Remember the Sabbath, to keep it holy ^, .Fourth Comnundment. Exodus, 20:8
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,   February 19,6:t7 p.m.
Friday, Febmary 25,5:28 pjn. Sedra Tetzaveh (Exodus)
Shabbat 2^chor HaVdate, Sabbath ends
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Beth Hamidnsh Congre-gfttion. 3231 Heathen Rabbi Avraham Tauby,, Services: Friday, 6 p:m^ Saturday, 9 a.m. Mincha 4:45 p.in: Sunday 9 a.m. 874-4800. (Sephardic Orthodox).
Beth Israel Congregation.
4350 Oak. Rabbi Wilfred Solomon. Rabbi Jeffrey Hoffman. Cantor Murray Nixon. Torah readier, t).f^;R Choir, S. Peiman, director. Services: Friday^ early service 6 p.m., regular worship 8:15 p.m., Saturday, 9:15 aiihi, in sanctuary, and in chapel when Bar or Bat-Mitzvah held in sanctuary. Junior Congregation weekly in Youth Lounge. 731-4161 (Conservr' ative).
Beth Tikvah Congregation.
9711 Geal Road, Richmond, B.C. Rabbi Harvey Marko-
witz. Service: Friday, 8 p.m. Saturday, iO' a.m. MInyan, Sundays, 9 a.m. 271-6262. (Conservative).
Chabad-Lubavitch. 5750 Oak. Rabbi Yitzchak Wine-berg. Rabbi Yakov Fellig. Services: F:riday, sunset. Saturday, 10 a.m. Sundays, 9 a.m. and at sunset. Weekdays,
7 a.m. and at sunset. 266-1313. (Orthodox),
EHzChilini Congregation.
92M BlundcU Road, Richmond, B.C. Services: Friday,
8 p.m: and Saturday, 9 a.m., conducted by Rabbi William Altshul. 274-3107. (Orthodox).
Havurat Sim Shalom, affiliated with Vancouver Hillel Foundation. Pioneer Hall, 1410 W. 12th, Rabbi Daniel Siegel. Services: Saturday, 10 a.m. 224-4748. (Traditional/ Egalitarian).
Vera Gurevitch passes
VERA GUREVITCH
Vancouver resident since 1952, Vera Gurevitch passed away Jan. 18 at St. Paul's hospital following a lengthy illness.
The former Esfir Vera Buchinan was taken in infancy by her parents, Anatole and Helen Buchman, away from the Russian pogroms to Harbin, China, where she was educated. During a visit to Hankon, China, she met aud subsequently married a young merchant, Samuel Gurevitch, who three yean Utter, due to political unrest, sent her and their infant daughter Eva to join her parents in Shanghai.
Soon afterwards he was kidnapped and spent over
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nine years in a concentration camp, his wife meanwhile becoming active in the Jewish community and participating in resettlement and funding of displaced German Jews held in Japanese compounds.
The couple were reunited a year after the Second World War and for:sieveral years worked together in the family fur store business in Shanghai.
Communist occupation forced them to leave China for Canada in 1952. In Vancouver, she helped many new Russian immigrants and was affiliated with Centennial B*nai B'rith Women, Yoiith Aliyah Hadassah and ORT. She was also Vancouver representative of Igud Yotzei-sinin Israel, an association of former residents of China. She was active here in the family businesses, Larry*s Restaurant, Avenue Grill and Associated Manufacturer's Agencies.
Predeceased by her parents and by her husband in 1978, she is survived by daughter, Eva Crane; three sisters, Tanya Posner of Seattle, PaiUa Feldman, Vancouver and Ann Chick of JEncino, California; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren;
Funeral services wens held Jan. 20 at Schara Tzedeck chapel with Rabbi W. Solomon and Cantor M. Nixon officiating. Interment followed at Schara Tzedeck cemetery. Chevra Kadisha was in charge of arrangements.
Louis Brier Home. 1055 W. 41st Avenue. Services: Daily 4:30 p.m. Shabbat 9:15 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. with Sam ZingermaUv Ralph Rosenberg, Danny Kprnfeld* Moe Frumkin. 261-9376. (Orthodox).
