m. XXXV, No. 19, lYAR 12, 5728
VANCOUVE
, MAY 10, 1968
$6.00 per year, this issue 14c
[eceives
tomorrow
mm mtmm mivi
Highest possible level of support called for by Zien
M. WATERMAN, who will ive an honorary degree to-orrow. May 11, during Convo-lion exercises at Simon Fraser niversity, beginning 2 p.m. Mr. >tennan established the first ident bursary at Simon Fraser id in 1967 was r^s^nsible for kg up a permaiient bursary n d o w m e n t. The University ipaper has described him as 'a retired^ farmer from Alberta io ^lias^dedl^^ his     t«» iji^^ !6on3^^ Ipoblic vunivewdtiea lii^ R [bfetoyed com^
Waterman is kuown as a Idedicated supporter and enthusi-^iic worker of almbsi every istitntion  and  charitable cause within the Jewish Communii^r.
The brave people of Israel, who won a war but have not yet won peace, are in their most difficult and dangerous period since 1948, when their courage wen independence for them, Bruce Zien, chairman of the 1968 Israel Emergency Campaign, warned today.
Mr. Zien called for the "highest possible level of support" for the current drive of Vancouver U.J.A., so that an increased allocation could be made to the nationwide drive of United Jewish Appeal's Emergency Fund on behalf of Israel's people.
Speaking of the desperate needs in Israel, Mr. Zien said, "It is tragic that it takes so much longer to win' a peace than a war, but the bitter fact remains that the emergency is far from over for Israel and her people. They must carry tlie financial burden noi only of a costly war and its aftermath of reconstruction, but also of constaht security measures.
"The first to suffer in this crisis/* he continufed, **are the half-Mllion^ ^unabsjiwrt^
est families and the smallest number of wage earners, because so many of the adults are illiterate and nc/t yet trained in.modern work skills. It also includes the largest percentage of aged, sick and handicapped persons, because of Israel's 'Open Door* immigration policy."
Bringing these 500,000 newcomers up to an acceptable standard of life, to cultural and economic equality with the rest cf Israels citizens, Mr. Zien added, is crucial to Israel's future. "They
isocplly back^jj^^fcoui^^ have npt jne^ made their way to working and livihg oh a par with longer-established Israelis from more advanced backgroimds.
"It is this vulnerable group of immigrants that contains the larg-
must not be allowed to fall by the wayside for lack of help," he said, "or Israel would be in danger of becoming a country divided against itself. In a democratic state, this is unthinkable."
"Mr, Zien explaned that before the June 1967 war, Israel's taxpayers—most of whom were immigrants themselves only a few years ago—^shared the cost of immigrant absorption at the ratio of two dollars to every dollar contributed by the Jewish communities of the free world.
"They can no longer afford to do so," he said. "Their taxes— probably the highest in the world —^go for war debts and security. They ask us in the Western World to continue to meet the human needs cf 500,000 unabsorbed immigrants and of immigrants still arriving from lands where it is not safe to be a Jew.
"We in the West are their brightest hope. Our Jewish com-
BKUCE ZIEN c Emergency jo(m.tinnes
\ab€didi rights of its Jews
jmw YORK—The Iraqi Government, dropping any pretense of being only anti-Zionist but not anti-Jewish, has promulgated a new series of measures offici^ly and openly directed against "the Jews" in that country, the European Office of the American Jewish Committee has reported from Paris.
The new legislation, the AJC charged, is the latest step in systematic harassment and persecution by Iraq of 2,500 Jews still remaining there, a mere remnant of what was the largest and most flourishing Jewish community in the Moslem Middle East two decades ago, with a history going back to Biblical times. I*atest Iraqi measures are designed completely to impoverish Iraqi Jews by cutting off virtually all their sources of income, AJG declared, and represent a "halfway house" to outright sequestration
BUUETIN NEVK DIGEST
|f their properties.
One new amendment to Iraqi iw makes it Impossible for le Jew'* to sell or otherwise of   any Immovable property he may own, or even try. and get a mortgage or upon it, or lease it, with-|ttt special permission from the iv of Interior. )ther equally sweeping new >vision orders all government private offices and businesses to pay out any sums "due to
the Jew", but to notify the Minister instead. The one exception made is that Jews may be paid salarieis due them up to 100 dinars ($280) per month. This, however, AJC-pointed out, is about the salary now paid a beginning clerk in inflationi-ridden Iraq, and dees not suffice for support of a family. Very few Jews, moreover, are in salaried posts in Iraq today; almost all in such jobs having been dismissed in the past year on government initiative, it was reported.
