«
Thursdayr December 8,1988 — THE BULLETIN— 7
The Jewish Quiz
Ancient Yemenite song reborn as disco liit
Six Jewish! M.P.s elected
JWB Staff
or the 15 Jews who ran for office in thejederal election only six will be representing their constituenciesjn Ottawa 'when Brian Mulroney recalls Parliament.this month.
In B.G. former premier Dave Barrett easily took the Vancouver Island riding of Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca for the NDP. Only minutes after he was elected MP., the first time federal candidate was answering questions about possibly seeking the NDP leadership in wake of the party's poor showing under Ed Broadbent.
In Ontario, two Liberal MP's survived the Tory tidal-wave and held their seats. Former solicitor-general Robert Kaplan retained Toronto's York Centre, and in his 11th election, Herb Gray kept Wjndsor West for himself
It would have been impossible for all 15 Jewish hopefuls to have won seats because in two ridings Jews ran against each other.
In Pierre Trudeau's old riding of Mount Royal, Liberal MP. Sheila Finestone held off Jewish P.C. Robert Presser. And incumbent Liberal M; P. David Berger defeated NDP challenger
WEINER BERGER
Ruth Rose in the new St. Henri-Westmount riding.
Elsewhere in Montreal, Canada's only Jewish Minister, Gerry Weiner, was returned in Pierrefonds^-DoUard.
Two_of the notable Jewish losses included Winnipeg North member David Orlikow and renowned pianist Anton Kuerti who ran for the NDP in the Toronto riding of Don Valley North.
Israel belongs to Jews, says prof.
THORNHILL^ Ont. —
Jews have a stronger case for Israel than any other people, a professor of Jewish philo-r sophy at Neve College in Jerusalem told a large audience here.
Speaking at an Ohr Somayach lecture at Beth Avraham Yoseph Synagogue, Rabbi Natan Lopes Cardozo said Jews not only can cite history, but the prayers they utter each day as proof of their title to Israel.
Forexample, he told his lis-
teners, from the destruction of Jewish independence by the Romans right up to 1948, Palestine was successively occupied by 14 -separate conquerors.
But not one of them, he. pointed out, ever succeeded in-building an independent nation in the Holy Land.
"The whole concept of-a Palestinian state and a Palestinian people was created after — not before — the establishment of the State of Israel," Cardozo said.
Diaspora Jews pressuring Israel, says Kruger
TORONTO — Jewish lay leadership may "have to force (Toronto) rabbis to come together" if they can't reach an agreement on matters such as conversions, said a Toronto college president.
Arthur Kruger, Woods-worth college president and a University of Toronto economics professor, was speaking on Unity and Disunity in the Toronto Jewish Community at the annual installation breakfast of the Council of Jewish Brotherhoods of Metro Toronto. The council represents more than 15 Temple and Synagogue brotherhoods representing Reform, Conservative and Orthodox, Canadian Jewish News reported. _Z- -
Kruger, an Orthodox Jew and a member of Shaarei Shomayim, said the Who is a , Jew question is a non-issue in Israel, but Diaspora Jews of differing opinions are putting pressure on Israel to decide the question their way.
"The rabbis are shouting from the housetops in North America on what should be done," he said.
It is one thing for Jews in their  comfortable living
rooms in New York, Washington, Montreal and Toronto to tell Israelis what to do, he said, but the people who live there face Middle East reality. On Succoth, he said, his son was in a jeep patrolling the IsraelirJordan border. "Our role should be to give money and support and shut up," he said, to loud applause. "If we want more, then we should go there."
While the Torah says the highest form of charity is for the giver and receiver not to know each other's name; he said, "the North American Zionists have taken charity to the lowest depth by walking into the receiver's house and telling him how to spend h."
Denouncing "the trans-Atlantic discord, he said: "1 don't know what sense political Zionist movements (in the Diaspora) make since 1948."
Diaspora pressure has now reached the point where Knesset members, including Arabs, of all political stripes are about to decide Who is a 3ew and oihQT halachic matters, said Kruger.
"This was put in the laps of Israelis by North American Jews."
MONTREAL — In a world where a three year-old pop song can be regarded as a "classic'' and ditties not much older are classified as **golden oldies," Israeli singer Ofra -Hazajias a hit here that is "truly a blast from the past." - Im Nin'Alu is a Yemenite religioiis song that dates bacIT to the 16th century. It has been set to a disco beat, but the ancient Hebrew lyrics have been retained.
Haza's album Shaday, which features the hit song, has reached number 16 on the Quebec charts.
Other tunes on the album are divided about evenly between English and ancient Hebrew.
The record has been a hit elsewhere in North America, as well Europe and even Ku\yait, according to the Canadian Jewish News.
Haza, 30, has been a popu-
lar recording artist in Israel throughout the 1980s, and two years ago started to becomeJknown internationally.
After recording the traditional version of Im Nin'Alu for heivYemenite-born parents in 1984, she decided to do it disco style as a means of bringing the music to the young.
The song was written by a great Yemenite Jewish poet. Rabbi Shalom Shabazi, while his people were in exile, she said. "It says even if the doors of the generous become locked, the doors of heaven never are.*'
Edmond Lipsitz
QUESTIONSr
(1) Who were the Hasmoneans?
(2) Name the five sons of MattathiasV
(3) Against whom was the Hasmonean (Mapcabean) revolt directed?
ANSWERS: ^
(1) The name of a priestly family and dynastyjounded by Mattathias of Modiin.
Judah the Maccabee, Jonathan, Simon, Johanan and Eleazar. —
(3) Against religious persecution instigated by the Syrians through their helleniz-ing policy in Palestine. ~
TA««a qu9iUonBandan»wenan from 6400 QuestiOM About Judaism and the Jewish People by Edmond Y.LIpalli (JESL Educational Producta, Downs-vlaw). Dr. LIpalU would baplaaaad to rocalva commanta, or to conaldaryour own Jawlah Quiz queatlona tor tutura columna. Write to Mm, c/o The Jewish Western Bulletin.
Anniversary marked
COPENHAGEN - Rabbi Bent Melchior, the Chief Rabbi of Denmark^ is marking his 25th year as a rabbi. A graduate of Jews' College,
London, and a volunteer in Israel's War of Independence, he succeeded his father. Dr. Marcus Melchior, as Chief Rabbi in 1969.
Rarest books at H.U.
JERUSALEM — The very earliest books of Jewish inter-" est printed in the U.S.A.. are among 200 items of rare 18th and 19th century Judeo-Americana recently acquired by the Jewish National and University  Library.
Alfred and Pauline,
not
run of the mill.
In a single generation Rogers Foods of Armstrong has turned its local flour and cereal mill into a $13 million buisiness with sales as far afield as Africa, -South America and Ghina. In fact, Rogers accounts for 55 per cent of Canada's flour sales to Hong Kong.
For Alfred and Pauline Rogers who Started the business in the 1950s, it's still very much a family affair with son Stan developing a new line of diversified food products.
Together with more than 400 other
B.C. food manufacturers, Rogers is part of the "Great Taste ofB.C'Van industry with more than $3:3' billion in sales at home and abroad. Mixing home grown goodness with international sales, it's British Columbia's recipe for success.
For more information about B.C.'s agriculture industry, contact your MLA, your nearest Government.Agent, or write to the Hon. John Savage, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Parliament Buildings, Victoria, B.C. V8V 1X4.
Togethen A Better B.C