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JEWISH WESTERN BULLETIN
Thufsdoy, June 21, 1951
Imtmtive mid Q)opemtion Breed Success
E should like to pay qn editorial trib,ute jthis week to the Vancouver Section of the tNQtional Council of Jewish Women for their successful launching of the Golden Age Glub. The response to the new group for senior citizens has been nnost gratifying. But what Is even more gratifying from a community point of view is the wonderful, initiative and organizational ability demonstrated by the Council of Jewish Women.
Here is a women's grouf) which certainly
as an example of successful copjgerqtiortyith the Jewish Community Council, the all inclusive local Jewish agency.
Bmemlence^ Brotherly Love and Harmony
^ ENEVOLENCE Is defined as goodwill and
in the broadest sense of the term. These same women not only launch projects in the name of tlieir own organization but are in the forefront among the workers in every major community undertaking. For example some of the leading active members of Cquricil of Jewish Women are also the leaders of the very successfully organized Women's Division of the UJA, And they have olso played an impdrtont role, both ds individuals' and OS a group in the Canadian Jewish Congress program to receive iirnmigrants.
Another commendable aspect of their" activity is the spirit of cooperation which
charitableness, not orily In material rnat-ters of helping the less fortunate but in deserves^tp be described as d)^ judging and dealing with other people
Brotherly love Is the basis of true brotherhood among people, whether within a family or among different races and nations, or even among different groups within the some community. Harmony is the only basis upon which people can work well together.
We have deliberately borrowed this B'nai B'rith slogan to highlight the prirne need for the solution of a major community problem.
Today, once dgdin, consideration is being given towards the establishment of a new .institution, a new centre to serve the growing Jewish community under the auspices of the
prevails in their work, both among themselves Jewish Community Council. B'nai B'rith, the
and with othpr groups in the community. In the case of the Golden Age Club an important part of Its success arises frohn the cooperation of the Council of Jewish Women with the Jewish Community Centre and the Community Council director.
It is noteworthy that thie Council of Jewish Women has had something to dp with almost every program ^activity cohducted at the Community Centre, in the past three years.
This lost record in particular stands out Harmony.
Ndtlonal Council of Jewish Women, as well as the Community Council itself, are all particularly interested in the successful establishment of the new centre.
We know that the growing need for the new centre is coming to be widely recognized. We know too that it can be achieved and fulfill its proper function if ail groups and all interested people will work together in the true spirit of Benevolence, Brotherly Lore and
By Lou Zimmerman .
Editor's Nate: We are pleased, to piraseht here this week the first effort in a new regular feature to be written by Lou Zimmerman, executive director of the Jewish Community Council. Under the above column heading Mr. Zimmerman ^wiil discuss a viairiely of questions which come within his scope as the top executive of the organized Jewish community of Vancouver.
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Return from the £^t.
WHEN someone facetiously referred to the "Wise men of the East" he may have unwittingly struck on a little truth. We tend, here, to go to extremes in our attitude toward the community leadership in Eastern Canada, and the United States. Either we consider them superior beings or we reject lliem as egotistical, selfish, niarrow-minded, dishonest, unfriendly -to- the West, or for some other reason unfit to wear the cloak .of hatiphal leadership in Jewish affairs.' '
By reason of longer experience in organized community life, and by reasbn of its jgreater numbers.
liOU ZIMMERMAN
the East should be expected to assume a dominant role in national affairs, and to include in its midst'more men of leadership calibre. I have found it a healthy experience to visit in the East and to meet with leaders of other communities, to discuss some of the problems we have in common, to hear of the developments making place there, and so to come away with the wholesbmie feeling that there is still a great deal we can learn from Eastern communi-ies.
Anyone who expects, on visit-mg Montreal or New York, to turn on a tap from which new ideas will flow, will be disappointed. The problems of the
Official Organ of the Jewish Community Council of Vancouver .
DR. J. V. WHITE.................................................................... President
LOUIS ZIMMERMAN................................................. EKceutive Director
ABRAHAM J. ARNOLD....................... ................... PHblisher ond Editor
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~ VANCOUVER, B.C.; THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1951
Jewish community have a continuity and organized Jewish life a stability which minimizes the use of gadgets, brain-waves and new ideas. We are aware that there, is constant application of bur best thinking and: experience to our problems," resulting in clearer analyses and a better perspective, and in more effective methods of achieving our piu*-poses.
A few simple -truths, by no means newly recognized^ aire re-emphasized in >the light of recent community development: . •
(1) Services required by and offered to the entire community should be community spohisored and community controlled.
