4—THE BULLETIN—Thursdoy. July 17. 1975
MENDEL WALDMAN PASSES AT 91
A resident of Canada for the past 63 years, Mendel Waldman passed away June 24 at the Louis Brier Home and Hospital. He was 91 years of age.
Born in Ostrowiec, Poland, he was educated there and married in Poland in 1904. The family came to Canada in 1912, settling in Winnipeg. Until he moved to Vancouver in 1944, Mr. Waldman over the years was secretary of his synagogue in Winnipeg, the Chevra Mishnayas.
Thirfy-one years ago the family moved to Vancouver. Mr. Waldman attended services here at the Beth Hamidrash synagQgiie and was a member of Golden Age Club. For the past five years he was a resident of the Louis Brier Home.
Predeceased in 1974 by his wife, Frimit, he is survived by tw6
CITY PIONEER ROSE DAVIS DIES
SAN LUB OBBSPO, CALIF.—
Mrs. Rose Davis, a pioneer resident of Vancouver before leaving in 1935, passed away peacefully on May 23. She was 93 years of age.
She arrived in Vancouver in 1909 after a year in Winnipeg, where she and her husband first settled, after leaving their birthplace, Lodz Poland. For years Mrs. Davis was in business here under the name 'Madame Davis.'
Predeceased by her husband, Morris, in 1934, She leaves two daughters, Mrs. Tillie Lacterman of San Luis Obispo, and Diane, <a Hayward, California; onegrand-daue^tef; and three great-grandchildren. Two nieces, Marjory Davis and Mrs. Betty LiHidon, and one ne^ew, Charles Davis, reside in Vancouver.
Interment was in the Jewish plot of San Luis Obispo cemetery.
sons, Irwin of Vancouver and Louis in Winnipeg; four daughters, Anne Wasserman of Vancouver, Mrs. A. Solomon andMrs. A.Pearlman, both of Ottawa, and Mrs. M. Loch of Winnipeg; a brother, Jacob, in Brazil, South America; a sister, Mrs. M. Minuk in Winnipeg; 12 grandchildren and seven greatgrandchildren.
Funeral services were held June 26 at Schara Tzedeck chapel when Rabbi W. Solomon and Cantor M. Nixon officiated. Interment followed at Sahara Tzedeck cemetery. Chevra Kadisha was in charge of arrangements.
WILLIAM SILYERT BURIED JUNE 24
WUliam (Bill) Silvert of 841 Ryan Road, Richmond, passed away in his 59th year. He died June 23 at Richmond General hospital.
Born in Winnipeg, he was a resident of that city untU 1970 when he moved to Vancouver. He was married in Winnipeg in 1939 where the family affiliated with Rosh Pina Synagogue. ■
Since moving to Vancouver five years ago,« Mr. Silvert was a member of the Richmond-Delta ^ Jewish Community Association.
He is . survived by his wife, Fannie, at home; two sons, Sheldon Yale in Toronto and Harold in Winnipeg; a daugliter, Mrs. Orin (Rosalie) Lazer, of Vancouver; and three grandchildren.
Rabbi W. Solomon and Cantor M. Nixon officiated at funeral services which took place June 24 at Schara Tzedeck chapel. Interment followed at Schara Tzedeck cemetery. Chevra Kadisha was in charge of arrangements.
Babi Yor to ignore Jews
LONDON — Soviet Jews have reacted to the announcement that a memorial is to be built on the site of the 1941 Babi Yar massacre by saying that it would dodge the real issues unless there was proper reference to the Jewish victims.
The announcement by the Novosti press agency would appear to state that the Jewish victims would not be specifically mentioned.
The Nazis executed more than 33,000 Kiev Jewish men, women and children at the Babi Yar ravine m Sept. 29, 1941, and ttiree subsequent days.
Later, the Nazis opened a concentration camp near the site into which they herded tens of thousands of pristmers-of-war of different nationalities in the Soviet Union before massacring them there.
According to the design of the 50 foot high bronze monument, it will be surmounted by the figure of a naked mother with her hands tied with barbed wire, suckling her baby.
JONS
More Argentifiioiif pay visit fo IsramI
BUENOS AIRES—The director of the Israeli tourism office in Buenos Aires, Yeshayahu Shay, repoted that during 1974, 11,000 Argentine tourists visited Israel, compared to 7,700 in 1973.
During the first three months €t 1975, some 5,700 Argentine tourists visited Israel, 77 percent more than during the same period in 1974.
"LIVING WITH THE TIMES"
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Women in Torah
timely thought on Parshat Hashaviia adapted
'Thought for the Week" offered by Lubavitcher Movement of Vancouver.
from
THIS WEEK'S SIDRA discusses the laws which are to govern the relationships between Jew and non-Jew in Canaan:". . .neither shall you make marriage with them; you shall not give your daughter to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son . . ." and so forth. On the basis of these verses, our sages derived the well known principle that a child bom to a Jewish mother, regardless of her husband's background, is a Jew.
