12 — THE BULLETIN — Thursday. August 17,1989
Hear and there — Federation Campaign *89, which gets underway next month, has set a target of $4.4 million . . . Among Jewish educational news on the horizon (that we can talk about) is that Beth Hamidrash Hebrew School will be holding its classes this fall at the JCC. The burgeoning school has been crowded out of the tiny shul premises. For sure B.H. is a briskly growing congregation that desperately needs a new home ... Rumor has it that Richmond Country Club is pondering installing a kosher kitchen. Kol HaKavod! What a beautiful venue it'll be for future functions and simchas — a kosher kitchen will transform RCC*s entire image in the community... Hadassah-WIZO of Canada is holding its Western Regional Conference in Edmonton in mid-September. There's an evening of miniature golfing planned for relaxation at West Edmonton Mall's famed Pebble Beach golf course. No previous golf experience required, the gals point out.
One of the features at the forthcoming Showcase of Jewish Writers in November during Jewish Book Month will be Ira Nadel's recently published Joyce and the Jews, a fascinating treatise and must read for literary buffs. English at UBC, Nadel documents how Jews and Judaism helped shape James Joyce as man and writer.
You'll read elsewhere about the Shirley Show, CTV's new daily coast-to-coast daytime talk show coming in September . . . Well, its charming host, Shirley Solomon, in town recently for promos, is likely the first afternoon talk show host in North America who speaks Yiddish fluently! How about that!
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When you read about BGU honorees Abe and Elaine Charkow this week what you won't read is how during one of four national women's missions in which she participated, Elaine once carried lox to Golda Meir — plus 238 toques for the comfort of Israeli soldiers serving on the cold Golan Heights. . . Elaine recalls as one of her more memorable experiences meeting David Ben-Gurion in Montreal . . . Telling him she'd journeyed from Vancouver to meet him, he responded, "Why stop here? Keep going. . . Israel is not so far away" ... We have to thank Mickey Angel for interviewing Elaine and eliciting such recollections.
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If you caught last week's Commercial Street Art Festival then you possibly saw a former member of Israel's Batsheva Dance Company perform. Johannesburg-born Dorit Oshir, who's been with the Judith Marcuse Dance Company in Toronto this year, was with Batsheva from 1984 to 1988. . .We hear that Carmen Rosen performed as well at the Art Fest as part of the seven-member Eastside Gals Balkan Group.
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The man who calls himself a storekeeper, Torontonian Ed Mirvish, 75, was made a Commander of the British Empire at Buckingham Palace for his $4 million restoration of London's Old Vic which he bought sight unseen after his wife went there. . .Though he walked off with one of Britain's highest honors, the cut-rate department store millionaire (Honest Ed's) says he's still losing money on the prestigious Old Vic.
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Our media mayven Robert Bass has advised in the sad news department that the senselessly slain young actress Rebecca Schaeffer was interred in her home town of Portland, Oregon at Ahavia Shalom . . . She has two movies coming out — an
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untitled comedy from Woody Allen and One Point of View which was directed by Dyan Cannon.
Speaking of Dyan Cannon, another M.O.T., it seems that she also hails from nearb from Washington State where she used to sing in her synagogue choir as a youth . . . Apparently Cannon is tinkering with the idea of
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informal rabbi following co-starring in Caddyshack II with comedian Jackie Mason, a one-time rabbi . . . And postscript on this item surely has to be the fact that when Schara Tzedeck here first dedicated its new auditorium/ schoolroom wing in the early '60s, the waning days of Rabbi Bernard Goldenberg's tenure, Jackie Mason came here to perform at the gala function . . . Those among us old enough (!?) to remember will recall the sidesplitting jokes Mason told wherein nothing was sacred, neither building nor rabbi nor honored guests, rather like the court jester of old.
Mason declaimed that night how the spanking new S.T. Wosk Auditorium, the pride of its donor families, reminded him of an airplane hangar... How being a rabbi was no job for a Jewish boy and he (Mason) should know . . . And how could the shul have hired a rabbi who looked so Jewish (with his beard) ? . . . Then he took to task master of ceremonies Murray Goldman for inserting in his repartee commercials for his menswear store and how Goldman had dressed everyone at the head table . . . And on and on and on . . . And the amazing thing was that the Wosks and the Rabbi and Murray and everyone else jammed into the airport hangar — uh, auditorium — was laughing uproariously to the point of wiping away tears. . . Do you remember?
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Oddenda about other M.O.T.s from our media mayven . . . Avery Raskin, a very nice transplanted Montreal boy who was disk jockey at 97 KISS-FM, has now surfaced at CKVU Vancouver as their entertainment reporter. He is also serving as a segment producer on First News . . . Actor Karl Maiden was elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (the Oscars), marking the first time in 20 years an actor has held the post . . . And bored oil tycoon Marvin Davis has brought the legendary Carnegie Deli of New York to Beverly Hills.
