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JE WIS H WEST E R W B U L L E TIN
Friday, January 8, 191
An historic Sunday
AT TAUm TORAH Mm
More often than not, events occur in history without the average person being aware of their significance. Sometimes, for example, news that receives the biggest headlines telling of an event that seems so crucial at the moment, turns out later to be of insignificant proportion. And conversely, an occurrence that receives far less sensational acclaim, is recognized in the long run to have been truly a major historic turning-point.
In this writer's opinion, an event which belongs in the latter category and was an important milestone in the history of Vancouver's Jewish community, was the formation last Spring of the Joint Adult Education committee.
Consisting of representatives of thirteen organizations, JAiEX! received initially the rather modest news and editorial coverage that is customary in such non-political, non-pecuniary organizational alignments. From then on, howevef, it was all hard work. Nimier-ous meetings were called. Excitement was high as people realized "there were areas of interest common to all. They began to appreciate that their united efforts held the potential of far greater achievement than any one of them could hope to attain alone. But since this was an entirely new body, actually the first unified Adult EVlucation program ever attempted, general patterns had to be developed before committees could begin to function.
Gradually, plans began to cryi^tallize. The first major project woidd be a series of lectures of the highest possible calibre. They would be held during the month of January, one each week, and all organizations agreed to co-operate in two other very important ways: firstly, they would refrain from sponsoring their own separate programming during that time, and secondly, they would make the greatest possible efforts in urging all of their respective members to attend.
The time has now arrived for the first lecture of the first JAEC series. Sunday, 8:30 is the time. The Centre auditorium is the place. The speaker is of as exceptional a calr ibre as could grace any platform, be it before audiences in New York, London, England, Jerusalem or Montreal.
Thus there is no doubt that the advent of JAEC to Vancouver is in itself an exceptional circumstance for the community. But we shall have on Sunday evening a double good fotrtime. For this auspicious opening event offers us what can be considered in the realm of a once-in-a-lifetime experience: the speaker is none other than Dr. Trude Weiss-Rosmarin, a dynamic and original thinker who brings a fresh tang of vitality to our winter-weary northwest-em coast.
There is not a single drop of wet, vapprous or frozen B.C. "dew" that has the power to offset such an attraction.
DIFFERENCES
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ish political orientation—more votes proportionately for Kennedy than any other group including the Catholics; more votes against Governor Wallace than any other white group; more enthusiastic support for Governor Stevenson than any other body of Americans.
The call of social justice often appears to attract proportionately more Jews than other groups. "In 1964," Mr. Him-melfarb writes, "half or more" of the white men and women Who went down to Mississippi to work with the Negroes and
risk their lives were Jews . . . proportionately more rabbis have gone South and have been jailed or beaten than any other white clergymen."
In further support of this point, Mr. Himmelfarb mentions the Jews of Kansas City and Detroit, who in referenda on open occupancy housing (to benefit Negroes) "have voted for it in huge disproportion to other whites." Similarly in California, during the last election, "two-thirds of all the votes were for Proposition 14, an anti-Negro constitutional amendment on housing; but two-thirds of the Jewish votes were against it."
Even within the narrower framework of minority groups,
iadarsatiaas Crmted
Youth Aliyah Men's Campaign
Jan15-Feb1S -:|reth Israel Men's Breakfast..Jan 17 jScfiara Tzedeck Men's Breakfast
Jan 17
>yr6fnt Adult Education Eve...Jan 18 Israel Bonds Fashion Show....Jan 19 B^th Israel Sisterh. Lunch Jan. 20 Pioneer Women Tu B'shvat
Eve. ---------------------------- Jan. 20
Joint Adult Education Eve...Jan. 23 L. Freiman Tu B'shevat Tea Jan 27 Joint Adult Education Eve Jan. 31
Jewish Music Month......„......Feb 1-28
H. Szoid Hadassah Tea..........Feb. 3
Israel Histadrut'Dinner..........Feb 7
Hebrew Education Week Feb 13-21 Beth Israel Men's Breakfast..Feb 14 Hadassah Men's Fashion Show
Feb 14
Israel Histadrut Campaign
Feb 15-Mar 15
Hebrew Festival Eve________Feb 18
JCC Search for Meaning__________Feb 17
Centennial B'nai B'rith
Dance .....---------------- Feb. 20
TrI-school Bible Meet ______ Feb. 21
Jewish Music Month
Conc«rt .......------------Feb. 21
B'nai B'rith Women
Brotherhood Night..........._Fob. S
NCJW Community Meet
National Pres._______......_____Feb. 24
U.S.V. Family Tea________________Feb. 28
Schara Tzedeck Men
Breakfast ..------........._____Feb. 28
Schara Tzedeck Sistsre &
Men's Evening______________......Feb. 23
Pioneer Wo. Shalach Monos Campaign-------Feb. 28-'Mar. 28
CENTRE LIBRARY
NEWS
"FISHKE THE LAME", a novel by Mendele P,locher Se-forim, was first published in Yiddish in 1869. It has been translated into English by Gerald Stillman. The narrative relates the love of two crippled beggars as well as the meeting of two competitive book pedlars and their travels together. The story is a novel within a novel.
