Lubavitch students visit city on Toiah
Spreading Mission
Thubday, July 31, 1975—THE BULLETIN—3
Open forum to discuss community constitution
LUBAVITCH STUDENTS who visited city last week, Schnayer Goodman and Nehemia Kessler, are shown above with Rabbi Y. Wineberg, (centre) Vancouver Lubavitch director- Senior students at Lubavitcher Yeshiva in New York, their visit was part of an-nual Torah-spreading mission conducted by 200 classmates through-cut North and South America. In foreground, religious artifacts representing various Mitzvas being brought to communities include Tefillin, Mezuza, new Soncino edition of Tanya, Shabbat candle, Mitzva brochure and Pushka.
Major changes in the constitution of the Jewish Community Fund and Council — the coordinating body of the Cireater Vancouver Jewish Community — will be discussed at an open forum scheduled for Thursday, August 7, 8 p.m. at the Jewish Community Centre.
, Spokesmen have urged all'interested members of the community to be present at the meeting and enter into dialogue on issues such as:
What functions should the JCFandC have in addition to its funding responsibility? How can it be assured that all communal organizations have a voice in the affairs of the Jewish community? How long should directors serve on a board? Should there be a formal social planning body that is influential in determining the
KENNETH LEVITT
* orderly development and changes necessary in this community?
For several months a committee consisting of Ken Levitt (chairman), Arnold Barkoff, Dr. Bill Seidleman and David Wolochow has been meeting to study the JCFandC constitution and examine board practices and policies. Mr. Levitt stated that the committee is preparing draft prc^osals to make the JCFandC a more effective and more democratic organization that will be more accountable to the community as a whole.
Copies of the "strawman" con-stilution may be obtained by phoning the Council office at 261-8101.
The date of this meeting was changed from Tuesday, August 5 to Thursday, August 7, to avoid conflicts with other events.
Blumanfolds dedicate Nachla
Schnayer Goodman and Nehemia Kessler, senior students at the Lubavitcher Yeshiva in New York, recently visited the Vancouver Jewish Community as part of an annual Torah Spreading Mission in which cities throughout the U.S., Canada and South America are visited by some 200 students.
These students spend most of their summer vacation time on this mission, contacting thousands of Jews at the grass-roots level, meeting them on the streets and in homes, in shopping centres and at work. Travelling in pairs, they also meet with Rabbis, Jewish educators and communal leaders, in the communities they visit.
In their usual mission to strengthen "Torah-true education" for all Jews, and particularly for the young, the young scholars also stress the importance of the massive world-wide Mitzvah campaign, inaugurated by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Mena-chem M. Schneerson.
In this campaign, the Rebbe called upon Jews all over the world to set aside time every day for serious Torah study on whatever level they are capable of studying. He also urged that all Jewish men don Tefillin every weekday, that every room in a Jewish home have a 'kosher' Mezuzah properly affixed to its right doorpost, that every Jewish home have a charity box in a
Hebrew University names Ben-Natan
conspicuous place for frequent contributions to a worthwhile cause, that every home have sacred books, at least a Bible, a Prayer Book and a Book of Psalms, to remind one of Torah study and prayer.
The Rebbe also stressed that young girls from about the age of three light the Sabbath and holiday candles at the proper times together with, but before their mothers. Finally, he appealed to Jewish women who do not yet have kosher homes to convert their kitchens to kashrut.
A spokesman for Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch said that thousands of Lubavitcher rabbinical students have participated in these unique summer missions since . their inception 27 years ago, and -tens of thousands of otherwise isolated and almost assimilated Jews have been contacted and helped as a result of theprogram.
The young emissaries must undergo rigorous scholastic examinations in their Talmudic and Chassidic studies to qualify for participation in these programs.
