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JEWISH WESTERN BULLETIN
Friday, July 22, 1960
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Plan Today...For Tomorrow
Writing a farewell column as editor and publisher of the Jewish Western Bulletin has turned out to be the toughest assignment I've ever faced. I've been thinking about it for weeks and I have to admit that it never took me as long to put down on paper any other column or article among the many that I have vvritten for the Bulletin during the past eleven and a half years.
I must say that my years in Vancouver have been good years. I have had ample opportunity to express my ideas and ideals through my writing and the response to my columns and editorials has been quite gratifying, for the most part, from readers at large.
There is probably a certain amount of speculation as to the "real reasons" for the decision to leave Vancouver and accept a post in Montreal. Simply stated, the ans^wei* is that the change oifet^ the opportunity^^ for personal improvement and advkfiCeiftent. HoWevef I think it would also blB fair to say that this opportunity for advance-on^iit dofes not relate merely to inaterial aspects but also to personally held ideals.
I have always advocated the need for proper community planning in relation to the fulfillment of the overall needs and responsibilities of the Jewish col^munity. Having been invited to take a position with an organization which I believe to be dedicated to this purpose I felt I had to accept the challenge to move from the level of mere advocacy to the area of direct and active participation.
Linked with my new assignment I also see the opportunity to promote, from a new vantage point, better understanding and relations between Jewish community organizations and the press, botli Jewish and general, as well as with other media of communication.
Finally, arising from my experience in Vancouver, I shall take with me the desire to stimulate greater understanding of the smaller communities by the larger communities and perhaps even by the national strata of our Jewish community leadership. I must also say that the smaller communities still have much to learn in their dealings with the larger community bodies at the national level.
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THis is the last tiriie that 1 will have the opportunity as Bulletin editor to discuss the particular problems of the Jewish community in ■f^ancouver. It must certainly be said that the Vancouver Jewish community has grown in liiany many ways during the past eleven years.
but rather to provide for the introduction of a greater degree of planning for community services as well as for the fund raising required to meet the total needs and responsibilities of the Jewiish community. The constitution introduced at that time, which still remains unchanged
rfhe population ihas increased froin 2,000 to 3,000 - went so far as to ^pell out; a provisioai for thie
families; institutions and Ibuildlhgs^ have gro^ti and expanded; and of course there is an ever in-Cifeasing number of brganizatibhs and irmips;
In .some important areas however it must be stated that the Vancouver Jewish comnaunity has failed to make progress. In particular this relates to the provision of services and carrying out of projects for the fulfillment of overall lieeds ahd responsibilities. It is here that community planning is so esseiitiaV not oiily for the achievement of immediate goals, but so that there may be a consistent movement towards the attainment of long-term objectives.
I still remember the time back in 1950 when tHe Vancouver Jewish Administrative Otgahiiza-tibh became the Jewiish Community Council with a jtnore bi:ba'^dIy,CQticeived fconstitutioh. If should be recalled that the aim at that time Ivas not merely to change the name of the orgahizatiori.
establlsHmight of a welfare fund.
Unfortunately for this community the welfare fund provision has never been implemented. The result has been that whatever efforts were made in the direction of community planning proved alniost totally unsuccessful. It must also be said . that the establishment of a welfare fund was blocked because the control of the major fund raising effort was maintained in the hands of groups established on what is virtually a non^ local basis.
This should not be taken to mean that the cOhtrol of Jewish fund raising efforts in Vancouver is in the hands of non-local agencies. The Vancouver situation arises entirely out of local cireumistances, in which the dominant element in the fund raising field acts in the name of national organizations in order to avoid paying proper attention to local community needs.
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Institutions such as the Jewish Family Service Agency arid the Hoine for the Aged have grown and developed, and the realization of the nfew Jewish Community Centre is rtofw close' at hand. But the Jewish Community CoiihHl;'in its present form, has largely failed to provide the kind of guidance aijd assistancfe needed by the service agencieis and institutions of a growng (Community. This is because it has been frustrated in thfe fiilfillment of its totalaims and purposes for the reasons outlined.
Frustrating is really the only way to describe this lack of an adequate plarnnilig and fund-raising structure. It was this frustration which led a small group of people a few years ago to launch an effort to impede the existing filnd-raising apparatus in order to force a Change. This writer never did approve of the methods used at that time to try to end the era of stagnation insofar as community plahning was concerned, I must also say "however that I disapprove even more strongly of the policy of procrastination, prevarication an^ now-is-not-the-time-ism which has prevented the Jewish community of Vancouver from developing its community planning resources to this very day.
When some forceful action is taken in community affairs it always tends to be provocative
because it has to come right out in the open for everyone to see. A forceful action is something you can come to grips with; you can support it if you like it, or you can fi^t it if you don't. Forcfefulness in itself is not a bad thing; but Wheh It results from an impetuous or hot-headed appi'bach its chances of success are very slim. Any forceful action in the interests of community planning miist itself be Very carefully planned.
The kind of approach which hinders community planning is more easily recognized as inaction, procrast-inaction and status-quoism. These are elusive elements which are very difficult to pin down. An action can be brought into the open, but how can an inaction be brought into the open?
Certainly the time is now ripe for some properly conceived action in the direction of community planning in Vancouver. But such action; if it is to have a chance of success must be taken not merely in relation to the need for comniunty planning but in connection with a definite and constructive program for the introduction of community planning. The absence of such a program certainly results in a great deal of cross-purpose effort, by those agencies who are either working by themselves, or trying to work by themselves to provide better service to the community in a particular area.
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In particular I am addressing myself to the Jewish Family Service Agency, the Home for Hie Aged and the mew Coummunity Centre.! am convinced that the time is ripe for the heads of these agencies in Vancouver to initiate joint action that can lead to the development of a proper planning and fund raising structure.
Of course there's ho reason why the leaders of some of thie other institutions, including all the participants and affiliates of the existing United Jewish Appeal, should not also participate in this development. But if those who are really convinced of the need for such action today, are (continued on page 7)
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