tTune 14, 1963
JEWISH WESTERN BULLETIN
\e installation is opened to B,B. family, community
B. A. WOYTHALER
In view of the fact that Rabbi B. Wcythaler will be guesi ^^peaker, and that this will be his last public address hers before leaving for the United States, the entire B'nai B'rith f2mily and the community at large is being invited to attend the 54th annual Vancouver
I lodge installation of officers.
j The event is slated this Sunday
i evening at 8 p.m. in Beth Israel
I synagogue auditorium.
' A new cand'i'ligihting cere-nony for the installation of officers has been planned by past oresident, Allan Goldsmith, and his installation committee. Special greetinsfs will be brought to the gathering by District grand lodge officers.
Past presidents and officers of Vancouver lodge will tender
-« re'^ention 'oliowing ihe brief jflicial ceremonies when the uest speaker, Rabbi B. Woy-chaler and Mrs. Woythaler, will be honored, as well as the in-
oming B'nai B'ritli lodge execu-
ive members.
Members of B'nai B'rith, their wives, families and the entire , community have been cordially j invited to attend.
Victoria News
A social evening, sponsored 03' Histadrut, will take place in ■he Synagogue Social hall at 1:30 p.m., on Saturday, June 15. V fiJm, "Sinatra in Israel" will ?e shown. Refreshments will be served; and there will be no appeal for funds. Everyone welcome.
Rabbi Goldenberg lo attend eastern June-July conclaves
Rabbi Bernard Goldenberg will attend the Convention of the Rabbinical Council of America, the largest Rabbinical group in America, which will take place in New York during the latter part of June. A former member of the executive of the Rabbinical Council, Rabbi Goldenberg serves today on the following two important commit-; tees: committee on Jewish edu-; cation and the home and family life committee. He will partici-j pate in the special reports to bej given by the committees before; the Council Convention which I today has a membership of more j than 500 rabbis.
While in the East, Rabbi Goldenberg will attend, in July,
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j the Convention of the National Conference, of Synagogue Youth and will participate m Education and Public Relation seminars to ! be given by the National Association of Hebrew Day schools. Rabbi Goldenberg will also meet with the top lay and professional leadership of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations in order to set plans for the forthcoming North-West Regional Convention of Traditional Synagogues which is scheduled to meet in Vancouver in the early Fall. The last such convention to be held in Vancouver was in May, 1955.
Hillel held study proqriams in Canada
WASHINGTON—B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundations reported this week that more than 2,000 student leaders from 97 campuses participated in Sabbath and weekend Jewish study institutes during the academic year.
tadrut 5th National Convention highlights
I Over 300 delegates, represent- gave a charter to Canadian Hist-I ing every important Jewish com- j adrut. An exhibit of folk dancing ' munity in Canada, from Halifax j and singing, took place by the ; on the Atlantic to Vancouver on Oranim Zabar group, featuring
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; the Pacific, were assembled May ;19 and 20 at the festive 5th National Convention of Canadian Histadrut held in Montreal. Ber-|nard M. Bloomfield, of Montreal, was re-elected national
Geula Gill.
A feature of special interest was the presentation of a citation to the Israeli Ambassador Yaacov Herzog in the name of the Canadian Association for Labor Israel, for his outstanding
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president of the Canadian Hista-
idrut Campaign during the elds- contribution in creating good-ling deliberations at the conclave , will and understanding among j which also approved a new bud-i the Canadian people for the get quota of $5,000,000 to be;state of Israel. Mr. Herzog was ^raised during the next four also a speaker on the prograrh.
j^^^^^- Exhibition of articles by the
I Among others elected to the students of the seven trade (national executive were: A. L. schools established through con-Achbar, national vice-president; j tributions of the Canadian Hista-
Rabbi J. J. Weinstein, national vice-president; Louis M. Bloomfield, Q.C., national treasurer; Kalman Berger, chairman. Board iof Directors; Albert Eaton, chairman, National executive; I. M.
drut campaign opened at the Sheraton hotel three days prior to the convention.
Major speakers at the convention included Claude Jodoin, president, Canadian Labor Con-
rENERAL SCENE of one of the convention sessions held May 19 ana May 20 in ftreal. It marked the fifth, national conclave of the Labor Zionist organizc»tio» in ida.
Bobi-ove, Q.C., secretary; J. J. gress; Beh-Zion Han, repres^nta-Zweig, chairman, national bud- tive General Federation of Jew-get committee; Harry H. Steiner, ish Labor in Israel, in the United chairman, national expansion states; Israel Stolarsky, associ-committee; M. Oberman, chair-'ate national director, American man. National scholarship com-j Histadrut Campaign; Dr. Sol mittee; A. M. Shurem, national Stein, national director, Ameri-
executive director; and Dr. S. B. Hurwich, national honorary president.
can Histadrut campagin; Rabbi J. J. Weinstein, national president of the American Histadrut
:Feature of the opening session campaign; Senator- Wayne Morse was a seminar entitled, "Social!of Oregon: S. Swerdloff, mem-Values in Theory and Practice, ber of the Vaad Hapoel of the
Histadrut in Action." Shmuel
Histadrut in Israel and the dir-
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[LIGHT of the Sunday evening program, attended by 1,200 people, is shown in this ^re. Chairman of the proceedings. A. M. Israels, Q.C., is shown speaking at the rost-
Others, reading from right to left are Major L. Bloomfield, Q.C.; Councillor Abra-ICohen; Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon, keynote speaker; national president, Ber-
M. Bloomfield; Ben Shapiro of Regina; Israeli Ambassador, Yaacov Herzog; Dr. Lev-rg; and Leon Kronitz.
I ial Work; Dr. J. Kage, national director, Jewish Immigrant Aid Society; and Mrs. S. Borod, national executive secretary. Pioneer Women's organization.
Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon delivered his key - note speech at the major gathering of the Convention on Sunday evening, May 19, at the Theatre Comedie Canadienne. An overflow audience of 1,200 gathered to celebrate the 20th anniversary since the Canadian government
Lapin, national executive dir- ector of the Amal Trade Schools; J ector, Labor Zionist Mo\>ement I ^r. S. B. Hurwich, honorary • I,in Canada, was chairman andiPresident of the campaign m 'participants were: Prof. J. B.jCanada, formerly of Toronto, iLightman, McGill School of Soc- who now resides in Israel.
The rededication of the Labor Zionist organization to provide crucial aid in the area of scholarships for Israeli students in secondary and vocational schools was the key-note of the resolutions passed by the convention plenum.
The following have been elected to the national board of directors Pacific Coast region: Joshua Checov, S. Dlin, Ben Gar-ber, Robert Sattin and L. Stock-hamer.
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>ELEGATES are shown between convention sessions, je Jack Steinberg of Winnipeg and Vancouver delegate, >r, who was chairman of the 1963 Vancouver Histadrut gn.
PRE-CONVENTION EXHIBIT attracted large attendance. PMtographed above, at the Exhibit, are, from left to right, S. Werdloff. director of Hisiddrut's vocational department in Israel; A. Shurem, Canadian national executive director; and R. Sattin, who was chairman of the 1963 Calgary Histadrut campaign.