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pohea and H^lpexnTecipjents of ^ honorary degrees from UBC in May
JfVB Staff
Two prominent Jewish Canadians will receive honorary degrees from the University of B:G. at May gradual tion ceremonies.
Among the six persons-chosen by the university are Joseph Cohen, highly res-~ pected communal leader, and former UBC Professor Jack Halpern, now with the University of Chicago.
Hailed many times for his lifetime devotion to the comr munity, Cohen was named in 1979 a member of the prestigious Order of Canada.
He has been especially active on behalf of the Vancouver Symphony Society and Boy Scouts Association of B.C.
in 1982 Cohen became the first Jewish person to receive the Boy Scouts Canadian Medal of Merit arid was also named Man of the Year by the Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Vancouver.
Within the Jewish community, the Vancouver businessman has been equally active in organizations such as
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State of Israel Bonds, honored in 1973 as that group's Man of the Year.
Cohen, born in Winnipeg; is a founding member of this city's Jev/ish Community Centre. He was the first chairman of the Jewish Community Fund and Council, the community's fund ing arm, heading their 1971 campaign.
Made 'Freeman of the City' in 1980, he was nominated three years later by Mayor Mike Harcourt as chairman of Vancouver's 1986 centennial project.
Prof. Jack Halpern is a
chemist of international stature. Born In Poland in 1925; Dr. Halpern moved to Canada in 1 929 and was educated at McGill University 'in Montreal.
He subsequently taught at UBC from 1950 to 1962 and has held academic positions at Cambridge university, universities of Minnesota and Chicago^ Harvard, Princeton, University of Copenhagen, the California Institute of Technology and Kyoto university.
.Since 1983 he has been an external scientific member of the MaxrPlanck-Ins'fituis fur Ko h lenfors chung in Germany.'
Dr. Halpern has been feted • by numerous scientific organizations for his contributions to inorganic, bioinorganic and organometallic chemistry.
He is the author of more than 230 scientific publications and is listed in the Canadian Who's Who.
The honorary degrees will be conferred at.UBC's graduation ceremonies on May 28, 29 and 30. . .
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GIFT FOR EVERY CANADIAN GOING TO ISRAEL — David Dennis, JNF Canada's nati^^ chairman laist month presented a Maple sappiing to Sheryl Kohl, El Al representative, inaugurating the program vvhich gives every Canadian visiting Israel the honor off personally planting a tree. Pictured (from left) Sheryi. Kohl, David Dennis, A. Drori off Israeli Government tourism an^ M.p. Larry Grossman, project patron.
By JACK SINGER
Canadian Jewish Congress locally may get still more federal funds to aid small Jewish communities following a ■$60,000 government grant issued to CJG's national office.
Mark Silverberg, CJC (Pacific Region) executive director, told JWB it will, however, take a few months before his office learns how the $60,000 will be distributed to Congress branches — each with their own shopping list — across Canada.
The grant was recently presented to CJC by Otto Jelinek, Canada's multicultu-ralism minister, as a first paynient of a larger $240,000 three-year grant to "assist the cultural development of small Jewish communities in Canada."
The minister provided the
COmputer nejwork^linki ng B.C:'s. tiny Jewish enclaves.-
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Svend Robinson, Member of Parliament for Burnaby, will be the featured speaker at the Israel Luncheon series to take place on Thursday, Feb. 20 at 12 noon in the Shalom Gallery of the JCC.
Robinson was first elected in 1979 and since has been reelected twice doubling his majority to almost 8000 in September 1984.."
Born in 1952, he attended school in Burnaby,- where he still lives. He graduated from UBC, with a law degree, before attending, the London School of Economics^ where he studied law,^conomics and ppU.tical science; .7
Heis active in the Civil Lib-erties:Asspciatipjn:aVboth the I p^roviricjai and Tecleral le^fds
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and is a national director of the Canadian Human Rights Foundation.
