8 — THE BULLETIN — Thursday, November 24,1983
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A new group stressing traditional Jewish values for residents of Surrey, Delta, White Rock and Langley, recently held an Oneg Shab-bat in Surrey.
The Or-Israel Jewish Community welcomed some 40 persons, including newcomers from Russia, to the event held at the home of Shirle and Fred Carsh. Rabbi Fred Gartner of Bellingham conducted the services, which were followed by a pot-luck dinner.
Further information on Or-Israel may be obtained from Shirle or Fred Carsh at 584-0483.
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BURQUEST Jewish Community Association will hear an explanation of the purr poses and services of the recently-formed Memorial Society, at a meeting Sunday, Nov. 27, 7:30 p.m. at Trav-elodge Motor Inn, Brunette avenue, Coquitlam. Information Bill Gruenthal, 299-4088; details on Burquest Hebrew School (ages pre-school through Bar/Bat-Mitzvah),
Barbara Larkman, 937-5369. ♦ ♦ ♦
HADASSIM HADAS-
SAH will hold a general meeting Wednesday, Nov. 30, 8 p.m., at the home of Miriam Bromberg, 19 r 3108 Oak. Bazaar and convention reports will be given.
WORKERS FOR ZION
will meet Tuesday, Nov. 29,8 p.m., at the home of Nathan and Susan Bluman, 6730 Laurel. Program will feature Max Rosenthal speaking on celebration of Chaiiuka in ' Israel, Catherine Edehnan talking on Soviet constitution, and Rachel Resnfck leading singing of Chanuka songs. Information, Jack Pra-sow, 273-3484.
ADULT CHANUKA PARTY, featuring entertainment and latkes, takes place Sunday, Nov. 27, 8 p.m., at Peretz school, 6184'Ash. Enquiries, 325-6093.
V-JAS, Vancouver Jewish Adult Singles, will go dancing Saturday, Nov. 26 at the 'Lookout* at Delta River Inn, 3500 Cessna road, Richmond. Participants are asked to meet first at 8 p.m. at the home of Doris lozef, 7720 Cambie. Information, Mary Tobin, 738-3908.
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MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE, focussing ^on School and Corrimunity, takes place Dec. 2-3 at Coquitlam College, 1100 Winslow Ave., Coquitlam, B.C. Registration Yawar Bukhari, 299-1866.
DEBORAH HADASSAH
will meet Thursday, Dec. 1, 8 p.m., at the home of Dora Wies, 461 West 23rd Ave.
JASCOV, Jewish Adult Singles Club of Vancouver, will go dancing Saturday, Nov. 26, 8:30 p.m., at Al Ritrova's, 2010 Franklin; and attend the coffee concert at Queen Elizabeth Playhouse, Sunday, Nov. 27, 11 a.m., with brunch and walk following. Information and/or rides, 261-5352 or 261-8454. ■ ♦ ■ ■ ♦ . ♦
CHANUKA WORKSHOP series for community adults, explaining the'what's, whys and wheres' of the holiday, commences Thursday, Nov. 24, 7:30 p.nr. in Talmud Torah library, 998 W. 26th Ave., with principal Rabbi Samuel Biber talking on Chanuka and latkes.
CHANUKA DINNER-DANCE, sponsored by Beth Israel Men's Club and open to the community, takes place Saturday, Dec. 3, 8 p.m. (cocktails 7:30 p.m.) at the synagogue, featuring live music, door-prizes, fun for all. Reservations, 731-4161.
* * * VICTORIA CHANUKA
PARTY is slated Sunday, Dec. 4, 4 p.m. at Congregation Emanuel, 1461 Blan-shard. The event will feature latkes, son^s, Chanuka can-dlelighting, fun and games. Information, Sam Koplowitz, 479-8984 .s> ADULT EDUCATION COURSES on Basic Judaism and Skills Course (chanting of Haftorah and skills to tead a service) are being planned in Victoria. Details, Rabbi Victor Rein-stein, 592-3624.
LECTURE SERIES, sponsored by Young Leadership Group and open to the community without charge, continues Thursday, Nov. 24, 8 p.m. at the Centre with a talk on The Fixer' — the trial of Mendel Beilis, given by Isaac Moss, UJA and Community Fund and Council director.
Information, 266-8371.
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CASINO NIGHTS, featuring gaming, fun and dancing, with proceeds to Temple Sholom Religious school and for camp scholarships, are slated^l^.m. to 1:30 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 24 at Bay-shore Inn (football celebrities in attendance) and on Saturday, Nov. 26 at Arts Umbrella on Granville Island. Tickets available at the door. Information, Lee Harrison, 224-1381.
Chief Rabbis pray
NEW YORK — Israel's Ashkenazic Cheif Rabbi Av-raham Shapira and Sephar-dic Chief Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu recently led a prayer rally for Soviet Jewry here.
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By ROSALINb KARBY
Dateline 1934: HiHermd Nazism on the rise. Select Jewish children leave Germany for Palestine. Rescue aided by Youth Aliyah. Dateline 1950: 50,000 children of Holocaust reach Israel Dateline 1971: Jewish youth of USSR come alone tdi Israel. Youth A liyah assumes full respottsibility. Dateline1980: Youth Aliyah*s top priority — disadvantaged Israeli youth.
As Youth Aliyah embarks upon its SOth year of rescue, reeducation and rehabilitation, one only has to look at the organization's statistics to appreciate the extent and value of its work.