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Schan Tzedeck Congregation. 3476 Oak. Rabbi Baruch Zaichyk. Rabbi Menahem Fogel. Cantor Moshe Ifreis. Services: Friday 5:30 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m. Mincha 5:30 p.uL, followed by Seuda Shlishit and Maariy. Havdala at 6:30 p.m. Sunday services 8:30 a.m. Services during week, 7:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. 736-7607. (Orthodox).
Temple Sholom; 4426 W. 10th Ave. Rabbi Philip Breg-man. Murray Kenig, Cantor-ial S oloist/ Choir Director. Services: Friday, 8:15 p.m. Saturday 10:30a.m. 224-1381. (Reform).
How does a maii find his Father who is in heaven?
He finds him by good deeds
. and study of the Torah.
And the Holy One, blessed be He, finds man ,
through love, through brotherhood, through respect,
through companionship, through truth, through peace,
through bending 'the knee, through humility,
through studious session, through commerce lessened,
through the service of the masters, through discussion of students,
through a good heart, through decency,
through No that is really No,
through Yes that is really Yes.
- Midrash
JEWISH CALENDAR 5743 - 1983
Fast of Esther Feb. 24 Purini Feb. 27
Rosb Chodesh March 15 Passover Mar. 29-Apr. 5 YomHaShoa ApriMO Rosh Chodesh   April 13-14
Yom HaAtzmaut April 18 Lag B'Omer * May 1
Jeriisalem Day - May 11 Rosh Chodesh May 13 Shavuot May 18-19
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With respect to the interim between the Sharon-Eitan decision and the Cabinet mefet-ing^ the cbmmis^ipn observed that PrinieMimster Begin had **niany and diverse tasks and he was entitled to rely on the optimistic and calming reports of the £)efense Minister that the enthe operation (in west Beirut) was proce^ing without aiiy hitches and in the most satisfactoiy manner.
The commission accepted Begin's testimony that he paid no heed at the Cabinet meeting to Deputy Premier David Levy's warning, made at the end of the session, that there might be amassacre.
But it was sharply critical of Begin's "indifference** from the time he learned of the Phalangists* entry into the camps until he first heard of the massacre on a BBC broadcast Saturday afternoon, Sep? tember 18.
**He showed absolutely no interest,** the cominission found, suggesting that he had done so his interest might well haye influenced his subordinates to greater alertness.
**The Prime Minister's failure to involve himself in the entire matter casts on him a certain degtec of responsibility^** the report said. ' With respect to Sharon, the report acknowledged that the intelligence experts hod failed to warn adequately of a possible massacre.
But the Defense Minister, giyeii his^tal role in the war and close ties with the Phalan-
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gists, given their **common knowl^d^*^ of their battle ethics and their long-standing hatred of the iPalestinians — intensified by ^he assassination of Gemayel ''^ did not require **prophetic powers to know that concrete dangers of acts of slaughter existed when the Phalangists were moved into the camps without the IDF being with them... and without the IDF being able to maintain ongoing effective supervision,** the commission said. ^
It observed that **the advantages to be gained (from the Phalangists* entry into the camps) distracted him from the proper consideration in tlus instance.**
The report stated further **From the Defense Minister himself we know that this consideration (the likelihood of atrocities) did not concern him in the least... and that thisniatter was neither discussed nor examined the meetings held ..'. by the Defense' Minister ... It is ostensibly puzzling, that the Defense Minister did not in any way make the Prime Minister pri>^ to the decision on having the Phalangists enter the camps.
**It is our view that responsibility is to be imputed to the Minister of Defense for having disregarded the danger of acts of vengeance, and bloodshed by the Phalangists against the population of the camps, and having failed to take this danger into account when he decided to have the Phalangists enter the camps.
