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Jerusalem nuns pray at the Western Wall,
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The Prime Minister confuses us
The Prime Minister will understand that many statements attributed to him following his discovery of similarities between Canadian democracy and the Soviet political structure iiave confused many. We are at A loss to understand -wiiether, according to these reports, we should become enthusiastic about Soviet society and reject the North American way of life.
We ask ourselves: Have we all been wrong to fear Communism as practiced in the U.S.S.R.? Is it really true that American television and American business are more dangerous to our future as free men than propaganda emanating from the Kremlin? Have we been wrong in rejecting the Soviet assertion that the present Czechoslovak government is not elected by the people, but imposed by Russjati military presence inlliaf coumry'?'Ha!vr\sfe been wrong in sy mpathiiJhg " with Alexander Dubcek and the Prague spr/ng? Have we been misled into believing that the government of the Ukraine wias not elected by the ballot, but forced upon the people by the fear of the bullets of the Soviet police? Do the people of the Ukraine, as the people in Quebec, have the riglit to choose their representatives and their governments? Is it in- ■ correct to pretend that the peoples in Eastern Europe, the Poles, the Hungarians, the Litliuanians, the Latvians, and the Estonians have accepted their present way of life only because of the terror of the Russian army and the Russian secret police?
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The Prime Minister is rieported to have stated that he wouid like to emulate the position of Finland with regard to the Soviet Union. Is it'true that the Finns ' have-been coerced into accepting a certain neutrality because of their good neighbor? Is it really in the interest of the people of North America to become /jewtra/between the two superpowers?
Also, we cannot understand who is right about the Jews in the Soviet Union. Do they in fact have the privilege, under the United Nations charter, to . freely leave this wonderful democracy called the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics?
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The Prime Minister told pariiament that he is satisfied with the assurances of the Soviet prime minister, Alexei Kosygin. In this case it. seems that all reports from the Soviet Union, including that which appeared last week in the Paris newspaper, Le Monde, the most credible journal in Europe, are what the Russians call anrisoviet propaganda.
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We are confused for-for the first time in the history of the North American continent -we are being told by a profoundly believcing liberal that there is practically no difference-between the structure of Soviet society and-that of Canada. Otherwise, how can'one compare the freely elected government of Quebec to the "socialist" elections in the Ukraine? Have we reached in our political equation the Orwellian point of no return! "
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The Prime Minister's entourage^ has informed>,us about the wonderful pipeline that the Soviets supposedly have, developed which, en passant, has /rof been shown to the Prime Minister. Only recently we read of Russia's ordering these pipelines from West Germany.. So where are we? Also, there is elation •
-about the discovery of the city of Norilsk in the ^ctic. Is it antisoviet propaganda to<S^te^that this
\ cityNike other urban developments' in the Russian
' NorthVnd Far East, has been built wlith the blood of
' many rnillions of slaves? \ I To future historians these cities will-be ."of the same interest as monuments of ancient Rome. Should we emulate the Soviet system in this respect as well? Would the trade unions in Canada support this change in the^ status of construction workers in our cities and towns?-
Not only are we confused,-but concerned. ii
Cqiro fi'g/ifs Hussein
Guest of Toronto
JCNS
According to the reference books, he was 60 last week, but apart from carrying a bit more weight than seems good for him, Teddy KoUek continues to display the same restless energy his friends remember from the days when they built Kibbutz Ein Gev together on the shores of Lake Galilee.
That was more than thirty years ago and a lot has happened to the Vienna banker's son since then.
On the eve of ^e Second World War he negotiated with Adolf Eichmann the release of 3,000 young Jews from Austria. Germany and occupied Czechoslovakia. And during the war he organised a pipeline for rescuing Jewish agents from Europe.
But it was David Ben-Gurion who recognised his talents while the Jewish Agency was still the representative body of the Yishui; • (Jewish Community in Palestine) and who channelled his energies in the early days of the State through the Foreign Ministry and into the Prime Minister's Office, of which he was director-general for twelve years. .
Teddy wju; stiU with the " Old Man " in 1965 when he led his Rafi group out of the Labour Party and into the political wilderness, and it was under the Rafi label that he was elected Mayor of Jerusalem i.n the same year. ' But he is not really a political
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animal, and-when he was re-elected mayor of the unified^ city of Jenisaleni In 1969. it was on a personal not a: party Tote, and many Ajrjibs contiibuted to bis victory^
His distaste for poUtical batUe, alBed with his constant advocacy of tire nfeed for change will probably dictate that he will not stand^for rfrelectiop in 1973, llus; will WJenisalem's loss.
