8— THE BULLETIN — Thursday, May 13.1993
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ON YOM HAATZMAUT. celebrants try Israeli folk dancing (left) in the Talmud Torattjgym. Right: Jan Cooper entertains pn guitar.
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Remembrahce merged with celebratiGh.as.450 pe^6^-ple, including numerous local Jewish groups, marked Yom HaZikaron (Israel Memorial Day) arid Yom HaAtzmaut (jsmel Independence Day). ::
Sponsored; by Caiiadiari Zionist Federation, the event was held April 25 at Talmud Torah's new Wosk Auditorium.
Emcee Roy Yonash lit a cefemonial ; candle for Israers|allen soldiers while Rabbi Harry Mauer recited Yizkor, ..
Students read from "Yoni's Letter," a collection of letters from Jonathan Netanyahu to his parents. Netanyahu, known as the "Hero of: Entebbe," died in 1976 during the Israeli rescue of hostages from a hijacked Air France jet that had beeii flown to Uganda.'
Reading excerpts were Gailit Amram, Gretcheh DuMoulin, Yael Ganz, Belinda Hassall, Ghris Jacr dbson, Yifat Katzir, Basya La ye, Emily Read, Aza
Reshei, Adam Selig arid Samara Spiegelman.
Eve Zilberman sang "The Letter," by Meniisi and Bar-Cole, and "I Have No Other Country," by Manore and Alal. Cantor A rye; Katzir chanted El Molehi Rach-amim.
Tali Hyman and Israel Aliyah Centre shaliach Avraham Nishry delivered the Yom HaZikaron address.
*'The State of Israel is a state for all Jews. Am Yis-rael Chair Nishry Said in Hebrew: Added Hyman: "The price for freedom we pay is very high. The struggle, unfortunately, goes on day by day, hour by hour."
As Yom HaAtzmaut celebrations began, CZF president Bernard Pinsky observed: '■From the depths ofdespair, there is still hope. Following every darkness, there is always ^ight".
Audierice members sighed hundreds of copies of the Jerusalem Covenant, a document reaffirming the Jewish cpnnectibri with Israel's capital.
They sang tunes such as HaAmirii Yom^avo along with Katzir, ; his son Boaz and guitarist Jan Cooper — or headed to the old gym to join members of the Van-Co uver Israel Fo 1 kdance Society inTioroi.
Outside the school, teens brought Israel to Vancouver by offering birthday cake and selling falafel.
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Tears flowed freely at the Jewish Community Centre of GreatejL Vancouver on-May 3.
B u t they we re no t tea rs of sadness but rather of joy and remembrance as. many former Winnipeggers flocked t o the o pe n i ng of " S e 1 k i rk Avenue Revisited" and "The North End Remembered."
The two exhibits continue at the JCC Zack Gallery through this weekend.
Arid the most teiars of all may have beeri shed by . Tamara Frankel, special assistant to the Jewish Historical. Society, which sponsored the exhibit.
Her "weeks and weeks of praying" for at least 2G0 people to attend the grand opening came to a spectacular conclusion as more than 400 jammed the Centre for the reception.
Frankel told The Bulletin that she was "overwhelmed" with the turnout. "So many people were cryirig as they looked at the iexhibits, isay-
ing they hadn't thought about this or that place in years. And there were many poignant reunions at the - opening as _people recog-
-nized other forriier Wirini-peggers that they hadn't seen in years."
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mind. ■ "Everyone was having such a good tirtie noshing, talking and looking that no one seemed to care ah>out the lack of seatirig," Frarikel said.
' The exhibit is one that can
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SELKIRK AVENUE REViSITED/NORTH END REMEMBERED Is on display at the JCC until May 16.
Musical entertainment by former Winnipeggers arid an array . of "nostalgic Winnipeg desserts" proved so popular, she said, "there were not even enough chairs to go around;"
But no one seemed to
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zens, whose extinction served rio military purpose nor offered any poHtical gain, they who threatened no one, were slaughtered by an efficient, unrelenting bureaucracy, dedicated solely to a radical eyilwith a curiously antiseptic title, the Final Solutiori"
Nobel laureate Elie Wie-sel, foiinding chairman of the U .S. Holocaust membr-ial council whicji built the niuseum, included in his speech a passionate plea that more be done to help people currently suffering in Bosnia-HerzegoVlna.
"We must do something to stop the bloodshed in that country," Wieisel pleaded.
Clintoh, too, mentioned Bosnia along with other violent parts of the world as examples of what can happen when hatred triumphs.
"Ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia," he said, "is but the most brutal and
blatant and ever-preserit manifestatipri bf what we see also with the oppression of the Kurds in Iraq, the abusive treatment of the Bahai in Iran, the endless race-based violence in South
Africa." ^^^J-'',, As foreijgn heads of state * were introduced, Croatian President Franjo Tudjman received some boos from the audience. The riiuseum's decision to invite him to the dedication created controy-ersy because he has written a book questioning the Holocaust and made anti-Semitic remarks in public;
But Naomi Paiss, the niuseuni-s communications director, suggested that Tudjman might learn something by touring the museum. She added that someone like Tudjman perhaps "needs education" on the Holocaust more than others. ' ■
Herzog, the only foreign leader to speak, told the
crowd of his experiences as a soldier in the British Army during World War H, when he was in the first Allied division to Cross Germany's western boder.
*'Topne who has seenany-thing of the H olocaust, even marginally, it ceases to be an abstract concept and be-conies a searing actuality never to be forgotten.'*
Clinton, Wiesel arid Holocaust Memorial Council chairman Harvey Meyer-hoff joined in lighting ari eternal flame, followed by a moment of silence,
The ceremoriy was marred by a protest against the museum's creation, staged just ouside the area where the dedication was taking place. 'v.
Throughout the ceremony, the audience could hear protesters chanting arid calling out over a loudspeaker such epithets as **We don't buy the Holocaust lie" and "ADL go to hell."
be enjoyed by everyone, not just ex-Winnipeggers.
Anyorie who has ever spent an afternoon listening to relatives discourse- about "the good old days" in the North End willfirid much to jog their memories here.
Photos of Perlman's Bakery, Schwartz's Beauty Parlor, Grosney's Kosher Deli and Queen's Theatre are j ust some of the items on display, as are documerits showirig a vibrant Jewish settlement in a time that seems lorig ago and far away.
The exhibit is actually two displays: "Selkirk Aveiiue Revisited" is a travelling showcase put together a number of years ago by a Wiririipeg group. **The North End Remembered" has been pompiled locally by JHS members.
The local display includes old scrapbooks, school pennants, handwritteri Shabbat music sheets and ia Peretz School pin.
A video of ex-Winriipeg-gers fondly recallirig their days in the Manitoba capital adds a human touch, arid more than a few laughs and tears.
, For information on gallery hours, call the JCC at 266-9111.
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Jhavala, Menken awarded Oscars
LOS ANGELES Author and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhavala was awarded the Oscar during the Academy Awardsfor best screenplay adajitation of E.M. Forster's novel Howard's End,
Composer Alan Menken was a double winner, garnering his first Oscar for the score for Aladdin and the secondfor the song >1 Whole New World from the same^ animated film.
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