Thursday. October 11, 1979 — THE BULLETIN ~ 5
Alan Rose, executive vice-president of Canadian Jewish Congress, will be keynote speaker at the opening of this year's Vancouver Institute of Adult Jewish Studies on Oct. 17 at the Centre.
Registration for the Institute will be held at 7:3Q p.m. Mr. Rose's lecture, entitled , *Diaspora Jewry: Challenges foe Survival,'folIowsat8 p.m., •
Mr. Rose, whose seryice to the Canadian Jewish community spans 20 years, will discuss the current conditiofi of Jews in the Diaspora. This will include a look at Soviet Jewry and other Diaspora communities, at social forces affecting Jews in the Diaspora but which are beyond their (iontrol^ and at anti-Seniitism coming ftom both Right-wing and Left-wing forces.
After serving as a volunteer in the Israeli War for Independence, Mr. Rose emigrated frpm Scotland to Canada. He has served both the Jewish Agency, and the United Israel Appeal of Canada as its executive-director, from 1968-1970.
Since 1970 Mr. Rose has served in a number of executive positions in Canadian Jewish Congress. He was a member of the steering committee of the Brussels Two Conference, the Second World Conference on Soviet Jewry, held in Brussels in 1976. He is a member of the governing board of World Jewish Congress and a member of the WJC Compliance' Committee on the Helsinki Agreement, which monitors Soviet adherence, or lack of it, to the Helsinki . Agreement on Human Rights.
Persons registering for the Institute may choose from one^of the three courses being offered;; These are:: *Our ,• Rodts: rE^sterni :ltuT&T.
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pean Jewry,' given by Phyllis Solomon; *What Makes Jewish Literature Jewish?,' taught by Professors Errol Durbach, Eric Levy and Ira Nadel, and Jean Gerber;and *Jews and: Christians: Past, Present, and Future,' given by Professors William Nichblls and Moshe Ampn.
Courses begin on Oct. 24 and continue for seven Ayeeks.
This year's Institute is co-spdn-sored by Canadian Jewish Congress, Jewish Community -Centre, and Vancouver Community College, Continuing Education, Langara v-Campus;. •
Gershon Avner, president of Haifa university, will speak on the on-going activities of the university at a special reception in the city on Thursday, Oct. 25.
Mrs. Isidor Wolfe, chairperson of the Vancouver chapter of the Canadian Friends of Haifa university, stated that the event will commence at 8 p.m. at her home, 626 W. 51st avenue. Persons interested in hearing Mr. Avner's address are being asked to call Mrs. Wolfe at 327-2660 or yancouver chapter vice-chairperson Mrs. Samuel Zalkow at 228-9387.
Gershon Avner. immigrated to Palestine with his parents in 1933 and from 1935 was: ^^^^m^ of *Haganah\He^ graduated with a bachelor of arts degree from Oxford university in 1942 and from 1942 to 1946 was in the information department of the Jewish Agency's London office.
In 1946 Mr. Avner was transferred .to the J.A.'s Jerusalem office where he served as a press officer and spokesman of the political department. He was an instructor at the Jewish Agency College for Future Diplomats in 1947. A year after he was injured when a terrorist bomb blew-up at the J.A. building and later in 1948 was transferred from the Jewish Agency to the Israel Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
'GERMAN AniTUDES TO HOLOCAUST' TOPIC TUES.
Present German and Israeli attitudes to the Holocaust will be discussed this Tuesday, Oct. 16, 8 p.m. at a public meeting of 'Alternatives to Racism.'
This organization, the first of its kind in Canada since the Second World War, is initially a union oif Canadian Germans and Canadian Jews. Its goals is to promote better Canadian racial understanding, spokesmen stated-
The meeting will be held in room 122A of Vancouver Community College, Langara Campus, 100 W. 49th street.
Speakers are Dr. Edgar Gerwin, German diplomat and journalist, and Sara Manobla, executive-director of the Canadian Zionist Federation, Pacific Region.
Dr. Gerwin was press councillor in London and New York to the German Embassy, he was on the German Observer Mission to the United Nations between 1959 and 1969. and was first secretary (press and cultural) of the German Embassy, Ottawa, J951-59. He has been London correspondent for the Berliner Tagehlatt and Die Zeit. Hamburg.
Sara Manobla, born and educated in England, left the BBC Overseas Service in I960 for Israel, where she headed the English program department of the Israel Broadcasting Authority.
'Alternatives to Racism' was founded last year when a group of Vancouver German Canadians broached the subject of forming a joint organization to Canadian
iffifiatlon ragSng ahead
JERUSALEM — Inflation is raging ahead — the annual rate is now 91 percent. Many food prices have increased by much more than this. Eggs cost three times as much as this time last year. Milk and poultry are two-and-a-half times as expensive, and vegetables and fruit have doubled in price.
Jewish Congress here.
The group, sponsored by CJCand encouraged by S. Von Estdrff, Consul-General of the Federal Republic of Germany, uses the memory of the Holocaust the
systematic murder of 10 million people, including Six Million Jews
by Nazi Germany to teach the need for human understanding and
acceptance of all races," officials stated.
