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THE   CANADIAN   JEWISH   REVIEW
APRIL 1. I960

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HONEY WALNUTS
one pound walnuts
one-half pound honey
Bring honey to a boll, add chopped walnuts and boll for three minutes, stirring frequently, till slightly brown. Place mixture on a board, moistened lightly with cold water; and roll out to one-half Inch thickness. Let cool for ten minutes and cut in squares.
Mrs* A. Past, �
5270 MuiMt Street MontrtjaL
Fourth priz* winner oi tho Spanish and Portugu gogue Sisterhood Baking Contest
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MONTREAL BIRTHS
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Freder (nee Beatrice Kreaden), 4659 Melrose Avenue, on March 9, at the Royal Victoria Hospital, a son, Neil Michael; brother of Judy, Jeffrey, and Sheryl; grand-eon of Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Kreaden, 4910 Circle Road; and of Mr. and Mrs. M. Freder, 4557 Melrose Avenue; great-grandson of Mrs. Rose Kreaden, of Toronto, Ont.; and of Mrs. Marie Freder, of Montreal. Godparents are Mr. and Mrs. Gerry Kreaden, 5055 Bor-den Avenue, uncle and aunt. Mr. Kreaden, grandfather, held the baby during the ceremony.
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Louis Davidovic (nee Adele Siminoff), 5378 Van Horne Avenue, on March 11, at the Jewish General Hospital, a daughter, Sharon; sister of Helen, aged three yearsf granddaughter of Mrs. Sarah Siminoff, 5380 Van Home Avenue.
4571 Park Avenue, and the late Martin Jurbin; and of Mrs. Epstein, 3815 Plamondon Avenue, and the late Harry Epstein. Godparents are Morto'h Peter Jurbin, 584 Abercorn Avenue, uncle; and Mrs. Harry Clapoff, 4524 Draper Avenue, aunt. Morris Burshtyn, 5136 Roscdale Avenue, great-uncle, held the baby during the ceremony.
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Moe Yof-fe (nee Barbara Harris), 5372 Cavendish Avenue, on March 5, at the Royal Victoria Hospital, a son, Norman Gary; brother of Bruce Arnold, aged two and one-half years; grandson of Dr. and Mrs. S. Harris, 4170 Girouard Avenue; and of Mr. and Mrs. Z. Yoffe, 2806 Willowdale Avenue; great-grandson of Mrs. M. Simon, of Montreal.. Godparents are Peter Brotman, 11 Heath Road, and Miss Eleanor Yoffe, aunt. Dr. Harris, grandfather, held the baby during the ceremony.
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Jack Browman (nee Frances Roter), 3900 Plamondon Avenue, on March 9, at the Jewish General Hospital, a daughter, Sherri; sister of Stephen, aged five years; and Natalie, two; granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ben. Browman, 5862 Clan-ranald Avenue.
TORONTO BIRTHS
seven egg yolks                        seven egg whites
three cups chopped walnuts       three tablespoons matzoh cake two tablespoons potato starch       meal
one cup sugar
Beat egg whites until they stand in firm peaks. Add the sugar, a little at a time. Fold in the beaten yolks, chopped nuts, potato starch, and cake meal. Do not stir. Grease a tube pan with a little bit of oil. Pour the mixture into the pan and bake for one hour at 350 degrees. When the cake is done, let the cake stand In the oven for five minutes with the oven door closed. Then take the cake out and place on a rack to cool. When the cake has cooled, remove from pan, and sprinkle icing sugar over it, if desired.
Mrs. Z. Letter,
7 Auburn Avenue, Toronto.
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Friday, April 1, at 6.30 p.m. E.S.T., in Toronto
Friday, April 8, at 6.14 p.m. E.S.T., in Montreal
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Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Stanley H. Lieberman (nee Isabel Groper, formerly of Montreal), of Saint John, N. B., on March 18, at the Saint John General Hospital, a daughter, Elana Rae: sister of Robin Jay; granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Groper, 89 McNider Avenue; and of Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Lieberman, of Orange Street, Saint John, N. B.
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Murray Epstein (nee Anne Jurbin), 2150 Scott Street, on March 15, at the Catherine Booth Hospital, a son, Harry Ian; brother of Shelley Marsha, aged nineteen months; grandson of Mrs. Mary Jurbin,
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Rumack (nee Deanie Hoffman), 127 Combe Avenue, on March 16, at Women's College Hospital, a daughter, Cara-Lynn Gay; granddaughter of Mrs. Ann Hoffman, 123 Dynevor Road; and the late Myer Hoffman; and of Mrs. Nina Rumack, 186 Wilson Avenue, and the late Samuel Rumack.
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Goldstein (nee Jessie Landau, formerly of Ottawa, Ont). 23 Neptune Drive, on March 7, at the New Mount Sinai Hospital, a daughter, Jan Honey; granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Izzy Landau, of Ottawa, Ont; and of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Goldstein, 60 Fairleigh Crescent.
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Jack Gel-man (nee Esther Davidson), 235 Pannahill Road, on March 16, at
the Women's College Hospital, a son, Glenn; brother of Alan, aged six years; and of Sharon, aged five; -grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Gelman, 109 D'Arcy Street; and of Mrs. Fanny Davidson, 235 Pannahill Road; great-grandson of Mrs. Sarah Kauffman, 165 Chil-tern Hill Road, and the late David Kauffman; and of Mrs. S. Bloomberg, 109 D'Arcy Street, and the late Jack Bloomberg.
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Fruitman (nee Edith Merker), 229 Brunswick Avenue, on March 18, at the New Mount Sinai Hospital, a daughtetr, Sharon Fern; granddaughter of Mrs. Freda Merker, 229 Brunswick Avenue, and the late Aaron Merker; and of Mr. and Mrs. Morris Fruitman, 295 Augusta Avenue.
