Thursday, February 9, 1950
J S WIS H WESTERN BULLETIN
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Vahcouver Contnbutes $618,664 To UPA-lllA in Ten Years
Vancouver's contribution to the United Israel Appeal (previoysly the United Palestine Appeal) rose from $7,597.77 in 1940 to $172,630.63 in 1948, it was pointed out by Harold Freeman, at a meeting of the Zionist Organization of B.C. last week. Mr. Freeman reported on the financial aspects of the recent Zionist convention in Montreal.
Zionist organization expenses for all of Canada during 1948 and 1949, including campaign and administration expenses, amounted to 11.6 percent of the total sum raised for UIA, he stated further. In other words, 88.4 percent of all monies raised went directly to Israel,
Mr. Freeman pointed out further that in 10 year period from 1940 to 1949 Vancouver raised $618,664.72. Half of this amount was raised during 1948 and 1949 and the other half in the previous eight years.
' It was announced at the meeting that Mr. Freeman • and Sam Keller are western directors of the recently organized Palestine Ekio-nomic Corporation of Canada. The community will be canvassed for investments in the corporation.
Mr. Freeman was chairman of the credentials committee at the Montreal convention. Vancouver was also represented on the constitutional and resolutions committee.
Mr. Heller reported on the acceptance of the resolution that British Columbia be recognized as the Pacific region. Trail will also be part of this region. The Pacific Region is entitled to 30 representatives on the national council of the Zionist Organization including five 'from Hadassah.
Reports were also given by Joe Satanov and Irving Lipsky, who were delegates to the conference.
99 Israeli institutions Ask For Greater Assistance
Dr. Arie Frankel, field director of the American Fund for Israel Institutions^ was a visitor at the meeting of the Board of Trustees on Monday, January 30.
In Vancouver for a short visit, Dr. Frankel explained that the fund he: represents is the collective agency in America for 99 vital institutions representing "four dimensions in Israel, cultural, spiritual, educational and rehabilitation. A Canadian office
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of the fund is now being opened in Montreal and it will be known as the Canadian Fund for Israeli Institutions.
This fund supports such vital institutions in Israel as Civil Aviation and the Israel Maritime League, the Hebrew Teachers' College of Jerusalem, the Hospital for Mental Diseases, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra as well as opera, drama, art and literary institutions.
Plans are being made to send an Israeli musical and dance group on a tour of the U.S. and Canada next summer and fall and it is also . expected that the group will visit Vancouver, Dr. Frankel said.
He stated that the recent allocation of $200 by the Vancouver Jewish Welfare Fund to the Fund for Israeli Institutions was considered unsatisfactory. He said that the need for food and shelter was certainly most important and should be met first, but the need filled by the 99 Israeli institutions in the field of culture, education, training and health certainly came next in importance and deserved greater consideration and assistance by every Jewish community.
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The ten members at laxge elected to the Board of Governors of the Administrative Or-ganiza:tion at the annual meeting this week are: Faui Heii«r. Hy Altman, Hany Ablowita^ Sam Bothste;in, Dr. J. V. White, Sam Tenenbaiun, Sam H^er, M3>er Brown, Mrs. E. Lando, Mrs. AUman.
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Dr. Aronsoil Speaks On February 27
Dr. David Aronsoii. president of the Rabbinical Assembly of America, will speak in the auditorium of the Beth Israel Synagogue on Monday evening, February 27.
Dr. Arcnson has been the rabbi of the Beth El Synagogue in Minneapolis, Minn., for the last 25 years. He is one of the outstanding scholars in the Conservative Rabbinate. This winter he ^s acting as visiting professor at the West Coast University of Judaism in Los Angeles. EHiring the summers of 1944 and 1945, Dr. Aronson was visiting professor of Midrash at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York City.
Mrs. Aronson, Che wife of this rabbinical leader, has been very active in the work of the Women's League and has helped a number of sisterhoods in the mid-west with their work. Mrs. Aronson will be travelling with her husband, and will be the guest of the Beth Israel Sisterhood.
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MONTREAL. — Following the padlocking of the UJPO's Moiris Winchevsky Cultural Centre in this city by Quebec police last week, the organization is preparing to take legal steps to have the padlock removed. '
Acting upon the order of Quebec Premier Maurice Duplessis, the police raided the cultural centre, the, Winchevsky schools and the home of B. Silverberg, UJPO secretary on Friday, January 27. The centre was locked "for at least one year" under the terms of the Quebec padlock law permitting the closing of buildings in which communist activity is allegedly carried on.
The Montreal Gazette quoted Mr. Silverberg on January 28 as saying: "At the time of the padlocking of the Centi'e, news photographers were permitted to photograph a sign advertising a purported meeting for Father Duffy. I categorically state that this sign was not on the premises when police first arrived."
(Father Duffy is a Catholic priest from New York who spoke in eastern Canada recently under Peace Council auspices. Several hall reservations for his meetings in Montreal were cancelled).
The national office of the UJPO in Toronto has issued a statement calling for the Padlock Law to be "declared unconstitutional for it violets all principles of British and Canadian law and democratic rights of the people."
It is learned that the Winchevsky schools in Montreal are continuing to operate. The Montreal Jewish Folk Choir, which made its headquarters in the cultural centre is also going ahead with plans for its forthcoming concert with Sidor Belarsky. What happened in Montreal does not affect the UJPO in other parts of the country since the Padlock Law is a provincial enanctment.
Should the Zionist Organization sponsor mass Chalutz movement?
Another question for the Wingate oneetins, Monday, Feb. 13.
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