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By LEWIS LEVENDEL ■ CJN Assistant Editor TORONTOv
Hopes are high for a greatly improved pcrforrnance frohi the record number of 70 Canadian Jewish athletes going to the Mac-cabiah Gamies in Israel from July 9 to the 19th.
In the last games in 1969. the 40 competitors captured three gold, four silver and three bronze medajs in such diverse spOrls as table tennis, weightlifling fencing and track and field.
Canada is expected to send representatives in 15 of the ^20, sports on the games menu. About 10 officials will accompany the team.
According to Ruby Richman, co-chaicman ■=!»=oLthe games selectiori committee and coach of-
the basketball team, there are.aisp medal hopes in volleyball, boxing and basketbailK ;;
"There are better athletes around than in 1969 and generally more interest," Richman told The Canadian Jewish News in an interview last week. "We can judge that by thie standards being mailed in by the 200 persons who've sent in applications."
In 1969, the basketball team finished fourth. This time, Richman said, the team will be stronger with the help of six-foot nine cein-treman Morrie Herman of Montreal.
Riqhman also expressed optimism about the volleyball squad. He explained that most of the team learned the game in Eastern Europe where Jhe spdrt is very popular.
Final trials for the volleyball and basketball teams will takie place in Toronto March ,31 and April 1. Preliminary basketball trials in Mon-tireal resulted in the selection of 16 athletes to come to Toronto.
Another eight or nine players not in Montreal for the trials are also expected to take part. Richman said that another open trial for any interested team members will take place early in March. '
The basketball coach hopps to take his squad on a tour of Europe prior to the games. Stops are planned for London, Paris, Rome and Yugoslavia.
There have already been golf trials and there
may be trials in weightlifting, fencing, table tennis and judo. ■ ' .
Standards are used to select athletes in sports in vifhich there'll be no trials. The.Maccabiah Games selectors check the standards and get the advice of expertis in the particular sport on how the athlete might do in the competition.
According to Richman,-among the medaj possibilities for Canada are; Abby Hoffman of Toronto a double gold medal winner in 1969, in track; Vickie Berner of Vancouver and Mike Belkin of Montreal in tennis; Max Gould of Toronto in speed walking; Karen Jarnes of Vancouver in swimming; Joyce Hecht of Montreal in table tennis and Jeff Lewis of Toronto
in boxing. Not all the above named are coh-firtned cqmprtitbrs^for the games.
Richman said SI50,000 is needed tocoverthe costs for the team including trials, equijpment, travel and accommodation. Montreal has already begun fund iaislhg and Toronto will have a donors dinnier. in addition to individual gifts, nrioney is expected to come from institutions and governments.
• For the future, he urged that more influence should be directed to high calibre competition for Jewish athletes in this country. He noted that Ypung Men's Hebrew Associations stresses mass participation rather than active competition. ~—
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Rabbi's daughter arrives in Israel to fulfill pledge
TEL AVIV (JTA)-
Mrs. Rivka Rosenstein, daughter of the late rabbi Yehuda Leib Levin of Moscow's Choral Synagogue, arrived in Israel with three of her children in fulfillment of a promise she said she made to her father. According to Mrs. Rosenstein who is a dentist. "My father made me promise that I would go to Israel which is my country. He insisted that 1 go."
She said it took three years of repeated requests before she was issued an exit visa. In the interim she divorced her husband, a hatter, who she said refused to go to Israel becaiisc he feared, hp would not find a job in his trade.
Mrs. Rosenstein was accompanied by her
daughters. Arina 20, and Ella, IK, and her son Boris, 12. Arina is a food chemist and 1:11a a dental lab technician. Boris began school recently in Ashkelon where the family is quartered in an immigrant center. Mrs. Rosenstein has begun studying Hebrew. She 'said her father "used to speak to us in Russian." She says she speaks and understands Yiddish.
Mrs. Rosenstein left behind in Moscow her oldest daughter, Mousia, who is married and the mother of a girl. She has asked for per-mi.ssion to leave but is still waiting for it. Mrs. Rosenstein .said. She also left behind her 7Syear-old, nvother. Frieda, and two younger sisters who also want to come to Israel, she said.
Israel reassured no change planned
in Nixon^s policy
LIVING WITH DANGER-Ghildren of the residents of kibbutz Merdm Hagolan who were evacuated to a shelter during the recent shelling by Syrian terrorists. (IPPA)
WASHINGTON (JTA)-
President Nixon's inaugural address gave no definite indication of change in his policy toward Israel or the Middle East. After Israeli Premier Golda Meir's secret two-hour talk with the president in the White House almost 14 months ago, U,S. financial and diplomatic support for Israel reached what a top Israel official here described as "unparailed" backing for the Jewish state.
