6 — THE BULLETIN — Thursday. March 1.1990
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Friday, March 2,5:39 p.ni. SedraTeruma Haydalaf Shabbat ends March 3, 6:39 p.m.
Friday, March 9,5:50 p.m. SedraTetzave Havdala Shabbatends
March 10,6:50 p.m.
Beth Hamidrash (Sephar-dic Orthodox), 3321 Heather St. Rabbi D. Bassous, Asst. Rabbi Y, Benzaquen. Daily 7 a.m.; Shabbat, Sunday and ^ public holidays 9 a.m.; Fri.-' /Sat. sunset. 872-4222 or 872-1201.
Beth Israel (Conservative), 4350 Oak. Rabbi W. Solomon, Rabbi R. Cahana, Can-toj^M. -Nixon, Torah reader D. Rubin, Choir S. Pelman. Daily 8 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Fri. 6 and 8:15 p.m.; Sat. 9:15 a.m.; Sun. 9 a.m. 731-4161.
Beth Tikvah (Conservative), 9711 Geal Rd, Richmond. Rabbi M. Cohen, Torah reader J.Schwartz. Fri. 8 p.m.; Sat. 9:30 a.m. 271-6262.
Wineberg. Daily 7 a.m. and sunset; Fri. sunset; Sat. 10 a.m.; Sun. 9 a.m. and sunset. 266-1313.
Eitz Chaim (Orthodox), 8080 Francis, Richmond. Rabbi A. Feigelstock. Daily niinyan 7 a.m.; Fri. 8 p.m.; Sat. 9 a.m. and 8 p.m.; Sunday 9 a.m. 275-0007.
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Emanuel (Conservative), 1461 Blanshard, Victoria. Sat. 9.30 a.m. 382-0615.
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Har EI (Conservative), North Shore JCC, 1735 Inglewood, West Van. Rabbi L Balla, cantorial leader R. Edel. Fri. 6:30 p.m.; every other Sat., 9:30 a.m. 922-8245 or 922-9133.
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Chabad-Lubavitch (Chas- dox), 1055 W. 41 Ave. C. sidic), 5750 Oak. Rabbi Y.   Kornfeld, D. Kornfeld, Moe
Frumkin, R. Rosenberg. Daily 4:30 p.m.; Fri. 6:30 p.m.; Sat. 9:15 a.m. and 6:30 ^.m. 261-9376.
Or Shalom (Traditional Egalitarian), 561 W. 28th, Rabbi I. Marmorstein. Saturdays, 10a.m. Monthly Friday Oneg Shabbat. 872-1614.
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Schara Tzedeck (Orthodox), 3476 Oak. Rabbi M.. Feuerstein, Rabbi S. Strauss, Torah reader Rev. J. Marci-ano. Daily 7:15 a.m. and sunset; Fri. sunset; Sat. 9 a.m. and sunset; Sun. 8:30 a.m. and sunset. 736-7607.
Temple Sholom (Reform), 7190 Oak. Rabbi P. Bregman, cantorial soloist M. Breitman. Morning minyans: Sun., 9:30 a.m.; Mon. and Wed. 7:15 a.m.; Fri. 8:15 p.m.; Sat. 10:30 a.m. 266-7190.
The greatest problem in modem architecture is how to build a synagogue-large enough to hold everyone who wants to come on the High Holy Days but small enough^ so that the^ regulars who come every Sabbath won't feel self-conscious or lonely in some huge cavern.
Harry Golden.
The spittle a man throws upward falls back on his own face.
Midrash: Ecclesiastes Rabbah, 7:9
Torah should lead to good deeds, not only to faith, not only good intentions.
Elijah Delmedigo, Behinat ha-Dai
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GailLemishis mourned here  Moshe Ben-Ron buried in Israel
A standing-room only funeral Feb. 11 at Beth Israel Koch chapel, paid tribute to Gail Lemish who succumbed here Feb. 7 after a valiant battle with a lengthy illness.
The former Gail Margolese was born in Montreal on Nov. 30; 1938, and lived there the first four decades of her life.
She took up residence here in Vancouver t^n years ago after she wed^artin Lemish in Montreal on June 26,1979. A design consultant, she was a member here of Vancouver Women's ORT, the Jewish Women's Business and Professional Group and Congregation Beth Israel.
Mrs. Lemish came forward to recount her personal experience during a medical symposium here last year, when many whom her message reached said they were inspired during their own health problems by the courage and optimistic outlook she exemplified during the long illness which eventually took her life.
