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A "PROGRESSIVE APPROACH'
THE SOVIETS & SAUDI ARABIA
A CJN EXCLUSIVE
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OW JDC W M IE AGED
M. Menshikov. former ambassador nf the U.S.S.R. in Washington, now a member of his country's delegation at the U.N., publicly praised "the eloquent address of the delegate of Saudi Arab-' ia" against Israel.
This happened last week at the U.N. Special Political Committee. Ahmed Shukairy. the Saudi Arabian delegate, shocked the U.N. with anti-Semitic language unheard of in the history of the august organization. Shukairy, who is not. even a Saudi Arabian, but a hired diplomat of the Arabian king, praised tlie most vicious Argentine Nazi gang, the notorious Tacuara for their anti-Jewish activities. The Argentine ambassador denounced Shukairy for his \ile language. Other U.N. representa-iives expressed their di.smay. But one delei^ate rose to laud the "progressive" Saudi Arabian representative, a spokesman for a country where slavery is legal and up |o date.
No matter how hard one tries to detect some symptoms of a change in the
THE CENTRAL FUND
Soviet policy, one always comes back to this enigma of cruelty, cynicism, and lack of respect for the spoken word which reached its lowest point during the Stalin-Hitler pact. Molotov, the then Soviet foreign minister stated at the time that Fascism was a matter of taste. Menshikov is following the Stalin line with regard to Israel and the Middle East.
Maybe this last insult to decency by the Soviet representative who dares to place a medieval society like Saudi-Arabia above the Middle East's most progressive country will convince, some
of the critics of Premier Diefenbaker's qu^ru'riy edited bv xoronto-.s Dr. statement on Soviet imperiahsm. The {waiter s. wurzbur. r, contains Prime Minister of Canada last week stated that there is a growing awareness at the United Nations that the So-
HANUKKAH MIRACLE-OF SURVIVAL: After latkes and the cord games -the fittest rest happily ever after ...
Canadian Panorama
BY MORDECAI HIRSHENSON
GLEANINGS
FROM "TRADITION"
• Tradition,    t h e Orthodox
a vigorous defense of the practice of usin<; a microphone for synagoRue services on the Sabbath bv Rabbi Manuel Poliakoff
Viet imperialistic system does exist and I of Baitimore. Rabbi Poiiakoff
that the U.N. cannot ignore it. I maintuins that  the use of thei
Certainly the Jewisfi people cannot ignore such slander and such a.ssa-ciation by the Soviet Union, the worst slave-king still surviving in the modem world.
may completely~aisBgree with them."      - .       i ■
"T reiterate- that f have seen nothing ... that would compel me to change my decision; on the contrary he (Rabbi Hlbner) has strengthened my case/'
"In conclusion, the attempt by Rabbi Jakobovits to justify the use of electrical devices outside of the Shul while condemning their use  Inside  of the Shul
TORONTO SHOWS THE PATH
Running the full gamut of North American Jewish life, Toronto's Central Fund for Traditional Institutions is certainly one of the most important and most original contributions to North American "Jewish life. Established only four years ago, it has already managed, according to the testimony of the American Joint Distribution Committee, to solve a problem which "confronts the donor and recipient alike in the American Jewish community of today."
Under the leadership of Meyer W. Gasner and Mark A. Levy, this year the Fund aided 113 institutions on both this continent and in Israel. We are talking of such institutions which until now mostly relied upon paid emissaries and collectors with too much professional interest to be of real value to the worthy recipient.
Five years ago when Mr. Gasner introduced the idea of the Central Pimd he ^tressed the necessity of protecting philanthropists from unwelcome and unscrupulous collectors. The purpose of ,lhis was to defend Torah" institutions b^ly in need of aid. Many were skeptical about the outcome of this almost revolutionary project. Today, however; many  communities are  planning to
A LIT A PROBLEM
tmcrophone was O.K.d some, ^^^^^3 sermonlcs, but it is years ago by a group of^repre-, contrary to Halakhah. In Halak-.^enative and respected orthodox ^j,^^ ^j,^^ Justification rabbi-s. Later, a ter the "nuke' i^^j^^de inside the Shul than Ijecame a symbol of Conservative; Qu^^j^jg [t •• "deviation", there wa.s a change! . ...
