4 — THE BULLETIN — Thursday, August 3,1978
Jeannette Nuttall
buried July 16
Jeannette Nuttall, a resident of Vancouver for six years, passed away on July 14 at the Louis Brier Home and Hospital.
The former Jeannette Kemp was born on Oct. 24, 1891 in Nottingham, England. She married there in 1919 and a year later moved to Victoria, B.C. where she lived until coming to Vancouver. She was very active in all Jewish affairs in Victoria throughout her years there.
She is survived by a brother, I. Kemp of Prestwick, Lancashire, England.
Funeral services were held July 16 at Beth Israel chapel with Rabbi Howard Siegel officiating. Interment followed at>Beth Israel cemetery. Chevra Kadisha was in charge of arrangements.
Belgium Rabbi retires
BRUSSELS — Cardinal Joseph Suenens, head of the Catholic Church in Belgium, gave a farewell party for Belgium's Chief Rabbi, Robert Dreyfuss, who is retiring and will settle in Israel. The Papal Nuncio and representatives of virtually all Belgian churches attended the **strictly kosher" affair. Dreyfuss has been Chief Rabbi for 15 years.
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Dr. Robert Qotden passes in Salem
SALEM, OREGON - Dr. Robert A. Golden passed away here on July 22 following a lengthly illness. He was 62 years of age.
Dr. Golden lived in Vancouver from 1930 to 1935, during which time he was active in Aleph Zadik Aleph and the Boy Scouts. An active member of the Jewish community in Salem, he was past president of the synagogue and participated in B*nai B*rith programs.
Predeceased by his mother. Fay Golden, and his first wife, Estelle, he is survived by his wife, Elizabeth; two daughters, Sharon Cordova, Lake Oswega, Oregon, and Linda Saperstein, Seattle; his father, Jack Golden, Vancouver; a sister, Marion Cotsman, Vancouver; a brother. Billiard Golden, Portland, Oregon; and three grandchildren.
Funeral services were held July 24 in Portland, Oregon.
Noted Canadian leader, Lottie Riven, burled
MONTREAL — Funeral services were held recently for Mrs. William (Lottie) Riven, who gave a lifetime of service to Canadian Jewry and the building of the State of Israel.
Mrs. Riven served, as national president of Canadian Hadassah-W!ZO from 1955-1960. She was honorary president of Canadian Hadassah-WIZO and a member of the World WIZO Executive.
Additionally, Lottie Riven was a member of the national council of . Canadian Jewish Congress; national council of Canadian Friends; of Hebrew University in Jerusalem; governor of the board of Jewish National Fund; governor of national board of Canada-Israel Corporation.
The recipient of many honors,-Mrs. Riven was decorated by His Majesty King George VI in 1937 with the Commemoration medal on the occasion of their Majesties Coronation. During Canada's Centennial in 1967, she was awarded the Centennial Medal by her Majesty Queen Elizabeth IL
Among her most cherished tributes, however, was her selection in 1960 as**Womanof the Year^by the Jewish National Fund. A village was named for her at Yash Resh'in Israel.
Mrs. Riven is survived by her husband, William; a son, Joel; a daughter, Judith Besner, five brothers, two sisters, seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
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CHAI CAMPAIGN HONORS BRANCA
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The Vancouver community will' have the opportunity of honoring Mr. Branca — who retired in March from the Court of Appeal — by supporting Pioneer Women's Men's Israel Chai Child Care Campaign, which commences in the city on Aug. 15. Proceeds from this year's drive will be designated to a youth centre in Israel in honor of both Mr. Branca and his wife, Vi.
The campaign closing dinner, to be held in the fall attended by Jewish community leaders and some of B.C.'s most distinguished citizens, will also tribute Mr. Branca.
Chai chairman Bernard Sinipson stated that a campaign committee — which includes leaders from the Jewish community and many outstanding provincial citizens — has been organized to ensure the success of the drive. Honorary campaign chairman is the Honorable Senator Ray Perrault, PC.
Mr. Simpson stated: "The community will have the opportunity of honoring one of Canada's most distinguished citizens. In view of Mr. Branca's long-standing commitment to the State of Israel and the Jewish community, the Chai committee felt it fitting to establish a youth centre in the Jewish State in the name of Mr. and Mrs. Branca."
For the past 12years, Mr. Branca has served as finance committee chairman of Camp Miriam arid was responsible for- development of the camp's $300,000 builiding program.^
He has oyer the years recei^^ numerous awards. In 197(S, during a visit to Israel with his wife, Mr. Branca was presented the distinguished Prime Minister's Medal by then Premier Yitzhak Rabin. The commendation accompanying the medal noted, in part, his **outstand-ing participation in the Israel Bond program and service to the cause of Israel."
Regarding this award, Israel Bonds leader Morris Wosk of Vancouver stated, "The Prime Minister's medal has beien given to Mr. Branca in recognition of his lifetime of dedicated service as a humanitarian and a friend of Israel." He is only the second Canadian to receive the Medal, the first being the former Prime Minister of Canada, the Rt. Hon. John G. Diefenbaker.
Seven years ago, Mr. Branca was presented the prestigious Yeshiva University Award at a special evening attended by some 500 persons at Schara Tzedeck synagogue.
