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Ottawa Jewish Bulletin Ottawa Jewish Bulletin blue - 300 c gree n - 362 c brown - 1535 c HAPPY CHANUKAH! HELP JNF BUILD ISRAEL AND Happy Chanukah GET A 2019 TAX RECEIPT. From the staff of the SUPPORT ISRAEL. PLANT A TREE. BRING IN YOUR JNF BLUE BOX [email protected] 613.798.2411 JNFOTTAWA.CA Ottawa Jewish Bulletin Ottawa Jewish Bulletin DECEMBER 9, 2019 | KISLEV 11, 5780 ESTABLISHED 1937 OJBULLETIN.BLOGSPOT.COM | $2 Analysis: Canada’s sudden shift on support for Israel at the UN Vote marks sudden shift in support; – the Marshall Islands, Nauru and the Federated States of Micronesia – that prompts letter-writing campaign to PM are heavily dependent on U.S. aid and generally follow its lead on UN votes. The motion – sponsored BY MICHAEL REGENSTREIF Jerusalem; and the construction of the Between 2006 and 2018, under prime EDITOR by North Korea, Egypt, separation wall by “Israel, the occupy- minister Stephen Harper, and during Nicaragua, Zimbabwe, he Jewish community in Cana- ing Power.” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s first da, and the broader pro-Israel The motion – sponsored by North term, Canada reliably voted against this and the ‘State of community (you don’t, as the Korea, Egypt, Nicaragua, Zimbabwe, and motion and the other one-sided, anti-Is- Palestine’ – was one of old ad said, have to be Jewish the “State of Palestine” – was one of the rael motions at the UN. the same recurring, Tto like bagels – or to support Israel), same recurring, one-sided anti-Israel Although Harper’s Conservative gov- were shocked on November 19 when votes that are passed each year at the ernment may have been slightly louder one-sided anti-Israel Canada reversed its position and voted UN. This year, the motion was support- than Trudeau’s Liberals in its support votes that are passed “yes” on a nonbinding motion at the ed by 164 countries while nine (includ- for Israel, until now, at least, there each year at the UN. United Nations (UN) General Assembly ing Australia) abstained. was little difference between the two affirming Palestinian self-determina- The only countries to vote against the approaches. Official government policy tion; attacking Israel’s occupation of motion this year were Israel, the United including support for a negotiated two- “Palestinian territory,” including East States, and three Pacific island nations state solution and opposing settlements told the Globe and Mail that Israel in occupied territories, has remained was only given a few hours notice that unchanged. Canada intended to vote yes on the UN So why the sudden change in that resolution. particular UN vote? “It was a surprise … We had no As Joel Reitman and Jeff Rosenthal, inclination or hint that Canada would co-chairs of the Centre for Israel and change its vote on the regular annual Jewish Affairs (CIJA) said in a statement UN resolutions and we trusted Canada, the day after the vote, “the reversal of knowing that this is a circus of anti-Is- 15 years of Canadian opposition to the raeli resolutions,” he said. annual UN ritual of Israel-bashing repre- Further to the timing of the vote, it sented far more than a let-down. It con- took place just weeks after the election, tradicted explicit commitments made and less than 24 hours before the new by Liberal candidates during the recent cabinet was sworn in. By then, Chrystia election to maintain the principled Freeland would have been well aware opposition to the 20 annual resolutions that she would no longer be our foreign whose sole purpose is to isolate and affairs minister, and the identity of the delegitimize Israel. This about-face felt new foreign affairs minister was still to more like a betrayal.” be confirmed. The timing of the sudden shift was So where did the impetus to change strange. There was absolutely no indica- the vote come from? Was it from tion during the campaign for the Octo- bureaucrats at Global Affairs or offi- ber 21 federal election that a change in cials in the Prime Minister’s Office? direction of Canada’s support at the UN Was it from the outgoing cabinet or Chanukah: In this photo from the Ottawa Jewish Archives, Hillel Academy students Joel and Sharon Diener have just lit the first Chanukah candle, circa 1965. was being contemplated. incoming Liberal caucus? Was it from Israeli Ambassador Nimrod Barkan See Editor on page 7 Author Gila Green’s journey from Chanukah features and recipes Leonard Cohen’s unexpected inside: Ottawa to Israel > p. 5 > p. 10, 24, 25, 27 new album > p. 31 December 9, 2019 2 After the Holocaust: Jewish refugees fleeing to Israel interned on Cyprus BY LOUISE RACHLIS 2013, when little was known, she is now t is our responsibility to preserve able to tell more about the