I^iday, January 21, 1966
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FELIX FREEDMAN ... campaign vice-chairman
Speaking recently at the annual dinner o£ the Trade Union Council for Histadrut in Minneapolis, Minnesota, America's vice-president, Hubert Humphrey, lauded Histadrut for setting a "good exainple of man's humanity to man." Continuing, he said, "B[umanitarianism,- rooted in ethical principles, binds our two countries, coir two-labor movements, and all of us as individuals, together in common pursuit ot a world devoted to peace in freedom. We are engaged in a great effort to break new ground for human welfare and for freedom. I congratulate our partners, the people of Israel and their great labor movement, Histadrut,
Tremendous response resulted in the sold-out sign being posted this week for the Installation Dinner and Koussevitzky Concert at Schara Tzedeck Wosk auditorium on Sunday, Jan. 30. Remaining few hundred tickets for Sabbath services on Friday evening and Saturday, Jan. 28 and 29, in which Cantor Moshe Koussevitzky will actively participate, are expected to disappear also at a rapid rate.
Commencing with Kiddush. at Friday night services, Jan. 28, 8 p.m., at Congregation Schara Tzedeck, the internationally fa-
uon's 64Tf JOm VAMCOUViR lODGE TO HEAR MSTRKT GUEST
Joint meeting of Lions Gate lodge B'nai B'rith and Vancouver Lodge No. 668 will be held on Monday, Jan. 24, at 8:30 p.m., at the Jewish Community Centre. Program will feature Harry Gub-erman of Los Angeles.
Mr. Guberman is director of Voluntary Fund Services, District Grand Lodge No. 4, and is currently on a tour of various District centres. He is known to be an extremely interesting and djmamic speaker and his visit here is being anticipated with a great deal of interest.
Membership of Lion's Gate lodge and Vancouver lodge is urged to attend. Jlefreshments will conclude a stimulating evening.
KOUSSEVITZKY DINNER and CONCERT
SOLD our;.';
The Program Committee of Schara Tzedeck Congregation is pleased to announce that all tickets have been sold for the Gala Installation Dinner and Concert Sunday, Jan. 30, 6:30 p,m.
There are still tickets available (at $5 per person) for an inspirational Sabbath Service with tha world's greatest Cantor assisted by a Choir.
' m KIDDUSH AT FRIDAY NIGHT SERVICES/
JAN. 28, 8 pjn.
^ ONEG SflABBAT r^ECEPTIOM follows services^
> % SABBATH SERVICES intliKliitg Sh^charith ^nd ^ui»air .SATURDAY, JAN. 29, 9 a.m.
CALI THE SYNAGOGUE OFFICE
mous Chazan will also daven Sabbath services, including Sha-charit and Mussaf, commencing at 9 a.m. co Saturday, Jan. 29 A choir will be in attendance and an Oneg Shabbat reception v/ill follow Friday evening. Tickets for the inspirational Sabbath services are now available at the Schara Tzedeck office, RE 3 4929.
In making their annoimce-ment of the sellout of tickets two weeks before the Gala Installation Dinner and Koussevitzky concert on Jan. 30, the committee noted that 542 will be seated for dinner, including use of the balcony. An outstanding three course kosher dinner has been planned with cocktails commencing at 6:30 p.m.
Cantor Koussevitzky's own accompanist will fly in for the occasion of the concert, while four cantors and five or six rabbis from the Northwest Region, as far away as Portland, will be
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of Ottawa; and David Orlikow, M.P., of Winnipeg.
Wires were received by Mr. Martin from Senator David Croll and Herbert Gray, M.P., of Windsor, associating themselves with the delegation.
Meanwhile in Toronto, Ignac David, 44 year old survivor of the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps, won his appeal- from a 30 day prison sentence for'a charge of assault occasioning bodily harm arising fiom the Allen Gardens riots of May 30 last. Justices Wells, Porter and Evans of the Ontario Court of Appeal listened to Sydney M. Karris, Q.C., make his plea and decided to commute the jail term to a fine of $75.
Mr. Harris presented among his arguments a psychiatrist's affidavit on the effect of concentration camp experience and the reaction of such a person when confronted by a planned neo-Nazi demonstration. Mr. Harris, who is vice-chairman of Canadian Jewish Congress in Ontario, was acting as Mr. David's counsel in a voluntary capacity at the request of Canadian Jewish Congress. Mr. David's sentence had been the only prison term handed out to those involved in the anti-Nazi rioting (one of the neo-Nazis is serving a year's term on a public mischief charge).
B.I. sets Sabbath services tonight
Friday night services at Congregation Beth Israel commence at 8:15 p.m. tonight, with Rabbi Wilfred Solomon officiating and Hazzan Tibor Moses chanting the liturgy, assisted by Beth Israel Choir under direction of S. Pel-man. Oneg Shabbat following services will be sponsored by Beth Israel Sisterhood.
Mr. Lavy Becker from Montreal, . a top leader of Canadian Jewish Congress, will deliver the guest sermon focusing on important aspects of Canadian Jewish, life. ,. -
Sabbath morning services, Saturday, Jan. 22, will mark the Bar-Mitzvah of Alau Richard Glasser, son of Mr^ and Mrs. Emanuel Glasser. Following services, a Kiddush will be tendered -by Mr. aiid: Mirs. Glasser to lonor their son. Rabbi Solomon and. Hazzan Moses will officiate, assisted by Peth Israel Choir. Joseph Szabo will read the Torah,
attending the Koussevitzky weekend.
The former head cantor of the Vilna Great Sj'nagogue arid of the Warsaw Great Tlomatsky synagdjgue, Moshe Koussevitzky made his (Jebut as a concert artist and operatic singer in Paris before the Second World War. Pie has toured Europe, North and South America, South Africa, Australia and Israel. He has been enthusiastically acclaimed all over the globe as a great artist and as the world's greatest cantor.
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