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The seventh annual Simr :chat Tora^ally will be held outside Beth Israel^ynagogue on Sunday, Oct. 2.
A full program of activity has been planned, Feported a spokesperson for the Vancouver Action ; for Soviety Jewry, which sponsors the ■ event.
Included will be addresses by city representatives and local members of the Jewish community who participated in the recent official tour of the Soviet Union (JlVBScpt. 8 and 15).
The rally will focus, as it did last year, on the Grauer Family {J JT^, Sept. 8 and on many
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previous occasions). Also,~^as there was^t last year's rally, there will be a cake honoring the tenth birthday of young Chanon Grauer, highlighting the fact that yet another year has been spent in refusal by
thelamily.
Lila Quastel, a member of the recent tour, will explain the family's predicament.
The, parade preceding the event at B.L will feature banners from local Hebrew schools. Those with the winning banners will lead the parade and the:winning synagogue or school will be the venue for next year's rally.
The event is sponsored by the Yancouver Action for Soyiet Jewry.
Local confab to hear about
on gifted
At the Gifted Children's Association of B.C. annual conference Oct. 1, Mickey Soudack Angel will be reporting Israeli research on "Gifted Children's Fears About the Future.'^
well. Dr. Joan Pinkus of Vancouver will discuss "The Myths and Realities of Giftedness."
Other addresses in this conference, which is of interest to parents and educators of the
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Soudack Angel, a former Canadian delegate to the World Council on Gifted and Talented Childreny was with the Ministry of Education in Israel and the Educational Research Institute of B.C. in the 1970s.
Dr. Felice Kaufman of Kentucky, a specialist in underachievement^ will present a hew look at thatareaand will report on her retrospective research on gifted adults in an address entitled "A Look Into Your Child's Future." As
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skills, enrichment, pre-school years, testing, and gifted children with learning disabilities.
Also included in the conference are ispecial sessions for children and teenagers, including Olympics of the mind through robotics, seashore ecology, historical scienceand mysteries of the univeree.
For information about the conference, call 261-7153 or 266-6624.
Louis Brier Home and Hospital/Jewish Home for the Aged Foundatidn has held
upcoming
SMOLLAN
elections for the year.
The Foundation is custodian for bequests to The Louis Brier.
"It is extremely important at this time of government economic restrictions, to pro-^ vide the missing anemities which add to the quality of life of our aged residents," a ^spokesperson told ^B.
The new Officers for-the -board of directors of the Foundation, for 1988/ 89 are-president, Bert SmoUan; vice president, Len Hyman; treasurer, Joe Winfield; fmancial secretary, Stan Korsch; recording secretary, Marion Cotsman; with directors: Joe Segal, Bernard Reed, Chiam Kornfeld and David Herman.
Lifetime Honorary Chair^ man is David Chertkow. n
During a recent reception held at the Ui3C faculty club,, visitiiig nuclear scientist Dr. Avraham Rinat of the Weizmann Institute of Science, addressed a capacity audience on some of the reasons behind the building of the soon-to-be-jdedicated Canadian Institute of Energy and Applied Research in Rehovot, Israel.
The evenrwas hosted by the Vancouver Chapter of the Canadian Society for the Weizmann Institute of Science.
As Dr. Rinat explained . "the race for alternate energy has begun in earnest. The world's; fossil fuel reserves are being rapidly depleted. Jh^ question is no longer if reserves will disappear, biit when: Estimates vary. 40 years. 50 years. Maybe 60. What is certain is that some time in the middle of the next century^ the world Will find itself running short of oil and natural gas.
Every 43 minutes a$ much energy strikes the earth in the form of solar radiation as is used in a whole year by all consumers throughout the world, explained Rinat. In one week, this energy exceeds all known coal deposits. Even the small portion that can be put to use is enough to meet much of the world's energy needs. "The sun provides a free, clean and inexhaustible
FINTA FIRST CHARGED
TOftONTO — imre Finta, a captain in the Hungarian army during the Second World War, is the first person to be charged under Canadian law witlj crimes against humanity.
Attorney-General Ray H natyshyn recently signed an eight point preferred indictment charging Finta, 77, with war crimes and crimes against humanity. The preferred indictment means Finta will not undergo a preliminary hearing but go directly to trial. Trial date in Ontario Supreme Court will be set Sept. 15.
The indictment alleges Finta confined 8,617 Jews at Szeged, Hungary and stole money, jewelry and other valuables while using threats of violence in 1944.
He is also charged with having Jews kidnapped and sent out of the country.
