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JEWISH WESTERN BULLETIN
August 18, 1949
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A Trip to Ycshiva University
By RABBI LEON M. MOZESON It seems incredible to me that a short time ago I was stifled by the humid and unbearable weather of New York City. I was, however, simuhaneously confronted with a form of heat that was both satisfactory and pleasurable. The heated discussions and animated lectures that were conducted in the Harry Fischel School of Higher Jewish Studies, a branch of Yeshiva University, were most welcome. Truthfully, it was difficult to
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★ ★ * Lindy's Delicatessen extends its apologies to all corned beef connoisseurs for failing to open at their new location on the date previously announced. The management states that the store will definitely be open this Saturday, August 20, at its new address 3211 W. Broadway, CH. 2010.
recognize the Yeshiva, my alma mater. Four new buildings were erected in the past, year, with a site selected for a medical school. New faces, of Rabbis, students and professors, were constantly seen in the halls and classrooms. Here was a rare collection of Jewish scholars from all over the world.
Rabbis from Jerusalem, Cairo, Union of South Africa, Europe, and the American continent were piiesent. Rabbi Emmanuel Lifshitz of Ottawa, Rabbi Rudolph Adler of Saskatoon, and myself represented Canada.
There was one individual who was primarily responsible for the assembly of Talmudists. His name is Rabbi Dr. Joseph Ber Soloveit-chik. It was thrilling to hear him lecture in beautiful Sephardic Hebrew language. His words were enchanting and brilliant.
He has a unique method of teaching. Periodically he poses a question that must be properly answered before he can proceed. And yt the rhythm and continuity of Dr. Soloveitchik''s speech is not marred by class participation. How thankful I was to G-d to have
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excelled in replying to his queries. Foi»tunately, the questions were purely theoretical and even those with grreat Talmudic knowledge were equally vexed by the intriguing interrogations. As a perfectionist Dr. Soloveitchik would watt for the exact word or phrase that qualified. He is a member of a family of Gaonim who believe that what can not be expressed in words is Talmudically erroneous in thought. His general knowledge encompasses the natural and social sciences: as well as Jewish thought. A Harvard professor of philosophy was embarrassed when Dr. Soloveitchik spoke of Greek philosophy in the identical language. Recently a noted mathematician visited the learned Rabbi and found him thoroughly familiar with a new and still obscure mathematical concept.
Dr. Soloveitckik is remarkably human too. He overlooked the disturbance caused by a pliotograph-er who was under instruction to snap a picture of the overflowing graduate class. We should assist someone earning an honest living, the Rabbi said, after the photographer left. He related how the first Joseph. Ber Soloveitchik refused to silence a maid who sang while performing her household chores and instead piously departed in order not to hear the singitfg of a woman.
Last July was the hottest month on record in New York City. Yet Yeshiva University and particularly .Dr. Soloveitchik rejuvenated at least one Vancouver Rabbi.
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seems to have been cneated in certain quarters; as a result of the personal advertisement carried in the Bulletin classified section recently in behalf of a professional man seeking matrimony. . , . It apepars that the description of the advertiser, by coincidence, almost fitted a local practising barrister.
. . The dangerous allegation has been made that this advertisement was carried in the Bulletin simply to embarrass this latter gentleman. This charge is completely false, for the ad v/ss bought and paid for by* a gentleman who is not a barrister and whose name and address is on file with the Bulletin. . . . Some objection has been taken to the Bulletin carrying an advertisement of this kind. We believe that there is nothing, wrong with it. What is wrong however, is that an individual or individuals should use such an ad to bait a respected citizen of this community and to make false allegations and insinuations without a shred of evidence.
★ ★ * PHYLMS and ABUSS TOBAN
are the convenors of the Phi Delta Gamma sorority tea and fashion show next Wednesday, Augrust 24, at the home of Mrs. Harold Freeman, on Devonshire Crescent.
★ ★ ★ MISSING — ONE BULI.DOZEB:
Two weeks ago a report was carried on this page (in the youth column) that a bulldozer was out in the backyard of. the Community Centre digging up the ground pre-paratorty to turning it into a basketball court and playing field. . . The report turned out to be the work of an over-zealous publicity representative for the bulldozer had been promised but didn't materialize. . . . Nothing daunted, however, a group of members of the BB Lion's Gate L,odge and the BBYM Lions turned out last Tuesday in the Centne yard to begin the task
of diggfing it up via the man-powered shovel. They dug up a section approximately ten feet wide across the width of the yard. . .. The task is proving to be rather arduous however, and at latest report another attempt is being made to obtain the services of a bulldozer. * * ■*
NOAH WITMAN, western Hista-drut dinector, who recently returned from Israel, says that the Jewish state is no place for fainthearted visitors this year, or people who cannot take the broadest view of the serious problems confronting the new state. . . . The situation is glim in many respects, he says, but not so grim that it hasn't got a strong positive side. . . . He noted particularly the youthfulness of the Israelis, on the streets of the kibbutzim and
Aviv,
other communities. . . , And the new generation of Sabras are growing apace. People speak of the birthrate in terms of a "new all-yah"—internal immigration.
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THE BIBTH BATE of the local Jewish community is also on the increase from latest observations. Take a look at this week's birth announcements on page 3 (and our social reporter may have missed a few). As to the future, we are reliably informed that in the Henri-« etta Szold Chapter of Hadassah, for acample, about a dozen members will soon be bringing, forth additions to the community. (Aside to the publisher: This should rate some cigar advertising).
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NOT TWO, BUT THBEE conventions will be taking place in Vancouver during September. The two we have already noted here are the Histadrut and Hadassah gatherings. The third one will be the first Northern Regional Convention of the BBYM and BBYW, also taking place on Labor Day weekend.
UiPO Drama
Continuing our column of two weeks ago, concerning' the play "Shenandoah," by D e J m o r e Schwartz: ,
The plot of Shenandoah is concerned with the naming of a Jewish child, eight days old, and the conflicts among, its elders in finding the proper name. But there is more to the play than a mere plot. There is Shenandoah himself. 25 years old, who acts the narrator or Grecian messenger hovering over the past in living memory and connecting the various incidents round the bassinet with the world at large.
There are brilliant flashbacks to history and philosophy (a method begwn in Coriolanus) and to the compelling artistic forces in Shenandoah's growing life—Joyce, Eliot, Pound, Rilke, Kafka. The bold contrast between the inner poetry of Shenandoah's consciousness and the outer colloquialism of the child's self-centred elders is handled with natural ease. Somewhere along the way not ony the Jews have been exiled or rushed into concentration camps by the Kellys of America and the Hitlers of Germany, but the artists as well.
All over Europe these eyiles find in art
What exile is: art becomes exile too. ...
And it is not too far fetched to suppose that art and its masters and disciples will not remain in exile, or that the human races, Jewish or Gentile, can remain blindly divided by the egregious megalomania of one or two men or three or four empires.
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