Teddy .(the name is familiarly used by President aiid street-cleaner ; when the Mayor's secretary telephones shie annoiinces: "This is Teddy's office"). operates from a rabbit warren of ia tovni hall, inherited from the British.
This was adequate in the days when Jerusalem was administratively a small Middle East town, but is impo^ible now. tiiat the town haU is the nerve cehtre of Israel's bustling, booming, problem-ridden capital.
It is here that he starts his 18-hour day. punching the tune-clock in the entrance hall just after 6 o'clock in the morning and settling down to a round of meetings, minutes and mmoranda Which will keep him going until close to midnight
He sparks off ideas tct a battery of secretaries and • assistants at the drop of a thought, and, oirries a bulky memo-pad for those occasional times when no. one at hand. City officials ar^. ifscijEl to
being j^ed out of ||b)^.;.#arly< dawn sleep with somq jpiointal.in-quliy' from the mayor filrto^ settled at his office desk. *
Uembers ' f his ^aff have he^ knbwh to slink awav behuc4 lullais. in'j^ublic concert haUs lest-Teddy see Ihem and, regardless of the number of rows along wUch.,it has to travel from I^and to hand, ich some hastily scribbled
naeiho across the hall.
If he pushes himself hard, he is no 1^ demanding of his staff. Incompetence or timidity can send him into a biasing temper,, the sounds of which cany well beypwl the slammed:-4oor ot the Miiyor's inner sanctum.
Inside;'fortified by cups of sugkrle^<: black coffee, he will
glower and steam Jontil something else diverts his attention.
JenisalMn is a very demanding city, as recent Black Panther numifestations have underlined. It is also home to a host of different communities, Jewish, Moslem and Christian, all of which some time. in the day requires the Mayor's attention.
" It's sad to be, the Mayor of Jerusalem," wrote one of Israel's best contemporary poets, Yehuda Amichai. "It is terrible. How can any nuin be the mayor of a city like that ? "
Teddy KoUek does not talk about his job (salary less than £200 a month). He gets on with it. But perhaps one day he will answer Amichai's question.
by the CJN diplomatic cprrespoodent
The new riots in Jordan provoked by the guerrillas have been tospired by the Egyptian government, accordiiig to diplomatic obiservers in Amman.
These sources say that UAR president Anwar Sadat has virtually severed all direct contacts with King Hussein because the monarch is opposed to a.seiarate deal between Egypt and Israel
King Hussein knows by now that even a limited agreement between Jerusalem and Cairo means that the newly conquered areas of Jordan will reniain under Israeli control. U.S. Secretary William Rogers was unable to succeed in convincing the Israelis to make any concessions on Jerusalem. Nor would Israel give up all of the West Bank.
Thus, on the fourth anniversary of the Six^Day War, it seems to diplomats that there can be no total withdrawal by Israel from all :new territories.
WHO IS RUNNING CAIRO?
Whenever rumors have al-" leged a deterioration in Russia's position InEgypt, Moscow has reponded with a high-power delegation, invariably followed by deeper and intensified Soviet penetration, according to political circles in Tel Aviv. This, they say, happened both immediately after the Six-Day War and Nasser's deaths
These sources also assumed that the present visit of Mr. Podgorny to Cairo would not only serve to stifle any suggestions of a fissure in Egyptian-Soviet relations, but that the Soviet hold over
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PROTESTS AROUND THE WORLD.—One of the many diemonstratlons demanding that the victims of Soviet tyranny be freed. Mrs. Amelie Jacobovlts (in white coat), the wife of the Chief Rabbi of Great Britain, takes part in a vigil outside the Soviet Embassy in London.
The continuing series of show trials of Soviet Jews who persist in preserving then: Jewish culture and demandiiig to be allowed to Ic»ve. for Israel has met with wOrld-wide protests by Jewish groups and some liberal-minded non-JeWs.
In Israel an eight-day vigil at the Western Wall by Soviet immigrants was followed by a large yoiiib rally there when the sentences |^ the Leningrad trial were announced.
In Paris 5,000 people attended a rally in the Place de la Repiiblique. A four-day hunger strike by a
JCNS report from London
dozen young Jewish boys and girls in Daesseldorf;was tracked by the West German-Jewish community and its rabbis.