Rabbi W. Solomon rioted at the eulogy: "Even if each of us in this room could get up and talk, I don't, think we could exhaust what has to be said about Gail. She participated fully in life, teaching us how to come to grips with life and death. Above all she
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comforted her family as she went through the mourning with them — she didn't leave things unsaid."
Rabbi P. Bregman pointed out: "It was wonderful to travel with Gail to Israel on the Federation Mission. . . How many of us are able to live with dignity and how many of us will be blessed with the opportunity to die with dignity? Gail was such a person, there were many. who were touched by her."
Asking her, "What do you want for your children?", the Rabbi said, "she answered, 'I want them to remember Avhat I taught them.'"
Her funeral was officiated by Rabbi W. Solomon and Cantor M. Nixon^ with Rabbi P. Bregman participating. Ch&vra Kadisha was in charge of arrangements.-^— 7
JNF ex-president Pesindead at 88
Seventh generation Israeli bom Moshe Ben-Ron passed away unexpectedly on Jan. 4, while visiting family in Israel.
Mr. Ben-Ron is best remembered as a teacher at the Vancouver Talmud Torah, though in his 31 years in Canada he also taught in Edmonton, Winnipeg and uTthe Tofino area of Vancouver Island for 12 years, for the native community. Devoted to education throughout his life, he received a B.A., B.Ed, and M.A. degrees from the University of Alberta. Even upon retirement in Vancouver he continued, his education-at UBCandSFU.
A multi-faceted individual, the deceased enjoyed intellectual as well as outdoor pursuits including writing, reading, travel, photography.
nature and gardening. A member of the U9C Chess Club^ he was active in BetK Tikvah congregation.
Born in Israel in 1917, Mr. Ben-Ron served in the British army during World War II and afterwards with the United Nations in the upper Galil-lee. He joined the Hagahah during Israel's War of Independence and Trained an active soldier, achieving the rank of Lieutenant, until his departure from Israel in 1959.
He is survived by his wife Rachel of 45 years; brothers Meir Nissim, Jacob, Haim, Emanuel, and sister Bela; and by children Allen and Freda Muscovich. He was predeceased by his son Avinoam.
Mr. Ben-Ron was interred at Neve-David cemetery in Israel.
Photographer Roman Vishniac, 92, called 'greatest In his field'
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Pesin, a former president of the Jewish National Fund of America, died in Caracas, Venezuela on Nov. .28 at 88.
Pesin, who held the office of president from 1971 to 1977, was instrumental in the JNF*s national drive to raise $5 million to establish the John F. Kennedy Memorial Pavilion and  Forest in Jerusalem.
NEW YORK — Photographer Roman Vishniac, whose pictures of Jewish life in Europe before the Holocaust immortalized a vanished world, was called '*the greatest in the field** by his friend Elie Wiesel.
Vishniac died in his Manhattan apartment Jaji. 22 of colon cancer at 92.
The N obel peace laureate, who wrote the preface to Vishniac*s book A Vanished World, cited the storytelling ability of the photographer, saying Vishniac had an uncanny ability to read the minds of his subjects.
Vishniac "wrote the subtitles for every picture," said Wiesel. "He had a story for every picture, an exquisite memory — rich, colorful and precise. He knew exactly what the object of his picture not only  did,  but. what he
thought." Vishniac was born in St.
Petersburg (now Leningrad), Russia, in 1897. His work as the Jewish photographer par excellence garnered him a last-
ing place in the pantheon of chroniclers of Jewish life in Eastern Europe before it was decimated by the Holocaust.
Vishniac, having had a premonition of the destruction of the Jews, roamed across 5,000 miles of-Europe with a camera between the years 1932 to 1939, taking some 16,000 photographs.
He made his way through Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Germany,-Hungary, Romania and Czechoslovakia, with the express purposc-of immortalizing Jewish life. Frequently using a hidden camera, he photographed Jews in the cities, ghettos and tiny shtetls.
Vishniac recorded the visions of poor and persecuted Jews as his personal way of preserving their lives for posterity. He once said, "1 was unable to save mypeople — only theii" memory."
He took pictures of Nazi demonstrations in Germany and preserved as proof photographs of Jewish victims of
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EFRATv Israel - A WORD IN THIS WEEK'S PORTW^ "cherubs,** has left a deep mark on Western art and consciousness, rough images of winged, angelic creatures, with the faces of human infants, so that by now, "cherubic" is one of the strongest superlatives for describing a beautiful, exquisite face. But there are more to cherubs than meets the Western eye.
