Page 10 - The Canadian Jewish News, Thursday, December 24, 1931
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CHANUKAH JOY
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1 The Toronto Jewish Society for the Hearing Impaired held a Chanokah partj- at Cooncil Honse which |
1 attracted over 100 people. Cantor Mitch Martin played the piano andled the hearing impaired in singing i
I popular Chanokah songs which were "signed" or interpreted by Eddie Wieisblatt, TJSHI member, and Ruth |
i Martin, a volunteer with Toronto section National Cooncil of Jewish Women. From left: Harry Anker, Rossel =
I Weber, Tema Weber, ShawTi Ankier and David WIseblatt light the menorah. ° |
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By WOLF MATSDORF
TIBERIAS, Israel —
A Shabbat service in a 2,000-year-old black basalt synagogue here was one of the' highlights of a joint tour of Israel led b\ the Holy Blossom Temple's Rabbi Ha'ney Fields and Timothy Eaton Memorial Church's Rev. StartfordLucyk.
About "0 members of the two Toronto congregations participated in the 2-week tour, which .was
preceded by several, months of inter-faith study.
Benefits of the tour, according to both spiritual leaders, included;
• A deepened awareness of the common, roots of Judaism and Christianity. ■ . • ,
• "A more immediate understanding of some of the area's political disputes.
• An insight into the ,v%orkings of pluralism.
"The tour enabled par-
Food stores going metric
By TAMMY KAROL
TORONTO -
Food stores across' Canada will begin the changeover to the metric system early In January. Conversion will start simultaneoosly In 21 area.« nationwide, and will cover the resit of ifhe country progressively in two years.
Cities starting to convert in January inciodc Metropolitan Montreal, Ottawa/Hall, Metropolitan Toronto, > Winnipeg, Edmonton, Halifax. Centres soch as London, Ont., Sydney, N.S., and Vancouver will begin the changeover late in 1982.
Together with . prepackaged-food which has been sold in metric units for several years now, individually weighed store Items such, as cheese or fruit will also be sold on a metric basis. This will be made possible by converting all store scales from . imperial lo ■ metric . measures.. ■ Tax relief.will.be given : to retailers who buy new scales and to those, who ■ •convert old ones.
Frank Dugal, a consultant with Metric Commission Canada., said at a. recent . news : conference that, for two years, stores ■ will be allowed to advertise in imperial and metric weights, as long as the metric measure is emphasized.
; After two years, only metric advertising will be permitted.
How. much will It cost retailers to switch to the new system? Dugal has no definite figures yet,, but since metric conversion was introduced under the revision of Canada's Ways and Measures Act in 1970, it has already cost^ $35 million.
Although Dugal said there have been some complaints in areas where . metric_weights were used : onr^ tn^T basis (Sher-brooke. Qile^, Peter-boVough, Ont.,^and Kani^-x loops, B.C.). he noted thatKjn recent national Comnxission polls, nearly 54% of t'he population was ■in favor of conversion.
To aid homemakers during the transition, the Commission has spon-
sored^ $100,000 metric copkiri|""program under which twocooks will conduct, metric cooking classes, across Canada over the next three months.
Information parriphi'ets. and posters will be available in stores for consumers as well as retailers, so.that they can adapt to metric units.
If there are any consumer complaints .during the changeover, the Com-, mission has asked shoppers todiscuss.difficulties, .such as price discrepancies, with store managers, the federal corporate affairs department or the Commission.
Metric conversion IS nearly completed m gasoline, drugs, textiles, road signs and other units measured.in grams and kilograms.
Daring the transition period when some slilp-ments may still be receiv' ed in pounds, yoo can convert poonds to kilograms by moltiplying the number of poonds by 0.45 to get the equivalent nom-ber of kilograms.
ticipants to_5e.e and ex-perience: Israel; through each others' eyes and traditions," said Rabbi Fields. "TTiey were mutual experiences money could riot buy."
The tour included sit6s in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, the GaliK.Masada, Nazareth. Safed, Tiberias, the Golan Heights and visits to the. Syrian and Lebanese borders.
Members of the group found a special prayer and kaddish he recited at-Yad Vashem panicularly moving, said Fields.
"I think participants from my congregation discovered the Jewish roots of Christianity," added Lucyk.
