I - ~, Thursday, January 11, 1968 Page Two THE JEWISH POST Thursday, January 11, llI68 THE.JEWISH POST Page Three The Educational Challenge Dinner' Hon'ors Sucharov JEwiSH POST election to the presidency ·he served for the very young can end with the establish­ as the building fund chairman and By BEATRICE BARWELL also as 1st vice-president and finance The Oldest Anglo-Jewish Weekly in Western Co.rutda. Feature writer, Jewish Chronicle News ment of the third Jewish State and include the (Issued weeklY in the interests or Jewish Community aetivities heroes and martyrs of every age including our chairman for ten years. He is a in Winnipeg and Western Canada) past board member of the YMHA Member of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency own. Months have passed since the Six-Day War Today's Jewish children have lived through and past president of tbe Chaim Weizmann Club and is currently the Published every ThuI'8day by caught us in its grip. Nothing will ever be an epic period which makes it possible for us to EMPmE pRINTERS LTD. quite the same for us since that miraculous show them history as a continuous process, con­ UJA chairman of the newly formed Printen HnQ publi'3hers delivery, we have been told again and again. cerned with the present and the future as much Weizmann-Sharon Zionist Club. ELIZABETH MALKIN CAM, Hons. B.A. LEO J. LEZACK truth of this - but Editor Advertising Manager Inwardly we sense the as with the past, and into which they themselves outwardly? Head Office: 1244 Main St., Winnipeg 4, Canada fit. David Lewis, M.P. Subscription: $4.00 per annum What steps have been taken to ensure that A Living Language Phone 589-7331 Eve. Phone HU 9-2989 this great page in Jewish history wiH mark a But it is with Hebrew as a living language Keynote Speaker Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department. turning-point for our children, binding them more Ottawa. and for payment of postage In cash closely to their Jewish heritage and linking them that we meet our deepest challenge. With our David Lewis, Jll.LP., Deputy Leader with the State of Israel? It is through our classroom reading and speech now in the Israeli of the New Democratic Party, will schools and Hebrew classes that this can come accent, we are already on the first rung of the be the keynote speaker at a meet­ ladder as we demonstrate to the children that ing co-sponsored by the Israel Hista­ about. Anti-Semitism the Hebrew of siddur, Tenach and Talmud is not drut CamPaign and the Labor Zion­ For instance, whenev~r we .talk about the simply a language of the~ past .lbut..:,a· vihrant Jewish calendar, our age-old Sabbath and festi­ ist Movement. The meeting will take and Zionism tongue in daily use equally for playing as for place' bn Sunday evening; Jan. 28, vals can take on a fresh sparkle if in addition praying. Just over two weeks ago, an Israel Goldstein to traditional teaching we relate them to the M. M. SU'CHAROV at the Hebrew Fraternal Lodge, NE chair in the History of Zionism and the New nuances of observance to be found in modern Even within the existing li~itations of our ... dinner honoree Main and Machray. Yishuv" was inaugurated at the Hebrew Uni­ part-time classes all teachers can introduce some . Mr. Lewis for many years special- . . SHOWN PLANNING !Hadassah's annual Medical Aid Luncheon are committee members, left to Israel. 12' versity's Institute of Contemporary Jewry. A spoken Hebrew into every lesson, while specialist S. B. Zltzerman, the dinner chair- ed I' n L a b'or La w. H e was one .rIght. Mesda~~s E. Cohen, R. Paul, A. Macklin (chairman), B. Goldberg, S. Muchnik, B. Binder and Succot on the verandas, the Purim ad loy ada, teachers will ultimately be able to lead senior man of the 1968 Talmud Torah Men's: of the founders of the COF and a L. Cogan. iMlssmg from photo: Mesdames H. Shapiro and T. Hechter. spokesman for the University explained that the the chanukyot on public buildings, the first fruits Dmner, announced that M M d' b -, til . . pupils towards learning Bible and prayer book . . IIea Ing memo er '0.1. e national com- purpose of the new chair is to provide a scien­ for the Keren Kayemet, the choosing of shoferot, tific study of the Zionist movement and the in Hebrew instead of through the tortuous paths Sucharov: was unani~ously. chosen mittee which founded the New 1 the marketing of al'ba minim, the children's cele­ I' !t evolution of the Yishuv which "has been neglected of translation. by. the hdmner commIttee to be the Democratic Party . I n P ar lamen t Annual Medical Aid Luncheon_: bration of Tu b'Shvat, the proud parades of Yom durnQer onoree. h e IS . one of the strongest support- by the academic world and distorted by propa­ Atzmaut, Tisha b'Av on Mount Zion and now It is the whole Jew we are aiming at - ganda." knowledgea!ble, practising, identified with his . 