Thursday. December 10.1987 THE BULLETIN — 9
Israel's future depends on 'meshing a modern lifestyle with Torahways
JWB staff
Israel's Rabbi Meir Schle-singer said last week he believes his country's future "depends on its citizens having an integrated secular and religious lifestyle."
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The distinguished rabbi and teacher is founder of Kibbutz arid Yeshivat Sha'alvim,
located between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, as well as Dean of Yeshiva Gevoha.
He expressed his philosophy — and that of the community's unique educational complex— during a recent trip to Vancouver where he visited former student, Shmuel Strauss, now assistant rabbi at Congregation Schara Tzedeck;
Strauss is a graduate of the Yeshivat Sha'alvim's Sha'al program which trains young rabbis as leaders to work in the Diaspora. (JWB. Sept. 23, 1987.)
Rabbi Schlesinger told J}VB that only an integrated lifestyle, and "not endless arguing," is going to foster "understanding between the different parts of the Jewish nation in and out of Israel.
"This is the educational philosophy of all our institutions (at the Kibbutz and Yeshivat Sha'alvim.)"
Rabbi Schlesinger lives and teaches in the kibbutz he founded in 1951:
In the beginning, the community was a military outpost lying perilously near the pre-Six Day War border with Jordan.
Today a thriving Sha'alvim hosts an enviable educational division with high-school, col^ lege and seminaries for rabbis and teachers.
The school population has grown from 70 to 1,000 in three decades and Schlesinger said further that each institution is autonomous, guided by a belief in meshing rriodern ways with the teachings of the Torah. "
Combining army service with TOrah learning, students, „ teachers and rabbis are also asked to go out into the coun-SCHLESINGER - Page 6
Warmest Greetings and Best Wishes forClianui<a
MIKE HARCOURT ~ M.L.A. Leader of the Opposition Vancouver Centre
and
EMERY BARNES ~ M.L.A. Vancouver Centre . - r_
749 East Broadway, Vancouver, B.C. VST 1X8
874-8602
A Joyous Ctianuka to All
The Honorable PAT CARNEY
Membier of Parliament for
Vancouver Centre
My constituency office is open Monday-Friday 9 a.m. - 4 p;m. For any enquiries, please phone 687-^3330 or call at: 1045 Howe Street, Vancouver, B.C.
The Jewish Quiz
QUESTIONS:
(1) What do children do on Chanuka nights?
(2) In what city of Israel are the Hashmoneans buried?
(3) What do adults do in some communities on Chanuka nights?
ANSWERS?
(1) Play with the dreidel or sex'ivon.
(2) Modiin. - —
(3) Play cards.
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Edmond Lipsitz
These questions and answers came frojm the book 6400 Questions About Judaism and the Jewish-People by Edmond Y.Lipsitz,>ecently published by JESL Educational Products, Downsview. Dr. Lipsitz would be pleased to receive your comments, or to consider your own Jewish quiz questions for Inclusion in future columns. Write to him, c/o The Jewish Western Bulletin.
Brier director named liead of Gerontology association
'MOTHERHOOD" is a Volcanic-stone sculpture that took Wine-berg 18-months to complete and is on public display in a garden park in Ramat Can.
'Friend of tlie stone' liopes to exiiibit liis woric in Canada
JIFfi Staff
A famous Israeli artist hopes to soon hold the first Canadian exhibition of his works.
Pinchas Wineberg, who lives in Haifa, was in Vancouver last week visiting his sister and nephew, prominent architect Jacques Khouri.
The visit was primarily familial but Khouri told Vlf'^ he has begun makings over-tures aimed at securing a public showing for his uncle's works, either in Vancouver or Toronto.
Wineberg, 50, is a craftsman and teacher whose larger creations are on public display in three Israeli cities: Haifa, Lod and Ramat Can.
For example, a monument in Haifa on Mt. Carmel, dedicated to the^memory of sailors who perished at sea, is the scene of an annual remembrance ceremarty.-
Wineberg's smaller works are displayed in a Tel Aviv gallery and some have found their way into the homes of admiring tourists abroad.
Two years ago the Israeli-born artist conducted a month-long, exhibition in Paris.
. More recently he completed a relief for the lobby of a luxury condominium in Los Angeles, indicating j ust how accessible his artwork is.
Wineberg is both exacting and particular: he eschews any machinery and labors only with the hand-tools he has fashioned himself.
A director of the Louis Brier Home and Hospital for the Aged has been elected president of the Canadian Association on Gerontology.
Dr. Gloria Gutman, also of Simon Fraser university; will "head the 2,500-member association fo professionals and academics involved in the study of aging and/ or services to the aged.
Gutnfian is director of the gerontology research centre and co-ordinator of the gerontology diploma program at Simon Fraser University.
She is author/editor alone or co-operatively of six books on topics ranging from Cana^ da's changing age structure to housing design for seniors.
She is also author or coauthor of more than 30 articles or book chapters and more than 60 reports, briefs and papers on gerontological topics.
Since 1984 Gutman has been a member of a working group established by Health
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and Welfare Canada to develop design guidelines for facilities for the elderly.
in 1986 she sat on a national advisory committee for the 1986 census.
Gutman is the daughter of Vancouverites, David and Rochelle Chertkow. She and her husband, Gary, have three children: Marina, 24; Sam, 21; and Marlene, 18.
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Throughout an already lengthy career, Wineberg has -cdebrated-the themes of Birth and Freedom in a variety of mediums, ranging from a mother nurturing her child to a sculptured figure escaping its confines. "
Using the least expensive— or most common materials for his sculptures, Wineberg proceeds to carve. his heart and soul into each individual piece. He wants to "enoble" stone that people routinely see or walk on.
Wineberg contends that art has to be a process of unplanned self-discovery. He "defrosts" ideas as he creates. "If I know what to do, I won't do it," he said. "I'm free. I go with the stone. I don't fight with her. You have to be a friend of the stone." '
Warmest Wishes for A Happy and Joyous Chanuka
JOHN FRASER
VANCOUVER SOUTH
FEDERAL CONSTITUENCY VANCOUVER SOUTH
Suite A - 1480 West 71 Ave Vancouver. B.C. V6P 3B8
PHONE: 261-8158
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The accusations against her had- appeared in The Winnipeg Siin in July 1984. The story ran shortly after Fedor-kiw's nomination in the Winnipeg north riding and less than eight weeks before the ekction.
Fedorkiw denied she had ever uttered anti-Semitic slurs.
A Happy Chanuka to Ail
The Hon.
grace McCarthy
and
doug mowat, M.L.a. Vancouver Little Mountain Constituency Office
101-1687 W. Broadway, Vancouver, B.C. V6J1Y2 • 736-3348