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JUNE 4, 1866
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Synagogue: At the closing meeting of the Governors' Club these members received awards for meritorious service: William Nathanson, an inscribed Chumash and an award certificate; Mrs. Ian Mitchell, Mrs. Moe Levitt, Manuel Gotlieb, Henry Peder, Harry Kramer, Alex Slapcoff. David Orn-stein, Sydney Phillips, plaquesj award certificates: Mesdames Charles Roth, Harry Kramer, Alex Slapcoff, Samuel Bassel, David Lecker, Jack Tobin, Jack Gersho, Mac Wollock, William Nathanson, Jack Segal; also: Bram Bessner, Harold Laxer, Mr. and Mrs. Morris Rosenberg, Larry Bresinger, Sydney Starr, Samuel Miller, Samuel Shorr, Irving Berlin. Ladies' Bowling League presented a cheque towards the new sanctuary. Mrs. Allan Zweig, and Mrs. Abraham Stern accepted an award certificate on behalf of the League. Mrs. Ian Mitchell presented an inscribed gavel to the Governors' Club.
arrftftttments by Mesdames Nathan tJruker, and Clarence Rapp. The Dedication comprises presentation of books to the Library by the Bar Mitzvah families. Mrs. Libbie Bernfeld, librarian, receives the books. Honorary chairman of the library committee is Norman H. Friedman; chairman of the library committee is Mrs. Ephraim Miller. The committee is: Nathan Bruker, Benjamin Her son, Samuel Lerner, Nathan Scott; and Mrs. M. Packer. Rabbi Shuchat will speak. Samuel Lerner, principal, will introduce the Bnai Mitzvah. Mrs. William Aronoff, president of the Sisterhood, extends a cordial invitation to attend.
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Synagogue, Wilfred Shuchat, Rabbi: Lewis Norman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Bernstein, 4864 Hing-ston Avenue; and Gerald Frederick, son of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Kandestin, 4590 Michel Bibaud Avenue, will be called to the Reading of the Torah on June 5. Eric Steven Heppner, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Lyone Heppner, 3766 Vendome Avenue, will be called to the Reading of the Torah on June 6. Friends are invited to the Kid-dush after the services on June 6, tendered by the Sisterhood in honour of the twenty-eigth annual Bar Mitzvah Shelf dedication; and the Kiddush on June 7, honouring University graduates. For the campaign towards the Building Extension Programme, Moe Levitt heads the executive committee; Horace R. Cohen, O.B.E., honorary president, is co-chairman, with Dr. Harry C. Ballon. Others are: Samuel Bronfman, honourary chairman; Allan Bronfman, Samuel Steinberg, Lazarus Phillips, Q.C., O.B.E.; Maurice Pollack, of Quebec City, Quebec, honourary vice-chairman; Dr. Andre Aisen-stadt, honourary treasurer; Maxwell M. Kalman, building; Moses 0. Kirseh, publicity; Samuel S. Cohen, vice-chairman of publicity. Home Study session is on Wednesday, June 1G, at 8.00 p.m., in the Community Hall. Dr. A. Stilman, general chairman, extends an invitation to all, for discussion on the Book of Genesis. The twenty-eighth annual bar-mitzvah shelf dedication, on June 6, will have Kiddush
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Malbish Arumin Society clothed three hundred and twenty-five children. Assisting were: David Cherry, Jack Derrick, Ben. Epstein, Louis Haber, Sidney Brown-stein, Reuben Dacks, of Syracuse Lodge; and Morris Rosenberg, of Ivanhoe Lodge, all members of Knights of Pythias. Others were these officers of the Society: Israel Dacks, president, and Mrs. Dacks; Jack Blumenthal, Samuel Grosser; vice-presidents; M. Singer, treasurer; Mesdames Rose Erdel, A. Silver, Bessie Tager; Mr. and Mrs. Jack Weisblatt, and Mr. and Mrs. M. Lazanik. At the closing dinner, on June 23, at 7.30 p.m., Manuel Saxe will give the annual report. For the tag day, in September, Allan Ikeman, and Samuel Grosser, are co-chairman. Proceeds will clothe underprivileged children, for the winter.