The Executive (Council oif Aostra* Uah Jewrry is co-ordimiting protest actioil " down tinder" Pickets and demonstrations accompanied a Soviet football team and the Moscow: drcus which recently visited there. New Zealand Jewry lias been conducting? a nation-wide campaign.
^ Protest action has been taken by young Jews in most European countries. Fifty women's organisa-
tioiis representing over a miUion ; women, moStiy nonJewish, have appeded to the Soviet Ambassador in A^entina for an end to the Soviet trials.
The veteran Italian Socialist leader, Senator Pietro Nenni, has expressed his "astonishment, bit-temejss and indignation'' in a letter to the Supreme Sovifet ol tiie USSR.
The New York Times said in an^ * editorial that the Soviet Union's repressive tactics against her Jews could not work. The only solution was for her to open ;the doors to Jews Who wished to leave.
Support for United Jerusalem
Spiritual ..leaders of Toronto Jewry have issued a call to their, congregants and to the community which gives special added meaning to the June roth "Dinner of State" being held in Tor onto at which The Honorable Teddy KoUek, Mayor of the City of Jerusalem wUlbethedfitinguished guest of honor. Canada's first Israel Dinner ofState is dedicated to a United Jerusalem and is under the sponsorship of the Toronto Assembly, National Societies of Israel, State of Israel Bonds.
The text of the "Rabbinical Statement" states:
"WHEREAS the historic associations which have giv- : en JERUSALEM its universal and unique renown are the common-property of civilized mankind,
"YET -for- the Jewish people, as for no other, JERt USALEM from timeijnmem-. orial has been and still is the very heart and core of the people — the tangible embodiment of its nationhood, the theme of its prayers every day, the destination of its hopes.
"THEREFORE, to safeguard JERUSALEM as the City of Pfeace for all peoples as it has pledged to do, the State of Israel must continue to be strong and secure, and every assistance be given to maintaUi its economic strength at this crucial time when her own citizens must devote all of their own resources to the urgent needs of defense*
"WE, THE UNDERSIGNED therefore csill upon our con-
gregants and the entire community to mobilize their maximum response as Israel Bond subscribers on the occasion of the June lOthDinner of State dedicated to a UNITED JERUSALEM, and thereby help fulfill the ear-
nest desire of Israel and her people to live in peaceandto stand with honor among the nations of Uie world.?'"
^iritual leaders inaccor-dance with Uie above stater ment include: Rabbi Erwin Schild, Adath Israel; Dr.
Harold Lerneri Beth Am; Rabbi Joseph Kelman, Beth EmeUi Bais Yehuda; Rabbi Moses J. Burak, Beth Jacob; Rabbi Dr. David Mcmson, Beth Sholom; Rabbi Herbert Feder, Beth Tikvah; Rabbi Dr. Stuart E. Rosenberg,
Beth Tzedec; Rabbi Dr. Ernest Klein, BeUi Yitshak; Rabbi A, Pappenhelm. B'nai Israel Beth David; Rabbi Sholom Gold, B'nai Torah; Rabbi Dr»N. L. Rabinovitch, Clanton Park; Rabbi Dr. J. Immanuel Schochet, Kielcer;
Rabbi Solomon Langner, Kiever and Narayever; Rab^ bi Dov Y. Schochet, Moriah; Rabbi Emanuel Forman, Shaarei Shomayim; Rabbi Meyer Berglas,Shaarei Tef-illah; Rabbi Jordan Pearlson. Temple Sinai.
Uncertainty in Latin America
special JCNS report from Santiago
While there was near-panic among Chile's 35,000 Jews with the election of Dr Salvador AUende, the Marxist candidate, as President last September and between 3,000 and 4,000 Jews left the country, the situation now appears to have setUed down.
; There is a feeling of uncertainty among Chilean Jewiy, but " there is no indication oLa sizeable emigration," Mr Samuel Haber, the executive vice-chairman of-the • ■ ■—.-: ■• ■ • ■ ■ —
American Joint Distribution Committee, has ropoitcd on his return from a tour of JSouth American coynlries.
The Jews were concerned about the possibility that President AUcnde." could be pressurised by forces beyond his control into more extreme policies.'^ • .
At the : same timc^; both Mr. Haber and rcporls to the World Jewish : Congress received here from Chile agreed ~ that antiscmi-tism was not a factor there. . There arcia number of Jews in high positions in the Allende Government, the WJC report says, but none is identified with the Jewish community. \,
In Uruguay, Mr Haber and the . WJC said, the economy: was-deteriorating, causing- serious financial problems for the country's 52,000 Jews.