of heart -.md nianv of the same Other fascinating subjects dis-vxxms who .sanctioned t'ne mic-j ^u-^d i" Tradition's .current is-rophone now are denouncing it.        ^''^ •
But Rabbi Poliakoff insists that nothing has changed basically. He bees no reason why he should retract his previous opinion. He
1. How do globe-trotters know when Sabbat falls when they cross the international date-line CT the Pacific and lose 24 hours
emulate the example of Toronto in thii it or those who do not approve
does not vv-.int to impose the use 1 from their calendar? A most in-of the mechanical sound anipli-1 tricate issue calling upon astron-fier upon those w.no do not want omy, geography, navigation and
area of philanthropic endeavor. The guest speaker at last week's Central 'Fund meeting, the eminent Rabbi Mor-decai Kirshblum, of New York, lead^ of the Religious-Zionist movement, stated that unless American Jewry will follow the example of Toronto and liberate the most   worthy institutions
of It, but he demands that his own use of it be accepted by them as an acknowledged Ort.ho-dox procedure.
Here are samples of his rather vigorous lang-uase. taking .strong exception to Rabbi Imiuanuel Jacobovit.s. editor of llie hala-khic department:
I was not, and still am not.
from their bondage to collectors   andf-intere.sted   in   convincing other
professional emissaries, these institutions with a tradition of hundreds of years will not be able to survive in our modem age.
As far as Toronto is concerned only a limited number of donors realize the importance of supporting the Central Fund. Apparently, only about 130 members are now on the donors list of the Fund. As the dean of our Jewish leaders, J. Irving Oelbaum told the Central Fund meeting: "Where are the contributors who are obliged to the Central Fund for instituting the change in the form of fund raising for traditional institution?? Don't they recognize the struggle for dignity in the field of charity? Hundreds should join the Central Fund. Then only will the continent; emulate our initiative."
rabbis to use the microphone on Shabbat but I am intensely Interested in letting others know t-hat those who do use microphones, and I am one of them, have good halakhic authority to support their position. Tney are riot acting out of a disregard of, nor contempt for. Halakhah and I. expect other rabbis to respect
WESTERN JEWS AND ISRAEL
an ever-growing number of Jews in the free Western World to settle in Israel.
Mr. Moshe Yakir, Director of the Western Division of the Agency's Aliya Department, who is now in London, told a JCNS reporter that aliya
. ; ,Abdut;250Q>0QP,Wews a.re. awaiti^^ Im-1    niigratioh-tdrlira^^ from various coun-tMes'^excludlng the Soviet Union, and
* ''iricludTng only'some Algerian refugees /."nb^Tn^i'ance. This vvas stated by Mr.
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kewairJ^^^ that immigra.   figures in Britain and the two Ameri-
.;   ,tidri;in-,the. past months had slowed   cas were rising. In Britain the number down arid was reaching its end.        - in the past Jewish calendar year was' /^T.^^'^erdmight have been a drop in one   25 per cent higher than in the previous ,  ; jort^ from one country or   year; while from the United States and
=\ anbther,^ilc, Shragai said, but the. over- Canadal 1,500 people emigrated to Israel, '    ;all pict^ the same. More-   compared with 1,300 in the previous
oler./they'Md-good to believe yfear. Immigrants fr:om Latiii America
iiT^^'thatth^ce^ation of immigration from   numbered 1,200 last year. Mr. Yakir ■ohe-'particfflar^ c^^      which was the  added that the figure this year would 'main sourcfe'in the past year, was now  be more than doubled, because of feel-.s'.^,6iay/t«&p6i^ry,c%. ings of insecurity among Jews, particul-
: • LA,g6int,J,e,wish Agency-G^^^ arly in Argentina. "We have already
..Gommitjee, .headed by Mr. Levi Esh— booked passage for 1,000 immigrants, kbl,:was' working- out absorption pro-  mainly froni Argentina and Urugay, for
• blpms: especially for South Americans, the first three months of 1963 alone." ,  . "^^trbng fJeSii^e was evident aimong Ar-__he stated. : i_
~"-*iiiia'nfJews to come to Israel, and     Giving the reasons why the Agency
these decisions even though they on space travel?
several other sciences.
