THE CANADIAN JEWISH REVIEW
NOVEMBER 2, 1951
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Congress Session Pledges Program To Aid Israel; Reports On Civil Rights, Canadian Immigration Projects
The ninth biennial convention of the Canadian. Jewish Congress re-elected Samuel Bronfman as head of the Congress for the twelfth year. The -Congress elected Michael Garber, K.C., of Montreal, as chairman of the national executive, and the following vice-presidents: Monroe Abbey of Montreal, J. Irving Oelbaum of Toronto, Sol Kanee of Winnipeg and Esmond Lando of Vancouver.
Moishe Dickstein of Montreal was elected honorary general secretary, a newly created post which was set up after the death of H. M. Caiscrman, who had been general secretary since the founding of the Congress. Joseph H. Fine, K.C., of Montreal, was re-elected national treasurer. A Dominion Council of more than 300 representatives of Jewish communities and institutions from coast to coast was voted into office.
Jews of Canada have requested formal permission from the Foreign Exchange Control authorities at Ottawa, to purchase Israeli �Government bonds as part of the large scale economic consolidation program of the National Conference for Israel and Jewish Rehabilitation, 'Mr. Bronfman, told the delegates at a meeting, at which Michael Garber, K.C., was chairman.
The plenary session reaffirmed the decision of'the Montreal Conference for Israel last March, to carry through a four-point program, including, Gift Dollars to Israel, the development of Canadian-Israeli trade, the investment fcy .Canadians in Israeli Government bonds in this country. The
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Jewish community of Canada is developing this program in order to facilitate the consolidation of Israel and to enable 600,000 additional Jewish immigrants from Europe, Africa and Asia to settle in Israel within the next three years.
Canadian sanctuary for refugees, homeless in Europe, but useful in Canada, was energetically continued; thus there were brought to �Canada, under individual sponsorship under the auspices of chosen trades and vocations, and as part of larger immigration projects, hundreds of New Canadians who came offering their skills, their gratitude and their loyalty. This period also saw the completion of �the War Orphans Project, a crowning achievement in Canadian hu-manitarianism, Mr. Bronfman reported.
"I wish to take this opportunity to express the deep-felt thanks of Canadian Jewry to the Prime Minister, Hon. Mr. Louis St. Laurent and the members of his cabinet, for the warm svmpathy which they brought to these problems. We have had occasion also, from time to time, to make representations to Government with reference to matter of national and international import; thus we presented submissions concerning the status of refugees, the international covenant dealing with genocide, the admission into Canada of groups suSpect of anti-democratic allegiance; thus was placeo} before the Senate Committee on Human Rights pur brief on that subject; thus jointly with the Zionist Organization of Canada we presented views touching Israeli claims for German reparations; and thus, together with the Association of Civil Liberties we brought forward recommendations relevant to these issues. Here we wish to record sympathetic reception of our submission," Mr. Bronfman said.
"The past two years, indeed, have seen a heartening clarification of Canadian democratic concept that cannot but fill us with pride," he continued. "We signalize in this connection the Fair Employment Practices Act of Ontario, the statutes of Ontario and Manitoba outlawing discriminations in land sales, the change of regulations of the Unemployment Insurance Commission so as to permit its benefits to Babbath observers, and the outlawing of restrictive covenants in both of the aforementioned provinces."
The convention was told by Mr. 'Bronfman that no reparations bv the German Government can be considered "as compensation for the murderous annihilation of six million of our kin."
Mr. Bronfman said it would be inhuman and unjust for the oppressors to be allowed to keep the spoil plundered from their victims, while these victims continued in destitution, and "while the State of -Israel groans on under the bur-
den of refugees hospitalized and impoverished."
He said these people must be rescued and taken to Israel and it must be seen to it that the state represents "a refreshing oasis of democracy in the Middle East today."
"With the possible exception of Turkey, it is only Israel which in that part of the world proclaims and makes its own the freedoms of our way of life," the speaker added.