Nu, Kinderlach, that's the way it is this relaxed third week of August when the 5/7/v season yet prevails and the more than a hundred Jewish organizations and groups in town are still largely inactive ... Have a Good Shabbos and a loverly week ahead till we meet again, okay?. . .Shavua Tov!
ARCHITECT ALLAN WAISMAN'S drawings of the future two-storey Louis Brier Home and Hos-pltal.
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The Louis Brier campaign to raise $2.5 million to expand the Home and Hospital by 66 rooms is moving into high gear.
According to Bernard Reed, Louis Brier Home and Hospital president, government funding will cover the expansion of the hospital but, "it is up to us, the community to raise the necessary dollars to complete the intermediate care area (Home)," he said.
"Canvassers are in the field now. Be generous when called on but don't wait," he urged the community.
With the campaign in its
second month, Reed and his campaign co-chairman Joseph Segal are joined by a new high-powered campaign committee composed of: Joseph H. Cohen, CM., LL. (Hon.), special gifts division; Bernard Simpson, corporate gifts division; Lee Simpson, women's division; Jack Aceman; Sam-Bass; Lome Cristall; Arthur Fouks, Q.C.; Dr. Arthur 'Hayes; Leon Kahn; Edith Lando; Hon. Justice Nathan Nemetz; Ralph Schwartzman; and Irving Sirlin.
The expansion, the first since 1968, will begin early in the New Year. As well as a new second storey, extensive repairs and renovations to the
existing facility are scheduled. When completed, 33 rooms will be added to both the intermediate care unit (Home) and extended care unit (Hospital), said Reed.
After months of planning and discussion, architect Allan Waisman's design was sanctioned.
"The exterior will conform to the general surrounding community appearance," said Waisman. "Gone will be the institutional look, in its place will be a townhouse effect. This will be beneficial not only to the neighbors, but to the psychological well-being of the residents. It will truly be a home to come home to."
Bromberg brings art to residents of LBH
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Miriam Joy Bromberg has learned that no one is too old to appreciate the finer things in life.
Twice a month for the last year arid a half, the onetime Edmonton resident has conducted "Poetry, Art and Expression," a program that emphasizes positive thinking and relaxation, for residents of Louis Brier Home and Hospital.
Bromberg, a life member of Louis Brier Auxiliary, has led the residents to learn about the French Impressionists. Through her volunteer efforts, they have viewed prints by Russian-born Jewish painter Marc Chagall and other artists.
During her "Poetry, Art
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'Beginners' wanted for minyan
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Members of the Jewish community had better start saying their prayers — and the sooner the better — Rabbi David Bassous of Beth Hamidrash Congregation figures.
He's eager to help them along by starting a "beginner's minyan" next month at the 3231 Heather street synagogue.
"One of the main things keeping people out of synagogues is that they can't follow the services and get bored," Bassous told The Bulletin. "In the synagogues, there's a lot of people who don't know how to follow the prayers, so they start talking to their neighbors."
Bassous would like to remedy the situation by conducting a series of weekly services, starting Sunday, Sept. 3 at 10:30 a.m. Open to all members of the community, they'll feature selected prayers read aloud slowly, with the rabbi demonstrating how to follow the service word by word.
"Basically, we'll learn how to sing the prayers," he said. "We'll be reciting them in English as well, with a short run-
ning commentary."
A similar outreach program held in Nevk' York's Lincoln Square Synagogue attracted only three persons in the beginning —: not a minyan at all.' Eventually, said Bassous, 50 joined up.
The atmosphere will be casual at the drop-in minyan (no registration is required). However, the rabbi asks that participants have a minimal reading knowledge of Hebrew letters and vowels.
Bassous plans to continue the program until at least Sept. 17. "We hope to have the minyan again during the holidays and through Passover," he said. For details, call Beth Hamidrash at 872-4222 or 872-1201.
their feelings. Many, after hearing British, American and other poems, have written and recited their own works.
Not one to be left out, Bromberg writes, recites and practises poetry, too.
Born Miriam Wener, she was a 30-year employee of the Vancouver Jewish Community Centre (from 1951 to 1981). Since then, she has been a volunteer on the Centre's Art Gallery and Cultural Arts committees. .
Bromberg, who also finds time to serve on the board of National Council of Jewish Women and work with Vancouver Hadassah-Wizo, B'nai B'rith Women and Beth Israel Sisterhood, is a woman of all ages. Besides her involvement with Louis Brier Home, she has directed programs at L'Chaim Day Care Centre.
Her volunteer work with LBH residents is especially praised by Tzvia Estrin, the home's programming director.
"That special quality that Miriam Joy has, and the way she listens to them so sincerely, has inspired them to want to participate and share," Estrin told The Bulletin. "We always look forward to Miriam's program, her love and sharing abilities."
Soviet kibbutzniks
•TEL AVIV — Eight young Jewish university graduates from the Soviet Union arrived in Israel for a stay o'n a kibbutz. The students are attending a special Hebrew-language ulpan set up for them at Kibbutz Ein Dor for 10 to 12 weeks, and also work half a day on the kibbutz.
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