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WASHINGTON - The B'nai B'rith urged the United Nations recently to reach agreement on an "awthoritative standard" for determining acts of aggreissioh.
The appeal from the national Jewish service organization was
contained in a letter to UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim from B'nai B'rith president David M. Blumberg.
The move was disclosed by Blumberg at the annual meeting of the organization's board or
ARNOLD A; PORTIGAL
I WINNiPEG—Arnold A. Portigal, [Winnipeg business and community-V leader, has been named chairman |;fbr Western Canada's campaign t for State of Israel Bonds: The g drive will be the most intensive i effort ever carried on by Canadian Jewry to support the development of Israel's economy.
Hofficials stated.
Mr. Portigal headed the Win-c'nipeg drives during 1969, 1970 ■ "and 1971, During the last year he also served as vice-chairman for Western Canada under Harry rijCohen^f Calgary.   ^ / ^ '.r
Mr;;Portigal is regional pres-jident? of Zionist Organization of Canada, national vice-president of
the P.Z.O.C. and United Israel Appeal, :yi;ceri>re$ide^^ of Big Brothers and is on the executive jdif Jewish Agency in Jerusalem. ■ In accepting the chairmanship, Mr. Portigal explained that the 1972 campaign in Canada was part of a worldwide drive for $450 million in Israel Bond sales to enable Israel to meet the economic pressures of the war crisis to the Middle East and to transform the increasing numbers of new -immigrants from. Soviet Russia and elsewhere into productive citizens through the creation of thousands of new jobs.
"Israel must have the economic strength to construct new factories, install machinery and tools of production. In order to generate the empibyment opportunities for the many immigrants who have come and continue to come to Israel seeking not only freedom and Jewish identity but also the chance to participate to the best of their ability in the upbuilding of the country", Mr. Portigal said.
The role of tsrael Bonds is renected in the advancement of every branch of Isjrael's economic ~ life, the chairman stated.
Mr. Portigal stressed the impact of Israel Bonds on the productive capacity of the economy which has utilized these financial resources so that private investors, including scores of large American and Canadian firms, have been attracted by Israel's progreiss to Participate by establishing plants of their own or on a mutual basis with Israeli partners.
governors, its top policy-making body.
The letter to Waldheim accompanied. copies of a new study by Benjaniiin B. Ferencz, a former counsel -at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, which criticized the UN's failure to achieve an acceptable definition of aggression.
Blumberg said in his letter to Waldheim that a "clear cut" definition would make the peacekeeping machinery of the UN more credible.
The lack of definition, he contended, is a "major stumbling block" to the adoption of aih international code of offenses against tiie peace and the establishment of an international criminal court.
In another^ area of B'nai B'rith concern Blumberg announced that the problem of the Jewish aged and the enjtire scope of Jewish family problems would be explored at B'nai B'rith sponsored national conference involving Jewish sociologists, educators and theologians to be held at the University of Maryland.
yeshiva-bound students cited by S.T. tomorrow
PORTLANDi HECTS JEWISH MAYOR
PORTLAND, Ore. — This city with a four percent Jewish population got its first Jewish mayor in more than half a century when City Commissidher N e i 1 Gold-schmidt won the non-partisan post with 57 percent of the vote. Goldschmidt, a 31-year-old lawyer, took a generally liberal point of view in defeating a sexagenarian independent The incumbent did not seek re-election. The Middle: Eastj Vietnam and busing were not issues in the c^paign.
TEN VANCOUVER STUDENTS leaving to study in Teshlvoth next year will be honored by Congregation Schara Tzedeck witli a special service tomorrow, Saturday, June 17. The students will conduct the entire Shabbat jnoming servioes; commencing 9 ajn., and will receive a special presentation from the Congregation. Pictured in front row are Norman and Victor Greenhut; Cberi and Marc Belzberg are in second row; I. to r. in top row—Harold Grunfeld, Ron Eolberg, Paul Claman, Barry Kaplan. Steven Nemetz and Ron Wolochow are missing from photo. Attending Yeshiya university in New York will be Marc Belzberg, Paul Claman, Harold Grunfeld, Steven Nemetx, Ron Wolochow. Clieri Belzberg will be at New York's Stem College; Norman Greenhut, Ner Israel Hebrew Academy, Baltimore; Victor Greenhut, Denver Hebrew Academy; Barry Kaplan, Jerusalem Torah College; Ron Kolberg, Hebrew university in Jerusalem. Rabbi Marvin Hier, S.T. spiritual leader, stated: 'These students' desire to choose the difficult path of a dual program of secular and Jewish studies for their high school and university years reflects the new concern .today's young Jews have for fh^ir Jewish identity. These young people deserve t<^ be publicly congratulated. We Invite their families) and friends to join us this Shabbat mominc for the special service." Following-the service, the synagogue will host a Kiddush luncheon for the worshippers, in the auditorium.
