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JEW! S H   WE ST E R N   B U LL ET I N
Thursday, August 13, 1953
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PUBLICITY REPRESENTATIVES ore reminded that the deadline for club news is Monday, 5 p.m. Copy mailed on Sunday is often posted after the moil is collected, ond os a result does not reach our .office until Tuesdoy morning. Pleose make sure thbt your copy is either mailed in time, or brought to the Bulletin office at the Community Centre.
HADASSAH
LILLIAN FREIMAN CHAPTER ^Ni.ll hold^the next meeting on Wednesday, Sept. ? at the Centre at 12:30. This will be a Luncheftn Meeting and most important. 'Please plant to attend . . . The Yiskor Tea will be held Sept. 16. The drawing of the watch, donated by Mrs. Doris Cohen wil Itake place at the tea. Remember your Bazaar tickets and sell as many as possible.
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HENRIETTA SZOLD Chapter will hold a very important Bazaar meeting Tuesday, August 18 at the home of Eileen Narod, 5512 College Road . . . All members are requested to attend, as with the Bazaar close at hand there is still a lot of work and planning to be'done on the various projects.
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WEIZMANN CHAPTER is busily engaged in preparing various items "for the forthcoming Had-assah Bazaar. Members are requested to sell all their Bazaar tickets . . . The first meeting of the season will take place* Tuesday, September 1 at the home of
Mrs. B. Panar, 1220 Comox Street,
at 12:30 p.m.
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HERZLIA CHAPTER held special riieeting Monday, Angus 10 at the home of Matilda Porte at which further plans for the forthcoming Bazaar were discussed. ]V^embers are busy sewing aprons and shopping bags, which are going to be something to see. Martha's plants are growing nicely in size and, niunber An assortment of pickles, jains and jellies-will also be carried in this chapter's booth. Donations will be welcomed, and anyone with same should phone Sema Batist, BA. 3201. . . . The beautiful Hadassah plastic-coated playing cards have now arrived and information about same may be had by phoning Lil Poplack, FA. 0331-R.
LADIES' AUXILIARIES
PERETZ SCHOOL MUTER FEREIN are holding an opening Fall Tea on Sunday, August 23, from 2-6 p.m. at the home of Mr. and Mrs. B. Kaplan, 592 West 27th Avenue. Members, friends and supporters of the school are cordially invited to attend.
780 Mechanic Grads From CRT in Israel
TEL AVIV--Jacob Oleiski, director of ORT in Israel, has announced the graduation of 780 persons during the recently concluded school year, from the, 18 vocational centres: ^operated by ORT throughout the":cduntry. The graduates are expected to be snapped up quickly by Israel's industries, which suffer from a severe shortage of technically trained personnel.
Mr. Oleiski reported that 274 of the graduates, were young people who had successfully passed final examinations after completing three and four years of secondary schooling. Their newly acquired skills, covering a wide range of trades, include, refrigeration, tool-making, electrical work, agricultural machinery mechanics, automobile mechanics, radio, corpentry, dental mechanics, sewing and cutting, watchmaking and art-weaving. The ORT school for dental mechanics in. Jerifsalem and the watchmaker's school at Jaffa are the only institutions in the country training workers in these skills.
516 craftsmen in nine differ-
ent trades were graduated from courses for adults, conducted in cooperation with the Ministry of Labor. Most students in these courses were selected from Israel's factories and worki^ops, on the basis of aptitude to learn advanced production methods and to bring back the lessons to other workers.
The network of ORT schools, now the largest, voluntary vocational program in Israel, had an enrollment of 3,283 last year.
These activities receive a share of their financial'support through an agreement of ORT with the Joint Distribution Committee, a member agency of the United Jewish Appeal.
Woiiien^s UJA Executive Lounches
—Josepho Studio Photo,
Members of the executive of the Women'? Division of the United Jewish Appeal in Vancouver met lost week at the home of Mrs. S. H. Rosen, co-chairman, to lounch pions for the opening of their campaign. The women s drive will begin with the Greot Gifts Dinner on September 14. A guest at lost week's meeting was Mrs. Julio Schuiz, executive secretary of the Women's Service Council in Toronto, who has been active in women sUJA work in that city. Those present at lost week's meeting were, standing, left to right: Mrs. M. Resnik, Mrs. D. Silvers, Mrs. F. Gortner, Mrs. Wm. Steiner, Mrs. C. Wolfish, Mrs. Schuli, Mrs. M. Freimon, Mrs. A. Cristoll and Vlrs. A. Gold. Seated, left ta right ore Mrs. E. Lando, Mrs. M. Archek, Mrs. S. Nogler, Mrs. M. H. Ginsberg, Mrs. Rosen and Mrs. R. Middlemen. , »^    ^ « ^ u
Members of the women's UJA executive nof present when the picture was taken were Mrs. S. H. Gould, co-chairman, Mrs. H. Freeman, Mrs. V. Golden, Mrs. H. Weinstein, Mrs. Mi Silverman and Mrs. J. Zimmerman.