Dr. Nahum Goldmann, head of the World Jewish Congress and leader of the World Zionist Movement told the plenary session that the position of World Jewry even after establishment of the Jewish State in Israel should preclude any sense of security or relaxation of effort by the Jewish people of this continent. He pointed to the two million' Jews who live behind the Iron Curtain, where anti-semitism, although suppressed and inarticulate, is stronger and more vicious than even before. In the event of any disturbance of these countries those Jewish people, he said, are as surely subject to serious danger as they were under the Nazi regime.
Dr. Goldmann stated that the sole secure bulwark of World Jewry today is in the State of Israel, even though that state is still facing the gravest economic and social problems.
Saul Hayes, the national executive director of the Canadian Jewish Congress, told the opening session that "The efforts of the people of Israel to consolidate the Jewish State and to make it economically self-supporting are meeting very grave difficulties. It is so obvious that all who see in that State a �basis for stability in the Middle East will have to continue their efforts for a number of years.
"Israel is in that category of rather numerous other nations which today require assistance in their re-establishment and the cooperation of their economic planning with their neighboring nations and with other leading governments.
"Like many such nations, Israel has the long-range potentialities of economic independence and of international stability. But that is the long-range point of view. From the immediate short-range point of view their position is very discouraging unless they are to receive substantial assistance."
At another session, Hon. Walter 'N. Harris, Minister of Immigration and Citizenship, assured the Congress that the Federal Government is aware that the immigration of Germans into Canada might possibly involve the entry of "persons who are guilty of crimes against humanity."
However, he stated that the government has better facilities for checking the records of prospective immigrants from Germany than from any other country and it was a matter of settled policy not to allow any such persons into Canada. The Government was less strict about persons who had, in a moment of weakness, contravened an ordinary law.
"We are prepared to give people a second chance and are always ready to review any decision we may have made," he said.
Mr. Harris said the government
was guided by arv immediate policy of controlling immigration in accordance with day-by-day employment statistics and the needs of Canadian industry. However, the long term policy was based upon a desire not to see the growth of the nation stopped at the 14 million-mark, he said.
The minister said it was a firm principle governing the policy of the cabinet not to permit any consideration on racial or religious grounds to affect decisions on policy or on individual cases.
Monroe Abbey, the president of the Canadian Jewish Congress in Easterm Canada, presided at the opening session which also heard Rabbi S. Hershorn; Moshe Yuval, Consul General of Israel in Canada; Edward E. Gelber, of Toronto, co-president of the Zionist Organization! of Canada; and C. Hyman, economic counsellor to the Israeli Embassy in Washington.
Other sessions heard Shloime Wiseman, principal of the Jewish People's Schools; Cantor Nathan Mendelson, of the Shear Hasho-mayim Synagogue; J. Irving Oelbaum, of Toronto, president of the Canadian Jewish Congress in Ontario; Sol Kanee, of Winnipeg, Congress president in Western Canada; Esmond Lando, of Vancouver, Pacific Region head; William Kaplansky, of Saint John, N.B., Maritimes head of the Congress; Joseph H. Fine, K.C., national treasurer of the Canadian Jewish Congress; Major A. H. Friedgut, resident representative of the Zionist Organization of Canada in Israel; Rabbi Maurice L. Perlzweig, of the World Jewish Congress; Professor Jacob Finkel-man, national chairman of the joint public relations committee of the Canadian Jewish Congress and the Bnai Brith; Samuel David Cohen, public relations head in Eastern Canada; F. Catzman, K.C., of Toronto, leader of group relations work in Ontario; and Abraham Simkin, of Winnipeg, public relations chairman for Western Canada.
A session on education was led by A. B. Bennett, of. Toronto, Moishe Dickstein; Lavy M. Becker; S. M.-Selchen of Winnipeg, S. Ogden, Dr. J. Diamond of Toronto; and Samuel Lerner of Montreal.