After visiting the Church of the Nativity and Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem, participants were addressed by the, town's mayor, iElias' Freij. His talk, according to Lucyk, "gave all a better realiza-, tion that no immediate, just solution can be found ■ for the Middle East situation." ■
Correction
Harry Topper, an active member of the Jewish community who died recently, is survived by a son whose name is Victor, not Richard. as indicated in the Dec. 17 issue of The CJN. Besides Victor, Topper is also survived.by his wife, Florence, four grandchildren — Lori, David, Randi and San — and a great grandson, Adam Moishelci
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Panicipants were exposed to the minority segments, contributing to Israeli society. A talk by the .Armenian archbishop centred on the mass murder and persecution oiF Armenians by the Turks- in the 1920s. Jerusalem's pluralistic nature was under: scored during a visit to the Old City: at the Western Wall. Jews were praying and Yeshiva boys dancing while the sound of church bells rang through (he air.
■■This has helped us as Canadians to better understand and evaluate the concept and pattern of pluralism. We take a Christian majority for granted at home! but there arc now in Canada more M.osleriis than Presbyterians." said Lucyk.
Fields said that Israel's increasing isolation makes the availability of a.pool of informed and concerned non-Jews a valuable asset.
I By MOURA WOURERT
HAMILTON —
For Batia Phillips, the new president of Familton 'Women's CRT, .er annual trip-tt) Israel Vi visit her daughter, Idit .Mela-jned, son-in-law Avner and two granddaughters Had always been a source of great pride as she watched their moshav between Yamit and El Arish grow from desert into a flourishing farming'community.^
This fall, whe^j she arrived at Haroyit, she was greeted by a profoiind sense of uncertainty and sadness. The land the young farmers had worked so hard to develop is becoming desert once more as the few remaining settlers wait to move to their new location in the Negev near Beersheva, while the Israeli government prepares to hand over the last part of the Sinai to the Egyptians next April in accordance with the Camp David agreements.
"It Is a very sad sight," says Phillips. "No one works the land any more. The place is deserted, the wind blows through the moshav; no one cares any more. The whole atirnos-phere is one of waiting: Where are we going? Waht are we going to do?"
She tells of a couple she visited at nearby Sadot, a particularly successful agricultural settlement, "who started with nothing. All they had were their 10 fingers." ■ They began to grow strawberries and became so successful that soon "people were coming from all over Europe to see them. They built a fantastic house and now ... nothing!"
lii the cozy living room of her farm house in Greensville, just outside Hamilton, Phillips is torn
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between concern for her daughter's and the other settlers' future and the - knowledge that peace is more important.
For peace "you have to give up a lot," she sighs. "It is such a painful period. They started with such enthusia:sm,, such hopes... and theri to see it ail disintegrating ^before their eyes. It is so hard to grow a tree . . .anything that is green."
Born in Haifa of Polish, immigrants at a time when niost of the country was still desert and swamp, Phillips knows well what it means.
She left Israel in the early 19.60s —: reluctantly, she admits — when her late first husband's business interests took them first to Burxtia, then to Switzerland and finally to Canada. Idit, the eldest of her three children, was unhappy here and returned to Israel at age 17 and. every year since, Mrs. Phillips has traveled to Israel "just to see what's going on."
One of th^ things she learned about during her last trip was the story of a retired carpenter who set up a workshop for senior citizens at an ORT .school which, in turn, led to the establishment by the students of a "senior citizens help fleet" to respond to emergency calls from seniors.
It's the kind of thing that makes her proud to be a member of that organization although, she confesses, she never took on "any major job and I wasn't really so keen on becoming president." But now that she is, she says
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she finds it "very challenging" and has thrown ■ herself wholeheartedly into the job, finding time between running, her real estate business, growing "everything we can puf in the freezer," tending to her husband, teen-age daughter- Dana — son Michael is a science student at Western University — and looking after three horses, a dog, the "barn cat" and a canary.
Coming op on Jan. 10 is the annoal theatre night, Hamilton ORT's mi^or fond raising event, with two showings at the Broadway Theatre at 2 p.m.. and 7.30 p.m., of "ImageBefore My Eyes," the dociimentar>- of the Polish Jewish commuUty before the Holocaast. In the spring, there will be a repeat.of last year's soc-cessfol 2-day Galleria of Arts and Crafts on the Victoria Day weekend.
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Candidates for either position should be exceptional individuals with a solid record of achievement ift positions of a similar nature, We invite you to submit your resume in confidence to Bank Leumi Le-Israel (Canada), Suite 840, Box 404. 2 First Canadian Place, Toronto, Ont. M5X 1E3.
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Reserved tables for^parties of 10-12 people
Tickets: $100 per couple
For information and reservations call Marty Aidelman 223-2344 or 532-1040 or Dov Lev 889-9150
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