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But the necessary cultural synthesis cannot take place until Israel re-evaluates itself in terms of the different culture of one-half of its inhabitants. Unless those who have always been part of the Middle East are able to find expression here and unless the half that comes from Europe makes an effort to learn from that experience and to integrate it instead of expecting the Oriental half to do all the integrating by ceasing to be themselves, unless the Israeli learns to accept the fact that Baghdad and Sa'ana were just as valid expressions of the Jewish past as were Berdi-chev and Lodz, the Oriental Jew will remain just as much a Levantine in Israel as he was in other parts of the Middle East because he has to conform, at least outwardly, to something that does not correspond to his inner self.
This cultural synthesis is made more difficult because the people who are best equipped to play the role of cultural go-betweens have neither come to Israel or, if here, have not agreed to be themselves. They are still sufficiently Levantine in the derogatory sense to be ashamed of defining themselves as Oriental Jews in a new political and cultural context.
Those abroad, even the most gifted writers like the Tunisian Albert Memmi, simply want to be assimilated in Europe and then, like him, reject their Jewishness as something wholly negative. Similarly, those here too often wish to assimilate the, as yet, dominant European culture, without bringing to it anything of their own. The educated Levantine Jews here refuse to face their res-ponsabilities because they assume that to be Levantine is to be inferior.
The Egyptian Jew who comes to Israel is right at being shocked when people express surprise that he isn't black, since one assumes that Jews, of all people, do not believe in doctrines of innate racial superiority. But he is tragically wrong when be protests: "We are aot Arabs, we are Jews!" Or even: "We are Europeans!"
When the educated Egyptian, Moroccan or Tunisian Jew becomes angry at the Jewish Agency because it has settled him in Di-mooa or Ofakim with "ignorant
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Moroccans" and insists on going to an Anglo-Saxon Ulpan, he is accepting European "superiority" and laying himself open, by that very fact, to be considered inferior by the European. He also abdicates his claim to leadership among those who must effect a cultural transformation, for the equality which must be established between the two cultures cannot exist when his approach is "I can be like you" instead of "It is 'right that I should be in some ways different from you."
True, the first phase of as* similation to a culture of greater economic and technical proficiency is mostly passive and subservient and it is only a later generation which has acquired some of the skills and ideology of the older culture which re-defines itself and claims back its old values in a new form. But Israel, whose leaders at present consist mostly of Europeans, ought to strive to make the effort of the Oriental Jews to reclaim their culture possible, by examining and sometimes discarding some of their own assumptions and prejudices.
They might begin by reducing the idealization of Western values, which have failed, since all the people of the former colonies are in revolt against them. The at-tempt at a revaluation is the main concern at present of a number of European intellectuals and should be manifest in Israel, too.
The constant talk and discussion about the "high level" of one kind of Jew as compared with the "low level" of the other; the debate as . to whether the Oriental Jew can adjust himself to the "superior" Western culture � which he did only too well when he was brought into intimate contact with it � achieve nothing except to prevent the -equalization of levels and interpenetration of cultures which is what Israel is all about. iBy pretending that the superiority of one is axiomatic, it leaves the other no choice but outward conformity and this leads people to imitate rather than create.
Examples abound of this automatic assumption of superiority. They are to be found in an attitude towards speaking Arabic which makes Oriental children ashamed of their mother tongue. They are seen in the general dismissal of the Messianic belief of the Oriental Jew as something primitive, childish and not in accordance with the Israeli scheme of things, entirely ignoring the fact that the hope symbolized by belief in the Messiah is at the root of everything mankind has e*ci that no matter how often man has failed, he is compelled to try again and again.
The integration of Israel into the Middle East meets, of course, the mighty obstacle of Arab enmity but part of this enmity, at least, may well have stemmed from a misunderstanding about identities between Arab nationalists and Jewish nationalists who were made to work against each other through the British because they were ashamed of their common ground � which was that they were Levantines � and they were ashamed of appearing as Levantines before the British. This enmity has persisted for the ten yean that the State of Israel has been in existence, but a decade is not such a long time and the misunderstanding might yet be clarified one day and be replaced by a sensible arrangement.
But at present the misunderstanding persists in many forms. We keep saying how much wt aspire to peaceful co-operation with our Arab neighbors and how much they could benefit from oar superior teehaoloey. We are sis-cere, but to most non-Europeans, a superior technology was the
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means by which the West long dominated three-quarters of the world. People who have not yet developed modern techniques instinctively distrust those who have. In Egypt, for instance, the great technical achievement of cotton mills meant to the people that an instrument had been created which forced children of four to work all day long in the cotton fields and reduced the area of land available for growing food. The Assuan Dam project was interpreted as meaning that the fellah would have to work all the year round instead of enjoying an inevitable holiday when the Nile flooded the country.
Improvements in hygiene meant that fewer'children died, but this meant more mouths to feed so^that the poor became poorer as Egypt became richer. Until a means is found, through all sorts of costly trial and error, to adapt these potentially good things to our society, not only will the young Egyptian who exclaimed bitterly that, "Egypt lives on the work of donkeys and children**, not understand us; he will fear that yet another trick is to be played on him.
In Egypt today, people conform to the official orthodoxy which is inveterate hatred of Israel; but a few years ago one, at least, expressed to the writer thoughts of possible pe*c� with Israel; and the thoughts of one generation have a strange way of becoming the reality of the next.
"We shall have peace with Israel hi tea or twenty years. By that time we shall have, developed sufficiently technically not to fear her superiority. Duriag that tune those Europeans la Israel wbo keep achieving these exasperating miracle* in deveJopoMnt will have learned through their difficulties with new immigrants frees Oriental countries that to acquire this
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