Montreal officers elected to the national council are: Barney Aaron, Philip Abbey, I. Rapp, Edward E. Barkoff, Justice Harry Batshaw, David Becker; Lavy M. Becker, Ben. Beutel, J. H. Blu-menstein, I. M. Bobrove, M. Breit-man, B. Blumenfeld, Abraham Bronfman, Harry Bronfman, Mrs. Samuel Bronfman, O.B.E.; Mrs. H. M. Caisennan, Joseph H. Caplan, KjC., Leon tCheifetz, SamuVil David Cohen, Horace R. Cohen, O.B.E.; Mrs. Leon Crestohl, Leon Crestohl, K.C., M.P.; Moishe Dickstein, Albert Eaton. I. Eiley, Dr. Joseph D. Fieldman, Joseph N. Frank, Rabbi Solomon Frank, Nathan Gaisin, Mrs. M. Riven, Harvey Golden, Samuel Guttman, Sender Greenfeld, Clarence R. Gross, Samuel Harvey, A. A. Heaps, M. Herscovitch, Michael Hprvigman, Mrs. E. Kravitz, David Kirsch, Leon Kronitz, Harold Lan-de, M. Oberman, Motel Ozier, I. Leiter, S. J. Littner, S. L. Mendelsohn, K.C., Israel Medres. Morris Rabinowitch, Capt. W. Sebag
'Montefiorc, M.�.; Moishe H. Myer-son, Mrs. A. D. Paltiel, Israel Rabinovitch, Mrs. Anna Raginsky, J. Reich, Mrs. Benjamin Robinson, Louis H. Rohrlick, K.C., Julius A. Rosenfeld, Jerry Segal, Joseph Shapiro, K.C., Mrs. F. Caplan, Abraham Shurem, Councillor Max Siegler, Mrs. H. Singer, Harris M. Silver, Mrs. William Malus, Joel Sternthal, B. Tannenbaum, J. Torchin, Mrs. Solomon Vine-berg, B. Us her off, M. Wasserman, Samuel Wasserman, H. S. Weiser, Shloime Wiseman, Max Wolof-sky, S. Broder, Rabbi S. M. Zam-browsky, S. Winkler, J. Zipper, L. Zucker, Charles Wolfson, Michael Greenblatt, Leon A. Levin, B. Tepner, Mrs. H. D. Cheifetz, MUton Klein, Philip Fainer, Samuel E. Schwisberg, K.C., A. H. J. Zaitlin, Jack Thuna, Mrs. A. Slavouski, Jack Klein, Philip Garfinkle, Donald B. Hurwitz, Professor Arthur Lermer, M. Trossman, Y. Friedman, P. Weli-kovitz, E. Leff, M. Wexelman and I. Mirman.
Jack Adler; and Samuel Adler, of Detroit, Mich.; and Marcus Adler, of Galveston, Texas. Rabbi S. H. Herschorn and Rabbi L. Syrek conducted services at Paperman'a. Burial was in Hebrew Protective Society Cemetery. Shiva was at the home. Mr. and Mrs. H. Gold, of Boston, -Mass.; Mrs. Molly Fisher, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Terry Kalistein, of Bronx, N. Y.; Samuel Adler, of Detroit, Mich.; and Marcus Adler, of Galveston, Texas, were here for the funeral services.
UNVEILINGS
GOODMAN: The unveiling of a monument to the memory of the late Louis Goodman will take place on Sunday, November 4, at 12 a.m., at Adath Israel cemetery in Car-tierville.
DEATHS
Louis Ellison, 1620 Van Home, Avenue, died at the Jewish General Hospital, on October 18 as a result of injuries suffered on October 4 while at the intersection opposite his home. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Violet Bernstein (Lewis) Ellison; a daughter, Miss Marilyn Ellison; and two sisters, Mrs. Simon. Park (Fanny), of Montreal; and 'Mrs. Samuel War-shaw (Kate), of Schenectady, N. Y. Funeral service took place from Paperman's, Rabbi Charles Bender officiating. Burial was in Shaare Zion cemetery. Shiva was at the home.