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Jerusalem Synagogue will hold a Torah Conclave on June 5-7, to celebrate Shavuos. Three themes for study will be presented by Dr. Irving Greenberg, an ordained rabbi, and Associate Professor of History at Yeshiva University, in New York. Dr. Creenberg, is a recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship to Israel, who has lectured here on past occasions. He will address the congregation at morning services on June 5 and 6; and will give a public lecture the evening of June 7.
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Dr. Harry J. Stern, Rabbi: On June 4, at 8 p.m.. High School graduation takes place. A reception will follow the worship in the Grover Auditorium. Members of the graduation class are: Betty Brauer, Julia Davis, Marlene Fisher, Sharon Gubbay, Mary Kel-sey, Roza Levine, Joanna Nash, Sandra Sinai, Myra Sverdlove, Liora Moriel; of the 1965 postgraduate class: Carl Abelson, Maxianne Berger, Melissa Conn, Jacqueline Elkin, Carl Frankel, Arnold Izenberg, Agnes Majoro-vitz, Doreen Morris, Joan Segal, Ruth Sevack, Sherry-Lynn Simon, Mark Young, Ellen Zion. On June 6, at 9.30 a.m., charge to the con-firmants and blessing by Dr. Stern. Sisterhood confirmation reception follows. Members of the confirmation class are: Douglas Arnold, Bryan Bessner, Elaine Caplan, Susan Cohen, Patsy Davis, David Engels, Warren Felson, Edward Fisher, Beverley Fox, Susan Gold-
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Sick Benefit Society: Mrs. I. R. Rosenberg, 3385 Barclay Avenue, president, was hostess at a Passover tea at her home. Mesdames Jack Rosenberg, and M. Medjuk assisted in serving, Mrs. H. R. Dolman won the raffle. At another meeting Mesdames I. Percher, and N. Gam-pel were hostesses. Assisting in serving were: Mesdames E. Dwor-kin, R. Kimmel, R. Silverman, J. Snitzer, and M. Plotkin. The raffle was won by Mrs. H. L. Baker. At another meeting Mrs. G. Frish-ling was hostess. Mrs. L. Cohen won the raffle. Congratulations were extended to: Mr. and Mrs. L, Gampel, 3841 Linton Avenue, on the bar-mitxvah, on June 12, of their son, Edward; Mr. and Mrs. Jack Turowetz, 6352 Coolbrook Avenue, on their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary; Mr. and Mrs. I. Rubin, 5965 Terrebonne Avenue, on the marriage of their, daughter, Miss Rhona Rubin, to Irving Goldberg, son of Mrs. Rose Goldberg, 25 Bagg Avenue, and the late Rubin Goldberg; Mr. and Mrs. Harry Cohen, 2475 Paton Street, on the fifteenth birthday of their daughter, Susan; Mr. and Mrs. Harry Dolman, 6970 Darlington Avenue, on their twenty-eighth wedding anniversary; and a welcome home to Mrs. Lottie Cohen, 4742 Maplewood Avenue, who spent six months in Miami Beach, Florida.
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H. Leonard Poller, Rabbi: At Confirmation services, on Sunday morning, June 6, Barbara Fine-berg, Elise Gersovitch, Andrew Katz, Irene Lampert, Ruth Lib-man, Frances Ludmer, Judith Neamtan, Paul Rosenbaum, William Rosenberger, Sheldon Rud-man, Stewart Schneider, Martin Scheim, Jonathan Simon and Ruth Zilversmit, will be confirmed.
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30 Saranac Avenue, Lake Placid, N. Y.: will hold Shavuot Holy Day Services on June 6 and 7, at 9:30 a.m. Services on June 5, at 8.15 p.m.; also traditional "Shavuot Night Lernen". Refreshments. Sunday morning Rabbi Selig S. Auerbach will speak on "Sinai Or Horeb"; on Monday, "Modern Bikkurim"; Yizkor, second day Shavuot.
