Passover Issue, Friday, March 23, 1956
JEWISH WESTERN BULLETIN
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Mrs. Wbi^ iiamed dialiriiian
Mrs. Leonard White has been appointed chairman of the Jewish PamiTy Welfere Bureau it was announced last week by Dr. J. V. White, president, at a meeting of the executive of the Jewish Community Council. Morris Saltzipan has been reappointed ^ as publications chairman, and Jack Aceman as Centre Committee chaihnan. .
Mrs. White has been an active community worker here for quite a few years and'is weir known ais a leader in Hadassah. She is a past president of the Henrietta Szold Chapter* of Hadassah and was chairman of the Hadassah Bazaar in 1955.
It was decided to coopt a number of pieople to serve pn the executive this year-including Jack Rubin, president of the Jewish Home for the Aged; Bob Goleman, Mrs. E. Weinstein, and Dr. H. Winrob. '
Those appointed to the various committees in addition to the chairmen include the following:
JEIVISH FAMD^Y WEI/FARE BUREAU — Myer Brown, Wm. Gelmon, Rabbi Goldenbergr Mrs. S. H. Gould. Mrs. A. Herstein, Dr. S. Kaplan, IVIrs. fid. Mallek, Mrs.. B. Moscoyich, S. Tenenbaum, Mrs. N. Rothsteih, Mrs. B. Victor, Mrs. K. Walters.
MRS. L. WHITE
COMMUNITY CENTRE COM-MITTEE~Sid Cole, Myer Brown, Bob Coleman, Max Dodek, Wm. Gelmon, Nate Singer, Sam Izen, Mrs. S. Malkin, Mrs. H. Lauer, Norman Oreck, Fat Graber, Lou Smith, Irving LIpsky, Rose Gordon, Dave Nemetz, Joe Gibbs.
PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE —Norman Oreck, Morris Jacob-son, Harold Rome, Mrs. 'S. Kort, Chas. Walfish, Saul Wyne, S. B. Geryin, David Youngson.
IsraeB chances for arms Sdid to be improvm^
WASHINGTON President Eisenhower^ told a press coh-fefence late'last week 4hat the door is not closed on the pos--sible sale of U.S. arms to Israel. The chances for favorable action on Israel's arms request are now seen as improving.
It is not expected that there will be U.S. arms sales to Israel in the immediate future, but an ultimately favorable American rcr
SPonse is. now anticipated. It is also reported that the State Department is beginning to look at Egypi-tian Premier
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Nasser, with distrust, because of his role in the ouster of General; Glubb from Ti-aiisjordan.
CANADA illFTS BAN
OTTAWA—The ban on Canadian arms shipments to Israel was lifted last week according to an announcement by Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent in the House of Commons. Three shipi-ments including spare parts for tanks, artillery ammunition . and electronic devices have been approved. These are valued at
about $165,000. Two more applications for arms are being held under advisement.
HISTADRUT CONVENTION . TEL AVIV — A far-reaching plan that will lead to greater decentralization of the Histadrut was announced this week by Mor-decai Namir, secretary general of the Histadrut at the organization's eighth national convention.
Mr, Namir-reported that since 1948, 375,000 new Jnembers have joined Histadrut, and these newcomers how make up two-thirds of the total membership. The Histadrut now. represents 60 percent of the total working force in Israel compared to 44 percent before 1948. A total of 801 delegates were attending the convention.
Stalin blamed for 'docfrors' plot'
NEW^ YORK—Joseph Stalin is now being blamed for the "Jewish doctors' plot" of 1953 accord^' ing to reports of the recent sen-p-sational speech by the Soviet Cbmmunist Party Secretary Nik-ita Khrushchev, in which the lat-(Contlaued on page 56)
Histadrut raises
to
The Vancouver Histadrut com mittee reported this Week tha $10,000 had been raised to date in cash and pledges in the 1956 campaign. The committee states that the results to date are very gratifying. ^
Many cards are still outstanding and if these are completec successfully this drive may become thie greatest in the history of the local £[istadrut committee
Special Histadrut Aliyahs have; been earned this week by J Checov, who has covered 50 cards to date; Mr. and Mrs. M Archeck who have covered a large number of cards and raised^ a substantial amount of money Mr. Leon Yorsh who is once again working conscientiously and do-; ing an excellent job, as well as Joe Yackness and H. Osovsky.
Wai'Saw Clietto program atBB meeting April 3
A special program commemorating the 13lh anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising is being arranged for the meeting of Vancouver Lodge B'nai B'rith on Tuesday, April 3 at the Centre, This is the evening immediately following the end of Passoyer.
The program will include appropriate choral and cantorial numbers and a dramatic presentation.. All other B'nai B'rith groups as well as the community at large, are being invited to attend.
PASSOVER RADIO PROGRAM
"The Passover of Rembrandt Van Rijn", written by Morton Wishengrad, will be repeated on the Eternal Light radio program on Sunday, March,25, 9:30 to 10 a.m. over KOMO Seattle in celebration of the Passover holidays.
Editor speaks in Victt>ria; Passover crfsde an Province
An invitation to speak to the Junior Chamiber/ of Commerce in Victoria on Wednesday evening-, March 28, has been extended to Abe Arnold, editor and publisher of the Jewish Western Bulletin. His topic will be: "After, Br6therho0d Week, What Next?"
Mr. Arnold will speak in Victoria under the auspices of the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews, Western Division, of which he is a member of the board of directors.
A feature article on Passover by the Bulletin editor, will be published in tibe Magazine section of the Daily Province on Saturday, March 24.
Boris StelmeR leaves : for Seattle position
Boris Steiman, group worker at the Jewish Centre for the past three years, is leaving Vancouver at the end of this month to take a position as program director of the Jewish Community Centre in Seattle.
A graduate of the University of Manitoba, Mr. Steiman took his M.A. in social work at the University of British Columbia.
Besides his duties as group worker arid program secretary at the Centre, Boris played an active role in ihter-cultural activi-
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ies. He had recently been appointed, field secretary of the Joint Public Relations Committee and in this capacity was a co-organizer of the recent one-day educational seminar on legisla-
ion and discrimination.
The, executive of the Jewish Community Council held a farewell dinner for Mr. Steiman this week and presented him with an appropriate gift. He has also received presentations from the 20-40 Club and several other groups.
There have been many expressions of sincere regret at the fact that Mr. Steiriian is leaving Van-(Continued on poge 56)
Congress plans Warsaw Ghetto
Memorial
Plans are underway for a community-wide Warsaw Ghetto Remembrance Meeting to be held on April 25. A gathering of Polish-Jewish emigr^es, convened by he Community Council, led to a proposal that the group form the nucleus of a committee to assure annual recognition by the community of this great and tragic listoric event.
The mass meeting, the first of ts kind to bife organized since 952, is under the joint sponsorship of Canadian Jewish Congress and the Jewish Community Council.