4 - Tfie Canadian Jewish News, Friday, Nov. lOlh, 1961
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THE BISHOP REPLIES BOT DOES NOT ANSWER
/ His Grace, Bishop Luxton of the dio-^ cese of Huron, replied to the accusation
in lost week's Canadian Jewish News by
a profession of love for the Jewish people. Speaking on Channel 11, the same TV outlet on which the CJN editor had been interviewed following the disgraceful l> anti-Semitic column published by the Huron Church News, the Bishop adroitly and cleverly avoided tackling the issue. V The,Huron Church News editor, who is " ^ responsible for on official organ of the \ Anglican diocese of Huron would not repudiate the Nazi theories which Rev. . Rokeby-Thomos expounded in a church '-^publication. Also, he was asked whether ^ / it was heresy for a church official; to-j embrace onti-semitism. The_ Bishop r_e-plied to these questions but avoided 1 answering the charges. He almost sound-J ed like some of our friejnds who, instead j of taking a concrete stand on vital issues, \ are circumventing them by on abstract profession of love: "my best friends ore Jews".
The Huron Church News column a-
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gainst Jews has now become a national issue. The Canadion Jiswish News has
fearlessly attacked this expression of bigotry and obscurantism. At this time it is relevant to odd that we exposed this perfidy not because we have any quarrel with the Anglican church as such but because we respect this great church. Is it. presumptuous on our part to state that the minister who wrote those impertinent words in the Huron Church News does not represent the great traditions of the Anglican church? Is it too much to expect from the leaders of the Anglican church a clear, unequivocal denunciation of this outrageous statement?
In his now infamous column, Mr. Roke^ by-Yhomos speaks of a "Jewish problern" which he created. We believe that anti-Semitism was, and is a Christion problem. Every manifestation of anti-Semitism, especially within the fold of a Christian church, should be dealt with by Christians. Mr. Rokeby-Thomos did not insult us. Hie blemished the good name and re^ putation of the Anglican church.
HARVARD AT SHAAREI SHOMAYIM
The lecture by Dr. Isaac Twersky, the young brilliant Harvard historian, at Shoorei Shomayim certainly demonstrated the vitality of historic Judaism, its . ability to adjust itself to modern times and its influence upon a young genira-tion of North Americon intellectuals.
Perhaps it is relevant to point out that, of oil so called "branches" of American Judoism, the most traditional has the greatest appeal upon those young, American Jews who labour in the realm of the spirit. Thanks to Shaarei Shomayim and its illustrious spiritual leader, Dr. Walter S. Wurzburger, himssif a product of Harvard, our community beheld on Sunday night the living portrait of a young, scholarly, native-born North American who teaches history at Harvard and; sim- . ultaneously, lives Jewish history.
In his brilliont lecture, Dr. Twersky rightly indicated that the "new problem" of the modern Jew in mcdern society is octuolly not new. Problem Judaism is a
repetition of a trend which characterizes the entire Jewish history. For historic Judaism faces its "modern" challengers in every generation. However, Historic Judaism re-emerges from each crisis in its full Toroh vigor, in its Sinoj splendor, and marches forward unaffected by those ■ who try to change its contents and eternal mission.
These perennial ideals are the reason why historic Judaism attracts the soul of the young, of the unadulterated. That is why Traditional Jewry is the only "branch" of Judaism which has Yeshivoth, and 0 youth movement. For the young soul is most sensitive to the genuine facet of Jewish expression.
Other movements in Judaism may hove young adherents but only the traditional one requires and obtains the full loyalty and dedication of such men as Prof. Isaac Twersky of Harvard, who charmed the in-.tellectual elite of our Jewish community this lost Sunday.
The Moscow Congress chesBfed ment of the multi-megaton tests.
By MAX BOOKMAN
Khnishchov*s announce-
"Mo'Ariv"
Cdnadidn Panorama
BY MORDECAI HiRSHENSON
GRADUATES OF YESTERDAY
Did you know that:
Samuel King, Q.C. of Whitby graduated from the University of Toronto 73 years ago (in 1888)? He is now over 90 years old and still maintains a law office on Yonge Street.
Dr. S. B. Hurwlch, pediatrician and Labour-Zionist president, was in the class of 1923 at University College?
b. B. Goodman, Q.C. graduated in 1914, Jack Pearlsteln, Q.C, in 1916, Sol Eisen in 1918 and Ben Sa-dbwskl, M.B.E., also in 1918?