2. When is an Eruv (boundary within which the halakha permits carrying on the Sabbath) going to be established lor Manhattan Island, one of the few Jewish urban centers completely surrounded by water and therefore with a natural "built-in" eruv? The difficulties include the absence of a recognized local rab. binate for Manhattan and certain teciinical obstacles involving the structure of the bridges leading off the island. In the meantime, Rabbi Jacobovits sadly notes many Jews in Manhattan are desecrating the Sabbath by "carrj'iiig" and many mothers refrain from bringing their babies out-of-doors. ,
3. What is the halakhic view
The issue also contains a rath-er severe though fair appraisal of Torontoniah S. Michael Gel-ber's book "The Failure ot the American Rabbi". The reviewer is divided when looking at Gelber's book. On the one hand, Gelber's criticism of the Reform and Conservative rabbinate coincides with the Orthodox view, "that the movements are shallow,' that they cater to success, that they straddle the theological fence, that they emphasize physical externals and minimize spiritual values, "etc. On the other hand, the reviewer finds that the reason Gelber doesn't deal with -the Orthodox synagogue is because he dismisses it as not being in consonance with the twentieth century, an attitude guaranteed not to win sympathy for him in "Tradition".
• Recently tihe Guelph Jewish community marked the bar-niitz-vah of its synagogue building. Though organized as a congre-gation long before, a new structure was built in 1949, named Beth Isaiah. The congregation was given this name in memory of the late Sidney (Isaiah) Acker who died in a war-time air-crash. He served in the RCAP.
Shaar Menashe, once one of the largest homes for the aged maintained by Mai-ben, the Joint Distribution Committee welfare program lor aged, ill and handicapped immigrants in Israel, lias become Israel's most complete psychiatric center. The center is a joint venture ot Malben and Israel's Miwistry of Health which have pooled Iheir resources in a Psychiatric Irust Fund for the expansion of psychiatric services, iiamstrung in the past by shortages of budget and [rained staff.
Tliis cluster ol whitewashed luits, set, in Israel's coastal plain, contains a 140-bed hospital with three separate ser\ices for the menially ill: ar. _ssessTnent '"ftntpr ror screening and diagnosing patients from local and other psychiatric institutions; a ward for mentally disturbed aged; and a long-term rehabilitation ward. More than 700 patients have been studied and diagnosed since the assessment center was opened in 1960.
Another indication of the dramatic gains in Israel's developing mental health program is a work village nearby. Here selected mental patients are able to work at various tasks — some in the hospital, some in maintaining the village and still otljers in surrounding agri-culliiral settlements.
Many of the patients, finding themselves doing useful work in normal surroundings, have made remarkable progress. A male nurse, dressed in ordinary clothes, is the only   medical staff
The Joint Distribution Coniniiltee  is supported by the United Jewish Appeal of Toronto through i the United Jewish Relief I A^Cficies.
member around. Should a patient suffer a relapse or require more intensive treatment, he is returned to the hospital.
The program is .still in its early stages — only some 25 men and women have been transferred from Shaar Menashe to the work village so far. However, the village expected eventually to accommodate approximatch 250.
A swimming pool in titc central courtyard, built loi British Royal Air Force men stationed there during the last' world war, is being re paired for the residents ol the work village. The rest of the courtyard is available for sports, there is also a large common room, with books, newspapers and radio, near the catetcria-style dining hall, which they share with the residents ol the village for the aged.
The joint Psychiatric Trust Fund was set up in 1958. JDC — with funds provided by the United Jewish Ap peal — contributes t\\u thirds of the financing and the Health Minisliy one-third. By making lull use of e.xisting institutions and the training of a corps ol psychiatrists, psycholugisl>. nurses and other therapists. Israel is beginning to break the bottleneck ot inadequate facilities and lack ot personnel and is beginniiii-' tu develop a modern, integral ed mental health program.
Other facihties establish ed through the Trust Fund include psychiatric wards in general hospitals, expan sion of mental hospitals, special facilities for children and adolescents, hostels or half way houses for patients about to be discharg ed, additional work villages and rehabilitation centers, community mental health centers and out-patient clinics.