Finta, a former Toronto restaurateur, is further charged with being responsir ble for the deaths of Jews who died during transport through Hungary, Austria, Czechlos-lovakia and Poland.
Doug Christie, the lawyer who defended Ernst Zundel and Jim Keegstra, will represent Finta.
Finta, who is free on $100,000 bail, was charged last December, one month after losing a libel trial to Sabrina Citron, co-founder of the Canadian Holocaust ^ "Remembrance Association. That trial concluded with Justice Richard Holland ordering Finta to pajTCitron $30,000 for telling a reporter her accusations about war crimes were lies.
source of energy," he declared.
Dr. Rinat was one of the ten Israeli nuclear scientists visiting UBCs TRIUMF who were introduced to member of the Vancouver Chapter at an informal cocktail reception. Co-hosting the annual event were Dr. Erich Vogt, director of TRIUMF, a vice-president on the board of the Vancouver chapter, and David Freeman, Q.C., chapter president.
In 1979 after a successful fund raising event, an ongoing scientist exchange program was funded and set up between TRIUMF and the
Weizmann Institute through the local branch of the Canadian Society.
This summer the Israeli scientists at TRIUMF came from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Tel Aviv university (TAU), Ben-Gurion university, the Hebrew university, Soreq Nuclear Research Centre. For the first time students were amongst the visitors, five from TAU and one from Hebrew University.
The 350-seat Robson Square Media cinema will be the venue for the upcoming Weizmann symposium entitled "Ethics in the BiOnic Age" which takes place Wednesday, Sept. 28, 8 p.m. A panel of experts will be moderated by Judge Nathan Nemetz. Seats on a first-come-first-served basis.
President Freeman told of the upcoming Dedication Mission to Israel which will herald the opening of the Canadian Institute for Energy and Applied Research set to take place Nov. 2 to 14 with an early return date —^ Nov. 8 — for businessmen. ^
"Canadian supporters," he continued, - "have been the genesis and sustenance of this great venture. All Canadians will be proud to visit, and at least in part, claim as their own, one'of the great undertakings of the Weizmann Institute of Science."
Of special interest to Western participants will be a stroll through the Allan Blumanfald Family Garden or a visit to the Morris J. and Dena Wosk Solar Energy Wing where ' they might find new scientific instruments donated by a fund set up by Sophie and the late Isadore Waldman. They might also visit the wall where the Scroll of Light bears the i names of many major local contributors. ' ...
Anyone wishing to join the Mission leaving Nov. 2 may call Phyllis at 682-8332 or write Canadian Society for the Weizmann Institute of Science, #122 — 119 West Pender Street, Vancouver, V6B 1S4.
SEEN IN DISCUSSION at UBC Faculty dub with host Dr: Erich Vogt, left, and Weizmann scientist Dr. Avraham Rinat, right. Is ^usah Quastel. ,:v
VOICES OF PEACE: ISRAELIS SPEAK OUT
Two public meetings sponsored by Jews for a Just Peace.
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Palestinian Uprising & Israeli Response
Speaker:...',
Benjamin Beit-Haliahmi Time:'
Saturday. September 24 8:00 p.m. Place: ■'
Vancouver Planetarium Auditorium. 1450 Chestnut Dr:
Mr. Beit-Hallahmi is a clinical psycholoigist who teaches at tl;ie University of Haifa. He is the author of The Israeli Coh-hecUon: Who Israel Arms and Why, an analysis of the Israeli arms trade. He is currently working on a history of Zionism. He is a member of the Israeli Council for Israel-Palestine Peace, a group dedicated to peace and dialogue with the Palestinians which also includes such prominent Israelis as Uri Avnery and Matti Peled.
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Yesli 6vul. TlierelsA Limit: Soldiers Wiio Refuse To Serve
/Speakers:.'' Peretz Kidron and Meier Amor Thne:
Monday. October 3 8:00 p.m. Place:
Magee Secoiidary School. Auditorium. 1975 West 49th Ave.
• Yesh Gvul Is a grass roots organization of Israeli reserve soldiers who refuse to cooperate with their.govemment's policy in ttie West Bank and Gaza, they are not pacifists, but conscientious objectors to a particular policy. Hundreds have joined in signing their declaration this year, and about twenty-five have been jailed for refusing to serve on the West Bank or Gaza on moral grounds. -
Peretz Kidron is a journalist, well known in North America for his reports from Israel on public radio in the U.S. Meier Amor is an Israeli of Moroccan background, who has served a jail term for his opposition to what Yitzhak Rabin termed the policy of "the iron fist."
Admission for both meetings: $5.00 ($3.00 for seniors, students, unemployed.)
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