Thursday, October 13, 1949 THE' JEWISH POST Page Three Page Two 'tHE JEWISH POST Thursday, October 13, 1949 attention and support for local projects. But that Tti~ ILI§T~""I""(3 V()§T tenor of events is already felt, and now that Israel School For Arab Kids Equals exists, and we see how her existence of and by lEWISH PeST itself contributes little automatically to advanc­ Israel's Best Prof. Joseph Klausner ing Jewish culture here, we may look forward to continued progress in Congress' work in this field. By ANITA ENGLE Protests Public Gossip The OLdest Anglo-Jewish Weekly in Western Canada By sm LEON SIMON When in 1902 Ahad Ha-Am re- years ago itself makes a a small (Issued weekly in the intereata of Jewish Community activitis Canadian Jewry has so long coasted along on in Winnipeg and Weatern Canada) Of Rabbi's Private Life Acting President} Hebrew University Iinquished the editorship of Hashi- book. His main subjects have been Member of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency the lift and inspiration of work for Israel, that it Haifa-Opening day at the Government Arab (Copyright, 1949, JTA, Inc, may have forgotten to live even partially on its loah, the Hebrew monthly which he those indicated by two Chairs - School here found some 480 Arab boys and girls Tlte popularity of rabbis, their qualifications, personalities, sennons, had created and edited for six years, modern Hebrew literature and Jew­ Pub1ished evel'7 Thul'fIday by own resources. registered for the coming year. The headmaster THE JEWISH POST LTD. voic'es, smile.s, sincerity, duties; omissio~, -:vacaiions, wisdom, salary and Jerusalem-Joseph Klausner came Klausner's reputation was already ish history in the period of the Publi8heN This will be Congress' great scope of work is an Arab and the language of instruction is .. to deepen those resources here. diction, !'iul the rabbis' wives, children, dogs and cats are among the most to the Hebrew University as Profes­ such that his sucoession to the Second Temple. He wrote a small BEN M. COHEN Arabic, but the school enjoys the same privileges widely disCussed topics in Jewish cormnunal life. Few vocations have so sor of Modern Hebrew 'Literature in editorship was in the natural order History o£ Modern Hebrew Litera-, Busineu MB.nBger and Managing Editor available to other municipal schools, including Phone 54 400 Evenings 591129 many f ...tors of evalUation and so many people evaluating them. In what 1925, the year of its opening. In of things. ture many years ago; he has pro~ MELVIN FENSON, B.A., Editor free milk and Hadassah school lunches. A per­ olher calling do you find it necessary to bring together perhaps 100, 300 1944 he was appointed to a second Both before and since he came to duced innumerable e s say sand LEO J. LEZACK manent clinic has been set up by the Ministry or 3,000 people to diScuss one man's salary? chair, that of the History of the Jerusalem, Dr. Klausner's literary articl~s and monographs on indi­ Advertiainll' Manager $2,000,000 a Month. • • of Social Welfare, and 16' acute cases of trachoma Considering the aforementioned requisites, the concept of rabbi to , and he held output has been prodigious - no vidual w.dters; and during the last Phone 54400 Evenings 402989 were cured in the past year, giving two simultaneously until his recebt other word would be adequate. A ten years or so he has been occu­ Head Office: 213 Selkirk Ave., Winnipeg, Canada the school a clean bill of health .. each individual congreg3.nt is as varied as the kaleidoscopic patterns of A.uthorized &.II Becond clUB mail. Pod OUiee Department, Ottawa is not peanuts. But $2,000,000 a month, human thought, arid a compoSite of these pattems in weighted opinion retirement at the end of the 1947- list· of his books and essays which pied on a truly monumental History which private American investors are now pour­ The school, which had previously 48 session. He was one oi the first one of his students compiled some I (Cant. on Page 10) been run by the Mandatory Gov­ often precludes that any rabbi, even with infinite wisdom and chameleon ing into Israel, will not solve her pressing needs. proclivities, could or would want to crystallize himself into total professors to be appointed and he If the total $100,000,000 U.S. loan merely suffices ernment, was taken over by the is the first to retire under the age ii Community Chest Appeal Israel government at the same acceptability, - Libcral Judaism. North End Sy'~ag~gue Proj~ct Scores Progress to purchase some needed agricultural equipment, limit. ! time as other Haifa schools. It is ABE ruuNSKY, BURLESQUE AUSTRALIAN JEWISH FINANCE I and keep upwards of 70;000 immigrants on the When Klausner came to Jerusalem I The claim the Community Chest Appeal has dole in reception camps, then one-quarter that being run much as before, except KING, PASSES AGED 68 LEADER KIDNAPPED in 1925, at the age of fifty-one, -he Architect at Work on Plan I upon every member of Winnipeg's Jewish com­ amount invested annually cannot provide the that some changes have been made New York - Abraham B. Minsky, Melbourne -. In the biggest man­ already had behind him a very dis­ " munity is not derived from the fact that three cure-all. to bring it up to the standard of 68, veteran theatrical producer. and