Friday, December 16, 1966
JEWISH WESTERN BULLETIN
Page Eleven
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Youth Affairs
YOUNG JUDAEA—This Sunday, Dec. 17, 1966, all Judaeans are gathering at the Jewish Community Centre at 10:30 a.m. for a Camp Hatikvah Jam Drive.
The Judaeans who are driving are asked to please came with their cars.
Because of this drive, we are postponing the special activities until next week.
U.S.Y. CONVENTION
The 16th annual National U.S.Y. Convention will take place at the Chase-Park Plaza hotel in St. Louis, Missouri, from Dec. 22-25.
The theme of the convention "Conservative Judaism in Time and Space" is certain to make this year's convention an especially meaningful experience for the 1400 U.S.Y.'ers expected from all parts of the United States and Canada.
The Pacific Northwest Region will be sending a delegation of-12 youngsters. Representing Vancouver will be Fred Buckwold, Peter Kafka, and Tracy Segal.
Mr. H. Sherman, Regional Youth Director, will accompany the delegation and has been asked to participate in the Torah ses-
sions.
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JANUARY 9
The Lion's Gate—K of C— Chinatown Lions forthcoming dinner mepting is engendering enthiisiasmlnever before seen for an affair of this nature.
The roster of guests who will be in attendance is beginning to look like a cross section of Burke's Peerage and Who's Who.
It has already been announced that Howard Green, former Minister of External Affairs, Arthur Laing, keynote speaker and Minister of Northern Affairs, and the Most Rev. Martin Michael Johnson, D.D,, Archbishop for the Diocese of Vancouver, will be among those present.
Alex Bcdrogi, Lion's Gate Program Chairman, urges all B'nai B'rith members and the men of the community to attend this historic event.
The Place: Jewish Community Centre. The Time: 6:30 p.m. cocktails, dinner at 7 p.m. The Date: Jan. 9, 1967.
Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi
at eighty...
By RIVKAH KATZENELSON
ERECT, ATTIRED IN BLACK,
with youthful eyes and a lightness of gait, Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi continues to be a dynamic, variegated and interesting personality. At the age of 80, her countenance still reflects the productivity of her way in life, studded with intellectual activities which exalt her spirit and compensate her for her widowhood and bereavement through the loss of her younger son Eli in the 1948 War of Independence.
Tpday, Rachel Ben-Zvi is studiously engaged in the collection and publication of the writings of
her husband, the late President Itzhak Ben-Zvi, which all deal with the history of Eretz Israel and of the various tribes and communities in Jewry, and the development of Jewish life in the Homeland from its early beginnings to the present time. Parallel with her work of compilation and editing within the framework of "Yad Ben-Zvi"—the memorial mstitute to the late President in Jerusalem—^she continues to hold regular meetings with the Youth, particularly from among the re-:ent amVals in the newly estab-ished settlements. These meetings are generally of a cultural-intellectual nature, connected with the Libraries Project Under the auspices of the President's House Fund which was founded through the initiative of Rachel Ben-Zvi at the time that she was First Lady in the land. She still serves as chairman of the Fund.
THE FABRIC OF RACHEL BEN-ZVI'S LIFE was woven entirely within the heroic period of the commencement of Zionist realization in Palestine some 60 years ago. It was then that her personal characteristics revealed themselves: a temperament desirous of action, indefatigable en-
ergy, a fundamentally religious heart and a longing for the effectuation of ideals. The yearnings of the generation in which she grew up, the circumstances of life into which she was drawn, the obstinacy for realization with which she was tempered were all wonderfully suited to her inner world and personal traits. One may define Rachel Ben-Zvi as a perfect person—^from the days of her early youth until her old age, a person who sprouted from the soil of her generation and who restored to it an abundance of wealth minted in the best of her dreams and aspirations.
It was no coincidence that, in her early youth in the village of Malin in Czarist Ukraine, Rachel Yanait nee Lishansky, joined the growing Poalei Zion (Zionist Labor) party which consisted mainly of young Jewish intellectuals openly seeking to combine, theoretically and practically, Zionism and Socialism into a national-political synthesis. It was at the first Poalei Zion Council in Ber-dichev and the foundation conference of Poalei Zion in Poltava in 1906, at which the main speakers and draftsmen were Pov Bor-ochov and Itzhak Ben-Zvi—^who was known in the secret self-defence organization by his underground pseudonym "Avner", that Rachel Yanait met her future hus-)and. She was fascinated by the biblical name no less than by the erect figure and serious medita-ive nature of the young man. Shortly afterwards (Passover 1909) Avner immigrated to Eretz Israel, linked his fate to Jerusalem and became one the founders and draftsmen of the Poalei Zion ideology in Eretz Israel.
Rachel Yanait immigrated to Eretz Israel in the Spring of 1908, and the two met again. The connection which had been started
in Poltava deepened in Jerusalem. Jerusalem presented an idealistic and emotional focal point for the Ben-Zvis till the last days of the late President. They never deserted it or exchanged it for another city; nor did they see any point in dwelling in Eretz Israel if not within its boundaries.
WITH THE APPEARANCE OF HER FmST BOOK published by Am Oved in 1959, Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi showed herself to be a talented writer, well-versed in the art of phrasing her thoughts and feelings, able to relate in a gripping style her experiences and impressions. She called the book of her memoirs from the first day she landed at Jaffa down to the Balfour Declaration, "Anu Olim" or "Coming Home" as it was called in the English edition. Here she unfurls the story of her life which is spread out before the reader like a delicately colored landscape.
The book is a unique literary combination of an epic of Eretz Israel during the period of the Second Aliyah and a diary of events and impressions, presented in the personal-lyrical vein of a girl in love with Eretz Israel at the beginning of Zionist Labor settlement, with Jerusa-
lem and its nuclei of the new yishuv outside the old city walls, side by side with the old yishuv within the Old City.
"Coming Home" seems to be the base of Rachel Yanait's personality and life. It helps us to imder-stand her own many personal syntheses, alongside the essential synthesis of Zionism and Socialism in the form of the Poalei Zion party to which she found her
(Continued on Page 12) See MRS. BEN-ZVI
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