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Noted personalities spealc at Showcase
Federation delegates attend Assembly
Twelve Vancouver delegates will attend the upcoming Council of Jewish Federations General Assembly Nov. 16-20 in New Orleans.
The 12 ■ will take part in activities and Vancouver's Young Leadership honorees will be given awards along with 200 others from across North America. They are Renee Bellas and Larry Ros-soff. Others attending will be Rabbi'Martin Cohen, Robert Coleman, Helen Coleman, -Steven Drysdale, Eli Corn, Sharon Harowitz,Debby "Lerner, Carol Oreck, Bev Rossoff and Randy Tischler.
Mario M. Cuomo, Governor of the State of New York, will be another featured speaker. He will discuss the issue of "Responsibility and Service: A National Perspective" as part of the overall general assembly theme of Areyvim Zeh Lazeh: Responsibility and Service — Federation's Role in Creating a Caring Community.
Also scheduled to speak is chairman  of the Jewish
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Agency executive and Former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Simcha Dinitz, who will comment on the need for mutual responsibility and caring between Israel and North America.
In addition to major plenar-ies with distinguished speakr prs, the General Assembly will also feature 15 forums.
More than 90 wprkshopsv designed to foster discussion and (exchange of ideas, are
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also scheduled. Workshop topics will include timely issues such as long term health care insurance for the elderly, increasing tourism to Israel, AIDS in the Jewish community, and domestic violence, as _.well as the ongoing Federation concerns of human resources, leadership development, endowments, campaign, missions, refugee resettlement, Black-Jewish re-latibns and Federation-synagogue relations.
Two noted personalities will be featured at the upcoming Showcase of Canadian Writers slated at the JCC Nov. 20-21.
When Rabbi MeirUri Got-tesman presides over story-time on Sunday, Nov. 20 at 10:30 a.m.v he will-be giving children (ages 6 to 12) a chance to__be creative — a chance to develop "a sense of not what the world is, but of what it could be," organizers told JWB.
Following storytime. Rabbi Gottesman will speak to adults on "The Power of the Story" at 11 a.m. while Ellen Schwartz holds a creative writing workshop forchildren ages6to I2(yjr5, Nov.3).
Rabbi Gottesman tests his stories on his own nine children and on his numerous students.
Chaimkel the Dreamer, Gottesman's most recent
Plan^elave Malka
Beth Hamidrash congregation is sponsoring another Melave Malka on Saturday, Nov. 12 at 8 p.m. at theThome of Dr and Mrs, Tony David, 5818 Adera Street.
The community is invited to a warm evening of song. Refreshments are provided.
book, tellsthe story of a rabbi who comes from a town called Iceberg to help run_a small Jewish bookstore.
Chabad Lubavitch hosts events featuring Rabbi Gottesman, and will hold a community Shabbaton with the rabbi as guest speaker on Fri-da5^_Nov. 18 at 7 p.m. at the Lubavitch centre (^nervations, 266-1313).
On Monday, Nov. 17, as a Showcase special event, the Jewish Educators Conference luncheon will welcome Batia Bettman, speaking on "People of the Book . . . But Which Book?". Bettman is director of -educational services for the Jewish^-Educational Council of Montreal, and has an MA. in educational technology.
Also during Showcase the book sale continues throughout — all day Sunday, Nov. 20,9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Monday, Nov. 21,9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Organizers told JWB the sale is packed with Chanuka gift ideas, gift wrapping by CRT, and, of course, a bigger selection of books, records.
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tapes and bargains than ever before.
For information on Showcase events call Eleanor at 266-9111.
UBC Workshop will keep Medieval education alive
JWB Staff
The upcoming Workshop on Education in Medieval Jewish Society slated Thursday and Friday Nov. 17-18 at UBC is to keep alive this most interesting and important subject, organizer Prof. Richard Menkis told JWB.
Prof. Menkis of the UBC department of religious studies explained that the introductory lecture in the UBC XVIII Medieval Workshop will take the form of a memorial to Frank (Ephraim) Tal-mage who passed away in July.
Talmage, a leading scholar
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in the field of Medieval Jewish exigesis. One of his most famous works titled David Kimche: A Man and His Commentaries (1975) is a seminal,work in the field. He also had a great interest in Judeo Christian relations and published a reader entitled Disputation and Dialogue: Readings in the Christian?!Jewish Encounter {K.TAW and ADL, 1975) as well as numerous other articles and books in English and Hebrew.
"He was a teacher and friend of many scholars
attending the conference," said Menkis.
The first session — curriculum — will begin with a study of the Bible in Ashkenazi Jewry, abstract of a talk proposed by Talmage. Other sessions will include mysticism and education in curriculum, "under-explored issues in education in Jewish society and social aspects of education."
The final and . keynote -address — the Leon and Thea Koerner Memorial lecture —
Ta-Shma, professor in the Hebrew university of Jerusalem's department of Talmud. Chaired by A. Jean Elder, chair, committee for Medieval studies, it will take place at 12:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 18 on the UBC campus, Buchanan A 106.
Registration is required for materials  and  meals. For .information contact Prof. Menkis at 228-5825.
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Commencing Saturday night, Nov: 19 until Monday afternoon, Nov. 21, Jewish educators from the Pacific Northwest region will participate, in a conference sponsored by G H EG being held in Vancouver.
Prof. Israel Ta'Shma will deliver the keynote address, "The People, Their Book and Their Language — The Hebrew Book of Life and. Education," at 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 19th at the Schara Tzedeck synagogue. This evening is offered in conjunction with the Jewish Federa-tion of Greater Vancouver.
The conference continues on Sunday morning at lOa.m. at the Talmud Torah. A wide variety of topics will be offered, including Torah L'ishma sessions with Prof. Richard Menkis from UBC and Dr. David Cordis from the University of Judaism, and language teaching with Barbara Gerber from VCC, Batia Bettman (Education Resource Centre, ^ontreal), and UBC Prof. Rita Watson.
Drama and media will be discussed^with Joan Cohen from Beth Tikvah and Debbie Butlerfrom the Jewish Education Council, Seattle. Teaching methodology workshops will be held with Bettman, Prof. Stanley Blank of UBC, Nurit Grossman (JNF, Montreal) and  Rabbi Shmuel
Strauss (Schara Tzedeck).
Additionally there will be a special session for librarians with Prof. Barry Waifish from the U niversity of Toronto and another for principals with Prof. Sally Rogow from UBC discussing methods of integrating the special needs child.
Monday's sessions begin at 9 a.m. at Beth Israel. Presenters will include Bettman and Phyllis Solomon discussing such topics as "The Teacher as Decision Maker," methodology workshops both in English and Hebrew and an examination the Jewish child faces as a member of a minority ethnic group in this majority culture.
The conference will close on Monday at 12:30 p.m. when Batia Bettman will discuss the topic of "People of the Book" at the JCC presented in conjunction with the Showcase of Canadian Jewish Writers.
For copies of the program, registration forms and further information, .contacts Betty Nitkin »»or Sue Simons, 266-9111. _
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