Foiir statements in: the president's inaugural address were seen as bearing on the Middle East. In the
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TORONTO-
—A recent fire which caused $60,000 damage to.^ialik^ Hebrew Day School on View-mount -A^ve: was the work of-arsonists, fire officials said this"week. ^
A spokesman foj^he Ontario Fire Marshal's Office said the fire, which1)roke out in the early hours of Monday, Jan. 22, destroying the syn -agogue-kitchen, a nearby room and part of the auditorium, was set with gasoline in several places throughout the school. * - "It's definitely arson, no question about it;" said Dennis Merkley, an investigator with the marshal's office. Merkley added that the vestigation is nowbein^car- / ried out by Metro police/
Bialik's principalrJosejih Klinger, said classcjs had o be cancelled on three day? following the fire blit hav since resumed.
order of his presentation, the first was that "we shall support vigorously the principle that no country has the right" to impose its will or Its rule on another by force."
This preserves the longstanding. U.S. principle, opposed by the Soviet Union, that the major powers should not force a.settlement on the Middle East. The U.S. held that Israel and the Arab states should negotiate their own agreement; a view reiterated only last week by Secretary ofState William P. Rogers. Israel has hailed this particular element of American, government policy. .
. Rabbi Edgar F. Magnin, of the Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles, who spoke at President Nixon's first Inaugural fourye^rs ago, spoke at the worship service which formally concluded the four-day second inauguration ceremonies. . .Mrs. Meir's scheduled visit with Nixon at the White House March! presumably - will bring about fresffilirder-'standing between the leaders__ of : the two \couiitries but; meanwhile, observers felt, there is no fundamenta^l-change in the U.S.-Israeli relationship.
The first of a Mo part article. By Canadian Jewish News Staff
TORONTO-
There are relatively few Jews among the tens of thousands of young men in Canada who fled from the United States as a result of their opposition to the Vietnam war, The Canadian Jewish News learned this week. Furthermore, like most of the draft resisters and deserters living in Canada, they are unlikely to return to the U.S. even if granted full amnesty.
Although Canadian immigration authorities are vague about the number of American exiles in Canada, anti-draft organizations such as Amex (Americans in Exile) estimate that there are between 70,000 and 100,000.
Canada's Jewish com'^ munity is barely aware of . the' presence of draft dodgers who are Jewish. According to Benjamin Kay-fetz, acting director of the Central Region .of Canadian Jewish Congress, a committee created to extend the services of the community to t'Jewish draft evader.s found, that their number was small and that those identified had little desiretoestablishconnections with the Jewish community.
Rabl)i Arthur Bielfeld . formerly of Chicago and •currently spiritual leader of Toronto^ Temple Emanu-El, who initiated the committee stated. "Most of those the committee encountered were alienated from the Jewish community and felt nodesire for a closer
association. A few found their own way to synagogues or the Jewish centre, but there was no need for organized assistance. "
Dick Brown, a 26-year-old draft evader who has been in Canada since 1969, works as a draft counsellor for the Toronto Anti - Draft Program. Long neglected by both the Canadian and American news media, Brown and his Jewish associate Dan Zimmerman, were eagerly consulted by a flock of radio, television and newspaper reporters on the day following President Nixon's announcement of the Vietnam ceasefire.
Interviewed by The Canadian Jewish News. Brown stated, ■'Being Jewish doesn't matter in this war.
The U.S. draft discriminates against everyone equally. The really distinct racial differences in the U.S. military affect Blacks and Chicanos.
Zimnielrman, age 24, who -came to Canada three years ago from New York indicated little desire to return to the United States.
•What will really prevent many of us from returning," Zimmerman said, "is our concern with the character of post-war America. The quality of life continues to decline and many of us have a distinct feeling that the U.S. is dying.
•'In a sense," he continued, "we are cultural refugees as well as refugees from compulsory military service. Cont'd on Page 2
Rabin doubtful of Middle East
WASHINGTON (JTA)-
Ambassador Yitzhak Rabin says that Secretary of State William P. Rogers' speech in New York last week indicated that the Nixon administration is more com-mitted than ever to maintaining a "determined posture" in the Middle East. According to Rabin, Rogers placed more stress than in the past in pointing to the responsibilities of the par-
Unitarian minister charges
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Pre^nt Richard Naon
DETROIT, (JTA)-
Jewish and ffon-Jewish campus groups are iip in arms over the printing of a series of strongly anti-Israei articles in South End, the student daily at Wayne State University.
The latest in the series written by Rev. John NicholU Booth, interim minister at the First Unitarian-Universalist Church here, was embellished with a Star of David on which a swastika was superimposed to illustrate the writer's allegation that Israel was emulatmg Nazi methods in its treatment of Arabs, it was reported \n the latest issue of The Jewish News of Detroit.
^ Rev. .Booth last March wrote an article which a p p e a r e d i n T h e -tJ n i t e'd"
"^Church Observer under the headline "How. Zionists-
- manipulate your news." The articje attacked Israel and its supporters and-subsequently -rai-sed. protests from the Toronto Jewish community^ However Rev. AG. Forrest, The Observer's editor, claimed the story was not anti-Semitic.
Protests have been lodged with Dr. George Gullen,^ university president, and his associates. Dr. Gullcirxx^v pressed shock at the material appearing in the tax-supported student newspaper. But he explained to a group of
: Jewish professors who met with him on the matter that .state law and arrangements with the Student-Faculty Council prevented him from assuiTiing control over the
paper. He said his own letters to it Went unpublished. The •Jewish News reported.