REPORT FROM ISRAEL
Famous ^omen Of Jerusalem
• By GOLDA ZIMMERMAN-
,^\every:.effort,would be made totranslate  should continue to fostei- Aliya from ;^ .thatfwisl^ifitoipractical realjty, Mr,   the Western..,countries — when its resources were barely adequate to take care of "forced immigration". Mr. Yakir said: *'We have always be-
Shraga:i. declared. 4 V: Asfor^Algeri^h Jews, he said, they
'"^ ha(5^;chbsei^'fo."st    in France mainly_______________ __________^____
■ p'ecauseTth^y were French citizens. But. lieved in a balanced immigration, an
. ■ ^fhe;high hopes they had for swift inte- aliya which contained both those who
.•*^ratipnin that country, were dwindling had to come and those'who wanted, to
•    ahd;.theTefore mainy of them now: settle in Israel; The presence of a more
• ready, to copie-^o Israel. He admitted; nationally consciousi and idealistic ele-
'th^                                 of Al- merit, which is also ^better skilled and
. ;/',^eiTaJis' tmen Israerto France, but gave which has the benefit^of an upbringing
■ ';,(i_nstanbeg^that these were people ec^ is bound to be
• ■-v-np                     in Israel who felt advantageous in the process of absorb-
_ ^■:rii6re\at home in France. ing the larger nuriiber of less skilled
V^'r^^;. In spite; and even because, of large and untraihed immigrants, Vmost of
Scale  immigration into . Israeli from whom have come by force of circum-
>:  countries of Jewish   insecurity,   the stances rather  than by choice," he
"^Jewish Agency continues to encourage said.
Back in the year 1895 two women living in the Old City of Jerusalem were sufficiently appalied by the sight of wanaering, uncared for, un-kept and dirty sick, people to be moved to do something for them. Haya Zipa Pines, wife of a well-known writer, and her friend, Rosa Fein-steih, in an age and place wherein women were not encouraged by their menfolk to fake an active interest iri their less fortunate brothers and sisters, beyond tossing them charity, were obviously creafures born out of their time. For not only were they ready to pick up with their own hands those lying in the gutters, but they Jstretched theii compassion to embrace also the insane --i^ then believed to be possessed of the devil and abandoned by. God.
They rented a.,house and sheltered 'Within it a few men»ally sick and incurable people and the lofty example ihey set influenced others to help. Baroness de Rothschild (whose husband was «he "Father of the Yishuv") provided the money to acquire a large tract of land, ior this was always to.'be prirnarily a women's effort, although inevitably the .women also drew into it some of their men. '
In 1902, after Jerusalem had begun to spread beyond the walls of the 01d-^it>:,.the first buildirig.was'piit up for women patients;, eight years later another, was added to accpmnl'odate" men and in 1923 a third building was
added for offices, clinics, doctors' consultation rooms, a pharmacy, accommodation for nurses — and all those essentials which modern thought demands for the treatment of the sick;
Still known as the Ezrath Nashim Mental Hospital, the institution has continued to function throughout these years. This is a far cry from those early beginnings when it was thoiight that all that, could be done for such people was to keep them "clean and restrain them. Research and experience has shown just how rnuch can be done for them. iSixty per cent of the patients who enter the Ezrath Nashim Hospital are discharged after a tirne_ as fit enough to take their place in society aga:in.
Btit^the premises are old fashioned and ibadequate, and the site on which_they stand is now unsuitable at the entrance to modern Jerusalem. A new place has been found on Which, work, has already begun 11 is set iii the Judean Hills, with the buildings on the terraced slopes, commanding a lovely view of the outskirts of Jerusalem.
The spirits of Haya Zipa Pines and Rosa Feinstein now are still unfaltering, after 70 years, under Jhe inspired leadership ><of Mrs, Sarah Herzog, but the^task\of rer building /the institution is formidable. Workers for Ezrath Nashim are calling out ii) Jewish women everywhere, therefore, to come in arid join them.
PROTESTANT LEAGUE AGAINST RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION ;
The Canadian Protestant League has passed a resolution upholding the practice in public schools of reciting the "Lords Prayer" and reading the Bible without comment, but opposing the teaching of religion.
The Canadian Protestant League cannot, howe\'er, be described as a representative Protestant group. It consists of Orange Order-oriented elements within various Protestant denominations, who are suspicious of the Catholic Church and its influence. They favour the public school as an institution, for committed Christians as they are (generally inclined to fundamentalism) they realize that sectarian teaching in the public schools gives an added rationale for Catholic separate schools which they deplore.
