Bar/Bat-Mitzvah
Jason and Tracy will be joined by their parents Susan and Melvyn Ackerman and many meml^rs of their family from England in celebrating their Bar/Bat-Mitzvahs in Israel. Jason will be called to
the Torah at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Thursday, Aug. 6 and Tracy will read the Haftorah at Bet Yismel synagogue in Netanya on Saturday, Aug. 8.
Births
Ami and Carla Bpaz are and Len and MoUie.Korschof
happy to announce the birth Vancouver. Great-grand-
of Karen Tamar on July 5, mothers are R. Sabah, Jerusa-
weighing 6 lb., 10 oz., a sister lem, and J. Korsch, Van-
for Ron and grand-daughter couver. for Esther Boaz of Jerusalem ,   ♦     ♦ ♦
Dr; Gabriel and Shirley Hirsch  are  pleased .^t^
'■'sofi': Jpiiatham AlcMndcir^^^^^
are  Eugene  aiid Kathy Schwartz and Alf Manes, all of Vanco
Sarvd
ra
OF VANCOUVER LTD.
2774 W. BROADWAY, AT MACDONALD 736-6791-2
BETH HAMIDRASH indies-the community to a lecture by Rabbi David Bassous on the religious implications of extra-terrestrial life. Wed., Aug. 5, at 7:30 p.m. at 3231 Heather St. Followed by refreshments.
When you announce it in The Bulletin — where it's free f
Just Type or Print the Details and drop it off before Deadline . Call us if we can help: 879-6573.
Astro Dairy Products
are kosher all year round.
Buy them today at: _
The Milkman at Granville island;-Produce City^ 3277 Gamble Street;
and at all Woodward Stores In the Lower Mainland.
Astro Dairy Products Limited
Ste. #2 — 3571 Viking Way Richmond, B.C. 270-0096
Bursary
honors
student
DAVID NOBLE, above. It the fiipt recipient of theimitic bursary to be awarded in iierpe^ tuity from an endowment established at Point Grey Secondary school by the family of Darren Jacobson In honor of the memory of their son and brother who was tragically killed In a motor vehicle accident vvhile returning from a youth group meeting at the Schara Tzedeck synagogue {JWB, Jan. 15,1987).
RISKIN
From Page 4
stop fasting during . . .the messianic age. **Jn those days it shall come to pass, that ten ymen out of all the languages of the nations ^haU take hoUl,. and shall seize the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying. We will gowitkyou,for wehaveheard that G-d is with you," iZacha-riah8:23) .
Zachariah*s choice of words is-truth and peace.* (V'haemei v%asila/om>. Without truth there can be- no peace, and without pe^ce there can be no truth. Two simple words, but until that day arrives, we fast every year.
But when the hour finally comes when the Jewish people absolutely '7ove truth and peace." then we*ll be dancing in the streets on Tisha B'Av, the most vivid expression-of the end of our long physicah and^piritual exile,.and it*ll be like no other dance a nation has ever danced.
One thing for sure, it won't be the bossa nova, the twist; or the tango. It won't even be the hora. It'll be the dance of truth and peace, a new dance on the face of the planet.
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin is Chief Rabbi of Efrat. Israel and Dean of the Ohr Torah Institutions.
Canadian Jewry 'strong' says retiring Hebrew university rep.
Joel Alpert, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's official representative to Canada for the past fouryears, is packing his bags and returning to Israel.
Alpert, who served as the univerity's associate dean of agriculture before his term here, is returning to Jerusalem as senior assistant to the university's president.
It's a challenging position, -and he feels his experience as executive -vice-president of Canadian Friends of the. Hebrew University has more than prepared him for it;
And as an Israeli living in the Diaspora for the first time, he has developed a healthy respect for Canadian Jewry.
*^You havean excellent Jewish community here. I've travelled from coast-to-coast meeting people on the Hebrew University's behalf, and I must say I've been greatly impressed by people's knowledge of, and support for, Israel and the Hebrew Univer-_ sity. It's been a real inspiration to me," he said.
During his tenure, Canadian Friends has greatly expanded the scope and breadth of ^its" activities. A number of communities have
ALPERT
endowed major projects, and the University's supporters have greatly increased their level of commitment.
He is especially grateful to Vancouverites Morris J. Wosk and Dena Wosk, who have endowed the chair of musicology in the faculty of humanities; Rose-Marie and Leon Glassman and the Glassman Family foundation for Research in Juvenile Diabetes; and David Kline, president of the local chapter, and his wife Gerry.
"As well." he said, "I wish to say that we are very fortunate to have Dvori Balshine as executive director of Western Canada. From Day One when
she began with us we were *on the map'."
The number of Canadians studying at the Hebrew University has continued to expand, he said.
**We have excellent lay leaders, and a fine staff. In fact, although I'm very much looking forward to returning to Israel, I've developed so many close personal ties that I'm really going to miss Canada," he said, adding that his daughters, Ronit and Tali, who attended Bialik, and his wife, Mira, who was an active community volunteer, really feel like they belong. .
'^Canadians are fortunate to live in such - a- prosperous, peaceful country. Canadian Jews, if they wanted, could assimilate, and ignore their Jewishness. But they haven't. My family and I have felt a very strong Jewish commitment here. It's different than what you experience in Israel, where Jews are the majority. But, in some ways, it is just as strong," he said, adding he hopes to maintain the ties he has developed here.
Taking over duties from Alpert witf'be Shimon Arbel, the subject of a future interview in 77ie A/Z/e/i/i.
SAVE OVER 30%
THE LUXURIOUS SEA PRINCESS
No. CANADIAN DOLLARS at PAR!
on the following cruises:
Hong Kong to Kobe Kobe to Hong Kong Bangkok to Sydney Sydney tb Auckland
Oct. 10 Oct. 24 Nov. 26 Dec. 11
from $3584.00 from $3584.00 from $3450.00 from $2965.00
PRICE INCLUDES:
Oct. 10 & 24 sailings only, free shore excursions in China to include: 2 days In Shanghai, 3 days in Beijing with excursions to the Gpeat Wall. Ming Tomb. Forbidden City. Temple of Heaven and shore excursion in Dalian; —1st class 3 nights hotel accommodation pre or post cruiser —return air from Vancouver; —price based on twin sharing; _ —duration on cruise and hotel package varies from 15-18 nights.
PRINCESS CRUISES O
CALL DOREEN OR EDWINA
DRAINIE TRAVEL • 689-9600