Rabbi Arthur Brodey, director of ORT in Canada, was in the class of 1923?
David Breslove, retired Classics teacher (he tau.ght at Lawrence Park Collegiate), was in the class of 1914?
striking attitudes designed to shock — but which by now are somewhat boring in their phony and pretentious rebelliousness: .. . Hit the feeble, smite the silly
Lad, the feeble are fair game.
(But the silly, willy nilly Will go on and write the same).
Up lad, whip your weight
in feathers ' Scatter, mewling from the
flock
The scabbed old sheep, the tainted wethers
Whose sonnets r h v m e , whose quatrains rock.
War still upon the Anglo-Saxon
Harry him down with book
and bell Sound the cjmibals, sound
the klaxen -^r.-i pnd roar and give
him hell ...
Dr. Abraham I. Willinsky, | ^-"11 Layton's reply in the surgeon and camera hobbv-! letter column of t^- Mo-t-ist, took his B.A. in 1906? Ileal Star reads as follows: (In those days a B.A. was "For the guidance of the a prerequisite for admission
THE VOICE OF A lEME CKERISTIAN
THE MISSIONS IN ISRAEL
In his now Infornous column in the Huron Church News, Rev. Rokeby-Thomos states i.e. that a Christian church had been stoned in Jewish Jerusalem. Instead of engaging in sterile polemics with a bigoted man, we herewith submit the most pertinent answer to Rev. Rokeby-Thomos' insinuations. It hails from Zicn from the pen of the head of Christian Missions in the Holy City.
In a communication to and publishsd by THE CHRISTIAN CENTURY, (issue of November 11, 1961) cne of the continent's most respected^rotestant journals, Dr. -William LHull,''^ director of the Zion Christian Missions, reports from Jerusalem: , \ • ^Z'
. CHRISTIANS^' IN ISRAEL : SIR: Re your editorial "Israel Is on Trial" (July .26), drawing on the New York Times report of a disturbance on July 13 outside a newly established Christian mission in Jerusalem, I 'would . like to point cut that.the Times report has prcbably. hod more serious repercussion than the incident itself. Myself a ■ Christian .-worker in Jerusalem for 25 years, Ihpve beien disturbed by the un-^ . fortunate publicity given this incident. The incident has been used by the Arabs and their friends to blacken the good name of Israel in the world press and to mock Israeli democracy in relation. . to freedom of re I igion,;A further harm was the antagonism engendered among some ignorant people in this country" . against Christian missionary activity. . . Anyone who has"had_:. any reasonable _ length of service in Israel knows that the way the Church of Christ missionaries ot-=■ tempted to.establish 0 mission here was. bound to foil and in the long, run Would . only, hinder _J:he^^codrelaiions existing , between 'Christians and Jews and .harm the. cause of Christ in Israel. The pe:ple . of. Isroelcannot be reached with the'gos-pel in the sorne manner as people in ; Africa, India, China or other; lands. A different approcch is necessary, as most missionaries in Israel know.
The Church of Christ rnissionories were asking for trouble when they brazenly .opened their doors in on Orthodox Jewish "district and offered inducennents for . Jewish children to attend their rrieetings.
. The question of attendance of Jew-'Ish children ot-'Christion schools and mis--siipns. in Isro'el is. a. very tcuchy subject.. ■ .■■""/y\illions of dollars have been rafs'edWo-on { elfoi-t tqkeep Jewish children .cut^t rriis-."sion schools. The Jews who ore sponsor-
ing this movement hove not been wise in their actions and hove greatly exaggerated the number of Jewish children involved. As 0 result some Israelis hove been antagonized by exaggerated reports of missionary activity. An open drive by Church of Christ missionaries for Jewish children under these circumstances and at this time could only be the result of igrroronce and inexperience. One of the missionaries claimed that for 11 weeks crowds had surrounded the entrance to the church during its Sunday and Wednesday evening services and that severaf times stones had been thrown! Surely wisdom would hove indicated the need for greater tact.
