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I'age 4 The Canadian Jewish News, Friday. April 14. 197S
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MONTREAL [Staff] —
The ne\\ president of the Jewish Welfare Board; Robert L. Adlcr. 'plans to re-evaliiate the unibreila. agency's attitude to the Canadian luniinunities it serves.
The New York-based .IWB is the association of the-450 Jewish conimunitv centres and YM-YWHAs" and camps in the United States and Canada. Ten are located in Canada.
The centres other than those in Montreal and Toronto requested during the biennial convention that special recognition be made by the .IWB of dis-' linctly Canadian concerns. The Canadian centres pay annual dues to the JWB for help in such areas as personnel recruitment and programniiJ.
In a separate workshop, the small Canadian com-munuies requested of
Robert L. Adler
their staff consultant at the JWB headquarters that two regional conferences be organized each year in Canada — one for the east and one for the west, that Canadian issues take up at least a half-day at the next biennial, and that communications with
other Canadian centres be improved through such means as a newsletter.
The delegates at the workshop said they, lacked information on what federal government funding the centres may be eligible for and statistical information on the budgets and staff-at other centres.
■"Most Americans just don"t understand the spe-citlc Canadian concerns. 1 think many more will after this convention. I know I do. The proposals by the Canadian centres are something to consider, " said .Adler. in an inteview with the Canadian Jewish News.
The choice of Montreal as the convention site — the first time a JWB biennial has been held outside the U.S. — is in part a recognition of the Canadian fact, he said-
.Adler however cannot
foresee the establishment of a Canadian office of the JWB, similar to the branch of the Council of Jewish Federations _that. will open in Toronto this summer.
—^Ve simply can't afford to open regional offices. Even-our regional consultants in New York' must also take onrother responsibilities."
Efforts are being made to encourage American professionals to take positions in Canada, he declared.
The critical shortage of professionals has prevented necessary programing in many other communities from getting started, he said.
Since l^'Ji. when the Canadian government tightened its immigration laws, a number of Americans have been hired to fill positions in 'Y's and
community centres in Canada only to-be kept waiting as Jong as si.\ months for their immigration papers to be processed.
To eliminate the delay, JWB's pcrsotinel services have initiated a Canadian Recruitment Project aim-
ed at establishing a talent pool of workers to fill openings in Canada as soon as thev are hired. -
The J WB" has tended in the past to look at its members in terms of the size of the community rather than on a national basis.
According to Adler, the old YMHA concept is a thing of the past. "The health aspects are terribly important but the centres must get involved in social^ issues, not only the problems of Jewish identity, ^ut any relevant public affairs issue."
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Editor says Israel has failed to adjust to post-'67 realities
TORONTO [Staff] —
Israel, suice N6", has iailcd to adjust to the reali-. lies ot the Mideast and to accept the ma.xini that politics is the an of the possible. sa>s the controversial editor-lecturer. Trude . Wciss-Kosiiiarin.
Ne^oliatioiis with the PLO. a honiclaiid for the Palcstini.ins and a resolu-iion ot the territorial debate. sa\s the "O-ycar-old \nicriv.an academic, may' be cmotuMialU deplorable, but thcv arc [iragma-1 ic. poliiK al necessities, ilial Israel lias been reluctant to lace.
" riicrc is a diffcrencein senianiics between Carter and Begin." says the editor of the _ Los .Angeles-based .Icwish Spectator. "o\cr tlic definition of 'negotiable'. Israel is, obvi-ousl\ not willing to relinquish terrttorw except for the Sinai." ' -
■ Noting 111 -.111 interview last week that emotionally she resists the n'oiion of an\ icrntoriai withdrawal, M r s . ^^ c i s s - R o s m a r i n savs ''pcop.ic confuse w hat thev want with what is possible "
Fdi.top of-the Spectator since UM.i. Mrs-. VVeiss-Rosmarin — w ho delivers some 45 lecture series a year — was in Toronto for a "scholar-in-residence" weekend at Temple Sinai. An ackiibw ledged intellectual and author on Jewish • themes, she is recognized as a provocative thinker on contemporary '.lewish af-, fairs..