Claim U.S. Jewish community^ ^^h^ deserted jailed war resistors
NEW YORK - A rabbinical student who serves as a chaplain at the Danbury federal prison has [accused the American Jewish community of having "failed those courageous young men and women who have gone toprison as a matter
of principle, primarily in opposition to the Vietnam war."
The charge was made by David Saperstein, a student at the Reform Hebrew Union College seminary, in a recent issue of Sh'ma, the independent   "journal of Jewish
JNF PRESIDENT aTES an'S ^GUARNANSOFTHEAIU^
development of the Arava and the importance the government of Israel stresses on border security in that area, and her continuing fight for survival. This settlement is the third of 18 to be established in the hereto uninhabitated area.
The terrain, to be made secure through clearance and settlement extends 115 miles along the Jordan border from the Dead Sea to the Giilf of Aqaba. '
JNF of Canada, has again accepted the responsibility of providing one million dollars for the reclamation of the land around and on the site of a new village, which is to be founded by Nahal, Israel's volunteer soldier-farmer youth brigade.
BERNARD BLOOMFIELD
Bernard Bloonifield, national Jewish National Fund president and Harris-D. Gulko, JNF executive vice-president, were* hosted at the Home of Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Frankenburg during their recent visit to this city. Julius Balshine, regional JNF president announced.
At the reception, Mr. Bloomfield presented 70th Anniversary Medals to. the following Guardians of the Arava: B. Barish, M. Hanson, Dr. L. Hornung, Mrs. M. Michel, M. Miller, H. Shindler.
Mr.  Bloomfield spoke on the
responsibility."
He asserted that the young Jewish resisters, who had been raised "from earliest childhood with resisters such as Abraham, Akiba. Danieland Judah Maccabee as heroes: enlightened from countless pulpits as their rabbis decried the immorality of the war," had stood up "for justice and humanity."
He declared that, "as happens all too often when human beings try to free themselves and their brothers and sisters, they escaped from the immorality of this world only by confinement behind prison walls."
There, he asserted, "all they hear is the silence of their fellow Jews. They wait for the support of their brothers until finally they are overwhelmed by despair — for their brothers have deserted them."
The student said that such Jewish prisoners, in "thinking of their fellow .Jews whose teachings led them to prison," could not help "but appreciate the words of the priesl-poet-prisoner, who lives by their side, when he says men today are 'in danger of verbalizing their moral substance out of existence.'"
Declaring that "talking others into action is simply not enough," the student declared that such an action "then leaves stranded all those who acted on those brave
words."
"Our community called its youth to action. It has not kept faith with them in their sacrifice. This is a sin the Jewish community must yet face."
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UZI NARKISS
Director General Israel's Aliyah Dept. oddresses Vancouver
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B.B. sponsors blood donor clinic Monday
"Save a life with the blood you give" is the urgent appeal being made by the B'nai B'rith family who will sponsor another Jewish community-wide Eed Cross blood donor clinic this Monday, June 19, 7—9 p.m. at Red Cross Centre, 4750 Oak St. (at 32nd Ave=) Spearheading that evening's clinic is B.B. Vancouver lodge. Plenty of free parking is available. Al Crane, 327-8022, has further information.
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THURSDAY, JUNE 29-8:15 P.M.
Jewish Community Centre-Rm. 100
FILM TO FOLLOW
FRIDAY, JUNE 30-8:15>.M. BETH ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE
Oneg Shabbat to follow with question and answer period
Sponsored by the Canadian Zionist Federation
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