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MONTEAL — An informal survey sent to affiliated Zipnists through the Labor Zionist Alliance newsletter \fi>'/e/irm has reveakid that 28^ percent of respondents think that "Zionism is dying."
While the majority were in agreement with the statement that "Israel needs orjganized Zionism,^ one-third said no or skipped the question asking whether they were willing to contribute to a -new Zionist program*^ in Canada. 24 percent said they wduld contribute 50 cents a week, 34 percent said $1 and eight percent, $2.
Response to the cross country survey was 60 percent or 720 out of the li20p people polled. Sixty percent of respondents gave their age as over 50.
To the question "Is it permissible for Diaspora Jews to criticize the Israeli goverment," slightly more than 60 percent said yes and eight
percent gave a qualifying "not in public."
Over- half the r^^ndents felt^ Zionist organizations should tiot concentrate on raising money. On whether 2;ionists should focus oii aliyah, 52_^i»rceht respond^ aftiV-: matively, 32 percent sai^ no and 16 percent isaid they didn't know. Thfe survey saiij 56^ percent of tHdslasHcd whether said Ziomsts shoiJiId pay more,attention to Diaspora needs.
U. of ilberb offers HebRW
EDMONTON — The,Edmonton, Jewish community is currently funding a biblical Hebrew*language course as part of the curriculum of the Department of Classics at the v U niversity of Alberta. To date, $10,000 have beJe'h earmarked hy4he-community to cover the salary of a> part-time sessional instructor, employer costs for the^ benefit programs available to part-rtiihe sessionals, and for non-salary costs, connected with the program.
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Frances ivere^^ i^ttiehdance for the premiere in Washington of the Centre's gripping documentary Ge/ioc/i/e. Pictured with the Kljzbergs are Frank Sinatra, ciiairman of the evening eveiit. Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Wiesenthat Centre and Simbh
Shabbat Zachor scheduled to remember Syrian Jewry
TORONTO — Shabbat Zachor. the Shabbat of Prayer and Remembrance for the Jewish communities in Syria, will be observed throughout the world on Sat:, March 6. Rabbis everywhere are urged to donate that day*s sermon to Shabbat ZacAor. arid to say special prayers for four Syrian Jewish girls -who were btutally murdered in 1974. ,T^
yfcws iir^yria, ai^rt ihunity trying desperately to survive and living diaily ' with' the fear of annihilatipli. The "Moslem Brotherhood** bds warned the Syrian Jewish community that it will be destroyed as soon as the Brotherhood overthrows the government of President HafM al-Assad.^^ 7^
Congre^tion .fnembers as individuals, aiid presidents on behalf of their synagogucv are requested to write in February to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and the Hon. Mark MacGiiigan, Secretary of iState for External Affairs, asking for open emigration oT Syrian Jews to a friendly country, such as Canada, and for reunification of a few Syrian Jewish families with relatives in Canada.
Tax deductible donations may be sent to: Dr. Ronald F^Id Fund for Jews in Arab Lands, Beth Tzedec Congregation, 1700 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Ontario MSP 3K3. All
donations are immediately sent to Syria as support for the poor, for religious books whicb are sent to the . rabbis, and for the saving of Syrian Jewish lives,
SB upholding rights
EDMONTON - The LMg^ue for Hiiihan Rights of ||:nai B*nt1i^^ah affiljiat^ ; Vhe ■ " ^arin ^
Edinidiiton^s Jbiiit - C^^ Relations Committee, is in. tHe process of preparing a presenta^tipn to the Alberta Human Rights Commission. The presentation recommends amending the Alberta Individual Rights Protection Act in order to recognize the following elements:
• protection of Sabbath observers, and the establishment of guidelines governing employer obligations and Jewish Holy Day attendance for employees;
• creation of a separate Ministry of Human Rights;
• endorsement of education and employment programs to assist the disadvantaged;
. • encouragement of public and private agencies to undertake educational proems that promoted equality and humah.rights, arid the • granting of power ta the Provincial' Human Rights Coinmissiori-r;.to^ combat hate literatuiv. *
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MONTREAL - With five years of experience behind them, a Montreal yoimg people's group is planning to, organize a National Leaderlship Mission to Israel. The Young PeopleV Federation of Allied Jewish Community Services — which organized its first Study Mission to the Jewish State in 1977 — decided this year to expand participation to include Jewish young people 18-25 from • across Canada.
Tami- Dubrofsky^ Mission chairman, has scheduled departure'for May l^fkuilimg June 9; ENmng that^-^a^ pciiddy tB« YPF M!s^ will crisscross the ran4 expenenc-ing-Israel ini an intensive manner.
The trip includes nine days in Jerusalem and visits to Massada, the Good Fence at the Lebaiieise Border, Caesarea, Acre, Safed, Biblical Beersheva, Tel Ayiy. Special highlights include lunch with an M.K. at the Knesset, a visit to an air force base, a tour of an army officers' training facility, meetings with . senior government officials. Participants will have an opportunity to swim in three bodies of water -— Lake Tiberias, the Dead Sea and the Mediterranean. Shavuot will be spent on a kibbutz outside of Tel
_ pubrofsky plins a maximum ^ pa'rticipatioh of 40 she and her
MONTREAL - The first comprehensive bibliography of Quebec Jews has ifeeri completed under the direction of Canadian Jewish Congress nationaf archivists David Rome and Judith Nefsky with the assistance of Paule Obermeir of the Institute Quebecois de research sur la culture iThe Quebec Institute of Research on Culture), the body which published the book.
Neiarly : (00 pages in length, the scholarly work includes listings of upwards of l«700 items documenting the life and history of the Jewish community in Quebec from 1759 to the present.
Primarily designed as a resiearch tool, the work, offeris enlightening annotations making for interesting reading amotig non-academic read-. ers. Copies of'Les Juifs du Quebec: Bibliogniphie ietrospective annotee can be ordered from thfe Institute Qnebecois de researche sur la culture, 93 rue St.'Pierre; Quebec, Que. Glk4A3.
organizing team hope to gather together young Jewish men and women concerned about working with their communities.
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