In "Fishke the Lame" the author points out that whilst exploitation and persecution of people is despicable and poverty hateful, the people so afflicted are not to be despised or hated. Love, warmth and even beauty flourish in the ugly harsh life of the characterized beggars. Jewish life in the Pale of Settlement of Tsarist Russia with its misery, squalor and corruption underlie the theme of the book which is available now in the Jewish Community Centre Li-
Jews exhibit a marked tendency to be different. Governor Wallace and Senator Gold-water, Mr. Himmelfarb says, "were not strikingly unpopular with the ethnic minorities — who in the referenda across the country were almost solidly against open housing." The point Mr. Himmelfarb makes is that the differences among Jewish and other minorities "just possibly could mean that when the Jewish minority behaves well it does so less because it is a minority than because it is Jewish."
In fact, it is his view that "if you truly want people who care for social justice, respect knowledge and learning, and are concerned about culture— why, the hard fact is that such people are more likely to be found among Jews more than anywhere else."
LETTER TO EDITOR Sofely work
Dear Mr. Kaplan:
Your very generous cooperation in publicizing National Safety Week during the first week of this month is deeply appreciated by directors of British Columbia Safety Council.
The graphic manner in which your paper stressed the hazards of automobile driving in this age of great speed and high-powered vehicles was a major contribution toward bringing home to all drivers — and pedestrians — the need to be alert, careful and courteous.
The response of your publi-. cation was a timely and effective community service.
S. C. Kershaw, Executive Director British Columbia
Specialists will Look at learning
"Let's Take a Look at Learning" is the title of a lively discussion to be held at Talmud Torah P.T.A. meeting on Monday, Jan. 11, 8:15 p.m.'All interested persons in the community tare being welcomed to attend.
Moderator will be Dr. B. Keith Akins, a newcomer to Vancouver, who is a specialist in * Child Psychiatry. He will comment on the emotional problems arising from learning difficulties.
Panelists include Dr. Leslie G, Andrews, who will speak on learning problems from a paediatrician's standpoint; Dr. Charlotte David, who will cover the normal process of learning; and Rabbi Wilfred Solomon who will discuss the question of the double curriculum.
Dr. Andrews, a graduate of London University, is a certified specialist in both Physical Medicine and Paediatrics of the Royal college of Physicians and Surgeons of England and of Canada. For the past three years he has been assistant medical director of the G. F. Strong Rehabilitation Centre and the Children's Rehabilitation and Cerebral
Palsy association of Vancouve The eldest of his three ch* dren is in Grade 1 at the Tal mud Torah.
Dr. David has a Ph.D. i Clinical Psychology from U"' ' versity of Portland. In the p she has been a vocational coun seller and directed a hospita paediatric recreational pro gram. She is currently associ ate professor in the depai ment of Special Education a U.B.C. where she is coordina tor of a research unit for ex ceptional children.
Rabbi Solmon, spiritua leader of Congregation Bet Israel, has a B.A. from Yesh-iva University, a Master's Degree in Hebrew Literature and has attended Columbia University where he did graduate studies in Psychology. He has been a Scoutmaster, supervisor of a Children's Home, Hebrew teacher and program director of various schools and summer camps. Two of his three children attend Talmud Torah.
A question period will follow the discussion, after which tea will be served. An invitation has been extended to ail parents and other members of the community to hear this interesting program.
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should be regarded as a "purely human problem."
Following is the verbatim report of the interview:
Q. What must be done today in the field of immigration?
A. Firstly, a way must be found to ensure that the twelve millions of Jews, still dispersed across the seven seas, be allowed to continue in their specifically Jewish existence unhampered by wilful or forced assimilation.
Secondly, the desire to settle in Israel should be aroused amongst those Jews in a position to do so, with the aim of ensuring the totality of their Jewishness and the increase in the population in the State of Israel.
One dare not forget that the State of Israel did not come into being merely for the sake of the 650,000 Jews in the country at the time of the State's establishment, nor, for that matter, for the million and a quarter immigrants since 1948. The State of Israel has sprung up anew so that at least the greater portion of the Jewish people return to the State of Israel within the confines of the Land of Israel.
The Israel state located within its present borders is in need of six million Jews, at the very least. With increasing industrial development and the solving of the water problem,
the State of Israel will be enabled to absorb ten million Jews. The State is hungry for manpower whether skilled, or simple labourers, or intellectuals in all fields. The lack of sufficient working hands in the country is behind the present excessive wage demands and is slackening the pace of the country's development in all spheres.
The land is crying out for immigration to further its development and security through peaceful means — by dint of hard work and productive construction without hindrance to anyone around us. It must be the concern of the Jewish people in its entirety to aid in the return to Israel of the major portion of world-Jewry. This concern does not devolve solely upon the State^ but upon the entire people.
(To be Continued)
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