(2) It requires a great deal of money to build a conununity centre and therefore a centre becomes a practical possibility only when individuals who can give and get substantial sums are actively involved.
(3) Greater efficiency in the operation of large comniunity-wide projects is achieved through centralization and co-ordination of community effort.
(4) Individuals who are involved in planning are more like-^ ly to give \ maximum effort in the carrying out of the plans.
_ (5) The obligations of the Jewish community (e.g. to immigrants) are best met through organizations developed for the purpose. these and other such principles ,are more effectively applied, so our community life improves.
Much of what we have here in Vancouver, is parallelled and in many cases excelled, elsewherd. What is perhaps unique here, ibwever, is our community newspaper, the Jewish Western Bul-etin.. To my knowledge no other Jewish community .can boast a community-controlled newspaper, issued weekly, bringing local and non-local news, equal in calibre to Vancouver's. In this, at least, we can perhaps teach the other communities a lesson.
QUESXIONS STATUS OF ZIONIST OBG. OF B.C.
Tb the Editor-May I, as a humble inquirer, ask what is the answer to a puzzling conundrum?
Is the Zionist Organization of B.C. a general (small "g") Zionist body (i.ei. representative of all groups irrespective of party?,) or is it a General (capital "G") Zionist faction, and those attached to the political party known as General Zionists.
If the latter, how. does one explain the incongruity that every subscriber to the U.J.A., irrespective of bis own pariy affiliation, is entitled to vote for officers at the Annual General Meeting of the Zionist Organization^ but without the right of noininatibh? Rather reminiscent of single party
%|its Suez jKilicy
sive
TEL AVIV—(ISI)—A special-committee of the Israel-Egyptian Mixed Armistice Commission met
ast week to discuss the appeal brought by Egypt agaiiost the decision taken by the Mixed Armistice Commission on August 29,
949 that "the Mixed Armistice Coinmission tldhks it has a right to demand from the Egyptian Government not to inteiiere with the )assing of goods to Israel through
le Suez Canal!". -
General Riley, the United N :ons Chief of Staff, who was in
Can M^zrachis^ or Labor Zionists stiahd for, and be elected to, office at thiis open vote or must office holders only be (be careful of the g's) 'General Zionists? One other poser—if General Zionists are not general Zionists how doe^ it come about-^at the whole administration of U.J.A., to which all riiemberS of the community siibscribej irrespective of party, run what is yirttially a party 6r-g:anization on the backs of the « general coinmunity? Are not other parties equally entitled to administer allocations oh a par with General Zionists (mind that "G")?
Yours sincerely,
H. NEWMAN.
Editor's Note: We cannot solve the puzzle of the big **G" versus the MIttle "g" but our correspondent is wrong in at least one respect. We are given to un^erst^nd that any member of the Jewish community who' subscribes an amount of $9.00 or over to the United Jewish Appeal is, under the present setup, entitled tb full voice and vote and -inay stamd -for office as an individual at the Annual Meeting of the Zionist Organization of B.C.
SUBSCRIBER WELCOMES EARLY MAILmG DAmS
To the Editor:
Received your Bulletin Thursday instead of Friday.
I want to express through your medium my gratitude as well as my appreciation on this most important change you have performed. No doubt it is a Avortlv the chair, made a statement at the I jwljilepuW^^^ service to our Van^ minting iri which He the wtiver' «lbma^ by instituting;
reli^vant clauses of the Armistice oirie day earlier in the week.
Agreement and pointed out that although he considered interference with the 'Passage of goods destined for Israel through; the Suez Canal by the Egyptian authorities as an aggressive action and a hostile act in fact, nevertheless, due to limitations in the definition of these terms in the text of the Armistice Agreenient, he could
My way of thinking, from a general reading point of view, it ! might not ber so important, but nevertheless, it is for air the comi Imunal activities including all our I institutions which all look for;yard eagerly to your Bulletin for alt I the announcements.
I am sure, that I will not be the only one io express gratification
not consider thi? interference for your effort in furthering the
either an aggressive action or a hostile act against the General Armistice Agreement between Israel and Egypt upon the specific provisions of which he, as United Nations Chief of Staff, was forced to base his position.
General Riley, therefore, voted with Egypt that the Mixed Armistice Commission did not have the right to demand from the Egyptian Government that it should hot interfere with the passage of goods to Israel through the Suez Canal, politics in a fascist or communistic state! *
I interests of our community. Sincerely,
D. MORGANSTERN.
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