Resentment of missionary work cannot be said to be coofiried'to Israel. The some sort of activity in d Moslem district in any Arab country Would certainly bring much greater (Dpposition . . . Indeed, even in America certain types of religions meetings hove in past years brought much more violent reaction than has ever occurred in the State of Israel ... In Israel today there is more actual i-eligious freedom to propagate the gospel than there was under the Protestant Christian Mandatory government. The Anglican bishop of Jerusalem complained to rrie in the days before the creation of the State of Isroej that the ^Mandatory government was more helpfuLtqAApslern functionaries thonit was to him. . . ;
I n 1950 the government of Israel proposed to five Protestant Church groups^ '.in Jerusalem that they put ph a monthly religious serviqe over. Kol^ Israel, the government radio station. Theisame piropps-ol was made to the Greek Orthodox Church, the Roman Cothplic Church and the Greek Catholic Church. All of the groups accepted, and as d result there has been, since 1950, a Christian religious service broadcast free of charge by Kol Israel each Sunday afternoon . . .At the time of the first broadcast there was Sonne question as to whether, the Hebrew language could be used. A favorable der cision by Prinrie MInistei- Ben-Gurioh re-rhoved this restraint and I have never heard of any.moterial being censored 6r expunged. The Christian igospel is preached in Israel with complete freedom and liberty^ ' .
: Such facts as these and many more hove to be known ond^understood before a prCper evoluotiofi cah\be. made of a .minor disturbontfe which was the'jesult of\overzealousness on both sides. ^'
Ko comment.
to medical schopl).
Another King from Whit^ — Bertha (now Mrs. Charm Dralmln)—^was in the graduating class of 1902?
Drs. Maurice A. Pollack and H. A. Turofsky finished their arts courses in 1909 and 1910 respectively?
S. J. Blmbaum, Q.C., took his B.A in 1911?
The records show a Professor I. Keyfitz graduating in 1919?
The University College class of 1925 included Eddie Gelber, Irving Dickler, Nathan Strauss, Isaiah L. Ken-en, Bernard Weinberg and Iva Caplan (Mrs. D. Gold-stick)?
Professor Percy (Pesach) Matenko, son of the beloved Peretz School teacher, the late L Matenko, was in the U.C graduating class of 1924 along with David Sher,
hacks and Philistines of his time, Horace put it down for all to see that a wise man will never on any account anger a poet. Mr. O'Hearn is either unwise or he has forgotten his Latin authors. Reduced to the barest fundamentals, what I is after all the issue between us? Mr. O'Hearn is an undistinguished scribbler who cannot forgive himself his mediocrity: (there follows the above-quoted clause about Layton's genius and immortality — M.H.) Mr. O'Hearn has grown old and compliant: I have not. I am content to let that Posterity which he invokes in his outburst of Housmania judge between us — if it can recall his name!"
O'Hearn's rejoinder was verv brief: "Mr. Layton has confirmed every point I sou«»ht to make, olus a few
H. D. Rofinbere, S. L. Sum- I j^dn't dare make."
A GENIUS (SEI.F-STYLED) SPEAKS
"I am a genius Who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shake.*;-neare, Wordsworth, and Keats . . ."
Who said this? Is it an outrageous piece of effrontery or a sober attempt at self-analysis?
" The author of the above immodest self-aporaisal (to" put it mildly) is Irving Lay-ton, Well known Montreal Jewish poet. He writes it in a letter to the Star oif Montreal in reply to a satirical poem, To A Slopshire Lad, written by Walter O'Hearn of the Star staff.
P'Hearn ripped Lay ton's attitiides and poses, accusing him of fighting old jadie.s and weaklings in his poetic outbui its and of
CREATES NO STIR HE9IB
If anything were needed to underline the present weakened state of Orange-isme in Toronto (we use the Quebec term as applied to the order's doctrine) it is svmbplized by the new red .boxes manufactured as receptacles for what used to be called the Roval' Mail or Her Majesty's Mail and is now Canada Post (itself another symptom of what some would regard as a sign of imperial corrosion).
For some of these boxes, with their fresh coats of red paint; have inscribed: on them, in addition to the word MAIL, the French equivalent — COURRIER.
LOL subscriber at this evidence of "creeping Gallicisa-tion."
So far no such explosion has occurred. The bilingual mail boxes still stand and apparently the contamination engendered by this bi-culturalism is being unnoticed.
There was a time when "bilingualism" was a fight-
PWNliLi
by MAX BOOKMAN
GROSSMAN, GOODMAN & EISENBEREG
OTTAWA (Special) - Gov-ermnent sources here, in so far as it relates to the party now in power are fully a-ware that in Ontario provincial politics at least three Jewish nanies rank on top ^f the triumvirate we have dubbed as Grossman, Goodman and Eisenberg". A visit to Toronto during the Conservative leadei-ship convention, which selected the Hon. John P. Robarts as the new leader of the Progressive-Conservative Party of Ontario, illustrated the truth that indeed the Hon. Allan Grossman, Mr. Eddie Goodman and Mr. Joe Eisenberg are most influential in the party councils of the Conservatives.