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Closing dinner is on June 9, at 6.30 p.m. Conveners are: Mesdames G. Rabinovitch, M. Ancel, B. Moyse, and T. A. Hershcovitch. For reservations call Mrs. Rabi-novitch, RE. 1-6337.
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Meeting at the home of Max Rosen, 3840 Piamondon Street, vice-president, had these members present: I. Roiter, and Mrs. Roiter, president; H. Rabinovitch, Mr. and Mrs. H. Mendelson; Mesdames C. Chamitoff, J. Bierbrier, A. Miller, S. Payne, H. Smith, C. Friefeld, S. Kornberg; Samuel Silver, secretary; and Miss Sarah Boren-stein. The above members visited the patients at Dieppe Hospital, in St. Hilaire, Quebec. There was professional entertainment Patients received gifts and refreshments were served.
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Unit meeting June 9, at 2.00 p.m., is: Chaim Revzen-Yoisef Altman, at the home of Mrs. S. Baizer, 670 McEachran Avenue; Mrs. Zelda Wainberg, convener; at 8.00 p.m., is: Fraid-Phil. Cohen, at the home of Mrs. B. Clamen, 2575 Goyer Avenue. Unit meeting June 10, at 8.00 p.m., is: Hesha Berson and Rose Moss, at the home of Mrs. H. Berson, 4017 Mackenzie Street. Marsha Shlamovitch Unit met at the home of Mrs. G. Amsel, 3724 Kent Avenue.
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Montreal Chapter Number 257 elected: Mesdames Ella Schachter, president; L. Abramovitch, F. Mendelson, vice-presidents: Aida Pytowski, treasurer: B. Kaplan, Aida Szentuch, U. Bernstein, secretaries; C. Ulrich, guide; M. Ne-porent, guardian; L. Glazer, sentinel- R. Bierbrier, B. Liebling, and Miss Sally Freeman, trustees. Mrs. M. Helfield is publicity chair-Business and Professional Girls Group Cum La ode Chapter Number 648 closing dinner is oh June 8, at 6.30 p.m., at 2077 Victoria Street- Mrs, Marion Sileoff, president, will preside- Misses Yetta Miller, and Claire Stain, are eo-chalnssB.
Gcrshon Avner, Israeli Ambassador to Canada, and Dr. Joachim Prinz, Rabbi, president of the American Jewish Congress, were the outstanding speakers at the Canadian Jewish Congress Convention which unanimously elected Michael Garber, Q.C., of Montreal, to a second term, at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel, in Montreal.
The following reports on the Convention were prepared by The Congress:
FRERE JEAN PAUL DESBIENS
ADDRESSES FRENCH LANGUAGE SESSION
"The major problem in the Province of Quebec today is a problem of education," said Frere Jean Paul Des-biens, better known as Frere Untel, during the course of his address to the Le Cercle Juif dc Langue Franchise at the Canadian Jewish Congress convention at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel.
"In order to compete with machines," Frere Desbiens declared, "it is important to have at least fourteen years of schooling. Without the benefit of this type of education, Quebe-cers will not be able to play their rightful role in today's society."
During the course of his address Frere Untel, who is director of pre-University and Professional Educa-tional Services in the Department of Education, of Quebec, referred to the system of education followed in the ^Province before the introduction of the Parent Commission findings. He described the implications of the Patent Commission report which advocates widespread educational reforms throughout the Province of Quebec.
The meeting was chaired by Raymond Mazur, of Montreal, and included a report by Nairn Kattan, of Montreal, on the activities of the cet-clc Juif de Langue Francaise which is sponsored by Canadian Jewish Congress. Mr. Kattan pointed out that since the Cercle Juif was inaugurated some 15 years ago an enormous amount of interest and activity has been engendered by the organization. At the monthly meetings which attract large audiences of the French speaking public in Montreal, both Jew and Gentile, by presenting lectures by experts in various fields of interest including; arts and sciences.