The full text of the resolution passed at their recent Dominion Conference in London reads; as follows: ,
WHERAS all right thinking people believ'e the Public School system in the Provinces, of Canada to be great bulwarks to our political, religious, economic and social freedoms;
AND WHEREAS several provincial. Public School Acts indic-.ate that all schools under these Acts are intended to -be non-sectarian;     f '
AND WHERAS abundant evidence exists that this iiori-sec^ tarian principle is being openly violated;
AND WHEREAS the. Roman Catholic-.Bishops have recently submitted' a brief to the On-1 tario Government asking for con-1 cessions far beyond those now enjoyed by them (viz, request for a Separate Teachers' College; Separate Secondary Schools);
AND WHEREAS we believe the efforts ••'■of. well-meaning. people urging religious. Instruction in our public schools unwittingly advance the" cause of sectarian, public and . secondary schools;
THEREFORE BE IT -RESOL-VEtr that The Canadian Protestant' League; do-, earnestly and courteously — •
1. URGE the respective Provincial L^slature to Investigate charges of violations . of their Public School Acts with a view to enfoixjing the spirit, intent and mbral practice of law-obserya-; tlon and to safeguard our freej principle of the separation of churcSi and state;
2. DECLARE our, continuing support of a public, and seconi. daiy school system completely free from parochial, or sectarian influence;
3; COMMEND the practice of repeating The Lord's Prayer and the practice of reading the Scriptures without comment as a daily exercise in the public schools; and .
.4, REQUEST a re-stiidy of the trend among Protestant churches insisting on religious bstruc-tiori  in the public sdhools, and; hopefully look toward a imifled; school   system   completely se-j parated from any sectarian flence.,  ■ : ■ /''/'
SERMON FOR HANUKKAH
IDOLS OF TODliY .
Mriking parollels exist between the struggle-that took place in Palestine in the time of the Mac-cobees and the spiritual issues of our time. The Hellenism that the Maccabees went to war against was not a philosophical doctrine, but a primitive faith. It was far removed from the Helleriism of Plato and Pericles. It was a much more vulgar kind of Hfelleh-ism that they had to fight against, a cruder religion, organised around two basic beliefs: the worship of the body, and the love of luxury.
When we read in the Books of the Maccabees that many of the Jews left the Temple and entered thie gymnasium, we must understand that the gymnasium was not a secular place for sports and for exercise. It was a.pagan shrine, where people went to worship, in a cult that concentrated on the body.
In our society there are mdiiy~'manifestations of the same idolatrous faith. People who insist that they are not at all religious will tell you proudly that they have stood in line for hours in order to touch, or to get an autograph from, some famous actor or athlete, as if his touch hod magic power-, like the ancient idol's influence.. People whp say they ore not religious go to beauty contests with a passion and a zfebl very similar to that of the ancients who went to contests much like these in Alexandria. Organisations have learned that it is easier to attract a crowd- by inviting on athlete to be q guest than by inviting a tedcher to speak. The cult of the body is as powerful a faith in our times as it was:in Hellenistic days.       ; ;
. When we read in the chronicles that the Hellenists ate from golden plates, we ore not so far removed from many, modern practices. We live in a world.wherie in one port millions die of starvation while in another port people die from overeating. A reading of the advertisements in any newspaper at: this season of the year makes one aware of. what vast sums ore Spent on luxuries.
■ Judaism's teaching, now as then, is that man has a body.but also 0 soul,; that it is good.to be healthy"but foolish to make a fetisfv out ofphysi-ca| strength, and that the true hero, is not the'per-: son who can overpower others but the person who cultivates his character and develops his mind as well as his muscles. . -  : ' ,
To the man who has everything, Judaism would worn that h? really has nothing unless.in od-
- dition to his luxuries, he also has some inner peace and some true love, and the joy: of doing a good deed, and the companionship of God, and the respect of his children,, and a relationship to qll those precious intangibles which will live oh after we ore gone.
Chonucah calls upon us to cleanse the Temples of our lives; to purify the: sense of values by which We live, dhd to; join the fight agaihst the idolatries that continue to beset us in thisfime, and which are so very.similar to those that. threatened , our souls in ancient Modin and in Jerijsalenri.
: Let us therefore kindle the lights, and let them shine forth frohn our homes. Let there be seen -the. lights of simplicity and holiness, of purity and
- faith, and let us walk thrptjgh life by the illumind-tion of these lights. "
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