**In addition, responsibility is to be imputed to the Minister of Defense for hot ordering appropriate measures for preventing or reducing the danger of massacre ^ a condition for the Phalangists* entry into the camps. These blunders constitute nonrfulfiUment of duty with which the Defense Minister was charged.**
The commission found that Foreign Minister Shamir reacted with reprehensiblc^^dis- >
BY RABBI. MEIR GOTTESMAN
PARSHA T TERUMAH
The winter loosens its grip, and there is new hope for spring. In Jerusalem, this week*s parsha— Terunaalir-::^ used to niark a new cycle for students.
It was a custom in Jerusalem that oil the long winter nights, the cheder children would return to their classrooms forevening studies. When did the night ''seder'* begin? lliewmters began with the.parslm of IreicftZec/to,at tbestart^^o month, Cheshvan-rr and the wmtcr^olfici^ly** ended with th^ week's parsha, Tenohah, when the days ^w longer*
Oldsters can still describe the beautiCtd sight of little children carrying homemade **iainps'* -~ candles placed in hollowed out orange peels wendmg their way through tHe darkened, stonepaved streets.
There is a holiness in the air of Jerusalem, a clarity of mind, that ho newspaper cah report: The mitzvah and sac of living in the Holy C^ty is generally beyond the scope of newspapers.
But the Jews in Jerusalem and EretzYtsrael's other cities are being crushed with financial hardships — and we must help them.
This parsha, TenimoA, is the parsha of giving, sharing, blessing. The Talmud teaches that a person who gives charity shouldn't give more than a fifth of his income.
Reb Mendel of Vishnitz used to sigh: *'When will freach the point when I can transgress this sin of giving more than a 'chomesh* (a ftfth) to the poor? My heart breaks when I see the terrible needs of the poor."
Endless are the stories of families that wade uideepdebt, with illness, with orphans whose fathers have died and there is no income, with young families to be married, with ho money for housing, of families with six, seven, eight, nine children and not enough to eat. But..*
The readers of this column can do soniethiiig about it. This writer has a list of families in Eretz Yisrael that need help. If a Caiudian has a son or daughtd-hying in Israel, do^^ support? Those who struggle are our own mishpocha. A few dollars Canadian that we don't even notice can turn night into day for ai family in Israel. v
Those who want to share the nsitzvah and joy of adopting a family m Israel before Passover, be^imng o^^ inspirit and in body, helping; feed and clothe theh^^^ live in the Holy Land, should contact me. Rabbi M. Gottesman, c/dJWB, 3268 Heather St./yanc.V5Z3K5,
Together we can adopt a family, earn a mitzvah, achieve a blessing for ourselves. ^
. Everything belongs to G-d. All wehave tbaddisalittleheart. Shabbat Shalom.
tain" when he received from Communications Minister Mordechai Zippori on Friday morning (September 17) a report of killings in the camps. He failed to do anything effective to check out the report, the commission said.
It found Shamir guilty of an **error" in that regard. It was sharply critical of the state of relations within the Cabmet that led Shamu* to discount and disparage the telephone call from Zippori. The commission said it **tended to accept" Zippbri'5 evidence, implying that it rejected Shamir's testimony on whether or not his colleague had used the. word massacre." The commission conceded, however, that Shamir may "not have caught" the import of Zippori's warning.
The commission categorically rejected Eitan's testimony that ^we never could have imagmed the danger*^ of a massacre. The possibility of a massacre should have arisen based on well-known facts and common sense assessments, it said.
The Chief of Staff must be viewed as a partner to the decisison (to send the Phalangists into the camps) and as bearing responsibility for its adoption and implementation," the commission said, noting that had he objected, he could have challenged Sharon and appealed to Begm.
The commission described as **worthless" the operation of IDF lookrout and listening posts to .monitor Phalange radio communications in the^.
camps but observed that the fact such ineasures, though "worthless;" were in fact taken," therefore^is not con-gruementwith-tfae claim that such excesses were not fore-seehatall."
Tke commission poimedly noted in its report that it did not ^eal with the question of whether and to what extent the I;*ebanese army and the U.S. government representatives might share with Israel some indirect responsibility for the massacre.
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