The Iraqi Minister of Interior Is given complete control over any money due Jews or any proceeds from sale or lease of Jewish properties by terms of the recent l^rislation, which authorizes him to deposit all such funds in a bank and decide on their dispensation. The new anti-Jewish measures appeared In Iraq's Official Gazette of last March 3, copies of which have just reached Paris. Reports trickling through from Iraq, the Committee declared, tell of an increasingly dire situation for the few thousand Jews there. In the months since the Arab-
Israel conflict of last June, approximately 100 Jewish heads of families and community leaders have been thit>wn into jail at one time or another, often on the pretext that this is necessary for their own "protection". About a score are still in jail, it was disclosed, despite intervention by Grand Rabbi of Iraq Sasson Khadouri, for their release.
Other anti-Jewish action by the Iraqi Government since the war has included a house-to-house search of all Jewish homes and drawing up of a register of all occupants. Jews have been forbidden to travel from their areas of residence, and are under constant surveillance. Even before the war Jews had to carry special identity cards, and no emigration by Jews, or travel outside Iraq, for any purpose, has been allowed during the past several years.
"Seen in the light of such facts, the statements by Iraqi President Abdel Rahman Arif last Feb. 17 to the "New York Tunes" in Baghdad that "The Arabs are not antagonists of the Jews' and that (Continued on Page 2) See DIGEST
munities must respond to this plea from the helpless with another generous outpouring of financial support as they';did last
cbhducted' its massive Eni-ergehcy Fund drive in the face of the crisis.
**Tbday," he concluded, "the need^ are intensified, and we must all give as we never gave before to UJ.A.'s continuing Emergency Fund Campaign on behalf of the Israeli people and its regular 1968 annual campaign, which includes aid to destitute Jews in 30 coimtries outside of Israel."
ISRAEL
One week
JERUSALEM—Foreign Minister Abba Eban told a press conference last week that Israel would require no more than one week to come up with a solid position on occupied Arab ter-itories should an Arab state, tomorrow, annoimce readiness to negotiate.
Ban NPD
JERUSALEM
Reacting to
West German Parliamentary elections which recently won 10 percent of the vote for neo-Nazi National Democratic Party, most newspapers in Israel called on Bonn to ban NPD lest the Federal Republic succumb to Nazism as did Weimar Republic a generation ago.
Muss attendnnce
JERUSALEM — About one-fourth of Israel's population, some 600,000 persons, watched Israel's 20th anniversary parade wind through the streets of a united Jerusalem while the airforce put on a spectacular display of power and acrobatic skill overhead. Dire threats of sabotage failed to ma-erialize.
Tourist rise
TEL AVIV—The Ministry of Tourism reported that in the first half of April alone some 35,000 oiu'ists arrived in Israel as com-jared with 39,000 last year dur-ng the entire month of April.
T.T. appoints new principal
MIXED MARRIAGE OFFSPRING "JEWISH"
GREAT NECK, N.Y.—The Reconstructionist movement and its affiliated synagogues will recognize as Jewish the children of mixed marriages where the mother is not Jewish and did not convert to Judaism prior to the child's birth, but parents concerned will havef to demonstrate, through action, their intention of raising their children as Jews
Moscow diief Rbbbi to NX as guest of Council for Judaism
NEW YORK—Chief Rabbi Yehuda Leib Levin of Moscow has informed the American-Council for Judaism that he is prepared to bring a Russian Jewish religious delegation to this country before the middle of June. In a cable received by the anti-Zionist organization, Dr. Levin indicated that the state of his health precluded a visit at any other season.
A Coimcil spokesman said that original plans to have Dr. Levin address its convention had to be changed and that the Council would set up a s^iecial conference with the visiting delegation. Rabbi Levin presumably will be accompanied by three others whom his cables named and identified as Rabbi Israel Berkovitch Schwartzblatt, described as rabbi of the Odessa synagogue; David Moissevitch Stiskin, cantor of the Leningrad synagogue, and Rabbi Israel Mois-sivitch Bronfman, described as the rabbi of the Derbenta synagogue. It was indicated that if Dr. Levin, for reasons of health, is imable to make the trip to New York, the remaining members of the delegation will come in any case.
PINCHOS BAK
Shortly after Abe Sacks, president of Vancouver Talmud Torah, announced the appointment of a new principal. The Bulletin had the opportunity of interviewing the principal-designate, Pinchos Bak, who was visiting here from Sian Francisco.
Himself a product of a Day School, Mr. Bak feels that the puri)ose of such a school is to show children that we have a wonderful heritage — language, ideas, history, religion, observance—a very broad inheritance, which enables them to make decisions about Judaism in an enlightened, mature way.
**Every Jewish child is exposed in one way or another to Jewish practises, observance, culture, mii^c and so forth," he declared, ''and ultimately the child, conscious]^ or unconsciously, will make basic decisions about Judaic. He will be deciding what parts of it he will integrate into his own life, and how mudi it will affect his own mode of life.
"Too often that decision is based on ignorance, not on a real basis of understanding," he stated. "Even worse, many people
(Continued on Page 12) See PRINCIPAL