When we turn to Rashi*s comments on the cherubs mentioned in this week*s portion,Tierifma, and those mentioned in Genesis when Adam and Eve are exiled from the Garden of Eden, we find, amazingly enough, virtually contradictory descriptions of these winged creatures.
What do such^lar opposites in Rashi*s commentary signify? ^
In looking at the Torah selections for the last few weeks, we see a certain progression. The Ten Commandments are given on Sinai, shattering all previous conceptions of G-d*s relationship to humans. After this rarefied concentration of energy, the Torah instructs the Jewish people in the more familiar elements of civil and criminal legislation. RISKIN
This vfeck,parshat Teruma, the Torah is ready for the stage of creating a moveable Sanctuary until the settling of the Promised Land takes root and it will be possible to build a permanent Temple in **ihat phce which G-d will choose".
In giving shape to the infinite, ritual objects are t^e, built, starting with the Holy Ark where the Ten Commandments shall be kept. The Ark*s cover itself will include a unique addition.
"Make two golden cherubs, numbering them out from.the two ends of the ark-cover. One cherub shall be on one end, and one cherub on the other.Makethe cherubs of one piece with the ark-cover from the same piece of gold as the cover itself, on its two ends. The cherubs will spread their wings upward so that their wings shield the cover.. . / will commune with you there, speaking toyoufrom above the ark cover, from between the two cherubs at that are on the Ark of Testimony ..(Exodus 25:18-22).
In this week*s portion, Rashi tells us that these hammered figures had the faces of infants. The Siftei Chachamim, based on a passage in Tractate Chagiga, 13b, explains that in Aramaic, the word for child is *>aAte'\ so that the word ^iiiWm "(cheiPttS^ is really composed of the noun, 'Voft/a" (infant), preceded by the letter "itd/'V whose linguistic function is to signal similarity between different objects. Thus, "kruvim" in this etymology
means "like a_child**.
But, if thisls so in Exodus, we find the cherubs of Genesis radically different. There we read "So He drove out man, and He placed at the east of the garden of Eden the Cherubim, and the flaming sword whichfitrned every way, to guard the path of the Tree of L^e" (Gen. 3:24).
Obviously, there must be a deeper element going on here.
rd like to offer two ways of looking at these concepts.
If we think about it, an angelic winged creature with the face of a child must be the prototype of a certain kind of absolute perfection. Indeed, when we gaze upon our own child, even more than we experience the breathtaking beauty of life just beginning tqjake 5n~a^'unique form, we perceive through the infant the miraculous extension of ourselves into the future.
Just as the cherubs on the Ark give "shape" to G-d's infinite voice, our child gives "shape** to the infinity in the human soul, for who can ever know the potential generations present in the "wings" of the infant I am holding?
But this, Rashi would seem to be saying, can be a double-edged sword. What happens if the child, upon growing older, trades in his wings for swords of fiame to become an "angel of destruction"?
No one is born with a perfection-label attached to the lining. A child's direction of ten depends on a very simple factor. Placed near the Holy Ark, he will become a ministering angel, protecting the Torah. But, if we put a revolving sword in his hand, he wiU become an angel of destruction.
And sometimes it*s not even necessary to put the revolving sword in his hand. Since nature abhors a vacuum, it*s enough that he is not given a Torah education for the onrush of empty glittering cultural artifacts to take over; lights, camera, action; faster than a speeding bullet is the insatiable appetite for elegantly destructive toys.
j\nd Jewish education begins even before birth. The Talmud is filled with instructive, Aggadic tales about the mothers of scholars and tzaddikim recognizing^the need to educate their children even while they were stilLin their wombs. _
The mother of R. Meir, for example, came to the Bet Midrash the moment she felt a stirring in her womb so that the sounds of Torah would be part of her child*s life from the very beginning of its existence.
Rashi*s teaching is a "thunderous whisper": it emerges without spelling anything out and providing two interpretations on the same word, forcing us to look deep into the text to discover why there is no contradiction.
The second interpretation emerges out of the experience of confronting the reality of daily life in Israel. The first distinction we suggest was based on whether or not the child was placed near the Ark. Now, however, I might offer the possibility that we are speaking about one and the samechild — what is different is not the location but the occasion-
Blessed to live in times of peace, our children will be able to
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