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THE CANADIAN JEWISH  REVIEW
JAN0ABY 19, 1962
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iive Movement wiM now have to be required to conduct themselves "in accordance with the high standards reflected in the religious, moral, and ethical tenets of our faith." In addition, members elected to synagogue boards of trustees will be required to pursue a program of individual study directed towards increasing their mastery of Judaic* and to take part in their synagogue's ongoing adult Jewish education program.
The convention "called for the broadening of the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Rabbinical Assembly to include equal representation for the United Synagogue. The composition of the committee will in future be determined; by the presidents of the United Synagogue and the Rabbinical Assembly "in consultation with each other."
Laymen and rahbis alike urged closer study of the Bible. Rabbi Ralph Simon, of Chicago, and Rabbi Bernard SegaJ, United Synagogue executive 4irector spoke for a return to thev study of the Bible for the answer to many of the pressing problems that face mankind today. Ratibl Louis Finkelstein, Chancellor:, of the Jewish Theological Seminary, in New York, called on the Jews and other men to heed the teachings of the biblical prophets wbo urged their own imperilled generation to "try to live as civilized human beings." He said their teachings applied with equal force today:   "While
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JANUARY 19, 1962
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ORT Meets The Surge For Vocational Training Of Jews
From on address ar a membership luncheon at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Montreal
BY DR. ARTHUR BRODEY, OF TORONTO, ONTARIO, NATIONAL EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF WOMEN'S
CANADIAN ORT
The great surge for vocational training and education has propelled ORT, Organization for Rehabilitation through Training, a world-wide voluntary agency in twenty countries on five continents, into the forefront of Jewish philanthropic and social endeavours, and has captured the attention of the whole world for the excellence of its training, particularly among the underprivileged youth of North Africa and Iran, Israel and Europe. History has thrust us onto the very threshold of a new era in ORT when technical skills are the very basis of the industrial development of the nations of the world.
ORT was started eighty years ago in Russia to normalize the economic life of Jewish masses after centuries of disabilities. Through trade and agricultural schools, it gave them the opportunity to raise themselves from a marginal subsistence level to take their place in the modem industrial world with dignity, freedom, economically secure. It became an international organization around 11)20 to serve, not only the fragmented Jewish communities of Eastern Europe, but eventually Jews throughout a great part of the world. ORT virtually reconstructed the economic life of the Jewish people.
The importance of vocational training was increased after World War II to meet the new technological and atomic age. ORT developed vocational High Schools as its major units, and now served mostly youths under eighteen years of age, many of whom had lived in backward nations without hope or opportunity for a decent livelihood.
Today there are 40,000 students learning seventy modern skills in 650 installations. Israel is now the largest ORT operation with an enrollment of nearly 13,000 students in a network of over twenty communities. The surge for vocational training has resulted from the increasing industrial expansion of Israel. Israel has a great shortage of skilled technicians.
As the largest vocational agency in Israel, representing forty per cent of the vocational schools there, ORT is called upon to expand its facilities, building new classrooms and laboratories, equipping them with modern machinery; adding new courses at the request of the Israeli Government. World ORT's budget in Israel has increased eightfold in the last ten years. Thousands of students cannot be admitted because of the lack of facilities and means. The Israeli Government and communities give subventions up to sixty per cent of the expenditures of World ORT in Israel. New accelerated apprentice courses are being established in large industrial centers. Already over 3,000 students are being trained in Jaffa and Jerusalem. It is expected that some 10,000 students will eventually be accommodated in these apprentice schools designed to fill the lag in skilled works.
In addition, ORT is called upon in Israel to train Afro-Asian students to eventually return to their countries to supervise vocational training as part of its technical assistance program. The Jerusalem ORT Center is training fourteen Cypriots in its schools. In addition to Israel, the United States, as part of its Technical Assistance Propram through its International Cooperation Administration, has made a contract with World ORT to survey vocational needs in eight African nations.
Women's Canadian ORT is a membership organization. It has a fourfold program of supporting World ORT installations; scholarships for the training of teachers in its training institution in Switzerland; social assistance to supply needy students with hot meals, work clothing, medical attention, recreation, etc., and finally, its Jerusalem ORT School Project, the enlarging and expanding of this Center as the special project of Women's Canadian ORT in conjunction with the Canadian ORT Federation and the Canadian Jewish Congress. This school,   nearing  completion,  will
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serve as an enduring monument to Canadian Jewry.
Through membership dues and the raising of funds through its membership projects, it supports this fourfold program, supplementing the subventions of the Jewish Welfare Funds throughout Canada to World ORT through the Canadian Jewish Congress.