'Mr. Sucharov has heen actively ers of the bill to outlaw hate litera­ at the Western Wall - these are but some of associated with the Talmud To~ah ture. Recently -Mr. Lewis visited 'Arranged By Hadassah-Y~'IZO~~' A chilling example of virulent writing is the the vivid pictures we can present verbally and people, Hebrew-speaking. Most parents who were following: "Zi9nists are consistent allies of mili­ gripped by recent events will recognize this if for the past twenty years and is I>trael and 'Was personally conducted Plans have been finalized for the Proceeds will help restore medical I emotionally deprived child. pictorially to enliven our lessons, enthuse our currently its president. Prior to his I on a tour by th'" Histadrut. tant antisemitism directly interested in the perse­ youngsters, and help bridge the physical distance they are able to see that our educationists too annual Medical Aid Luncheo:n Mon­ ce~tres damaged in the Six-Day Medical aid chairmen of Hadas­ cution of Jews." This statement was made by between Israel and ourselves. ha ve risen to the occasion. ' , day, Jan. 22, at 12:30 p.m. in Shaarey MIddle East War, and replace equip- sah chapters are handling reserva­ Russian journalist Yuri Ivanov, in an article At least one member of the first rabbinic Zedek Synagogue, sponsored for ment. tions for thl' luncheon. Mrs. Allan l'lntitled "Antisemitism and Zionism," in Komso­ Tenach al.d History delegation to Israel after the Six-Day War Hadassah-Wizo Council of Winnipeg Guest speaker will be Reuven Macklin is chairman of the luncheon molskaya Pravda, the Soviet Young Communist De we teach Tenach? Then the Bible places courageously declared publicly on his return that by the wives of the medical , dental , Feuerstein, em i n en t psychologist committee; Mrs. Sara Mutchnik and League daily. can come aliye as we bring them up to date with he felt ashamed at his inability to speak Hebrew pharmaceutical, optometrical and who estahlished and sUll heads the Mrs. Benjamin Goldberg co-chair­ The article further quoted Theodore Herzl a~ stories of their part in the War of Independence fluently. Today's children can be spared this if allied ptafessions. chi~d ~dance clinic in Jerusalem men. Others on the co~mittee are allegedly stating at the end of the 19th century, and the Six-Day War, with the glowing story of they are introduced to ivrit from their first day whIch 15 n.ow the Hadassah-'Wizo- (all mesdames): program chairman canada Guidance Clinic. The Ernest Cohen; treasurer, that "Antisemitism . . . will not do harm to Jerusalem through the ages rig~t up to the pres­ at school or cheder, with opportunities for further Chl~d. Loui~ Jews ... antisemitism is useful for Jews. For ent, with the revelations of archaeological finds study provided at every subsequent age-level up YMHA ProgrQm re.s~arch urnt I~ connection with the Cogan; decorations, Bernard Binder; ClinIC has receIved world acclaim in telephone, Robert Paul, Harry Sha- the Zionist leaders, there have always existed and with descriptions of hOW life is lived today to and including adulthood. good and bad antisemites .... A justified, useful .On Brotherhood the treatment of the socially and piro and Ted Hechter. . in Bible places. .. _We have. pro:,ba}!?ly sufficient Hebrew-speak~g and necessary antise1I'l~tism - that is, the hound­ The mitzvot will' have; special significance in teachers so that at least one can beaf every ing of Jewish working people - ·and a harmful centre to guide this part of the work. Crash and foul antisemitism - the persecution of our teaching when we can speak.of Israel's gates being wide open to all Jews everywhere. The courses are now available using audio visual and Peretz-Folk School Plans Zionists." story of an army geared to kashrut and of mili­ language laboratory methods