Tne Canadian Jewish News, Thursday, May 6, 1982 - Page 11
to say if Sinai withdrawal is justified, saysAnug
Representatives of Zionist yoath gronps at CZF Yom Ha'atzmaat observance Indaded [firom left] Israel Keshen, Nina Kriiger, Marlon Koch, Steve NemerofiFand Jacli Benslmon. [Ben Lechtman photo]
By GARY COHEN
TORONTO —
More than 2,000 members of Toronto's ajewish community thronged to Shaarei Shomayim Synagogue last week to raise their collective voice in song and prayer in celebration of Israel's 34th anniversary.
Sponsored by the Canadian Zionist Federation, the evening of introspection and celebration was underscored with an emo-tionall speech by Rabbi Henry Hoschander during the Yom Hazichoron service, which preceded.the Yom Ha'atzmaut festivities featuring popular IS' raeli singer Yaffa Yarkoni.
Rabbi Hoschander declared that "as society wallows,' in . a moral vacuum," the sole hope for. moral redemption lies -in a return to basic Jewish values and belief. "
"Whenever Jews meet," he said, "one question is inevitably asked: 'What will be?' And everyone knows what-that qiiestion means. What will happen; to our beloved Israel?"
The signs, he said, are not encouraging. Both in the international political arena and in the world press, Israel is under attack.
Characterizing the United Nations as "a spawning ground for evil," Hoschander said "it continues the vilification of our people and state. In the eyes of the United Nations' world, Israel has become a pariah — a moral and spiritual leper." This view of Israel, said the rabbi, is also propagated by the media.
"One demented Jew slays a coaple of Arabs
outside a inosque and the whole Arab world is in a frenzy. But when an Arab tries to Idll the Pope, there is discreet sUence," he said.
But Hoschander said that "a» long as we Jews maintain intact the am-bUical cord with Israel, no force on earth can touch or destroy as;" Cut off from the roots, though, Jews are "subject to all ill wtadsi"
He called for aliya, especially by young people and from those who choose to live here, urged more economic help for the state. "God will stand by us," -he said. "The question is — can we depend on ourselves?"
Others who spoke were Israeli consul-general David Ariel, who brought a message from Prime
Minister Begin and MPP David Rotenberg,. representing Premier Bill Davis of Ontario. CZF president Phil Gjvens spoke of the "prosperity and excitement that abounds in Israel" and of the "military strength without which the peace treaty would not have come to fruition."
Telegrams of greetings and congratulations were read from Prime Minister. Trudeau and Solicitor-General Robert Kaplan.
Yaffa Yarkoni took the stage sheathed in a flowing white gown. Accompanied only by a pianist and drummer, she soon had the enthusaistic audience — some stood in the aisles and balconies, while others .crouched around the stiige — under her spell. And the party really began.
Community plans activities in solidarity with Soviet Jews
TORONTO —
The:variety of common-ity activities to highUght May as International Solidarity Month for Soviet Jewry is well under way.. .■.
Tonight (May 6) B'nai B'rith Women is conducting a Soviet. Jewry peti-. tion-signing at Yorkdale Shopping Centre. '
At its Oneg Shabbat Friday night, May 71 Holy Blossom Temple will honor its adopted Refuse-nik family, Anatoli and Natalya. Vasilevsky.
.ORT is organizing a postcard protest for Simon Shnirman, recently released from Soviet prison, on Saturday, May 8,
Friends of Pioneering Israel is holding a solidar-: ity ceremony for Col .Lev OvsischeronMay9.
Pioneer Women js honoring the Refusenik child Mikhail Taratuta at its adopt-a-child dinner/ Monday, May 10. ;
On May 11, local Hebrew day schools will honor all Refusenik children, with Lag ba'Omer celebrations.
A postcard protest for Prisoner of Zion Victor Brailovskyi as the United Jewish Appeal welcomes Montrealers to Toronto, is scheduled for May 12. . : On Saturday, May 15, Beth Em'eth-Bais Yehuda , Congregation will organize a kiddush honoring Refusenik Vladimir Pres-tin. Beth Haminyan Congregation will honor Prisoner, of Zion Vladimir Tsukerman.
Sunday, May 16 is petition signhig day in Toronto synagogues.