Speaking of the "uncertainty" about, the future. Mr Haber declared that " the feeling is that
many Jews would emigrate if they coiild liquidate their assets."
As In Chile, Brazil and Argentina, Mr Haber reported, "there is increasing concern for the growing number of old people and the inability of the community to care for them."
In Buenos Aires, where about 80 per cent of Argentina's Jews live, '■ there arc serious changes taking place,",Mr Haber said.
"One is the growing generation gap between the young people and their parents *and grandpairents. who are still largely influenced by their European background." Less and less Yiddish is being spoken by the younger generation.
The coroperative movement, which has supported the Jewish schools and other communal facilities, "is in danger of collapse." Some of the Jewish schools were threatened with closure because cooperatives were their main
means of support. • Brawl, on the other hand, '!is experiencing a booming economy and I found in the Jewish community a^ .somewhat more relaxed feeh'ng " than in the • other countries, Mr^ Haber declared..
■ Our Buenos Aires correspondent cables: The religious situation of
Argentine Jewry was "the most desperate " in the world, Dr David Kahana, the Chief Rabbi of Aigen-tina, told Amia, the representative organisation of the Buenos Aires Ashkenazi^community. He said that about 120' provincial communities were without a rabbi and 50. of. these faced di.ssoluUon. ^
'Devil is Jew^ father'
.special JCNS report from Johannesburg '
"God is Uie father only of his children, the Christians; non-Chriiitians like Jews, Hindus and heathens, therefore, have the devil as their father."
This, according to Dr N. Lee, a Dutch Reform Church minister, in an article in the latest issue of Die Kerkbode, a Church magazine, is the word of God as taught by his Church.
:■: " Many^ liberals believe," he wrote,/^ that all men are brothers. But^the word of God teaches tljat-
.'only those -wno^ believed in Jesus are brothers." ^ , '
The article has upsetv^ many Dutch Rcf ormed^iilergymen, especially those engaged in trying to con-
vert the Jews.
.. Dr Chris Botha, minister in East Johannesburg, expressed the view of many of his colleagues when he said: " Dr Lee is a brilliant/man but, to say the least, his thesis is offensive to Jews."
Another Johannesburg minister of a congregation established exclusively for immigrants and Jewish converts, said such assertions "make our work extremely difficult.
-^"^"11:^15 terrible to cast .Jews among the heathens. It is true that in a certain, sense God, k the Father only of the believers, but in a bnilad sense he is also ttie Creator and-Father of all men."
Egypt might again be strengthened and deepened.
A strongjpossibility is held out that in order to "win over" President Sadat and ensure that all is well and stays well on the Cairo-Moscow axis, the Russians may pay a high price in form of increased assistance in various fields, not least the military.
It is a reasonable guess that the Podgorny visit came up when Moshe Dayan, tl^e Defense Minister, took part in the discussion in the Knes-. set foreign affairs and security committee on the implications of the changes at the top in the Egyptian power structure. Mr. Dayan also reviewed for the memti^rs the situation in the occupied -territorjtegiv-iS;:^^^
The committee'then heard from Mprdecai Gazit, the assistant director-general of the Foreign Ministry, on the contacts be made with Gunnar Jarring, the United Nations sjpecial envoy to the Middle East, during his recent visit to New York, and on the status of the discussions for an interim Suez Canal agree-ment.
CANADIANS TOISRAEU TRADE FAIR
Mr. James J. Graham, Director of the trade and Industry Division and Mr. WiUiam A. Fowler, Director of the International Branch, both of the Department of trade andDevelopment, Government of Ontario, will arrive in Tel Aviv on June 7th. to attend tiie Tel Aviv International Trade Fair, which opens in Tel Aviv on June 8th.
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Mr. Graham and Mr^ Fowler will meet with leaders of the Israeli Government business and industry, to discuss trade between Canada and Israel. They will stay at the Sheraton Hotel in Tel Aviv, where they will hold a reception during the Interna- -ti(H)al Trade Fair.
Mr. Fowler is In charge of the Ontario Government's fourteen trade offices in key centers around the^world.^ He has played anja^tive role^ in the promotioi^ of Ontario exports. /
Mr. Grahanf wBl represent the Minister of: Trade of the Ontario' Government, the Hon. Alldn Grossman^ and has been instirumentalln a great number'^of Canada-Israel projects.