Mr. Kattan pointed out that the cetcle Juif will be publishing later this year a collection of essays and articles which have been specially . written by well-known French-Canadian and Jewish writers. Others assisting in the program were Rabbi Solomon Frank, of Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in Montreal, one of the founders of the Cercle Juif who delivered the invocation; Professor Perry Meyer who introduced the meeting; and Raymond Mazur who was chairman and introduced the main speaker. Associations and institutions in French-Canadian life were represented. French-speaking Jews attended this special French-language session.
CANADIAN JEWISH COMMUNITY IN A RAPIDLY CHANGING SOCIETY
A debate took place as to whether Canadian Jewish Congress, in presenting a brief to the Royal Commission on Bilingual ism and Bicultnralism shoald deal only with matters of direct concern to the Jews, or should rather speak up on marten of general concern for the welfare of all of Canada, at discussion on the "Canadian Jewish Community in a Rapidly Changing Society".
Dean Maxwell Cohen, of the Mc-Gill University Law School, who, as the moderator of the discussion suggested that "it would be a disaster if the Congress brief would concern itself only with marten of the most direct interest to the Jewish community." He urged that "the voice of the Jewish community must be heard on issues of concern for all Canada and that these must be considered in balance with particular Jewish needs".
Kahnan Kaplansky, of the Intema-tionsl Department of Canadian Labour Congress, who spoke on the aspect of sainofitv positions, took issue with Dean Cones. He cleaned that Canadian Jewish Congress should take up only those banes directly affecting thejewbh consssnfty ss such because
the Jewish community on matt en of concern to all of Canada since Jews adhere to various ideologies and political parties.
Marvin Gelbcr, M.P., of Toronto, discussing "Canada, a Geographical Expression or a Nation", contrasted Canada's sharply defined geographic entity with its indefinite national growth. He implied that the "reassessment of the role of French speaking Canadians within the Canadian whole which is now taking place" will help to define for Canada its national entity." The new self-consciousness on the part of leading French-speaking Canadians," he stated, "and the creative channeling of those energies can only give strength to Canada. That the reassessment can be painful we know, but this is the rule of birth and growth."
Discussing "Legal Aspects Of Changes", Prof. Harry Arthurs, of Osgoode Hall Law School, of the University of Toronto, charged that the Jewish community has failed to see Jewish problems where they are in such important areas as the regulation of social and economic conduct by government, the development of Federal-Provincial relations, and the protection of civil liberties.
He suggested that each of these will have a profound impact on the shape of our Canadian Society and, inevitably, on the role of the Jewish community in that society.
"The law's intervention," Prof. Arthurs continued, "is a reflection of our social concern to avoid suburban slums, usury, and technological unemployment, the products of unregulated free enterprise. Yet our community of Jewish developers and home-owners, of Jewish lenders and borrowers, of Jewish employers and workers, has had nothing to say about this legal revolution. Indeed, we have not even provided a forum in which these questions can be canvassed in a Jewish context.
"But let me suggest, that deliberate ghettoization of our community, however gilded, is fraught with danger; that usury, even when charity is a silent partner, is incompatible with any sort of Jewish ethical position. That economic dislocation and unemployment sets the stage for social chaos in which the Jewish community cannot fail to be a prime target."
Reviewing the various aspects of Federal-Provincial relations as they are currently unfolding, particularly with regard to French-Canada's rising nationalism, Prof. Arthurs suggested that "an inward looking society is a dangerous society for minority groups . . . historically most of the oppressive legislation and extremist political movements in this country have operated at the provincial level.
"The fusion of race and politics has too often produced, in this century, not creative national re-birth, but � destructive xenophobia."
Turning to the question of civil liberties, Prof. Arthurs charged that in Canada the law has not yet caught up with the growing social acceptance of free speech, freedom of association and assembly, and is still based on the concept of the BNA Act of 100 yean ago, which was mainly concerned with protecting religious interests,
Mr. Kaplansky in discussing minority positions in Canada, suggested that in this country we are much more aware of minority problems and much more concerned to do something about these problems than almost anywhere else in the world. He then turned to a consideration of the many points of view of the minority groups as expressed in the ethnic press in regard to the Royal Commissi on on Bilingual ism and Biculturalism.