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Both father and mother contribute to the Jewish attributes of the child. The father determines the Tribal affiliation, as Rashi comments on the statement: "Take the number of all the congregation of the Children of Israel according to their families and their fathers' house'*; . .he whose father is from one tribe and his mother from another is to be reckoned as belonging to his father's tribe." Similarly, the father determines the designation of the children as Kohanim (priests), Levites or Israelites. Only if one's father is a Kohayn, can the child be a Kohayn, etc.
It would appear, therefore, that the father's influence or ccmtri-bution is overwhelming. But a closer look at these "affiliations" reveals that they are only degrees rather than the essence of Judaism. The deciding factor as to whether the child is or is not Jewish in the first place, is the identification of his moflier. If
More facts, less propaganda
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(Continued from Page 2) still representM~ovei^heiiningly by defensive government officials, have become more and more hard-pressed by delegates to tell the whole story. After attending the last two annual meetings of the Jewish Agency's committees, I could still see the persistent trend towards "success stories," and lip-service to the basic issues of poverty, large families, and child and family welfare.
BUT A change is apparent, and many of the new leaders in the Jewish Agency want more facts and less propaganda on which to base decisions.
I have spoken at seminars in Israel for U.J.A. fundraisers, to American college students, to U.J.A. missions from Europe and America, and it is my impression that they want to be informed fully about Israel problems.
As for American Jews, I believe.the time has come to require higher standards of 'accountability' from themselves and Israelis concerning the use of welfare donations. One Jewish businessman who had participated in several Young Leadership missions to Israel agreed with me
that accountability was important, but said that from the moment he stepped oiTQie plane at Lod, he was so emotionally involved that he could not possibly question anything he was shown.
I believe that it is important to "think Israeli," and not to relinquish intelligent reasoning and evaluation based on accurate information and feedback.
THE U.J.A. could establish, within the Jewish Agency or preferably in an academic situation 'in Israel,' a special Research Unit for monitoring welfare services in Israel. This unit could be an independent fact-finding, evaluative and advisory arm of the U.J.A., composed of top American and Israeli professimals from a variety of fields (and perhaps retired Jewish Welfare Federation executives among them) who could, in very close cooperation with Israeli government, laymen, and university personalities, provide information and advice for welfare progranmies, fund-raising and U.J.A. policy decisions. This development would open up channels of information, and, I am convinced, have a sober^ impact on the rational planning of the human services network in Israel.
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"degree" or not
the mother is Jewish, the children are considered Jewish according to Halacha (Jewish law)!
The lesson is self evident. If the Jewish woman is faithful to Yiddishkeit, then her children's Jewishness is firmly established, regardless of who her husband is or what he does. Only after the child's basic Jewishness has been determined by the mother can the husband contribute to the
of Jewishness-whether
he' will be a Talmid
Chochom (Torah Scholar), whether
or not he will be a Levi, whether
or not he will be a Kohayn, etc. • ♦ ♦
Both man and woman are obliged to AilfUl G-d's mitzvos. The man is obligated to perform all 613 commandments. The woman , on the other hand, is excused fr<mi the performance 9t certain positive mtzvos which are restricted to specific time periods, in recognition of her primary obligation to fiunily and home duties.
However, the Jewish wmnanhas been instructed to fulfill three specific mitzvos whose ..initial letters form ttie^icronymHaCHajr N (grace) or the name CHa N a^^ These are:
1. Challah-seinratioii of the' dough being prepiared'lbr bread baking. A small portion Ot the dough is not kneaded into the loaf, but is put aside; a blessing is recited, and ttie dough is later burned.
2. Hadlokas Neiros-lightingjhe Shabbos and festival candles.__
3. Niddah-laws relatii« toTa-, haras Hamishpacha or Camily purity.__
Of these three mitzvos," two of them-separation of Challah and lighting the candles-may also be performed by the man, although they are woman's special privilege; but theoneMitzvawhidi has been entrusted completely to the Jewish woman, the Bfitzva which is solely hers, is Taharas Hamishpacha.
Of what significance is this Mitzva that is'the property of the Jewish woman?
Tlie Mitzva of Taharas Hamish pacha, family purity, through im mersion in a Biikva (and the re-lated r'^^ulations) deals directlyj with the power of procreation. Procreation represents nothing less than "the power of the infinite that Ues within man."
Man can have children, and his children in turn can have many children and so on ad infinitum. Yet the Mitzva controlling this power was placed entirely in the care of the Jewish woman.
What greater testimony could the Torah give to the status ot the Jewish wcnnan!
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