Allan Grossman, who i-s the first Conservative of Jewish origin to hold cabinet rank in either a provincial or federal cabinet, indicates his importance by holding the post of cabinet minister. That he openly supported the newly-elected leader, the Hon. John P. Robarts, was no secret. We might also observe that with seven good men in the race for the leadership it took a great deal of courage to declare oneself for one of these potential leaders. As a result, it would not be in the least surprising if Mr. Grossman were to receive a promotion
ing word in certain influen- ---------------^----------
tial circles in this province.' perhaps to the post of Min-
The writer first noticed this several weeks ago. Since then he has been a\yaiting daily a blast in the metropolitan pressl^from an bid
ISRAEL IN INTE?MIONAL TRADE
JERUSALEM (JCNS & CJN). As a result of participation in 24 Trade Fairs all over the' world during 1961, orders for more than $1,000,000 worth of Israeli goods were placed, with about 7,000.000 people having viewed them. This was disclp.sed by Dr. Eli Justiz Daj^n, of the Ministry of. Trade, during a press inter-
ievv.
Dr. Dayan revealed that the exhibition at Anuga, in Cologne, was an outstanding success. Israeli exhibits were shown under the slogan: "They that sow in tears shall reap in joy."
During\l962 Israel expects to exhibit^ in 25 fairs. This will include Berlin, Lyons. Vienna, Budapest and Japan. Mobile fairs are being pr** pared for tours in the Far East.
The Orange Order saw the sinister hand of the Papacy in any move to insert French vocabulary on the naper currency or to teach French in any grade below high school. One would never have dreamed — to listen to them — that John Calvin, the great exponent of the Protestant Reformation, was a Frenchman named Jean Chauvin, so closely identified were the three elements in their threefold creed — one flag, one faith, one lansjua.ge. Religion was so closely entwined with Anglo-iSaxon ethnic origin that it must have come as a shock to some that Protestantism was founded not in the British Isles but on the Continent, and involved such non-Imperial b r e e d s as Swiss, Germans and even Frenchmen.
The legal basis for those who opposed the admixture of French on public signs, paper money, etc. is — and it is probably a correct analysis — that Canada is not bilingual: the BNA Act merely guarantees the French language a status in the Province of Quebec and in the debates of Parliament — nothing more. But the defendants of this position have not come forward to score off a Conservative government for this bit of bilingualism, which extends ever so slightly the domain of the rival language.
Why the hesitancy aind lack of militancy? Perhaps it is the possibility that the concern with the "revancbp des berceaux" — the fear of the rising French-Canadiah birthrate has been overcome by the increased immigration from abroad, most of which will eventually be English in speech. Perhaps it is the rising cosmopolitan nature of our city with its composite and romolex population.
Whatever the reason, it bodes well for the general climate of Toronto as a place for people of all ori gins to make their horn
LABOR LEADER
David Stem, buried last week, w:as attended by hif, coUeagifes and comrades of the labour movement, the Independent Workers' Circle and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union. Stein, who was in his seventies, was among the now-dwindling number who attended the first conclave of the Canadian Jewish Congress in 1919, in Montreal. In recent years, after his retirement from his Amalgamated post, he was chairman of the Toronto unit of the Jewish Labour Committee. '' ^
stein was able to fulfill a lifelong dream recently by visiting Israel. As a member of the "Independent," he had been close to the Achdut-Avoda Poale Zion groujp, \ ■'
ister of Municipal Affairs. If, so, it would be of particular interest because tnat post was once held by the Hon. David CroU, who was also a cabinet minister in an Ontario Administration, but of Liberal Party origin.
Mr. Grossman is very active in Toronto and Canadian Jewish life, his efforts with the Jewish Immigrant Aid Society slightly in the lead. In Jewish circles it may be less known that he is also very active with other New Canadian groups. It can be attested that he has a wide and popular following in all ethnic divisions that make up the mosaic of Canadian racial life. We understand, in fact, that these groups tried to persuade him to run for the Conservative leader* ship. Personally we feel that Mr. Grossman would be an excellent leader. However, being a practical man. he declined. Who knows but
that the future may yet see him perhaps as the first prime minister of Jewish origin ? He is young and ambitious. No doubt his star is still rising. Whatever his future, we are in his corner — win, lose or draw.