ESTHER HELEN FIELD
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MR. and MRS. A. BLUMANFALD of Vancouver are seen dedicating a Nachla (tract of land) in "Canada Park" Israel in memory
of their beloved daughter, Esther Helen Field (Blumanfald). pic- «-j,-^- - « ivruj* tured at right. The establishment of the Nachla, arranged through |1|\PI J| f IjEmS
the Jewish National Fund, took place during the couple's visit to ■ ""^
Israel earlier this month.
Montreal Jewry honors Bronfman at Hebrew U.
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JERUSALEM — Canadian Ambassador to Israel T. Paul Malone conveyed the congratulations and best wishes of the Government and pec^le of Canada to the Hebrew University on "50 years of outstanding achievement."
Ambassador Malone spoke at the dedication of Kiryat Bronfman Student Residence Complex on Mount Scopus established by the Jewish Community of Montreal,
Canada, to honor Allan Bronfman of that city on his 80th birthday.
Since 1967 Bronfman had led the Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University in the re-bjiilding of the Mount Scopus campus. Kiryat Bronfman, located on French Hill, today comprises 14 student dormitories, housing 150 couples and 500 single students. The complex, named for Allan Bronfman, is planned to hold 46 buildings with room for 3,000 persons.
DANIEL BEN-NATAN has assumed position of national executive-director of the Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University. The son of Beila and NateLapldn, formerly of Winnipeg,, he immigrated to Israel with his parents in 1951. He served in Israel Foreign Office for seven years before joining the Hebrew University where he was assistant to President Harman from 1971 until his departure last year for Canada to serve as the University's representative with - its Canadian Friends Association.
ALLAN BRONFMAN at the Kiryat Bronfman Student Residence Complex.
flNAL JCC DAY Um PROGRAm BEGIN AUG. 11
An eventful three weeks comes to an end for 140 children in the Jewish Community Centre Day Camp programs on August 8. The third and final session of this summer — a two-week session — commences on August II.
Spokesmen pointed out that the camp offers a child the chance to learn and grow in many areas of life, yet with fun being the main teacher. Activities such as cooking, handicrafts, nature lore, overnights and cookouts are designed to teach children how to do, as well as to broaden their experience.
Themes such as Brotherhood Day and Fiddler on the Roof Day, are designed to teach the youngsters about people in general and the Jewish heritage in particular.
Camp also helps a child to learn to make friends through doing things together in a cooperative spirit and through sharing of materials and ideas, officials stated. This summer the emphasis is on smaller groups to encourage closer contact between children and counsellor.
Camp is for all children aged
4 to 10. Summer Fun is a half-day camp for children aged 4 to 5 1/2 and Summer Adventure, a full-day camp, is for children
5 1/2 to 10. Further information is available from the Centre at 266-9111.
WINNIPEG - The Jewish Historical Society of Western Canada is issuing an urgent appeal to all residents and former residents of Western Canada to make available for their forthcoming travelling exhibit, "Journey into Our Heritages," any documents and artifacts relating to the Jewish settlement of the Canadian West.
The exhibit, to be featured in museums from Victoria to Winnipeg, and possibly east to the Maritimes, is scheduled to qpen in early spring 1976. Planned as a dramatic representation of the Jewish heritage to the community at large, the project has been hailed as an educational and informational instrument of the highest importance at a critical time for the Jewish people.
A broad range of articles, documents and pictures may be either donated to the Society or loaned for the duration of the exhibit. Personal and family records, photos of families and family events, old Bibles, etc. Community records are of particular interest, relating to synagogues, schools, old age homes, cemeteries, early business establishments and transactions, political personalities, writers, .artists, poets, teachers, athletes, dramatic and social groups. Religious and holiday artifacts, such as tefillin, Siddurim, Sabbath lamps, Menorahs, Chanukiot, dreidlach, Purim and Passover plates, all give graphic emphasis to the account of the historical past.
Readers- who have ties with the Jewish communities of Western Canada are urged to share the heritage treasures by contacting the Jewish Historical Society of British Columbia, 950 V/est 41st Ave., Vancouver.