for other interested Then the writer elaborates: "Zionism in our teachers and even senior pupils. day is an ideology, a system or organization, and tary victors who celebrate by prayer will give 9th Annual Men's Dinner a practice by the pro-imperialist Jewish bour­ a "with-it" status to our laws and customs. Histo~y has given us a unique educational geoisie, whose main idea is anti.JCommunism. Jewish history? Away with the segmented opportumty t.hat. we must grasp immediately or Shown in photo are (left to right): !Maitland Steinkopf, Q.C., ... Herzl's reasoning leads us to the conclusion snippets which leave the pupils completely di­ for ever lose ItS Impact. As Herzl said in another chairman of the Manitoba Centennial Corporation; Mrs. Sara Udow; that antisemitism ... the opposition of the Jews vorced from their past. Instead, the 'hroad sweep, bu t relevant con text: If you will it, it is no David Levin, Q.C" western chairman of ICongressj Mrs. Sarah Sommer and their sufferings, is !lIbleto become a positive the vista of history, the continuity which even dream. and ,David Isman, president, Regina !HE>brew Federated Community. force which impels the Jews to accept the Zionists' plans." Canadian Jewish Congress The above blast at Zionism followed a month­ long series of Soviet pr.ess and radio charges that Understanding With Arab Community Israeli "aggressors" used "Hitlerite" tactics in Gives Centennial Awards defeating their Arab neighbors last slimmer with A number of awards and memen­ Messrs. Harry Gale and Nathan Promoted by Hebrew University toes were presented last week to Arkin for their contrihution in the the aid of neo~Nazis in Bonn. There can be little doubt that the vicious anti­ leading participants in the major development of the History and Jerusalem increase in the coming years. acti vities conducted during 1967 Archives Collection and preparation Israel propaganda in the Soviet press strengthens One of the most important aims of AraUnited Nations. The dinner will! William Litwin is chairman of the sented all members of the troupe production of the Joseph Wolinsky ist, and religious doctrine and agree to live with "Arabic Language and Literature" and "Muslim broadcast a letter from a Chan Yunis resident between '"'the haves" and "the have also honor Joseph Erlichman for arrangements committee' J B Sh with special medallions. Collegiate. I Culture" has also increased. was received by the Head Office of the Cancer nots". hisong and d e d'Icated Interest. in chairman and Saul G 'b " h eps, . the Aralbs in a Jewish-'Arab state of Palestine." David Levin, Q.C., chairman of the I er , co-c aIr- Prof. Baer also reported additional Arabic Fund in which was written: "I listened to the Harry Gale reported on the fu ture The moderator for this program th h He further said there had never been "racial e sc 00.I man, 0 f the sponsors' committee" classes have been. opened in 23 schools in Israel. broadcast of the campaign and it interested me western region of Congress, pre­ plaris of the !History and Archives is Prof. Tweedie;-director of the hate nor animosity" between Jews and Arabs, In addition to brisk ticket sales, A .. A. Shanas, chairman, Frank This represents a considera:ble extension of very much. I have now been' waiting for two sented scrolls of appreciaCon to the committee. Department af University Extension who had coexisted for centuries in the Middle Saul A. Miller, dinner chairman, WeInfeld, co-chairman and R. Hel­ Arabic language instrudion in schools. He sug­ weeks hoping that someone may perhaps knock following: ·Mrs. Sara Udow, Mrs. Cy Wald~an, acting chairman of and Adult Education. Rev. Desmond East. "We need the Jews, and he needs us, but and W. Z. Chudnow, co-chairman m~n, .coordinator of the ticket com- gests that this is a forecast that the number on my door. I am now tired of waiting for this Sarah Sommer, the Chai Folk Danc­ th~ Cente~al Co-ordinating Com-I Kimmitt will be one of the panel , Inuttee· La . AM' Zionism has denatured our human relations." have reported that rd be .' urle . aInster, publicity -E. Cam of students at the Institute will continue to knock and enclose herewith my donation." ers, the cast of Tevye's Fiddler; to nuttee, preSIded at the meeting. members. a reco num r chaIrman.

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