The group of 35 and the
Refusenil^s lelteis Gonfisc^
TORONTO —
Letters being sent to family members by Ana-toly Scharansky, the human rights activist being held in a Soviet prison, have been confiscated.
This information came from Stan and Debby Solomon, Toronto cousins of Scharansky and co-chair-, men 5fthe Canadian Com^ mittee to save the Life of Anatoly Sch-a4^ansky. Scharansky's wife, Avital, who is now living Jerusalem, spoke to ""Solomons by
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telephone last week after speaking ta her mother-in-law, .Ida Milgrom, who. liveS: in Moscow.
Milgrom was told by prison authorities on April 12 that her son's letters were confiscated because they contained secret-Hiff^Qf •formation. She said/these silrvivbrs letters might have! been trying to tell her\ that Scharansky's healthMiad seriously deteriorated. ;
Milgrom was also told her son would stay in solitary confinement from >Macch 6 to. June 6 because he cobld not keep up with his quola of constructing
eight woven bags per day.
losif Mendelevitch, a former prisoner, of. conscience, said in Jerusalem, that it is impossible for one prisoner to produce eight bags and this. is just another excuse to try and break Scharansky's will ; and. make him sign a confession of guilt.
On April 15, Milgrom went to the chief administrator of the prison in Kazan to discuss the health of her son.' She was rtoldjhat in the very, near future a special health.
committee would examine
all; prisoners and she would be. informed about Scharansky's health.
In Moscow, she requested to meet with the chief of the union of prison camps to appeal her son's case.
Stan Solomon told Thj^ CJN that York University wlU be giving ScharansI^ an honorary degree in absentia at the spring convocation of ^Glendon CoUege on June 5, 1982 "to pay tribute to the steps [Scharansky] has fearlessly taken fan the cause of human rights."
ACnnRA nominatiQii
TORONTO -
This Year in Jerusalem, the radio program about the 1981 Worid Gathering Jewish Holocaust held in Jerusalem last June, has been nominated fpr an Associa-_tiori' of Canadian Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA) award.
The   program was nominated in the category of best radio program of the year. Produced  by Dawna
Treibicz and Charlotte Gdele, This Year in Jerus-: alem was broadcast over the CBC program,. Open Circuit, last October.:
Other nominees in, the category . include , On Golden Pond and Under the Olive Tree, both of which were aired oh CBC.
The ACTRA awards ceremony, taking place at the Rdyal York Hotel in Toronto, will be televised on CBC-TV on Wednes-, day, May 12 at 8 p.m.
Canadian Jewish Congress regional committee for Soviet Jewry will sponsor a Prisoner of Zion luncheon, at Nathan Phillips Square, city hall, on Wednesday, May 19, from 12-1 p.m.
Hadassah will host an address by Sister Ann GUlen, dfrector of the National Interreligions Task Force on Soviet Jewry, May 20. A postcard pro-test for Prisoner- of Zion Vhidimir Klsllk wiU also be conducted that day. .
Beth David-B'nai Israel Congregation will conduct a bar mitzvah twinning with Alexander Pekar, Saturday May 22.
On May 23, Mizrachi Women honors the family, of Prisoner of Zion Alex--ander Paritsky, at Mother-In-Israel Day. ;
The Lsrael Cancer Research Fund pays tribute to Refusenik physicist GrigoryGoldshtein, Tuesday, May 25,
The National Council of Jewish Women, Toronto section, will hold a postcard protest for Prisoner of Zion Ossip Lokshin.-:
Friday, May 28 is the iSrst day of Shavuoth. Synagogue symposiums will honor Soviet Jews.
On May 29, the Canada-Israel Cultural Foundation concert, by the Israel philharmonic Orchestra,'wID honor .Refusenik musicians Stella; Goldberg, Vladimir Feltsman and Carmella Ralz. -: Deer Park United Church honors Prisoners of Conscience Yuri Fede-rov / and Aleksei Murz-henko, Sunday, May 30.
On. Saturday, June 5, York University confers a Doctor of Laws degree on Prisoner of 2Son Anato^ Scharansky,. at Glendon College.
