12 — THE BULLETIN — Tliursjlay, February .11,1982
Hear und there iWheels are Tegiiming to turn inthe organization >f the 1982 United Israel App«»I in /ictoria. The most immediate need s for volunteer canvassers and those villing to contribute to the.commu-lity ina meaningful and worthwhile vvay can call Chuck WaldniaDat592->439 in the capital 4;ity . nternationally-recognized writer md speaker on Judaism and modern ociety. Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, tddresses our community March 4 IS second speaker in this year's tJniversijty of Judajsm-Beth Israel ecture series .. .Continuedpositive 'esponse to the current Amal Campaign providing scholarsliips to the many Amal vocational schools in Israel, has been urged by campaign chairman, Prof. sMichael Isaacson ... From the Lubavitch organization^^ in New York come Avremi Friedman and Zalman Baumgarten, two young singers with international reputations, who, accompanied by members of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, entertain at Luba^ yitch Centre's Purim Music Festiyal on Sunday evening, March 7. Tickets are now available from Chabad-Lubavitch . . . "He's just put-standing,"' say Hadassah and the
Asian Centre at UBC, co4ponsors _ of thefirst major showing here of the works of widely acclaimed Vietnamese artist Tan Son Hia! A portion of the proceeds of the Feb. 27^28 exhibition and f sale at the Asian Centre will go towards Hadassah projects... Visitors aplenty for Victoria^ historic Congregation Emanuel. Rabbi lyilfred Solomon of Beth Israel in Vancouver, participates in iservices this weekend and upcoming are two evenings hosting the Council of Churches as well as an open-house for,those in the non-Jewish community on March 1 ... If you have a spare office desk and willing to donate same^ for good usage, the Jewish Family Service Agency would appreciate hearing from you at 266-2396. _ *■•■.■•■ ■ Thirty years on one job? Not too common these days, and so it was with a strong toiptch of nd^ warriith that 4(^: collea^^ friends of Miriam llromberg hdn-qred her at a special luncheon on her retirement as Centre bookkeeper on Jan. 29. Miriam served as *Ayoman-fbr-all-seasons' at the bid JGC at lith and Oak and has been the bookkeeper since the new Centre
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An apology is due to Rabbi Harvey Markowitz of Beth Tikvah Congregation, in Richmond for an inadvertent error which appeared in the JWBFQb.4 issue announcing the forthcoming RabbiV panel discOSr sion of Lion's Gate lodge B*nai BVith. A biographical detail in the article should have noted that Rabl>i Markowitz received his ordination from Rabbi Nisson Lippa Alpert," Rosh Kollel L'Horaah of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary in January 1976.
*■ ■ • * In reporting recently on the circumcisions for adult tshuvas in Winnipeg arranged by the Lubavitch Centre there, the Winnipeg Jewish Post recalls an adult brit milah performed a few years ago for riewly-arrived Russian immigrants^ We like the picturesque phraseology used: "The mohel who actually perfornied these adult circumcisions was Reverend ShepSel ;Rpberts of Minneapolis — a highly cbnipetent mohel, with some 7,000 circumcisions, under his ;belt, as it were, and. he quickly gained the confidence of many of the hospital medical staff . . . We pffet^mazel tov to all those who have and continue to have the bris in their later years, proudly reaffirming their heritage,
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Timerman charges Israeli gpv'i Is "silent on Argentine ^ewry"
TEL AVIV — Jacobo Timerman, the Argentinian Jew.whose book Prisoner Without Name, Cell Without Number, has triggerfed,a stormy controversy in the United States, blames Israel for its silence on the plight of Argentinian Jewry. In an interview given to the editors of Ha'aretz, Timerman said that wJ^ereas in^he United States he had many interviewson TV, radio and in the press, aU cojnmunicatjons channels in Israel continue to remain silent.
Timerihan asserted that there.is a Nazi regime running Argentina —: a view contradicledby:the leaders of the organized Argehtiftian Jewish commumty. The former speaker of the Knesset, Itzhak Berman, declared at a press,conference that Timerman's charges have to be seriously questioned. "Who knows why he was arrested. Who knows whether he was even tortured-in an Argentinian prison,'' Serman asked.
All of these statements have resulted in a bitter denunciation by Timerman, which is reported inhisJnterview with /to'ar^/z. He made the point that he thoroughly dislikes the Israelis ("They are intolorable") but he does love Israel as a country. "I consider myself fortunate in Israel, but I ^hall never be an Israeli," Timerman said.
He recounted an interesting incident; Prior to his leaving Argentina^ he was solicited 4>y the two Israeli afternoon papers •— Yedio/Ahronot; and Ma'ariv, who were vying for the right to print his material. Timerman accepted Affl'ur/vi offer which was thefirst he had received "But now" — Timerman said^ "the paper has suspended printing my articles on grounds that they have no competent Spanish translator^"
And what about his learning Hebrew? "I don't know Hebrew and I will never learn the language, "Timerman said. MeanwhilCi the Jewish Agency Executive Chairman, Arye Dulzin, just retumed from a visit to Argentina, said that the country's government is "not anti^-Semitic" and the conditions of Argentinian Jewry are "not bad". ZINS.
TIBERIAS — On the shore of the Sea of Galilee near the ancient city of Tiberias in' northern Israel, the members of Kibbutz Lavi go, about their daily chores as farmers do everywhere. These days, however, more and more kibbutzniks at Lavi are spending their days not in raising crops but in producing a single product of the kibbutz — synagogiie furniture.
One of the largest exporters of synagogue furniture in Israel, as well as one of the largest suppliers at home,. Kibbutz Lavi has turned out pews, stud^ tables, Joraharks and other religious itemsT for more than 300 Jewish houses of worship around the wprld, including the Flatbush Yeshiva in Brooklyn, Young Israel of' Windsoir Park. Queens and Young Israel of Hancock Park in Los Angeles.
The furniture is carefully crafted with loving care by the members of this religious kibbutz, who also built their own simple but graceful synagogue. According to David Pick, who represents Kibbutz Lavi in the U.S., "Our furniture can be suited to the individual architectural styles and needs of each synagogue. We meet with the architect or .building committee of the synagogue to decide on the most appropriate kind of furniture, the order is placed and the work begins. The materials •and craftsmanship that go into the creation of Kibbutz Lavi furniture assure the utmost in durability, comfort and grace befitting a house
of worship," Pick $aid.
He is proud of Kibbutz Layi's success in meeting delivery schedules — and of the joy with which this made-in-Israel synagogue furniture is received.
Rabbi Louis Bernstein of Young Israel of Windsor Park reports: "We are not only pleased with the high quality and moderate cost of the pews and tables we have purchased from Kibbutz Lavi, but it gives us a special satisfaction to know that tlie furniture we use in our worship came from the Holy Land." Rabbi Bernstein ^dded:
"It may even be that the wood for this furniture came from forests planted by the Jewish National Fund, to which our synagogue members contribute generously. This thought strengthens further the ties that bind us to the people of the land of Israel."
Furniture produced at Kibbutz Lavi and other kibbutzim throughout Israel reached the $11 million mark in exports last year, and sales abroadare expected togrowata rate of 25 percent annually. Furniture production is one of many kibbutz industries which have become an important part of Israel's export picture. Now employing over 12,000 people, the various kibbutzim produce everything from surgical lasers to solar heaters and jewelry.
For information about synagogue furniture produced at Kibbutz Lavi, contact David Pick, care of Solcoor,: 2 Park Ave., New York, N.Y. 10016.
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