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St Laurent, Dr. Goldmaniv Comay,
j\ertzer are guest speaxers
MdNTREAL^Delegates, community leaders and observers from coast to coast will convene at the Sheraton-Mt. Royal Hotel in I^ontreal.from October 18-21 for the 11th Plenary Session of the Canadian Jewish Gongress. A general attendance of over 400 is expected.
Participants will meet to review and assess all aspects of Congress program since the last Plenary Session, wfiich.took place in Toronto in 1953, and to make plans arid recommendations for the next three-year period. Election of officers'will take place on the last day of the convention.
The; Arrangements Cotpmittee for the Plenary Session, under the chairmanship of Harold Lande, Q.G. of Montreal consists in addition to Mr; Lande, of: Earl Goldberg, Halifax; M. H. Myerson and X-avy. Becker^ Montreal; A. B. Bennett, Rabbi Slonim, and Sydney. Harris, Toronto; Saul Cberniak. and Sol Winnipeg; H. Altman and Esmond Ian-do, Vancbiwer. :v / ' ; . A^ made of the following appointments: L«Yy Becker, chairman of the Steering' Commit-, tee; Sol Kanee, chairman of the No-niinations Cpmmittee; H. , Altmaii, jjh^airman of Credentials <|piximit-;
ifeirio, chairnp|aH V of the .Resolutions Committee., r •..
i»yi^pAV SESSIONS
The/^nvention wjH^ under way Thursday afternppn, 6cto,b.er 18, witfi
PRIME MINISTER ST. LAURENT
DR. N. GOLDMANN
preliminary meetings of the National Resolutions, Nominations and Education Committees; to be followed by a meeting of the National Executive fcommittee during which tribute will be paid to the late Moishe Dick-stein, whP was secretary of the Congress until his death earlier.this year.
An official welcome will be extended the delegates by Hairold Lande, Q.C., at Dinner in the Rose Room of the Windsor Hotel where Dr. Arthur Lelyveld will speak on "Current Trends in Adult Education". He will, be fpllpv/ed by a program arranged by the Jewish Music Council featuring Works of Canadian Jew-' ish Composers. Shioinie Wiseman will then address the gathering on "A Newer View of Jewish Education". The meeting will adjourn after k delegates forum and reception. Monroe Abbey, CJC vice president will be chairman of the dinner ses-sioni '
ST. LAURENT SPEAKS FRIDAY
. At breakfast iFridiay pvormn^^Oci ;tpber.49i^ ,R0gi(pi^ Mantiine.;&ction
held at 10:00 a.m. ConcuiTently, from the morning session until noon, four national committees^Resolu jtions. Nominations, Steering and Education wiU, meet.
During the luncheon session, at Sheraton- Hall,; Sheraton-Mt, Royal Hotel, Jpseph H. Fine, ;Q.C., National Treasurer, will present his 1957-58 Congress Budget Analysis and guest pf honor, the Rt. .Hdn. Louis St. Laurenti Prime Minister of Canada will -address the convention. Samuel Bronfman, president of the Canadian Jewish Congress will chair the luncheon session.
The afternoon will be devoted to special meetings and a session pn Community Organization under the chairmanship of E. E. Barkoff, Montreal, and in conjunction with the Canadian Committee of the Council of Jewish Federations' and Welfare Funds. Panelists will v be Morris Ta-bachnick (Windsor), Hy Altman (Vancouver), E. Goldberg (Halifax). ' A special exhibit of Congress work and interest is planned for this Plenary Session, and a guided tour of exhibit3>^will be made from 5-6 p.m. A dinner for out of town delegates (Continued on page 2)
Rve UN speakers hit Egypt for blockage against Israel
1i)ut of nine speakers criticised Egypt for blockading the Suez Canal against Israel, on the opening day of the UN Security Council debate on the Suez this week. Representatives of Britain, Belgium, Australia, France and Cuba all spoke up in behalf of Israel.
Dr. Emilio Nunez-Portuondo of Cuba made the^ strongest attack on
Egypt for its attitude to Israel, condemning her for not respecting the Security Council resolution on this question.
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This blockade, said Dr. Portu-ondo, affects Cuba directly. "We too are users of die canal,** he de> clared. **Our merchant vessels do not pass through Suez, but our products—sUg^, tobacco ; and' so on—are carried to all psr^s of uie
world in vessels of every flag. It is clear that if the passage of a vessel carrying our products vt^ere impeded, it would cause us unjustified harm which we could not accept without registering our protest." Egypt maintained that its block ade of Israel is justified because it h still at war with* the J.ewish State.
Israel's request to speak in the Security Council Suez debate had not yet been granted early this week. Ciiba is openly backing Israel on this question. The Soviet Union, it was reported, would not object to Israe! speaking if the representatives of seven Arab states were given equal voice.