Dr. -Gullen said the university's Board of Governors would insert a full-page paid ad protesting the biased series. But campus groups such as Youth for Peace and Democracy in the Middle
Helmpter to
LOS ANGELES (JTA)-
. A private helicopter rental company says it is being ^ threatened with lawsuits by local distributors of Pepsi Cola because it flew a siga. saying "Help Soviet Jews-Don't Drink Pepsi''*' over the Los
East which is led by non-Jews, the B'nai B'rith Hillel, Habonim and Hashomer Hatzair, contended that such a response would imply an abdication of the university's role as publisher of an organ assigned for editorship to students, according to Thg Jewish News. They pointed
out that South End operates on a budget of $72;0OO a year provided by the university from tax funds allocated by the Michigan State Legislature.
According to The Jewish News, the First Unitarian-Universalist Church had a friendly, pro-Israel attitude
before Rev. -Booth assumed the rninistry. His lectures and writings on the Middle East have been one-s^ded and biased; and Zionist spokesmen are believed to have blundered up to now by ignoring him and failing to reply to hiis allegations. The Jewish News said:
sign urges hoycott v of lawsuit by distributor
Angeles Colisium during the Super-Bowl game.
Zev Yaroslavskyrchair-man ' of the California Students foriSoviet Jewry which is ■ conducting "a boycott- of Pepsi Cola and other affiliates .of the Pepsico-Corp.,"told- the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency that Gary Moore, who rents helicopters, reported getting-^'a lot of_calls" on the.._day after the game from irate Pepsi distributors. The California Students
cil for Soviet Jewry launched the boycott several months ago when it was learned that Pepsico will build_a bottling plant in the Soviet Uniour- Yaroslavsky said that as v^art of the deal, the American firm
for Soviet Jewry and the would import Soviet wines
Southern California Coun-
Men use Golda's position to quiet Israeli women
HAIFA (JCNS)-
Israeli women, who comprise 52 per.cent of the population,.have not achieved anything like commensurate representation in the country's, local and national political offices, Dr. Sheva WeisSi of Haifa University, says in a research paper to be published soon. - \
He said that the fact that
Golda Meir; the prime achieved her position not minister, was a rwomarLjiot because she is a woman, but only failed |o redress" the\ despite being one," he added.
'glaring imbalance" but helped men toV perpetuate it because they exploited her high position to '?kccp women quiet."
Mrs. Meir "did not Tcpresent the female sector (of thc^vlsraeli population). It could be assumed that she
Dr. Weiss also noted that there had been no woman secretary-general of the Histadrut (Laboui>-br6adcasis of
Federation) since Mrs. Mm. Yaroslai'Sky said the
oGeupied-Tfie^ostiduring^the helicoptery towing theboy-
30s and there was noTwoman cott sign^appeared over the
member of its ,'central Colisium during the fourth
and liquors to the U.S. for" distributioiTBy its affiliate. Monsieur Henri,importers of foreign wines.
Yaroslavsky said the two organizations stationed 25 pickets-one at each gate of the Golisium - carrying large signs saying "Pepsi Sells to Russia - Russia Sells Jews - Don't Drink Pepsi." The Super^Bowl game was attended by 90,000 /fans. Pepsi CoJa was one of the sponsors of the ^'-television and radio dcasts of the game.
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ties involved to take the initiative themselves in putting an end to the difficulties.
Rogers, who spoke at a farewell dinner to Rabin sponsored by the Presidents Conference of Major American Jewish Organizations, appealed to Israelis and Arabs to enter into "a genuine, nieaningful negotiating process, direct or indirect.' to achieve peace in the Middle East. The secretary of state also said that the "most realistic approach" would be to negotiate an interim Suez Canal agreement which would be 'a first decisive step of facilitating negotiations to carry oUt (Security Council) Resolution 242 in its entirety."
Rabin, addressing an estimated 200 pfeople attending an aliyah conference at the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Washington, characterized Rogers'address as a "very real and true restatement of the policy of the United States," adding, "all fears that there would, be a change in American pol-' icy has not proved to be true" in view of Rogers' remarks which included a reaffirmation that the U.S. "Will be active in ascertaining if and how we caii help the parties initiate a general negotiating process.
The Israeli diplomat was not optimistic, however, about the possibility of peace in the Middle East which he referred to as •'.a small light at the end of a very long tunnel. He drew-resound-ing applause when he declared: ''There is no need for Israel to withdi^-from tjie cease-fire linos." Rabin stressed that Israel's top priority .is to remain militarily strong enough 'not to
: be pushed from the ceaser fire lines by force." ;
He spoke very warmly about America's relationship with Israel, noting that over the past four years the U.S./has supplied $1.2 billion, worth of arms, mostly on a credit basis. He called for , further assistance from the U.S. to "help ensure the burden of defence" . which he said consumes 25 per cent of Israel's gross national product, or proportionately
■three-and-a-half times that in the U.S. Rabin declared'