hunt in Melbourne's history, police tinguished career in Hebrew letters. other municipal schools. onetime burlesque impressario, died today sought wealthy Solomon An organizatiom!ll meeting (Jf the n'ew'Nol'th End synagogue conunitttee of its twenty-eight constituent agencies are Jew­ But it is II start. We are hopeful that Born in Russia) he rec,eived his Jew­ ish institutions. Its claim goes far beyond that the recent lively reaction of CANP AL and Can­ Three mission schools are still at the Flower-Fifth Avenue hospital Ravdell and three armed, masked ish education at the Yeshiva of and 50 interested Itnen was heM last week at the home of Harl;Y Silverberg. short term view.' Were all three of those institu­ ada's Palestine Economic Corporation, to a recent functioning in Haifa, but Arab in New York. He lived at the Hotel men who kidnapped him from his Odessa and his university education Rabbi Milton Aron, of the Shaal'ey Zedek synagogue, spokc on' the tions totally within the framework of our own editorial in these columns, indicates that Canadian parents now prefer to send their children to the Buckingham, 101 West Fifty-seventh home in a fashionable suburb last at Heidelberg. In his very early significance of the synagogue in Jewish life and stressed thc importance philanthropic structure, we would be duty bound investments may soon total at least a proportion­ Government school, which is free, has more faci­ street. night. years he became a Zionist, with a of the synagogue today in molding .Jewish opinion. L. C. Cohen, chainnan, to give just as generously. ate share of the American figure, or around lities, and links up with school of higher educa­ Mr. Minsky, who name was almost Hours after Ravdell was snatched, special interest in the revival of the presented an outline of the following progress: The Community Chest affirms boldly our con­ $40,000 a month. tion, such as the Haifa Technion.' Under the synonymous with burlesque in New no trace had been found of the 70- and culture. • Negotiations huve been made with a firm of architects to draw up cern for those who stand in need of help. Whether MandatorY regime, the Arabs had no school up York during the most prosperous year-old man and his abductors. After leaving the university) tentative plans. CANPAL to date has served notably in financ­ to the Technion's standard and there were few Police said the kidnapping followed they be youngsters whose need is nothing more ing trade with Israel. Canada's P.E.C., which will days of that form of entertainment, Klausner spent 20 years or more in • Negotiations are being undertaken to acquire an outstanding rabbi than guided recreation ... or families hovering prospects of further education for Arab children had continued activity in the enter­ terror threats and edmands for pay­ Odessa) and he was one of the to assume the program of the congregation prior to the erection of this week-end begin publicizing its program in once they left elementary school. on the brink of economic disaster; elders in the Winnipeg, appears more directly interested in tainment world until recent weeks. ment of £30,000 (about $72,000). younger members of the group of the building. The students range all the way from four to -Montreal Jewish Review. -Toronto Hebrew Journal. community who have not been able to provide immediate investments in Israel. Certainly, this Hebrew writers who made Odessa • The campaign for membership is progressing very favorably and the for their declining years, or orphans .... all are 16 years and no child who applies is refused famous in Jewish annals. Like all organization is being completed for a personal canvass of the com­ non - duplicated, multi - purpose approach should admission. In the lower grades classes are Jewish Phase of Peekskill Riot Probed entitled to our support ... given freely, gener­ 'serve all local investment-minded businessmen. 'the young intellectuals of his gener­ munity to begin shortly. ously, and cheerfully. crowded - 45 to a class - and two sessions a The telephone rang at the residence of a prominent New York ation, he came illlder the influence The response of those present was spontaneous and very gratifying. The privilege is ours in this land to give must not stop at campaign dona­ day are necessary. There are two secondary iociologist who lives in this vicinity. It was the family maid: of Abild Ha-Am, whose -personal Dave Margolese) recording secretary, is making arrangements for another voluntarily . . . a privilege one-sixth of our tions. The concept of investing in Israel ~lasses which are still not well attended, but it "I'm sony I can't work for you no more." friend he· was: organizational meeting to be held in the very near future. people lost, along with their possessions, and lives. must also be elevated to the dignity of a IS expected that more and more children from "Why?" asked her surprised employer. The privilege is ours to still maintain the moral imperative in Zionist activities. the villages around Haifa will be coming in all I!You're ConunWlists," replied the JlUlid. sacred tradition of care for our fellow man the time. Right now there are two girls in the' higher classes. . "Where did you get that idea?" AmericanJewry-~IPractise of. under private auspices. Our democratic "Because you're Jews," said the voice, Blld the phone clicked off. faith is predicated on preserving such areas Crossing the Kinneret· Arab Teachers This illustrates two elements that have been brought into sharp focus of social service from domination by the Only one of the ten teachers is Jewish. by the recent incidents of violence in this· area - growing anti-Semitism state. The s~pply of Arab teachers is ample, so lout of 613 Mitzvot"·A. Klein The privilege is ours to keep this city ond a tendency on the part of some to lump Jews and Communislts there IS no difficulty in maintaining good . indiscriminatcly together. I a decent place in which to live for ourselves standards. For the first time in city schools, and families by preventing juvenile delin­ There have been a few other incidents against the large Jewish com­ "Only Z'dokoh - charity - is only with stability, and the close At Work on "Ulysses" Arab boys and girls are studying in the munity of the Peekskill-Cortland area. Two Jewish home - some left for American Jewry. The of the frontier era. Turning to his forthcoming quency, growth of slum areas, broken same classes. This' has occurred before in analysis of "Ulysses" by James families and neglected needy of all ages. distance from the concert grounds - were stoned the night of the other 612 Mitzvot are ne.glected. FutlU'e Belongs to Genius some village schools but never in the towns liecond Paul Robeson concert. We do not have_ to return to the Mr. K1-8in found the heroic Joyce, a brilliant novel hailed as The privilege is our to give . . . and -more because of objections by Mandatorv give generously. In Peekskill,' some hoodlums went into a Jewish .. owned store, insulted practise of outmoded taboos . . . struggles of kibbutz life an inspir­ the century's greatest masterpiece authorities than by parents. Moslems and the owner, and shouted anti-Jewish epithets because they thought he had but we certainly cannot build a ing and humbling drama, and (and banned as ?bscene in Can­ Christians attend classes together; they attended the second concert. Some condoned the action at first but later productive Jewish future on phil­ warned that its rigours were be­ ada), he described it as the most separate for periods of religious instruction it was found the storekeeper had not been to the concert and was not a anthropy alone" . . . said A. M. yond the .endurance of most Ameri­ comprehensive interpretation yet but otherwise there is no segregation. ' Canadian Jewish Congress Communist. Community leaders came to his support publicly. Klein, distinguished M 0 n t rea 1 can youth. published. The curriculum includes instruction in Peekskill has a year-l'ound population of some 18,000 persons, including Jewish poet just back. from Israel, Little that he had seen in Israel "Other critics interpreted only t~ree lang1.u~ges, Arabic, Hebrew and Eng­ It sizable Jewish minority. As hot weather approaches, some 30,000 sum­ interviewed at the Royal Alex­ had altered his firm conviction the parts they understood. I alone Meets lIsh; phYSICal training; mathematics, mer visitors pour into this area to enjoy the many beautiful lakes and andra hotel last week-end, that future cultural achievements understood all, and interpret all)" There was a time when one quite simply science, drawing, music, manual training the dramatic countryside which has new and channing views around Spending Sukkoth in Winnipeg here must be the work of "Jewish he said with a disarming laugh. declared that all internal affairs of Cana­ for th~ boys, domestic science, sewing and every curve. Many of the summer visitors are Jewish. while touring the west, Mr. Klein genius . . . and no school system "Zauvcl' Milch Un Leber" dian JeWry are the province of the Canadian em?roldery for the girls. History is taught In addition during the past 20 or 30 years a number of prominent took time out to deliver some or organization can set out.. to He .enthusiastically described his Jewish Congress; all relations with Israel, mamJY throu¥h th~ books used during- the Communist leaders and their followers have settled in the area to set up clever, barbed shafts at the shal­ manufacture genius." affinity for Joyce's technique be­ the concern of the Zionist organization. prevIOUS regIme smce these are still the summer "colonies." Some of these residents also are Jewish. lovm.ess of mass Jewish culture. HI send my children to an ortho­ cause it emulated the intellectual During recent years, however, we have only books available in Arabic. The chil­ _ Robert ·M. Hallet1 in Christian Science Monitor. honored here. dox Torah. Give them the brllliance and playful delight in dren start to learn Hebrew at eight with tradition ... continue the historical legalistic pranks and wiles found witnessed the Zionist organization playing DAVID BEN GURION JOINED BRET HARTE'S JEWISH Galut Has a Future a role of increasing prominence in the field five h~urs of ?f study a week. Songs are link. How they interpret and use in so much of Jewish halachic . ~he chIef medIUm of instruction. English JEWISH LEGION IN CANADA GRANDFATHER FROM HALIFAX The poet-lawyer registered dis­ the heritage is tneir concern . . . literature. of Jewish public relations .... and govern­ Toronto-When David Ben Gurion Bret Harte (1839-1902) is one of mental relations . . . within Canada. IS added, at the age of 11, for one hour a appointment with achievements in but less than that we cannot do. Mr. Klein traced his interest in I week. decided to join the Jewish Legion the famous names in American liter­ Hebrew literature in Israel, and All my poetry is ultimately "Ulysses" and his penchant £01' Today, we are witnessing what seems to for service in Palestine during the ature. His stories of the American be a new, partial Israeli orientation of the Right now the school is proudest of four scored the tendency there to write groW1ded in the orthodox, 'Meah French poetry to early exposure to boys who graduated last term and have Firs.t World War he had to come to West, such as "The Luck of Roaring off Diaspora Jewry as a lost cause. Shearim' type education I re­ Catholic influences in his native I Canadian Jewish Congress. Canada to enlist in one of the Jewish Camp" and "The Outcasts of Poker It is just a matter of events working been admitted to the Technion. They "The destruction of the Galut ceived," he said. The g.enius factor Quebec. "After all, the TalmUdic worked hard at their Hebrew during the batt~lions then being formed. Only Flat," have gained him a literary preached over there must be com­ in his make-up, it was tacitly system and the Jesuitical system more rapidly than men's minds; of the meagre information is available on reputation not only in the United unity of world Jewish probelms imposing past year, and during the two months' sum­ batted," he said, and irresponsible understood, could not be so simply are just reverse sides of the same the sojourn of Israel's future Prime States but also in Britain. mass Galls to American youth over explained. coin," he explained. This strange a unity of its own. mer vacatio~, the Education department Minister in this country. Ben Gurion Eret Harle was of partial Jewish the heads of parents and govern­ With most of his own contribu­ juxtaposition of intellectual inter_ When the president of the Canadian made a speCIal teacher available for them. crossed from Detroit to Windsor, origin. His grandfather was Bernard ments, to. settle in Israel he called tions to contemporary Jewish cul­ ests once led his mother to describe ' . Jewish Congress is personally invited by "They all passed their Hebrew exams," the Ont., where he ~as inducted into Hart who at one time.lived·ip.:HalL..... "untim.ely and dangerous." ture in English, the poet asserted him as I'zauver milch un leher _ the Government of Israel to confer on the headmaster told me. "It's a' great step." the British Army's Jewish Legion. fax and who was probably related to ._ Israel, he said, was performing that our view of "Jewish culture" each good in itself, but the mixture state's financial needs, repercussions must The Technion will probably become one Little is known about Ben Gurian's be felt all the way down the line. the famous Hart family of Quebec. daily miracles in absorption of must be bl'oadened to include many is trefe," And he liked that char­ of the main targets of the Arab school. movements in Canada after he left refugees, a.nd registering successes languages besides Hebrew and acterization well enough to derive . On the reverse side of the coin, we look Government posts are not the goals they Detroit. It is generally believed that A brief reference to :Sret Rarleis forward to a more' sober concern on the ,that might never be achieved here Yiddish . . . and he referred to a great deal of delight in recalling used to be among the Arabs. Many want he received his basic military train­ Jewish grandfather is found in .m: the fac~ of similar difficulties. Maimonides' great works in Arabic it. part of Congress with local, Jewish educa­ to become teachers, particularly the girls. H. , , The Histadrut kibbutz of Ein Geh specializes in work on the- water-both ing at Windsor, Nova Scotia, where Thomas Raddall's valuable book "At the sam~ time, we must re­ as precedents. Mr. Klein will return to speak tional and cultural matters. It would be fishing and transport. It runs an 80~pas8engcr launch across the lake to Those who want to go in for ed llca tion will units of the Jewish Legion were on the history of Halifax, entitled member _she is in the pioneering "Works devoted to broad human here on behalf of the Canadian anticipating history . . . and dangerously Tiberias. Now cut off from the main part of Israel for lack of good roa~s,' finish their training in Jewish teaching assembled before debarkation from "Halifax, Warden of the. North" a new paved highway will soon be buill to the settlement, which is on stage . . .' and cannot spare time values, above and beyond sectarian Jewish Congress on Nov. 9, when so . . . were we to feel that all overseas sch~ols. Eventually there will be a special Halifax. -. H. Goodman in Toronto ()mblished by McClelland and Stewe eastern shl>l'e of Khauerel. for cultural refinements and the Jewish themes, are also 'Jewish' University of Manitoba students needs will shortly decline, liberating more semmary for training Arab teachers. art Ltd" Toronto, 1948). , Daily Journal. literary wider horizons that come achievements/' he said. will also hear him. ~ . . I :,,

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