women have in changing religious practices.
. For the kids, the Centre is offering Kiddies Korner which includes children's cooking classes, storytelling, table tennis and chess.
For further information, please call the Victoria JCC at 477-7185.
Extends Best Wishes to the Jewish Community for A Year of Health, Happiness, Peace and Prosperity.
We Extend Sincere New Year Greetings to the Entire Community
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For theIfirst time inits history Canadian Jewish Congress Pacific region Avill hold a Small Communities quarterly meeting outside the Vancouver area. The meeting will be hosted by the Okanagan Jewish community; association in Kel6>yna the weekend of Sept. 15-16.
Pacific Region was the model and pilot program for the nationals mall Communities Development Project of CJC approximately seven years ago. The first meetings were chaired by the late Horst Sachs, president of Congregation Har El on the North ■^ore and a regional board m^mb^r of Congress.
Pacific Region has been an innovator in the area of Small Communities over the years. Of particular! interest was its computer | link-up, a service of great value for several seasons. Most recently it was felt by the ISpartici- TESSLER pating towns and regions — from Vancouver Island to NWT — that a quarterly
Bloomfield gets degree
TORONTO—Neri Bloom-field of Montreal, a longtime Canadian Technion Society supporter, was awarded an honorary degree by Technion during a recent CTS mission to Israel and the Soviet Union.
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A pre-Selichot hour at Schara Tzedeck, 11:30 p.m. Saturday with services follow-. ing. Selichot observed Monday and Tuesday at 6:45 a.m. Wednesday .at 6 a.m.
meeting with symposium would more effectively deal with their needs and the computer was discontinued. The result has been a burgeoning sense of community and confidence throughout the region to the point that, for the first time, an outlying community is hosting a quarterly meetiuj^
The agenda for the Kel-owna meeting is built around their annual fundraiser. In keeping with its mandate, this CJC program tries to make use of Small Communities Resource people as much as possible. In this case, pa_s. president and fundraising chairman Mel Kotler will conduct a workshop on Creative Fundraising for the Small Community. This reflects both Kotier's skills as an imaginative fundraiser for his community and. the growing needs within these communities to augment their in-house funding of progranns.
The special talent of the Ok.anagan community has been ,to present its fundraiser within the general community of their area as a uniquely i Jewish state-Iment and acul-kural entertain-Iment.The^Small ; Communities re-jpresentativesto |the Quarterly [Meeting will be (able to view the BERGER OJC in action at its 1990 fundraiser, an art viewing and sale from the works of Gertrude Zack. The artist will be present for the gala opening which will feature a range of Jewish talent.
Monies raised will be shared betweeTrThe"^JC. building fund and a Hebrew U. scholarship fund for a Small Communities teen. .Also in atendance will be Marilyn Berger, assistant director of CJC Pacific Region, chairperson Ronnie Tessler aind Shellie Ettinger, CJC national Smalf Communities director.
NOP MLA calls for Hebrew glasses in B.C.'s public schools
By ETHAN MINOVITZ
The head of the Canadian Jewish Congress (Pacific Region) ethnic and multicultural relations committee termed recently "a very important and very commendable objective" a private member's bill in the B.C. legislature that would require Hebrew to be taught in B.C. schools as a heritage language.
Although he doesn't know of any Jewish organizations which had called for such a measure. Dr. Bernardo Berdi-chewsky praised the bill, recently presented by NDP advanced education critic Barry Jones^ Called "An Act Establi&hihg'M ulticultural Language Education," it received first reading, but died on the order paper when Legislature adjourned.
"Heritage languages aren*t part of the (eder&l Mu/tkuttu-ralisnt Act." Berdichewsky told The Bulletin. "They ought to be."
In tabling the legislation, Jones suggested Hebrew as one of 11 languages — other than English and French— in
which B.C. students should be encouraged to become bilingual or multilingual. The bill provides for teaching of the languages under Education Ministry supervision.
The bill will "recommend that multiculturalism become a reality in this province, and . . . will help the students of British Columbia who wish to maintain, acquire or upgrade their knowledge of a heritage language to do so," Jones, MLA for Burnaby North, told the Legislature. _
Numerous individuals and groups, .including the iierit-age-Language Society, asked th^t the bill be introduced, said Jones, adding that Ontario and other provinces have such legislation on the books. "In terms of support and service, B.C. and Alberta really are way in the back," he remarked in a JWB interview.
Under the proposed act, a school board would establish a heritage language course if it could determine that a class of at least 20 students could assembled, and if a number of students in the districfrequest the class.
Travellers to the Kelowna area on the weej^end of Sept. 15-16 are invited to join the Okanagan Jewish Community for an event Bwhich will be a 1 first in the city Jof Kelowna.' I This year's OJC annual fundraiser is an art viewing and Sale composed ZACK- of works by artist Gertrude Zack of Vancouver and open to the general community.
Monies raised will go toward the OJC building fund as well as a scholarship for Small Communities teens to attend the Rothberg School for Overseas Students at Hebrew university in Jerusalem.
Zack, in the spirit of giving and with youth in mind, donated a substantial grouping of her work in the form of prints and engravings to Vancouver chapter, Canadian Friends of Hebrew University to be used as they wish. Responding to a perceived need in small communities for advanced Jewish education and fundraising opportunities, Dvori Balshine, director of Vancouver .chapter, approached the chairperson of CJC Pacific Region's Small Communities Development Project Ronnie Tessler.
Together with Gertie Zack, they coordinated a joint program involving the art, the possibility of a commission on sales and their combined expertise in the area of art exhibition and management and offered it to the Small
C o m m u n i t i e s. K e 1 o wh a, a growing Jewish presence in the Okanagan, is hosting the "kick-off of this co-operative project.
Zack was raised in Edmonton, a numerically small Jewish community and present-day participant in the CJC national Small Communities development project. She has devoted her life to her family, philanthropy I and art. Her works are , found in many s collections in Canada, the U.S. and Israel. Com-riients on her / work range KOTLER from "vigor and zest for life" (Sam Black, RCA) to "forms which engender excitement" (Dorothy Hall, critic, NYC). Works donated to Hebrew U. include several series: landscape, children, music and Judaica.
The Kelowna community expressed pleasure to be hosting an innovative event in their area that again permits them to offer something of interest and excitement to the city in which^they live. "We are thrilled with the.ppportun-ities this presents us," said Maidelaine Dedles, OJC president, "and the planning is well in hand under direction of our creative Jundraising chairman Mel Kotler. Naturally we are very happy that Mrs. Zack will be present at the gala opening."
For further information call Marilyn Berger, CJC office (261-8101) or Dvori Balshine (263-0413).
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