The Canadian Jewish News; Friday, November 14,1975 - Page 9
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TORONTO —
Canadian Zionist ■ organizations have abdicated their responsibility of encouraging aliyah to Israel, in the view of the Canadian-bom deputy director of the Israeli Ministry of Religion.
Israel Weinberg, here on a private visit to see his parents. Zadok and Bayla. adinitted that it pains him to discuss the subject. "It hurts to talk about it." he said in an interview at his parents* home.
••Who knows?" lamented the 46-year-old former Torontoniah. '•Maybie it's true that the Zionists are afraid to propagate aliyah."
Comparing the decline of aliyah .to a - sickness Weinberg remarked that once the ailment is diagnosed, "you can find thie medicine for it."
In his opinion, the Zionist movement is largely at fault for failing to attract more immigrants to Israel. "Education of aliyah as a goal has fallen apart." he said.. ••There are too many substitutes for aliyah: donations and university or yeshiva study in Israel. Before 1948. the most important goal of the Zionists was aliyah. Today it gets lost in the shuffle. There are other gimmicks."
■ Weinberg, who immigrated to Israel with his wife at the end of 1949. also places the blame on the lack of youth groups. •'Except for Bnei Akiva there are so few youth giroups. It's a tragedy for Israel."
In spite of his criticism. Weinberg acknowledges the existence of other factors that contribute to the scant interest among Canadian Jews to consider moving to Israel.
Israel, he. explained, has not formulated a proper absorption policy designed to facilitate the smooth integration of immigrants into the mainstream of Israeli society. "The government tried to be attractive and helpful but it hasn't wrorked." Weinberg categorically disagrees with the observation that the aloofness of some Israelis to new immigrants in their midst discourages aliyah. "It has nothing to do with their attitude," he asserted.
There aren't many Canadian immigrants in Israel, he noted, but they have established good reputations for themselves. "They h e 1)) themselves, they're serious and down-to-earth," he said. And one of the ■ reasons -why a fair percentage stay on is because Canadian Zionist. organizations had the •foresight and wisdom to create favorable mortgage loans for housing.
Weinberg, one of two deputy directors in the Ministry of Religion, has held his position for the last 13 years. He is responsible for maintaining religious counsels.
Israel Weinberg
some 200 y e s h i v o i throughout the country. 7.000 synagogues, including nondescript basement houses of prayer, ritual baths and burial societies.
A member of the Bnei Akiva movement. Weinberg lived on a kibbutz for six years before becoming a civil servant. He and his wife, Gitle Twersky, a Montreal girl, settled in Bnei Darom. Weinberg drove a tractor and says he loved every minute of it.
In the meantime, the Weinbergs were faithful to the commandments: they were fruitful and within a few years they had three children. As parents, they wanted ni ore privacy and additional time with which to spend with their children. On -the
kibbutz, they couldn't get it and so they left.
After an interlude of six months. Weinberg found his niche in life. Thanks to the personal relationship the former minister of religion. Zerah War-haftig, had with his. parents, he was taken on as Warhaftig's personal secretary. He's been at the ministry ever since.
He realizes that the majority of Israelis are secularists but in a democracy, he emphasized, the majority must give in to the minority on . certain matters of state. Marriage and divorce laws, particularly the latter, must be in the hands of the rabbinate to forestall a rift between those who belieive and those who do not.
T h e solution he advances to assuage the grievance of many Israelis regarding the unavailability of buses on the Sabbath is to institute a five-day working weiek and thus satisfy those who wish to use some of their spare time away from home and those who think that Saturday is a holy day whose stillness should not be broken by the rumble of public transportation.
The Weinbergs live in the Beit Veh Can district of Jerusalem, which is close to Mt. Herzl. Today, they have seven children and five grand-children. Their oldest child, a 25-year-old daughter, has
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three children of her own and she lives in the Lebanese border settlement of Shlomi. With a smile that betrays no shyness, Weinberg revealed that at one time he was the youngest grandfather in Israel.
Of his brood, he says proudly: "We find it a very healthy situation." For God in his kingdom, the Weinbergs have been faithful servants of the Almighty — they have been fruitful to an extent that would have done Jacob proud.
Over 70 members of the Regional Board of ECRU-SY (Eastern Canadian Region USY) met at Adath Israel Congregation last weekend to decide the fate of USY over the coming months.
The delegates, who are the presidents, liaisons and board chairmen from USY chapters in southern Ontario and Montreal, first met on Thursday evening, but the actual board sessions began Friday morning, with reports by the executive, followed by a heated discussion on "standards" (minimum public religious observance for USY officials; for example, keeping kosher piit ol the home, observing Shabbat. attending services — to set an example for the USYers of the region).
Board sessions continued on Friday afternoon, but soon broke up to enable delegates to prepare for Shabbat. which was welcomed with services, dinner and guest speaker Miriam Ziev, Israeli vice-GC)nsul to Toronto. Miss Ziev presented her government's view on the Palestinian problem.
She said the problem did not really exist inasmuch as the Palestinians outside Israel already had a state. Jordan, while those on the West Baiik and Gaza Strip were being accommodated in houses there, and their standard of living raised . higher than ever before — in
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On Saturday afternoon. Lenny Fritsch. shaliach to Toronto from Mapam (Mapam is a left-wing Zionist Socialist political party in Israel, now forming part of the coalition government in that country), and Steve Taylor, youth director of the Canadian Jewish Congress, led discussion groups on Israel. This followed Fritsch's talk expounding his views on a solution to the problems of the Middle East; he had suggested the crea-
tion of an unarmed Palestinian state on the West Bank of the Jordan River.
The final board session was held Sunday morning, with further discussion on standards, and amendments to the constitution, as well as one resolution that may, be of greater-interest to the general public.
The resolution was introduced with the information that since Beth Tzedec has withheld dues from the United Synagogue of America for the past three years, on Oct. 5 of this year the United Synagogue ruled that Beth Tzedec would be temporarily suspended pending payment of dues within sixty days, or, failing this, would face permanent suspension.
"This suspension." explained a spokesman to the Beth Tzedec USYers. "includes all United Synagogue youth activities at Beth Tzedec. Since Beth Tzedec Congregation is not affected by the
suspension in any fashion, (excepting the suspension of the synagogue youth chapter) we, as said United Synagogue Youth Chapter, feel we <ire being used to put pressure on Beth Tzedec Congregation to perform the actions necessary to effect their reinstatement.
"We are appalled to think the board of United Synagogue of America would stoop so low as to place politics above Judaism and jeopardize the fiiture of inany committed Jewish youth in Beth Tzedec and throughout ECRUSY."
The ECRUSY board, after a round of applause to show support for Beth Tzedec's USY chapter, passed (unanimously) a resolution "that Beth Tzedec United Synagogue Youth be allowed to remain a chapter with fiill rights in ECRUSY including the right to attend and participate in all regional functions and activities."
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