camps that the memory of the Holocaust,” were “much more than a stopover” on said University of London the way to Israel, just 230 nautical miles historian Eliana Hadjisavvas, and away. ‘I“it is important to consider the aftermath She showed a British video of first and long journey” that followed it. arrivals coming off the ships, “men, Hadjisavvas was speaking at “From women, children and babies.” Dachau to Cyprus,” a Holocaust Edu- The British military ran the detention cation Month event, November 27, pre- camps, which were built using Ger- sented by the Shoah Committee of the man prisoner of war labour, she said. Jewish Federation of Ottawa and the Surrounded by barbed wire and watch High Commission of Cyprus in Ottawa. towers, the camps were under constant She discussed Jewish refugees – Holo- guard. HOWARD SANDLER (From left) Shelli Kimmel, chair of the Shoah Committee of the Jewish Federation of Ottawa, caust survivors – confined to internment “But 800 marriages took place in the Holocaust survivor Rose Lipszyc, High Commissioner Vasilios Philippou of Cyprus, and camps on Cyprus between 1946 and camps, and there were work programs historian Eliana Hadjisavvas, gather following a Holocaust Education Month program 1949. The camps were created by the and cultural events put on by the Amer- discussing the detention in Cyprus of Holocaust survivors captured by the British en route to British government as part of its effort ican Jewish Joint Distribution Commit- pre-state Israel. to stem Jewish immigration to pre-state tee Relief Mission.” Israel in the final years of British Man- The High Commission of Cyprus pro- date Palestine. vided a display of photos of the intern- noted that “warm relations developed Born in Lublin, Poland, Rose was living Born and raised in the U.K., but of ment camps, and sponsored a reception during tragic times between the Cypriot with her parents and two brothers, who Greek-Cypriot descent, Hadjisavvas said featuring Cypriot wines and delicacies at and Jewish people.” were three and 14 at the start of the war. she always had a keen interest in Cypri- the event. “Cypriot workers in the camps, as “I had a wonderful life until the age ot history but had come across nothing In his remarks, High Commissioner well as locals, helped the detainees get of 10, and then it all ended,” she said. on the topic of the Cyprus internment Vasilios Philippou said the photographs clean water and food,” he said. “Many In 1940, Rose and her family were camps. Beginning her PhD research in “present a dark period in history” and Jewish refugees tried to escape from thrown out of their home by the Nazis the camps and were helped by Cypriots and forced into the ghetto. She escaped through underground tunnels.” forced deportation from the ghetto in Noting the upcoming holiday, Philip- 1942 and survived the war posing as a pou added, “Chanukah reminds us that teenaged Polish worker in a German Bulletin website update life’s darkest moments and greatest factory. challenges can be bright with steadfast “I was liberated by the British and BY MICHAEL REGENSTREIF, EDITOR faith and determination.” the only place I was going to go was he Ottawa Jewish Bulletin website – www.ottawajewishbulletin.com – The other featured speaker was Israel, she said.” has been very problematic for the past four months. You can still access Toronto-based Holocaust survivor Rose She spent a year in Italy, where she the content on the site, but we have been unable to update existing Lipszyc, 90, who was detained in a camp learned Hebrew, history, geography and content or add new content since August 9. This is a problem we’d had on Cyprus. She was interviewed on mathematics, and met her future hus- Tbefore and past investments in fixing the site proved to be only temporary. stage by her daughter, Professor Carol band. So we decided to invest in a new Bulletin website that better meets our Lipszyc of the State University of New “Then we were going to go to Israel needs and serves our readers. The new site is currently being designed and York, a poet, and author of short stories on a fishing boat from Venice. When we content will be transferred over early in 2020. Testing of the site is scheduled portraying the historical experience of came close to the borders of Israel, three for February and we plan to go live with the new website on Monday, March 2. children during the Holocaust. huge ships surrounded us.” The site will be dynamic and much better organized with articles and columns “There is a tremendous need and so She was interned in Cyprus for four streamed in various categories. PDF files of current and back issues of the print few of us left,” said Rose, who devotes months.
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