Turning to .American . andC'.anadiaii .lewry.'s posture on Israel, she describes it as niore"niiJi'-. tant" than even the Israelis themselves. "For .American Jewry," she' says,
"criticism is synonymous with attack. That is \Vhy ■
.life (in the community) is SI'S boring. You have to say yeah and amen to every-, thing." . ■
She called '.American Jewry's .unwavering' de-.fence. of Israel — to the'..
•point of deliving any political dissent — as "narrovv-
IDavid Groskind photo) Controversial editor Trude Weiss-Rosmarin
minded." And she attributes that style of thinking to a ■ "homogenized Jewish community . . . led by a few superannuated opinion-makers and 'ves' peo-
pie." ' ;
The justification tor a united stand behind Israel, she claims, is based on the accepted explanation that' "w.e don't put our lives on the line; therefore-we have to. go along
. with the.- Israeli government's point of view." -login's assertion that
. .American Jewry iS Israel's 'second line of defence,' . puts the cornmunity "into adifficult situation." Mrs. Weiss-Rosmarin sav;^s, because, of the-ever-present
-charge - of dual loyalty. ■ 'The leverage of American Jewry in total voting power." she adds, "just isn't a.s important, as one thinks, especially since
• in proportion to the general population our size is. decreasing."
Founder of the School ot the Jewish. Woman in
1^'32. and a staunch advocate of .lewish education, the Frankfurt-born author is optimistic about the sur-V ival of Diaspora Jewry and sav s Jews are witnessing a "r.en'aissance in identification." Thatshe ascribes to the growth of the day schools, the "new oi'thodbxy'' and a renewed in.tercst in Jewish litera- . ture and academic works.
But she is still critical about much of what she says is wasteful manage- . ment of ctiaritable funds, exaltation of material' wealth over spiritiial or scholarly attributes, "weak-kneed" .Anglo-Jewish press and the '.'ab- . solutely superfluous" .Zionist organizations.. . ' .
".For the Jewish Establishment ."■ she says, '"there is only one truth. ; The Estahlishhient is filled with fund-raisers' and publicity hunters." Con-sequentlv. she argues, there is no place for academics because thev don't "speak the - common lan-
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of the community is concerned with campaign.s,"
Peppering .her anecdotes and commentary with biblical references and a range of political and literary sources, she launches into an attack on the Zionist family of organizations, including the Jewish .Agency, and repeats David Ben-Gurion's assertion that the founding of Israel made the Zionist structures redundant.
Moreover, she charges, they are wasteful. The recent Zionist congress cost an excessive sum of S2 million, she notes, and points out that the shlich-im system '"can't possibly stimulate aliya. You have to sell Israel on the spot. You can't sejl Israel in Toronto."
.Author of a number of books on Judai^sm and the Bible, she says her controversial views have, by and large, not met with resistance to the extent of curtailing her appearances. Called a '"holy terror" by Present Tense, in a recent magazine article, she de^ murs: ""I'm really a very peaceful person."
MONTREAL [Staff] —
The assets of Canpal-Canadian Israel Corp. Ltd. almost doubled during l*^'"/, rising to Sb.l million from $3." million the previous year.
The Zim-lsrael Navigation Co. Ltd. and the Hamashbir Fodder Import Co. were an.iong the recipients of Canpal's S5.9 million investment in Israel last year.
ShiniiMi Pridan. vice-president of Canpal and head of its Montreal office, issued the repon to The Canadian Jewish News following release of the company's year-end financial statement.
Canpal. which has about "00 shareholders in Canada, was incorporated in l'^48 to provide a medium for trade between
Canada and Israel. It is af-filiatedwith the large Am-pal-American Israel Corporation of the United States. Canpal last fall issued
for the first time 8% debentures totalling $2 million on the Canadian market. To date. $300,000 worth of the debentures have been sold.
CJG postpones Quebec decision
MONTREAL [Staff]
After a three-hour debate last Sunday, the national executive of Canadian Jewish Congress has failed to come to a decision on whether it should break from its traditional apolitical stance and take a position on the question of Canadian unity.
The debate has been held over to a meeting in June where it is expected the Eastern Region will submit a brief on the subject. It was requested at the meeting that other regional congresses discuss the pros and cons of taking a public stand on Canadian unity.
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