Events have been scheduled and coroi^dinat-ed by the regional Committee for Soviet Jewry„
By JANICE ARNOLD
MONTREAL —
It's too. early to say whether Israel's withdrawal from the Sinai is a "justifiable down payment for peace 6r a monumental error," Israel Am-b a s s a d or Y e is h ay ah u Anug tojd the national executive of Canadian Jewish Congress, at the Ritz Caritori Hotel.
"Both cases can, be. miade," he said, "but neither can be proven to? ■ -day."'■    - ,
Speaking on the final ,day. of the .withdrawal Anug said on a note of optimism that Israel's private talks with Egypt have b<ben less "Irritating than that ' country's public ..posture."
He attributed the "sour atmosphere" surrounding Israel-Egyptian negotiations more to Prraldent Hosnl Mubarak's iwed to satisfy what he senses the Egyptian public and other Arab countries want tiian to altruistic concern for the Palestinians.
"Our bilateral relations have not iieen as unpleasant as the ofBchd stide-ments from Egjpt, which are reaOy meant Ifor the consumption of thie Arab pubUc."
Egypt has shown the world that it is possible to recover territory by offering peace and that the Israeli government is a valid interlocutor for such an exchange, said Anug. For this, Mubarak may feel some guilt, he said.
It is also proof to Egyptians and other Arabs that the switch from Soviet to American backing was a positive one, he added. Peace with Israel is in Egypt's own interest for it may now turn its attention to internal problems, Anug said.
Future stable relations between Egypt and Israel, and generally in the Middle East , will depend on three things; which Anug listed as (1) the status of the.U.S. in the worid and its ability to maintain a presence: in the Middle East despite other preoccupations; (2) Mubarak's handling ofoEgypt's economic and socio-cul-tural issues; and (3) evidence that . under the Camp David Accords the Palestinian question is progressing.
In Israel, Anug foresees several weeks of "absorption of the shock and some ■ heartsinking" follolwing the withdrawal.. Concern
for the evacuation of the Sinai, Anug feels, is far more widely held in Israel than the few people who have made the news headlines.
The Israel-Egypt relationship will be one of "subdued cordiality with an inhibiting note In its open development. But hi real terms they will fortify co-operation without talking too much fdrout it."
To Anug's mind, one of the most disturbing as-. pects of the Sinai evacuation was the open opposition to Israeli law and the hostile response of the Yamit settlers to Israeli soldiers. It is worrying, he said, that military force had to be used at all. Israel, he continued, should not be too lenient with those who break the law.
"We are a people who live mostly in the past; it is > high time we live in the present and future."
Anug said'that in his diplomatic experience, he has seen more understanding of Israel's situation in the non-Jewish world, except of course those countries officially opposed to Israel's existence, than in some sections of the Jewish community. The reason is, he explained, they can judge the facts without emotion.
Of Canada, hd said diat he senses "aconfidence in the way we are.handling our strategy, if'not approval of every tacilcal step. Canada understands Israel's difQculties.V To the Arabs, he added, Canada is still: seen as an ally of Israel.
Although Canada is not a major player in international affairs today* Anug predicted that this country will become a superpower by the tiim of the century and be less reluctant to take part in- foreign matters.
to demonstration
TORONTO —
A letter expressing ' 'strong objection" to a' recent Moslem demonstration in Nathan Phillips Square, which was marited by anti-Israel and anti-Jewish pronouncements, was sent last week to Metro chairman Paul Godfrey and Toronto mayor Art Eggleton.
The letter urged city fathers to be "less liberal with their permits for de-/-monstrations at city hall, that may in future lead to violent confrontations.'' It , was sent underauspices of the Canadian Holocaust Remembrance Association and the Toronto Zionist Council.
"The demonstrators' taking part in the protest called by the Jami Mosque's Islamic Centre
of Toronto shouted death to Israel's prime minister Begin and carried anti-Jewish placards," said the letter.
"The demonstration claimed to be in response to the unfortunate incident at the mosque in Jerusalem, but in reality it demonstrated only . .. . extreme religious fanaticism and racist fervor, and belonged more in Iran or Beirut than on the Canadian scend," according to the letter.
"An item in the Globe and Mail informing us that funeral. prayers were organized by Toronto mosques for the five men. executed in Egypt for the assassination of former president Sadat should also give us pause for concern," it added.
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