SHOW'ANNE FRANK' FILM AT PERETZ SUN.
The film, "the Diary of Anne Frank" will be shown at the Peretz school, 6184 Ash St., this Sunday, Jan. 2?, at 1 p.m: This film concludes a unit of study by school students focused on'the history of Holland Jews.
Although a class project, this special showing will be open to. everyone in the community. Admission is free, yet small voluntary donations will be accepted to offset film rental
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Op0i spa Mffr DeudSBd
DEAD SEA SHORE -- Hamel Zbhar, a modern health spa built by the Dead Sea Coastal Development Corporation, was inaugurated here recently.
The new spa, situated between Sdom and Eln Bokek, can treat some 600 patients daily. There is undisputed therapeutic effect of spas in the Dead Sea region, where the water has a mineral content more than 20 times greater than at spas elsewhere.
Jerusalem Post
BETH ISRAEL MEETS THURS.
The semi-annual meeting of the members of Congregation Beth Israel will be held this Thursday, Jan, 31, 8:30 p.m., in the synagogue's Maccabee room. President Dr. Arthur M. Hayes and the various committe chairmen will report on synagogue arid school activities. The 1973 financial report will be reviewed, and the proposed 1974 budget presented for approval. Spokesmen notied that the agenda will include areas of extreme importance concerning the congregation's future. AH members and their wives are being, urged to attend.
CJC TO SCREEN HOLOCAUST FILMS
FOCUS in the Hearts You Love by learning how to prevent heart disease and by supporting the B.C. Heart Fund,on Heart Sunday.
"From the Ashes" a television interview with Elie Wiesel, and "It Has to be Told," interviews with three Holocaust survivors, will be shown to the community under auspices of the Warsaw Ghetto committee of Canadian Jewish Congress on Sunday,' Feb. 10, 8:30 p.m. at the Centre, room 102.
"The lessons of the Holocaust must be told and re-told and never forgotten" stated Paul Heller, Warsaw Ghetto committee corchairman with Mrs. N. Bluman. This film showing will not take the place of the annual Warsaw Ghetto Memorial Evening, which will take place on April 21 this year.
The three survivors interviewed, on *'It Has to be Told" are John Hirsch, brought to Canada under auspices of CJC' s War Orphans project; Paul Berger,
Friday, Jonuary 25, 1974—THE BULLETIN—5
Rio honors B-G
RIO DE JANEIRO—A street in Sao Paulo will be named for David Ben Gurion at the request of Jacob Zveibil, Deputy to Sao Paulo's Legislative Assembly.
One of Sa;o Paulo's streets was recently named for Dr. Moises Kaufman, president of the Brazilian Jewish Confederation, who died last November.
assisted by CJC in settling in Canada; and Rabbi Peretz Weizman, who came to Winnipeg as a survivor of the Lodz Ghetto.
The films are bing obtained from CJC's Montreal audio-visual department.
NORTH SHORE JEWISH COMMUNITY TAKES FORM
A capacity crowd recently marked the first organizational meeting of Jewish families the North Shore. More than 8p people from West and North Vancouver met at the West Vancouver Recreational Centre to discuss the establishment of educational, cultural and religious facilities for the more rhan 300 Jewish families on the North Shore. The meeting, called oji the initiative of Horst Sachs, Henry Shoore and Jack Root-man, wias a, clear indication that there is substantial interest in establishing a Jewish community for North and West Vancouver. An executive committee meeting of volunteers has been called with further general meetings to be announced and held in the imniediate future.
There Is only today between you and tomorrow
Which is why Canada Pension Plan benefits will he increased today and will be kept in line with the cost increases of tomorrow '
What this means to you as a beneficiary
From January 1 st 1974, Canada Pension Plan benefit payments will be adjusted to reach .... then maintain a level in line with . the actual cost of living. . .
If you are receiving monthly benefits that began during the period 1967 to 1973, your benefits have been recalculated so that the amount you receive in 1974 is related to the aciual increase in the cost of living over the years your benefits have been paid. When you receive your January 1974 benefit cheque, you will see that it has been increased. The increase in your payment will vary from 8% to 20% and will depend on the year in which your benefit first became payable.
In future years, if living costs continue to rise, you can expect further increases in your benefits based on current cost of living data.
What this means to you as a contributor
As a contributor to the Canada Pension Plan, you are building a basic and portable retirement plan for the future and at the same time providing current protection for.yourself and your dependents against the possibility of severe disability or early death.
In order to protect the value of your eventual benefits, the Canadian Parliament has passed legislation which ensures that, the contributions you make today will give benefits that maintain the purchasing power of today's wages twenty, thirty or even fifty years from now... when you need it!
To achieve this, the Government plans to have the earnings ceiling — the maximum amount on which contributions are paid and on which benefits are calculated — increased each year so that it will reach, and then keep even with the average earnings of Canadian industrial workers. This ceiling will be raised from $5,600.00 in 1973, to $6,600.00 in 1974 and $7,400.00 in 1975.
This new earnings ceiling means that the year's basic exemption — the initial amount on which you do not pay contributions — is changed from $600.00 in 1973 to $700.00 for 1974.
These changes also mean that the maximum employee contributions will increase from $90.00 a year In 1973 to $106.20 in 1974. Your contribution is matched by your employer. In the case of self-employed persons, the maximum annual ;Contribution is increased to $212.40 for 1974 as against $180.00 last year. For earnings of less than $5,700.00, there will be no increase in contributions. -
The change in the earnings ceiling means that the maximum retirement pension will rise from $90.71 for pensions effective in December 1973 to $134.97 for those whose pensions will begin in December 1975. As the maximum earnings levels for the years after 1975 continue to rise, so will the maximum retirement pensions in those years. There will also be increases in the maximum values each year for disability and survivors' benefits.
If you have any questions or wouldlike further informa-tion, please write:
Canada Pension Plan,
Department of National Health and Welfare,
Place Vanler, Tower "A",
Ottawa, Ontario,
K1A0L1.
Your contributions today ensure your protection tomorrow.
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Department of National Health and Welfare
Mnust^re de la Santd nationale eldu Bien^re social
Marc Lalonde. Minister.