To date, 200,000 youths have come under protection of Youth Aliyah. One out of every 20 Israelis is a graduate of the Youth Aliyah program. In Israel today there are 270 youth villages, 22 day-care centres and many kibbutzim and moshavim housing Youth Aliyah wards.
Rosalind Karby will lead a canvassers* training session with Sharon Harowitz for the SOth anniversary of Youth Aliya Campaign on Tuesday, Nov. 29 at the Richmond Country Club.
Canadian Hadassah-WIZO is specifically committed to 1,400 girls and boys at five institutions.
The Youth Aliyah movement began in 1933, the inspiration of Recha Freier, wife of a Berlin rabbi» who was overcome by a foreboding premonition of tragedy for Germany's Jews. She voiced these fears to Hadassah founder Henrietta Szold and together they pressed Jewish parents to save their children by sending them to Palestine.
Youth Aliyah developed into an organization with two goals; firstly, to get Jewish children out of countries of persecution; and secondly, to settle and educate them upon their arrival in Palestine.
Funds were scarce, but no child was refused and from 1933 to 1960, Youth Aliyah saved 100,000 children.
Unfortunately, the horrors of persecution were not only inflicted on European Jewry. Youth Aliyah reached out across the map and embraced children from^Siqand.YepM^^^ Russia, from the Balkan countries, and from South America. No child was too far away.
"While rescue abroad continued unabated. Youth Aliyah, particulariy after 1967 and 1973, began to focus on efforts at home. Israel's war situation had left thousands of children homeless and orphaned.
Because of the State's tremendous war budget, moreover, many immigrant families had not been properly absorbed. The large number of children of these families reflected the consequences of inadequate basic needs — delinquency, emotional difficulties, unchecked physical handicaps and limited schooling.
With Israel's future being jeopardized. Youth Aliyah stamped *top priority' on the rescuing and rehabilitation of the Jewish State's disadvantaged youth. In fact, 80 percent of today's., Youth Aliyah children were bom in Israel.
Yet 25,000 children from culturally-deprived and underprivileged homes await Youth Aliyah's aid to help theinselves become skilled members of Israeli society.
It is Youth Aliyah's commitment and belief that each child that comes to the organization can be educated and motivated to learn. Each of the following Canadian Hadassah-WIZO projects reflects this belief: Acco Day d^ntre and Residential Village of disadvantaged children who are given vocational training; Natanya: Day Centre for school dropouts, who study a vocational and academic curriculum; Nehalim: Residential Treatment Centre for the emotionally-disturbed; Magdiel: Residential Youth Village, offering an academic and technical program.
The fifth of Canadian Hadassah-WIZO's projects is the intematiohally-known Child Guidance Clinic and Research Institute in Jerusalem. Headed by Dr. Reuven Feuerstein, the Institute is world renowned for treatment of the retarded, the emotionally-disturbed and the autistic. It offers scholarship programs for the academically, musically and artistically talented.
The youngsters provided for by these Youth Aliyah facilities have no other options. The organization has rescued and saved them as surely as she saved and rescued over 100,000 youngsters from countries of persecution. Many more await help.
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Canadian Jewish Congress, Pacific Region, has announced that preliminary purchases have been completed for its recently-established VHS Judaica Video Library for B.C. Jewry, thus concluding ^hase one of the project.
The library, housed in the regional offices of CJC at the Centre, recently received an endowment from Israel Wald-man, assuring the endeavor of financial continuity to December. 1984.
"The Video Library was designed to provide education and information on all aspects of the Jewish condition," according to Mark Silverberg, regional CJC executive director. "It will allow Jewish (and non-Jewish) organizations in B.C. an opportunity to understand Judaism and to program for their chapters and lodges using the most up-to-date and interesting programming aids. Better resources will allow for better programming and better programming will make Jewish service organizations more attractive to the unihvolved and the unaffiliated," he said.
Lists of video-tapes indicate programming and informational materials on a variety of topics including: Israel (terrorism, Zionist leaders, agriculture and technology, social and cultural, Lebanon, the . PLQc^n4^;;q)isodes in Israeli histbiry); Sioviet Jewry; Jewish family life and culture; Jewish inter-groiip relations; religion and religious holidays; Biblical history; Holocaust and Holocaust education; Jewish condition in other lands; racism; cults; and short stories and Jewish humor.
Thus fari over 80 chapters, lodges, schools, churches, colleges and individuals in Vancouver and around the province have made use of the ;,^dep<assettes. A VHS video-^^^tte reorder is also available to Jewish organizations which do not have or cannot afford their own unit.
Persons or organizations desiring information on cassette loan arrangments may contact CJC at 261-8101.
ToTielp give recent women newcomers to the community a sense of belonging and an opportunity to meet, one another,^ National Council of Jewish Women, Vancouver Section has extended a welcome to theie persons to attend a special *getting^t6-know-you' evening.
The event, in the form of a pre-Chanuka party, is slated for Thursday, Nov. 24, 7:30
p.m. at the home of Fay Shafron,6888 Tisdall.
NCJW and the Jewish Community Fund and Council jointly published last spring a bookIet7>f the various commimity services available to new arrivals. It has been, and will be, distributed to all interested newcomers.
Further information on the newcomers evening is available from Gloria Hendin at 271-3850.
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