Thursday, March 23,1989 — THE BULLETIN — 3
JWB Staff
PROFESSOR MAGARITZ of the Weizmann Institute's Isotope Department takes questions from Terry Moore on CKNW radio talk show.
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cribing how much sea levels could change ("they may even fall") as a result of warming expansion, melting glaciers and melting ice caps, he said most reports of the greenhouse effect were "wild and misinformed."
In response to a question from the audience, Stewart, who had just returned from . Bangladesh, disputed that the world's shrinking food reserves were a result of greenhouse-induced droughts. It is impossible to say whether recent droughts in North America, South America and Africa are a result of global warming, he argued. The world's food reserves, he said, are declining primarily because of this planet's population explosion.
Dr. Gordon McBean attempted to predict what the greenhouse effect will mean for B.C.'s society and economy. His extra long-range
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weather forecast was met with an audible groan.
"Warmer weather in higher latitudes means a prediction of more precipitation in winter . . . when we already have too much rain in B.C." For B.C.'s agriculture, he said, the greenhouse efect may in some ways be a manageable, compensating system. Meaning crops that could no longer grow in one area may be able to be grown elsewhere in the province, and new crops that were previously unsustainable could be harvested in the first region.
Unfortunately, McBean, an expert on acid rain and chairman of UBC's Atmosphere Science program, did not paint such a lush future for B.C.'s number one resource.
"Trees do not migrate as easily as agricultural crops," he told the Sheraton Plaza 500 audience. McBean, a member of the World Meteorological
Organization and the U.N.'s new World Climate Research Program, said B.C.'s forest industry has begun studying possible consequences of, and reactions to, th; greenhouse effect.
Audience members frustrated by the scientific community's refusal thus far to demand action from government, wanted to know when scientists would speak up to ticians.
The problem," replied Stewart, *'is that at present there is no detectable greenhouse effect." Scientists can't ask government to'make economically drastic, changes to society without evidence, he ■ said.- ■ ■ ■ ■
To which a scientist in the audience added a chilling note about the possible "hot time ahead." There is a lag of many years between emission of carbon dioxide and resulting temperature increases. If we are only no^y iseeing the results ' of decadesrold emissions, said the audience member, it may be too late to act when the present emissions show-themselves.
The forum was moderated by UBC zoology professor Dr. Peter Larkin, who was introduced by Dr. David Quastel. David Freeman, president of Vancouver chapter, Canadian Society for the Weizmann Institute, delivered the note of thanks and closed the evening.
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When two ambassadors from Vancouver's Jewish community fly to Odessa next week, Vancouver Jews will begin living up to previous commitments to help the huge, but culturally impoverished, Jewish community of Odessa.
Through the eyes and ears of local Canadian Jewish Congress director Erwin Nest and Rabbi Martin Cohen, Vancouver will learn the specific plight of Odessa Jews and
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There is not even a rabbi for the Ukrainian city, he said.
The initiative for the upcoming CJC trip came largely from Rita Cohn, a member of last year's Vancouver delegation and the Vancouver Action for Soviet Jewry.
Making contact with high profile Soviet Jews and improving links between the two cities' Jewish communities will be one of the priorities of the mission.
Rabbi Cohen and Nest plan to leave for Vancouver's
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attempt to further the cultural and religious needs of that community.
Last fall Vancouver's sister-city delegation, including members of the Vancouver Action for Soviet Jewry, met with both Soviet Jews and Odessa civic officials. At that time delegates offered to aid the struggling Jewish community establish a Jewish cafe and cultural centre (JWB August 1988).
"Actually, *Jewish community' is a misnomer as there are no Jewish organizations, in the Western sense, at all in Odessa," Beth Tikvah's Rabbi Cohen  told   The Bulletin.
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sister-city March 27 and return April 10. On the way to Odessa, they will stop over for one day in Moscow to visit the recently opened Jewish cultural centre.
"Most of our time we'll be in Odessa with Jews trying to' find pragmatic ways to set up a Jewish centre and helping the community as best we can," said Nest.
During last year's sister-city exchange to Odessa, the Vancouver delegation learned that some Jews were attempting to establish a Sholem Aleichem cafe and cultural centre. Rabbi Cohen told The Bui-letih  the  proposed centre
needs Vancouver's help.
"The (Odessa) government is prepared to give land for the project. However, they are not prepared to offer funding." Upon his return. Rabbi Cohen, a CJC executive member, plans to call upon Vancouverites to aid funding of the cultural centre.
Although visas for the Vancouver emissaries have not yet come through, Nest said, "Indications from Soviet authorities have been very positive so far."