The death of Mrs. Jennie Freed-lander occurred in Akron, Ohio, on October 26. She was the widow of S. A. Freedlander and the mother of Mrs. George W. Cohen (Florence), Cote des Neigefi Road, Montreal, editor Of the Canadian Jewish Review; of Mrs. Everett A. Irish (Rosalind), of Akron, former lecturer in Engliah literature at the University of Akron; and of Samuel Freedlander, an artist, who lives in California; and is also survived by three grandchildren, Mlsfl Sueafiii Cohen, of Montreal; John Dicks Freedlander, of New York;, and Nicholas Irish, of Akron; and a brother, Solomon Fink, of Akron. Mrs. Freedlander was Jane Esther Fink and was born in Glasgow. Scotland, the daughter of Avranam and .Faigel GoMschmitt Fkik, of Wirballen, Lithuania. Her mother died when she was ten years of age and she was taken to Wirballen where she was brought up and became proficient in Hebrew and Yiddish. She was a life-long student of the Bible. It was through _^he school books which she brought from Glasgow that Solomon Bloomgarden, the celebrated Yiddish poet who wrote under the name of Yehoash, became interested in English. When she went to Chicago, Illinois, as a young girl to settle, she married his first cousin. The funeral service in Akron was conducted by Rabbi J. Marshall Taxay, of Temple Israel. -
Mrs. Rose Cristall Sabler, 448 Argyle Avenue, died on Friday, October 12, at the Royal Victoria Hospital. She is survived by her husband, Louis Sabler; a son, Robert Sabler; three sisters, Mrs. Ben. Levi (Bess), and Mrs. B. H. Weidman (Eve), both of Winnipeg, Man.; Mrs. A. L. Barron (Edythe), of Calgary, Atta., and one brother, Jack Cristall, of Edmonton, Alta. Burial was in Temple Emanu-El section. Mount Royal cemetery.
Mrs. Sarah Adler Gold, 732b Bloomfield Avenue, aged fifty-six, died on September 1, at the Jewish General Hospital. She is survived by her husband, Hose* Gold; three sons, Sydney, Al., and Arnold; three daughters, Shirley, Florence, and Edith; her mother, Mrs. Esther Adler; two grandchildren, Rhoda and Doreen Gold; a sister, Mrs. H. Heller (Bertha); five brothers, Nathan, Morris,
Mrs. Mariam Torovosky Ader, 5498 Trans Island Avenue, aged seventy-nine, widow of the late Isidore Ader, diet! on Tuesday, October 23. She is survived by three dr ""liters, Mrs. Moses Schikiran-sky (Gitel; Mrs. Max Greenbaum (Mary) ; Mrs. Sam. Lerner ('Minnie); two sons, Sarri. Ader, and Louis Sherman, both of New York; seventeen grandchildren; and eighteen great-grandchildren. Funeral service took place from Paperman's, Rabbi S. H. Herschorn officiating. Burial was in Temple of Solomon cemetery in Cartier-ville. Shiva was at the home.
Mrs. Claire Garmaise Mandel, 1254 Ducharme Avenue, died on Tuesday, October 9, at the Royal Victoria Hospital. She is survived by her husband, Charles Mandel; two sons, Nicky and William 'Mandel; her father, Michael Garmaise; five sisters, Mrs. L. Malus (Flora); Mrs. H. Pascal (Lily); Mrs. H. Ancel (Rose); Mrs. H. Dubin ^Shirley); Mrs. J. Pascal (Pearl); and three brothers, David and Bernard, of Montreal; arid Hyman, of New York. She was a daughter of the late Mrs. Esther Garmaise. Funeral service took place from Paperman's, Dr. C. N. Denburg, Rabbi, officiating. Burial was in Bnai Jacob cemetery. Shiva was at the home of a sister, Mrs. L. Malus, 7248 Stuart Avenue.
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