Gershon Avrier was director of the .MFA's West European division frorii 1948 to 1952, In that year he sf i^ecl.as advisor and press QQO
officer to Israel delegation to ' Reparations Negotiations with West Germany at the Hague. From 1952-54, he was Charge d'Affaires at Budapest and Sofia; from 1954-57, councellor at the Israel Embassy in London; 1962^3^ Ambassador to Norway. He served as Ambassador to Canada in 1964-67.
Mr. Avner was a member of the
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Israel delegation to the United Nations Assembly for three years 1961,1964,1966. During 1968-71, he served as Assistant Director ~ General for European Affairs, MFA, Jerusalem. He was first director, Israel Ombudsman Ser^ vice, 1971-74. From 1974 to 1977^ upon proposal of Premier Golda Meir, he was appointed secretary to the Cabinet and served under Premiers Meir and Yitzhak Rabin.
Mr. Avner is married and has three children — two are presently serving in the Israel Defence Forces, and the third is a high school student.
M5739
JERUSALEM - About 35,000 olim arrived during the Hebrew year 5739 — a 50 percent increase over previous year.
The Jewish Agency's aliyah department revealed these statistics at the Agency executive meeting. About half of the arrivals in the past year were from the Soviet Union.
THE JEWISH FUTURE IN TH
NATIONAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE PARK PLAZA HOTEL, AVENUE ROAD, TORONTO, ONT.
NOVEMBER 3-5,1979
8:30 p.m. 9:00
9:30-10:00
g.m, 10:00 - 10:50
SATURDAY NIGHT REGISTRATION
Greetings: "OVERVIEW OF JEWISH EDUCATION IN THE DIASPORA"
Dr. E. Tavin, Head, Dept. of Education & Culture in the Diaspora, W.Z.O.
SUNDAY
OPENING SESSION
"CHALLENGES OF EDUCATION IN THE 80'S" Dr. Norman Henchey, Associate Dean Faculty of Education. McGjII University
MONDAY
8:00 a.m. 9:30 -10:30
10:50-12:15 WORKSHOP I
(a) Responsibility for Financing Jewish Education
(b) Teacher Training
(c) Role of Parefnts in Jewish Schools
(d) Continuing Education
LUNCH
12:30 1:30-2:15 2:15-3:00
3:00 - 5:00
12:15
1:00-1:30 1:30^-3.00
5:00 - 7:00 7:00
7:30 - 8:15 8:30 - 10:00
10:00
REPORT ON WORKSHOP I
"CHALLENGES OF JEWISH EDUCATION IN THE 80's"
Dr. Norman Lamm, Pres., Yeshiva Univ., N.Y. WORKSHOP II
(a) Jewish Education In Smaller Communities
(b) Israel Programming in the School
(c) Relationship of Lay-People and Professional Educators
(d) Innovative Programs In Jewish Education (i) Teaching the Holocaust
(li) Early Childhood Education (lii) Special Education FREE TIME
RECEPTION
REPORT ON WORKSHOPS II
"THE TEACHING OF VALUES IN JEWISH
SCHOOLS"
Prof. Seymour Fox, Director, School of Education The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
KUMZITZ
T'FILA
(a) Coping with Diminishing Enrollment Due to Demographic Changes
(b) Integration of Hebrew and G6n. Studies
(c) Teaching Children from Homes Which Do Not Reflect the Philosophy of School
(d) Hebrew Session (For Day School Staff)
10:30-12:15 WORKSHOP III
(arFihancIng of Jewish Education
(b) Afternoon Jewish Educatioa
(r.) Israeli Teachers in Canadian Setting
(d) Teaching the Holocaust
(e) Parallel Workshops for General and Hebrew Studies Teachers
LUNCH
REPORT ON WORKSHOPS III WORKSHOP IV
(a) The Role of Parents in Jewish Schools (Cont'd)
(b) Continuing Education (Cont'd)
(c) Jewish Educ. in Smaller Communities (Cont'd)
(d) Afternoon Jewish Education
(e) Idea Exchange — Day & Evening Schools
(f) issues in Teaching High School Youth
(g) Parallel Workshops for Gen. St. Teachers
WORKSHOP V
(a) Innovative Programs In Jewish Education (1) Camp Programming
(il) Jewish Civics -
(ili) Oppressed Jewry Program
(b) The Single Parent Child
(c) Teaching the Troubled/Troubling Child
(d) How to Develop Language Skills (In Hebrew) 4:30-5:00 SUMMARY OF CONFERENCE
Program Information: Shragai Silverman
Canadian Zionist Federation 1310 Greene, Montreal H3Z 2B2 Telephone: (514) 934-0804
Registration: Dr. Y. Lipsitz, Canadian Jewish Congress 15a Beverly, Torqnto M5T1Y6 Telephone: (416) 869-3811
3:00 - 4:30
Sponsored by: Canadian Zionist Federation, Canadian Jewish Congress