>,An advocate of human rights with a special concern for minority rights and an
outspoken feminist, he is the N DP's chief representative on the House of Commons Justice and Legal Affairs Committee. As well, he is a member of the Joint Committee on Regulations and Other Statutory Instruments. He was also a member of the historic Special Joint Committee on the Constitution of Canada, where he argued vigorously Jor a strong Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Robinson has been reappointed the N DP)^ critic for Justice and the Solicitor Geti-eral. In' this capacity he has spoken on a wide variety of issues including freedom of information, young offenders legislation,  Crimitial Code
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cheque at a recent Congress national executive meeting held in Toronto.
Congress here already received a direct $14,000 grant, the second one since 1983, last November from the same niinistry, enabling CJC to coordinate and fund a
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The article further said that Israel's Holocaust memorial authority, Yad Vashem, has no record of Charlie Grant. The agency maintains faithful records of the role of Righteous Gentiles during the Holocaust.
When researching his book, Irving Abella, co-author of None is Too Many, was eager to include Grant's escapades, but was unable to find any evidence to confirm the businessman's heroics.
Abella has also suggested that a passport and an exit visa were simply not good enough to allow a Jew to leave Vienna during the war.
Numerous official documents were required, Abella argued, and a small factory
would have been needed to handle the load.
Added to these revelations, Anna Sadnor, the film's writer, has lately admitted that parts of her script, were nothing more than "fictionalized history."
The scene where Charlie Grant is interned in a concentration camp is an invention, she said.
The Star's Levitch has con^ eluded he needs further proof the Charlie Grant story, the better part of it, was based on fact.
The film, he said, is a "piece of cheap fiction, full of cliches, hackneyed characters and corny melodrama. By hiding behind its claims of authenticity and truth, it sleazily has exploited our emotional need for real heroes."
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JU/F IVE^U" CAMADm £7i/7m/7
WHAT IS THE PLENARY ASSEMBLY?
Since 1919, Canadian Jewish Congress has served as the official representative, before all levels of gov- _ ernment on matters affecting the status and welfare of" Jews in Canada and abroad. The Plenary Assennbly is the highest decision-making body within Canadian Jewish Congress. Regional and organizational delegates, representing all.segments of Canadian Jewish life, assemble every three years at the Plenary to elect National Officers and to deliberate on issues affecting Canadian Jewry.
OPEN COMMUNITY MEETINGS
Every individual, whether affiliated or not with an existing Jewish organization, is eligible to partici-pate in the Plenary a^ an elected delegate or as an -observer.
.. Open meetings will be convened in major cities across Canada to elect regional delegates and to deliberate on policy resolutions to be recommended to the Plenary Assembly.
NOMINATION OF NATIONAL OFFICERS
Nominations are now open for candidates seeking one of the following National Officer positions:
' President
Chairman of the National Executive Associate Chairman of the National Executive Treasurer Secretary Honourary Counsel
Nomination forms and procedures for election of National Officers are available from your Regional CJCOffice.
Please contact your Regional Office for information on how to become accredited to the Plenary Assembly and the date, time and place of your Open Community. IVIeeting.
All nominations for a National Office, to be valid, shall be received postmarked on or before April 11,1986, at the following address: fvlonroe Abbey, Chairman. Plenary Assembly Nominations Committee. 1590 avenue Docteur Penfield, fy/lontreal. Quebec H3G 1C5.
PROCEDURES TO PROPOSE RESOLUTIONS FOR CONSIDERATION AT THE PLENARY ASSEMBLY
A March 14,1986. deadline for the receipt of resolutions at National Off ice has been established. Each Region has constituted a Pre-Assembly Resolutions Committee, which shall receive resolutions from members of Congress, the Regional Executive Committee or the Regional Council for review by and submission to the National Resolutions Committee.
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Discretion to accept late resolutions, if they pertain to matters of urgency and/or current interest, is to be exercised by the National Resolutions Committee. IVIoreover. no resolution shall be placed before the Plenary Assembly unless it has first been considered and approved as to form and relevance by the Resolutions Committee.
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REVISION TO BY-LAW 64
A package of omnibus amendments to CJC By-law 64 has been circulated to members of Congress. A special time penod will be made available at the Plenary to consider these revisions.