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ISRAEL COMPLAINT ON NEW JORDAN MURDERS
JERUSALEM—Israel has submitted a, complaint about the, murder of five Israelis in an attack by Jordan (Continued on Page 12)
tion of Canadian Jewish Con"> gress in Vancouver in 1958 will' be made by Hy Altman, president of the Pacific Region of Congress, at the Plenary Session in Montreal next week.
Mr. Altm-an tb)d the Bulletin that
SPECIAL AWARDSJO VANCOUVERITES AT
Groberman, president of Vaiicou-ver Hadassah, received a testimonial here last weekend from Israeli Finance Minister Levi Eshkol, at the national conference for Israel bonds in appreciation of her untiring efforts towards establishing a sound economy for the^ State of Israel,
Similar awards were presented in absentia to Harold Freeman, who was chairman of last season's highlight successful bond drive in Vancouver, and to Mrs. Myer Wine who co-chair^d the women's drive with Mrs. Groberman. -
Mr. Eshkol praised the Canadian government for 24 "wings of peace" to be used defensively, only. He also paid tribute to the Canadian people for the friendly understandmg. between both countries.
He called upon Jewish communities evel;y^yhere to intensify their efforts for the Israel bond drive since the need is urgent. "With the confidence and support of Canadian Jewry, Israel faces* the future unafraid," he said.
Israel Ambassador Michael Comay paid tribute to the .sense of decency of the Canadian government in sell-
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He sai^ that
thd' extraordinary effort of the Jewish communities in Canada and other free countries enabled Israel to admit tens of thousands of refugees and maintain econoniic stability and scr (Continued on Page 9)
UJA banquet at Beth Israel
The traditional windup dinner for the 1956 UJA campaign takes place this Sunday at Beth Israel at 6:30 p.m. -
Highlight of the program will be the honoring of a number of outstanding UJA cartipaigners during the presentation of awards. Reports will be made by Lou Lefohn, campaign chairman, and Mrs. A. Gold, Women's. Division chairman.
Several numbers from "To you with love," the Women's Division UJA show, will be presented at the banquet.
All campaign workers and their spouses are eligible to attend this banquet and those who have not yet made reservations are urged to do so by phoning CE. 1168.
Editorial topic
Israel attd the Suez crisis
IN the House of Commons a few weeks ago, Prime Minister Sir Anthony JEden warned that if Egyptian President Nasser is allowed to get away With his seizure of the Suez Canal, he may become bold enough to march against Israel. But in the meantime a British radio station'on Cyprus is carrying daily broadcasts calling to the Arabs to attack Israel and forget about the Suez Canal problem. This latter reyelation was made only last week by Dr. Nahum Goldmann, World Zionist and World Jewish Congress president, upon returning from his latest trip to Europe and Israel.
At the first Suez Canal conference called by Britain and France, none of the big powers were pre-
pared to speak up in behalf of Israel's interests. Only after Nasser rejected the proposals of that conference and the plans for the "Canal Users Association'* were started did some of the Big powers mention that Israel's interests would not be overlooked.
It seems like a mighty long time since the UN Security Council first passed resolutions condemning Egypt for its blockade of the Suez against Israel. And now the big powerKare appealing to the UN to do something to Nasser for thumbing his nose at them on the Suez.
With the Suez problem before the Security Council, U.S. Secretary of State Dulles is now concerned (Continued on Page 2)
HY ALTMAN
he will ask the plenary session to approve the holding of a Congress convention in Vancouver two yeafS from now as a tribute to the Jewish community of B.C. which will then be celebrating its centenary along with the centena/y of the province as a whole.
The Jewish community in B.^. is the oldest Jewish community in Western Canada and the fourth largest in the country. A B.C. Jewish Centenary Comfnittee was recently established under the. co-sponsorship of Congress. ^nji the JewisK 'Conuiiujtiity Couhdl 9^ _..).> 1^ .
Big delejgation from B.C.
Session
Probably the largest delegation ever to attend a plenary session of Canadian Jewish Confess from British Columbia v/ill )e in attendaiice at the Congress convention in Montreal next week.
The executive of the Pacific Region of Congress recently named a delegation of six to attend the plenary session, including Hy Altman, regional, president; Dr. Roy Waldman, regional vice-president; Esmond Lando, national vice-president; Chas. Wal-fish, Nathan T. Nemetz, QC, and Moe Cohen.
Abe Arnold, editor and publisher of the Jewish Western Bulletin will also be attending the convention. This will be the first time in more than ten years that the Bulletin will be directly represented at a national Jewish convention.
Hy Altman has expressed special satisfaction that it has been made possible for the Bulletin editor to attend this convention. '
PERETZ SCHOOL BANQU£t OCT. 21
The windup banquet of the Peretz School membership campaign will take place Sunday, October 21 at 6:30 p.m. in the Lx)dge Hall of the Jewish Community Centre, it was announced this week.
An interesting program is being prepared and a full course kosher chicken dinner will be served.
The membership campaign is now proceeding and all Peretz School and friends are once again urged to make their membership contributions without delay.
Hadassah Bazaar at Armories, Tues., Wed., OcL 16, 17
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