Earlier this month Galina Izuvita, vice chairman of the executive committee of the Odessa Soviet, and a 20 member Odessa delegation visited Vancouver to investigate possible joint ventures between the two cities, including a Jewish community centre.
While in Vancouver, Izuvita and Mikhail Grizotsky, a lawyer representing Odessa's Jewish community took part in a discussion about Odessa's Jews with alderman Jonathan Baker; Michael Francis, chairman of the sister-city program; Gerry Zipursky, of the Jewish Community Centre; Lila Quastel, Vancouver National Council for Jewish Women president; Cohn and Nest. ■
Nest said Izuvita toured the J.C.C. and invited Rabbi Cohen and himself to meet her again when they visit her city.
Both men said they view the trip as a marvellous opportunity to improve the plight of Soviet Jewry and update the status of long-time Re-fuseniks.
"This cooperation is a completely new trend. Three years ago this trip would have been completely unthinkable,"
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Three Canadian Jews, two of whom are veteran Vancouver leaders, will make up half of Simon Fraser university's honorary law degree recipients at this summer's convocation ceremonies.
Vancouver business leader and philanthropist, Samuel
Belzberg, humanitarian and prominent lawyer, Arthur Fouks, and acclaimed broadcaster, Barbara Frum will be conferred with honorary degrees for "making a difference to the world around them
With his wife Frances, he established the Beit-HaShoah Museum of Tolerance at the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Los Angeles, of which he is a founder.
Chairman of SFU's Bridge to the. Future campaign, Belzberg recently donated $1 million to the institution to establish a library at its new Harbour Centre campus.
Last month, the financier, received one of this nation's highest honors when he was appointed to the Order of Canada.
Arthur Fouks, a distin-
His humanitarian instinct led him to support the purchase of Vancouver General hospital's first brain scanner and serve as fundraiser for the YMCA.
The self-proclaimed "grandfather of Federation," Fouks has been involved with every major Jewish organization in the city. He has also served as president of the now defunct Jewish Community Fund and Council and helped directlhree emergency U.J.A. campaigns, one of which he co-chaired with Joe Segal.
Barbara Frum has become
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through their private and public accomplishments and contributions."
Belzberg, chairman and chief executive officer of First City Financial Corporation, has earned a long and distinguished record of philanthropy in both the general and Jewish communities. Locally he sits on the board of Vancouver Federation and is president of Maimonides school. In recent years he has worked as chairman for United Jewish Appeal and State of Israel Bonds, from whom he received the Israel 40th anniversary Gold Medal.
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guished Vancouver lawyer, was appointed as Queen's Counsel in 1964. His public, service arid philanthropic endeavors encompass education, medicine, culture, the arts and^usiness.
An original founder of the B.C. Heart Foundation and one time president of the Canadian Heart Foundation, Fouks told The Bulletin, "Fm now one of the very few to have honorary degrees from both UBC and SFU,and I'm extremely proud of that."
Fouks has also served terms as chairman and member of. the UBC's board of governors.
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a household name across Canada as host of CBC T.V.'s news flagship. The Journal. Before joining The Journal, Frum made her name with' probing interviews on As It Happens, the CBC radio current affairs program.
Also receiving honorary degrees from SFU this summer will be contralto, and until recently, chairman of the Canada Council, Maureen Forrester; Acadian novelist Antonine Maillet; and former NDP MLA for Burrard, Vancouver psychiatrist, Ray Parkinson.
On behalf of the B'nai B'rith Lion's Gate Vancouver Lodge Non-Sectarian Food Bank, Harry Schv^artz, chairman, wishes to thank the following contributors for their generous assist-ance which made possible the more than, 60 Chanuka food orders.
A&A Food Importers, Ltd. — Giovanni Camporese —
Bunsmaster Serge —
Safeway — Don Bell-Schwartz Brothers — Danny Weinstein —
Catelli Unico
— Garth Ramsey — — Harvey McWen —
Cosmopolitan Food Importers Woodwards
— Irving Glassner — — Marvin Day —
Kentucky Fried Chicken
— Bruce Burlington — ,
It will not be possible to organize Passover hampers this year, but in answer to a growing need in the community, the Food Bank will persevere with this worthwhile effort, and it is hoped that the public will continue to support this work in the form of merchandise or cash.
Contributions may be phoned or nnailed to our address:
B'NAI B'RITH LION'S GATE VANCOUVER LODGE 1158 POWELL STREET, VANCOUVER, B.C. V6A 1|3
PHONE 255-6268
May you ail be blessed for your kindess and thouglitfulness.
B'nai B'rith Lion's Gate Vancouver Non Sectarian Community Food Bank