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�Y ALLAN BRONFMAN, OF MONTtfAL, HATlOMAt MISIDIKT OF THE CANADIAN Ft I ENDS OF THE HU�W UNIVERSITY IN
Canadian Jewry, and, indeed* Jewry everywherej at this time cannot help but take cognizance of the fact that the two main ideologies in the world are locked in a momentous struggle, one which could (may God forbid) obliterate our civilization. Many, perhaps too many, are fatalistic about it; they shrug their shoulders in a helpless attitude of "this is bigger than I, what can I do about it?"
It is, a problem about which, admittedly, individuals can do very little. But the very little they can do is most important. There is no question that Canadian Jewry has done and will continue to do its utmost to keep the light of freedom burning throughout Canada. This
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But what of I$iria^> the s^nc-tuafy for thp^sah4s ;6f our beleaguered brethren? We^ ciii do much, We can do much more for this small young nation, the home of the Jewish spirit. It is not bigger than we are/ and we cannot, we dare not leave it to chance or fate or accident. What of the still hostile nations that surround her? What of the thousands of people in North Africa and, yes, in Russia, who, if given a chance, would seek the haven of Israel's shores? What of the needs of the people who already live in Israel, needs that undoubtedly will mushroom
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Are the Jewish peijple in Is* rael up to it? Is World Jewry and yes, Canadian Jewry, prepared for emergencies that may come to Israel? Let us hope arid pray that, when needed, Jewry everywhere-will be able to meet ihe challenge with full heart, in full measure, and with the consciousness that they are helping to build and strengthen the very crucible of Jewish life itself.
In Israel, on the side of Jewry and of freedom-loving peoples the world over, there stands a centre of strength, stamina, and hope. It is the Hebrew University, which now has some 7,500 students and researchers on its campus in Jerusalem; in its gigantic new Medical Centre at Ein Karem; at its expanding Agricultural Faculty at Rehovoth; and at its flourishing branch in Tel Aviv. From this great centre of learning, Israel and her people are gaining the knowledge and the know-how with which to build a strong, healthy, and intelligent nation, for not only does the University train the many professional people needed for the consolidation and progress of the country, but, moreover, it conducts research in fields scientific and spiritual, which cannot help but enrich and enlighten the lives of Israel's people.
The results of this research serve not only Israelis, but Jewry abroad and, yes, all humanity. Every Jew in Canada must have experienced a feeling of pride at hearing of Professor Yadin's recent Bar Kochba discoveries, which shed such wondrous light on a great chapter in Jewish heroism. The newly-founded Afro-Asian nations must have thrilled to the news that recently emerged from the University in Jerusalem that a new "solar energy package" had been perfected, one capable of supplying economical power for a complete small village in countries where the sun is the main source of potential energy; Is there a nation within the World Health Or* ganization which does not inarvel at the Hebrew University's great progress in the field of cancer research; or the current plan to establish within her present Medical Faculty, a complete school for the training of doctors and nurses for Africa and Asia?
Daring this summer, the brew University again displayed the role it has to play in everyday Jewish life when it convened the third World Congress for Jewish Studies which was attended by nearly 1,000 Jewish scholars frcwf
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hbirhe and' that Israel had become the centre for all branches of Jew* ish studies. And as a further manifestation of this, only, recently the Hebrew Uhiversity initiated * special one-year course for some fifty young North American students who came to itsSrampus to acquire an extensive knowledge of Hebrew and to receive an introduction to the fundamentals of Jewish thought, history, and literature.
All of this is progress that reflects not only on Israel, but on Jews and mankind everywhere, and one of the major resolutions of Jewry in Canada must be, cannot help but be, that during the year ahead intensified help and assistance shall go forward to this house of higher learning which, despite many difficulties, is effectively doing so much, for Israel, for Jewry everywhere, for civilization. We have been privileged to participate in this era of the triumphant' reawakening of the Jewish spirit.
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