It is this great surge for vocational training that makes increased membership throughout Canada an urgent necessity of the first order, and a great challenge to all Jewish women of Canada.
JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE LEADERS
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Sol Satirtsky, of Philadelphia, Pa., who was re-elected chairman of the National Council, urged the assembled communal leaders to alert their communities to the new and urgent problems and needs of Jews overseas. He stressed the importance of getting the JDC story told and described some of the steps being taken by the agency to inform communities of overseas developments,
"Thousands of men and women throughout America," he said, are hearing the desperate story of overseas needs, are having their questions answered, are gaining new�ms4ght into the problems which we must face. They are learning once again that JDC aid still means "survival."
U. S. LEADERS
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Mr. Klutznick's views on Jewish life were set forth in his book, "No Easy Answers," which was published very recently. Among other things, he scored Jewish religious leaders for what he described as their "unwarranted urge" for the synagogue to dominate all of Jewish community life.
WJ.C Notes U.N. Failure To Implement Human Rights Covenants
The World Jewish Congress, in a message on the thirteenth anniversary of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights, expressed concern at the delay in the adoption of implementing Covenants which would bind governments to observe the Declaration's principles> It was sent by Dr. Maurice L, Perlzweig, Permanent Representative of the World Jewish Congress at the United Nations, to Acting Secretary-General U Thant.
Pledging the World Jewish Congress to do all in its power to further the cause of human rights in all parts of the world, Dr. Perlzweig noted: "But it would be foolish to blind ourselves to the fact that the road on which we are committed to travel is long and arduous. While the Universal Declaration marks a turning point of immense importance in the struggle for human emancipation, the United Nations, after years of discussion and consultation and the scrutiny of texts, is not yet in sight of the adoption of the Covenants under which governments will bind themselves to give practical effect to the principles of the Universal Declaration."
There were governments, loud in their advocacy of self-determination, the WJC leader declared, which still continued "to tolerate or sanction slavery in its most primitive forms, or, having achieved independence, find it expedient to curtail or even to abrogate the civil liberties which their citizens enjoyed under colonial regimes."
He added that unfortunately there were too few countries which could claim that the rights enumerated in the DeclaratroTTwiere freely exercised, without discrimination, by their inhabitants. He said that in large areas, both in the East and the West, among nations which are aligned or non-aligned, the Universal Declaration has not even been accepted as the standard which it was designed to become. The anniversary of the Declaration was not only the celebration of an act of faith by the international community in the past It was a resolve to continue and intensify an unremitting straggle "to put into living practice what has for so long been the aspiration of men in so many nations." Dr. Perlzweig said the World
Jewish Congress was well aware that diplomatic conflicts and the menace of war must postpone the fulfillment of hopes for the universal recognition of the rights of the human personality under the sanctions of international law, "but we are deeply convinced that every advance in the field of human rights brings nearer the day of peace and international understanding."
The World Jewish Congress is a global body representing Jewish communities in 64 lands.
One Unchanging Tune Sounds In Jewish Ears
\ Lay leaders Of congregations in the United Synagogue of America will now be required to be able to read Hebrew and participate in worship service.
They will also be required to attend services regularly.
These provisions were made in resolutions adopted by the biennial convej�tion of the United Synagogue. Laymen who do not qualify for election because of these provisions must undertake a study program before they are eligible to serve in an official capacity.
The convention theme was "Torah: A Blueprint For Our Lives", devoting most sessions to the standards of the synagogue and its leaders. Candidates for synagogue office in the Conserva-
the world in which they lived was shaking as ours is today, the prophets exhorted their fellow citizens with one unchanging tune: try to live rationally, try to be unafraid, try to think of your apparent enemy as your misled brother."
The heart of the problem, he said, is not in Washington or Mos-cow, but in the personal life and dedication of each man. He said: "For Amos, Isaiah, and Jeremiah, the question was not 'Will we survive?' but 'Do we deserve to survive?' The prophets would have been more worried' about oUr souls than about our bodies. Even faced with the possibility of thermonuclear war, they would have been more frightened at the thought of committing murder than at the thought of being murdered."
The convention delegates were told by the Israeli Consul-General in New York, Binyamin Eliav, that Israel needed the men and ideas of the Conservative Movement. He said: "We need you in Israel not only as tourists, but as the bearers of your ideas. We need the freshness of your approach, which is so ingenious in maintaining traditional Judaism in a way that conforms with modern life." Visitors from foreign countries who addressed the convention included Dr. Mika Weiss, Chief Rabbi of Finland; and Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer, of Congregation Israelita Buenos Aires, first U.S.-trained rabbi to serve in Latin America.
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