Eddie Goodman, a vice-president of the Progressive-Conservative'Association and a Co-ChaiVman of the Arrangements Committee, was responsible for the success of the Conservative leadersiiip convention. Here is another young Canadian Jew who lias already made his mark in the top-level activities of both Canadian and- Ontario politics. His assistance and aid have heen requested by such national figures'as Mr. Diefenbaker and Mr. Frost. These two top-drawing politicians and statesmen nave not found Eddie Goodman wanting.
It is pleasant and comforting to icnow Villi tnc Canadian Jewish Community can number Mr. Goodman as, one of its most prominent and influential sons. In him one finds all that is good and Canadian. He is still climbing the ladder of political success.
We admit that we have a particular affection for the third party of our triumvirate-Mr. Joe Eisenberg. Here is a Canadian-Jewish individual who refers to himself as just a "plain and simple" politician with no frills, down to earth and unafraid to call a spade as such. Perhaps these qualities are what has so endeared him to the powers at the top level in both Canadian and Ontario political life.
Publicly I doubt if you will see Joe Eisenberg's name in print as a top Conservative figure. Perhaps be-cause of his personal modesty, he shuns the limelight, Yet, we have seen prime ministers and cabinet ministers go out of their way to greet him, . Top figures in other facets of Canadian life approach him for his sage advice. This reputation has not been won easily, but over a very long tenure of activ^ ity as a member of the Conservative inner executive at headquajrters level.
Many individuals, Jewish and non-Jewish alike, can personally thank Joe Eisenberg for having been selected by him as men of destiny.
(continued on page 8)
SERMON OF THE WEEK
CO-EXISTENCE
And tht boys grew; and Esau was a cunning huntar, o mon of the field; and Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents. (Genesis XXV, 27)
The two sons of Isaac and Rebeccoh weris unlike from birth. They were o myrtle and a thorn growing up together, so dissimilar were they in charccter. This comment of R. Levi in the Midrash wos evolved becouse he felt that the Bible appeared to stress the difference \n the physical chorocteristics of the two sons end in their occupations. The Bible seemed to point to this unlikeness as being the root couse of the domestic trcgedy thot followed. Was there an inevitobility of failure in their relotionship because they were so unmatched?
A later chopter will relate hoWj after some storm of hatred between them hcd subsided,-after a parting that stretched for over t,wcnty years, they, were reconciled one to the other. Whereas Immaturity, of understchding and approach had let to antipathy and bitter animosity, maturity had mode possible; the recognition that men who ore unlike, must learn to tolerate one .onpther. The Bible records this story because it reflects not orily the domestic trogedy but also, the catostrophe of the human race. The thesis of the Bible-is that the disparateness of the human species is no reason for assuming that strife amongst rinon-kind is inescapable.
In the immature dgos of human history ."the dislike of the like for the unlike" provoked aggression, The primitive man ottocked,the member of the other tribe just because he was different. He did not understand his strange neighbour and, beccuse he did not understand, he feared ond, therefore, attacked not so much out of viciousness but for self-protection.,
Even at o later stage in the history of mankind religon could not eradicate the innate tendency to regard scepticolly the religious behaviour of one's neighbour. Why should my neighbour worship differently from rnyself? Arnold Toynbee in his "Study of History" says: "It Is oneof the ironies of human history that the illumination which has brought into religion 0 perception of the unity of God ond the. brotherhood of mankind should at the some time have promoted Intoleronce ond persecution." A fanatical temper flared up when one religion encountered on alien faith ds-if it alone had the monoix)Iy of righteousness. -
In our own so-called enlighteried age, caste division and social segregation are casting isvil shadows, and there ore many who spend their lives in misery because of the difference of colour ond the hatred it engenders. The East and the West ore poles apart because of the differences of political ideologies. As in primitive society where no understanding exists, there is fear and the threat of war. 'Esau ond Jacob brought suffering to their home, and the atmosphere was poisoned becouse of their stubborness to recognise and tolerote each other's differences. Yeors elapsed before they mustered the art of mutual understanding. How much heartoche would hove been oyoided if they had learnt all this sooner. .
In our own age there Is the urgent need to master the tijchhique of co-existence. There Is nothing remorkoble in llyino together If we oil think alike and; look olike: The crucial test' of man's Irttelllg^nce Is whether he has the capacity to live harmoniously with the man who does not agree with him. .If he can doJhjs'he"is^matu^re. The world's solvotion will be realised only in such maturity.