Mr. KapUnsky expressed the opinion that to take the mnlti-colrural approach that would place all ethnic groups on exactly the same basis as the English and French groups in Canada would be to open a Pandora's box of unknown dangers.
"We cannot all seek exactly the same rights and privileges as the original French and English groups. We cannot demand a state-supported national cuhnrsJ economy. While 25.8% of the Canadian population is neither Enghsh nor French, many of the ethnic groups that stake up this element have nothing in couwon but tnutusl wfptrtal of each other.
"Canada shonhl seek to preserve its sanklcaltartl character on a voluntary basit am the sssnt way that
we seek to preserve Jewish culture and identity." At the same time, Mr. Kaplansky advocated government support for the voluntary endeavoun to preserve the multi-cultural mosaic, by eliminating by national bias and rewriting, certain schoolbooks, placing the CBC and the National Film Board in a central position to develop this new multi-cultural approach and by encouraging other efforts to coordinate cultural activities including the establishment of centers of ethnic studies at universities.
Louis Rosenberg, the Research Director of Canadian Jewish Congress, in a brief comment about the changed demographic character of the Jewish community pointed out that Jews are the most bilingual group in Canada next to the French-Canadians and are often quadrilingual. He criticized the census figures for recording Jews by ethnic origin at about one-third less than Jews by religion. He suggested that while the number of Yiddish-speaking Jews is on the decline it is nevertheless higher than the cen-sus figures indicate because many post-war Jewish immigrants to this country who arc well versed in Yiddish gave some other language as their mother tongue when questioned by the census taker. He warned at the same time that there is a growing tendency among the Jews to become un-ilingual in the same way as all other elements of the Canadian population.
PESSIMISM/ DEFEATISM SCORED ON JEWISH SURVIVAL
Shocked disbelief greeted a Winnipeg economist's assertion that Jewish youth at the University of Manitoba found Student Christian Movement progress at the western campus more congenial to their lively political interests, than the atmosphere at the Hillel Foundation there.
Prof. C. W. Gonick, editor of Canadian Dimension, who made the assertion, said the established Jewish community offered little challenge to Jewish youth concerned with current public issues on the world and Canadian scene. His own disinterest in Jewish community affairs was attributed by two other membere of the panel to the professor's own incomplete Jewish education. They also cited the traditional, four centuries-old alienation of the intellectual from his community, whatever its ethnic character.
Partial endorsation of Prof. Go-nick's view was offered by Shmuel La pin who said no intellectual could be expected to identify with a community like-Canadian Jewry, largely dominated as it was by philanthropic projects and middle-class values. Mr. Lapin, who is executive director of the Labor Zionist Organization of Canada, admitted that Jewish community life offers little challenge to the thinking person. But he maintained that most critiques directed at Jewish organizations by intellectuals owe more to the critic's ignorance, than to valid defects in the community under review.
He compared the miserly expenditure on Jewish education on this continent with the approximately 80% of all local Jewish community funds currently invested in Jewish hospital and Jewish social service programs. These, he maintained, embraced the most minimal of Jewish content, and merely duplicated services readily available from other agencies. Frequently the Jewish beneficiaries of these medical programs constituted only a small percentage of the total number of clients.
Dr. Jndah Shapiro saw computer technology completely revolutionizing libraries and the entire university system within two decades. To date no consideration was being given to its application to Jewish learning. Nor were the funds available to even warrant coocern on this score.
He foresaw s small number of regional medical binaries instantly placing at the disposal of students ail over the continent the total resources of all US and European medical libraries, on a posh-button basis. Such programs already operated in New York to give lawyers instantaneous feed-back of printed case reports to meet detailed minifies.
ultisnstely this technology would percolate through to ail academic disciplrnrs, bnt the funds, sub, and
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