Additionally, in recognition of his **outstanding contribution in promoting understanding and cooperation amongst the people of Canada, regardless of race," Mr. Branca received the 1970 National Human Relations award from the Canadian : Council Of Christians and Jews, which he helped found in Western Canada.
Regarded as one of Canada's most distinguished lawyers, Mr. Branca was appointed King's Counsel in 1949. In 1963 he was named to the Supreme Court of B.C. and elevated to the Court of Appeal, the province's highest court in 1966. On his retirement earlier this year he was honored by his fellow jurists and by senior members of the Law Society.
Rich Yiddishkelt of LIpton, Sask. recalled
Further information regarding the youth centre to be established in the name of Mr. and Mrs. Branca, may be obtained by contacting Mr. Simpson at 734-2272.
Dear Mr. Kaplan:
It was an item that appeared in a recent issue of Lazar's column that reminded me of the Yiddishkeit that existed in the small community of Lipton, Saskatchewan.
How our synagogue danced to the singing of Adon Olom — this merriment seemed a miracle to a small child who only a little earlier saw the tears of the ladies who prayed upstairs in the balcony during the High Holidays. During the marching and singing at Siihchat Torah time we gingerly carried our flags with a lighted candle stuck precariously into an apple which sat on top of the flag. Passover meant new shoes, a new pair of pants and a new shirt to wear to shul.
Our synagogue meant something else as well. Five days a week it meant going to "Cheder" after. public school. The pot-bellied stove received more attention than our teacher did as we clung to its warmth and fought the wisdom of Tannach.
Home to dinner—but first chores which every boy in town had to do. But for us Jewish kids some of our chores were different. We learned early that our chickens were prepared for the Shabbat dinner a little differently as we watched the shoi-chet do his thing and we picked up the dying chickens and placed them in our bag to take home. We picked up the meat at the butcher shop — again different from the one the other people in town used — and then watched mom salt the meat overnight.
. Haying a kosher home in Lipton was' hot an inconveniehce — but a^. fact^of^life.. ; V ^
llSe highlight of bur young lives was our Bar^-Mitzvah. It marked the end of **Cheder" learning and the
beginning of being a part of an adult world. Many a time did a Bar-Mitzvah boy receive the plaudits of his elders as he became the tenth man at a Minyan for a Yahrtzeit.
For the girls it was the excitment of being part of the preparation of the feasts as their mothers proudly showed off their **yiddisha meichu-lim."
We were fortunate in Lipton. With the only synagogue for miles around, the early years saw Jews from the surrounding towns—30 to 40 miles away — come for the High Holidays. Excitement was high as we pirepared for these guests who came by horse-drawn-wagons.
Some 15 miles to the north was the **Heileken Ort" Jewish ceme-tary located on the Jewish colony that existed there. These were sad days which involved extreme difficulties in order to pay the proper respect for our dead.
Our daily relationship with Israel was evinced by the use of the Blue Box. Pennies and nickels found their way into them whenever we were blessed by good fortune — no matter'how minor. The. presence of Shaliachs was a constant reminder of our responsibilities as they^ collected a few dollars from a community very poor in material vk^ealth but rich in Yiddishkeit.
To Irvine Epstein and Michael James — who both knew the rich acculturation of Lipton Yiddishkeit — congratulations on your election to high office in Vancouver's Jewish community. < May your efforts be rewarded by the inner warmth you will know as you continue as part of the, j&wish, heritage brpiiglit^oyer by very braye men and wbmento a sniall clearing in a wilderness called Lipton.
ABEJAMPOLSKY
Establish UCLA Chair to study Holocaust
LOS ANGELES — Plans to establish a Chair centering on studies of the Holocaust and the Jewish communities in Europe destroyed during World War II were announced by the 1939 Club of Los Angeles and UCLA.
The club, consisting mainly of survivors of Nazi concentration camps, will endow the Chair as a **Iiving and perpetual memorial to the Six Million Jews, including most of our families, who perished during the Nazi slaughter," according to Dr. Samuel Goetz, who proposed the project on behalf of the organization's 600 members.
Once the Chair is established, an outstanding scholar will be chosen as the first incumbent.
The importance of the proposed studies to UCLA's academic program was stressed by two involved faculty members. Dean Philip Levine of the division of humanities in the college of letters and science, and Dr. Arnold Band, professor of Hebrew and comparative literature.
"The destruction of a vital culture and community was. not only a searing tragedy for the Jews but remains one of the central experiences of Western civilization in the 20th century," says Prof. Band.
"Academicians and humanists must try to understand it as whole, to probe deeply into the historical, sociological, psychological and literary aspects and causes of this traumatic event, and to seek to learn how a repetition may be prevented in the future." In addition, says Dean Levine,,
such studies will provide a major broadening and deependihg of UCLA's current Jewish Studies program. **The Holocaust was not a singular event but must be viewed in the larger sweep of Jewish and European history," he commented.
Of major interest to both scholars and survivors of the Holocaust will be the question of how men, women and children, both Jewish and gentile, found the will and strength to bear the horrors and re-estabish a normal existence afterwards. Dir. Band believes.
Abba Eban will be guest speaker at a gala dinner Nov. 5 to celebrate establishment of the chair.
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