CARD OF THANKS
Mr. Morris Gelfond would like to thank his mony friends ond organizations for their kindnesses and greetings conveyed to him in hospital after his recent operation. He is.now recuperating at honne.
CARD OF THANKS
Hobonim chevra wish to extend their sincere thanks to the Pioneer Women and Hobonim Mothers and especially to Mrs. J. Stusser for sponsoring a very successful Tea, from which proceeds will help run o more successful camp season this year.
Israel Sugar Beet C&filfivation Grows
JERUSALEM (ISI)—A crop of 12,000-14,000 tons of sugar beet valued at $650,000 to. $7.50,000 is expected from the 5,000 dunams (1250 acres) now being cultivated in Israel, of which 3,500 dunams are; under irrigration.. Last year's crop totaled only 4,000 tons.
Sugar beet has been successfully grown in Upper and Lower Galiiee, in Haifa Bay, the Valleys and in the Southern District. The experimental cultivation of sugar beet in dried-out carp-ponds at Hadera and Ben-yamina has proved highly successful. The beet grown in Israel is of high quality, the sugar content being 18% as compared with 16% in California and 15% in France. The higher sugar content in this country is attributed to more favorable climatic conditions.
It is estimated that this year's sugar beet crop will save Israel $400,000 in foreign currency.
CARD OF THANKS
Mr. Bob Broil, Mrs. Marion Luckow and Mrs. Perle Mollin wish to thonk their many relatives, friends and organizations who so kindly offered expressions of sympathy and condolence during their recent bereavement.
Religious Practice In Soviet Union
LONDON (WJA)—The subjec of religious, observance in the Soviet Union remains an intermittent feature iii the presenta-ion of Soviet conditions for Moscow radio listeners abroad. A recent broadcast in English for North America ciarried a statement by Edward Gibbs, described as an American .Baptist, .Minister and as "niember of a U.S. delegation to the USSR last spring."
Gibbs is quoted as having said, among other things: "Being a Minister of the Gospel, I wanted to take a special look at the religious conditions, after I was told and also read that there was no religious freedom in the Soviet Union. I visited a church here in Moscow, a Greek Orthodox and a Baptist church, which'is of my faith, and a Jewish synagogue. .The Jewish synagogue has membership of 10,000 to 15,000. The Baptist Church had an attendance of 2,000. i spoke to the Rabbi, the Dean of the Greek Orthodox Church and also to the Pastor of the Baptist Church, asked the Pastor of the Baptist Church about religious freedom in the Soviet Union, as I had been told there was no religious freedom in the Soviet Union. He answered by saying nothing like this existed in our country. The Rabbi told me, after I had asked him some questions, he never heard of such statements. He said that the Synagogue is open a fixed time during the day, for those who wanted. to come and the time they could come."
Televise Human Relations Film
MONTREAL (WJA)—The television of a Hiiman Relations' film "Heritage," by the television station of Montreal was arranged by the Canadian Jewish Congress. The film, produced jointly by the Anti-Defamation League, the United Christian Youth Movement and the Catho-'lic Youth Organisation in Chicago is a color production destined for school children of middle grades.
Don't wait tni tbe last minute; •—Get your publicity in early— Monday is. deadline, day.
Local UJA Women Gain Advice From Toronto Drive Leader
Mrs. Julia Schuli of Toronto, executive secretary of the Women's Service Council and Jewish Social Service Agencies in that city has been meeting with women UJA executive members while visiting in Vancouver. Mrs. Schuiz has played a large part in the Women's Division Drives of the last, two UJA campaigns into Toronto. Before coming to Canada she was active in the Sb-cial Service field in Vienna, Austria.
Questioned by the Bulletin, she would not make any comparisons between UJA campaigns here and in Toronto. Her meetings with Vancouver wpmen however, have provided useful exchange of information.
She stated that the women's division in Toronto takes responsibility for 10,000 cards and has 1200 volunteer canvassers. Approximately ^105,000 is expected to be raised by Toronto women this, year. This is approximately the same as was raised in 1952.
A social-worker by profession, Mrs. Schuiz came to Toronto three years ago^ from Europe where she worked for the Joint Distribution Committee after the war. She spent four years in Austrian D.P. camps, two ye^rs as a camp worker in the Ameri-,
can zone of Austria, and tvvo years as a medical social worker in Vienna.
In 1949-50 in Vienna she helped to prepare the' "hard-core" cases for emigration, some to Sweden and Switzerland, but most to Israel.'
" THE NEED IS GREAT
•   Support the
Medical Aid to Isroel TEA
Wed., Aug. 26
Beth Hamidrosh Rabbi Ginsberg
will hold
at the
TALMUD TORAH AUDITORIUM
CANTOR HIRSCH FISHER of New York will again conduct services
Cantor Fisher returns to Vancouver, after a trip to Israel
Seat Sales will begin on August 23
Reservations now being taken by phone by Mr. I. Gorback at FA. 53f4-M until 5 p.m. by Mr. J. Checov at CE. 6638 offer 5 p.m.
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