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Lew1srpdst Western Communities at Bonds' Appreciation Evening the Oldest Ang(O-Jewibh , , . ' , Thursday, February 1, 1962 Page Three Page Two THE JIEWiSH POST Thursday, 'February 1, 1962 THE JIE.WISH POST To Present Friendship Award 9 Launch Fro... the Editor s BellA lEW1SRPDST Western Communities At Bonds' Appreciation Evening The Oldest Ang(o-JewiBh. Weekly in Western Catu1d4 Israel . Histadrut Cam'pai'gns '(Issued weekly in the Intereets of Jewish Community actlvltl. ?anist, Clara Pearlman - Litvack, In Wlnnlp,"" aDd W ... tern Canada) Western Canada's annual Israel 'whose interpretations of Hebrew, I Me'mber of the Jewish Tel~aphic AgencY Histadrut drives open, 1!'ebruary 11 when a specially organized tour Yiddish and Israeli folk and popular I Puhllshed evelT Thunday by cavalcade visits Calgary to open the nusic haye been lauded ,by every EMPmE piuNTERs LTD. first of a series, of campaigns Jommunity in the west. Prjnters and Publlsbers scheduled t;fliS rp:orith. The activities, of U.S.' General NEAR• RIOT: Store window promotion of an ' hat~ w;orn by sportsmen Who were leaving' Israel ',RUPERT SHRIAR; Ph.D. LEO J. WACK , " Marshall, career soJdier and writ~r, 'amateur play almost caused ,a...riot in St. John's', after participating in the Hapoel'Seventh Inter­ , Editor Advertising Manaller . Partfcipating in' the tour will be' nave hl\d a unique ellect upon Israel Newfoundland, when sailors on leave from a ,national Sports Gathering. Among them was Head Office: 1244 Main St., Winnipeg, Canada General S. L. A. Marshall, Winni­ , , ' and the Middle East. A journalist Polish ship were alarmed by Nazi emblems and Isaac 'Berger, the Jerusalem - born, American SubScription: $4.00 per annlllJl, , peg folk ,singer, TV and concert whose' experiences have included insignia they passed on 'the main street of this weight-lifter, who had the d~y before set :i world Phone JU 9-7331- 2 - 3 Eve. Phone HU 9-298t artist Miriam Breitman, and aceom- that of foreign corresp!:,ndent,,, edi­ ,port city. The six mariners were. inflamed 'by record of 148% kilogrammes at the Hapoel Meet­ Authoriz('d as Recond elass mail by the Post Office Department. the swastikas" Wehrmacht .decoratIons, German ing. He is a short man 'and his profilssion is any­ Ottawa. and for payment of postage in cash torial writer and sports editor, he weapons and a lifesize figure of a German soldier thing but obvious from his outer appearance. As is presently military ,critic 'for the Detroit Ne~s. His military career ill full regaHa. They stormed, the shop and found . he was crossing the tarmac,laden down with bags ,~. the members of an amateur play soCiety. decor- ,and parcels, an air hostesS) sympathizing' with the pages of The Jewish Chronicle. Here is a ating,the store to prepare an advertisement for the "little man" rushed up to help him lighten report from the issue' of November 9,' 1855: their production of "Stalag 17." The.incident had his .load. ,"Baron James de Rothschlld.-An associatflion w.as a happy ending when the sailors were guests lately formed at Paris, consisting of in uenbal of. the 'actors at dinner. BRIGITTE'S STAND: Brigitt~ Bardot has gentlem,en of various nations, the object of, which' , finally received the recognition she deserves in is to p~ve the way for the introduction Qf a uni-" J TWO SIDES OF THE COIN: Premier Ben- the Yiddish press. Not because of her vaunted formity of weights and measures, in Europe. A MRS. HERZOG AMBASSADOR HERZOG \ Gurion had' a sharp verbal altercation 'with his sex-appeal, her off - the - shoulder blouses and meeting was to be held in September last, and it , Manitoba Premier oDufferin 'Roblin, ' , . Agudist opponents ill the Knesset in the on- ruffled hair-do, but because of her courageous was deemed' 'desir~ble to invite Baron James de DAVID ISMAN ··t d I l' 1956' d be in the mail Sundayevenmg.be- w 0 VISI e srae In an upon' .' going religious conflict when asked why an EI-AI . stand against the OAS, the terroristic organiza- Rothschild to t:j.ke the chair. The day of the ..'h h' cause tables are asslgrted. Tickets has spanned decades 11'\ which ,the hiS return held up testate s I 'J bl b h ' th B d ff ' airplane carrying Bar Mitzvah boys to Israel had tion of the, French colons in Algeria, who sent her meeting being fixed for,a Saturday, the Baron battle for freed€>m has had to be achievements as a model of social I aval a e y p onlng b,e ~nked° Ice l'anded in 'Lydda on Friday, evening after 'sun- threatening letters f9r money, which she publicly declined presiding, declaring that no consideration 'd 'd J' , , '11 t th (WH c3-7309), may e pIC up Id e f end e d and won aroun the world, 1 ea Ism In act1On, WI accep e I II h ff' 201 down. Ben-Gurion, flatly tej!,!cting the demand exposed. ' , would induce him to violate the sanctity of the , "F' d h' A d" t T d y \ persona y at teo Ice, Room , for debate, asked the Agudists if with their What impelled this seeming symbol of J.ev.ity day; that he was, however, ready to comply with In announcing arrangements, His- I r~en s Ip war ~ex ues ,a , YMHA Building, 370" Hargrave strong moral scruples they had ever taken any and easy going laissez-faire to take the daring the request if another ,day were appointed. tadrut officials reported that Cal-' Feb, 6, at an AppreCiatIOn' Aevemng b ' Street,e S und' ay, Fe.b 4 , b e t ween 10 ed t h I I position on the kidnapping of Yessele ~~hu- step of resisting this 'blackmail effort?' L: Lene- Viscount Ebrington being a member of the com­ gary's drive, under the chairman-, convend t C0 onord H'srae Es m11 as- I'da.m. and 3 p.m. By press ea dl'me, , ."" ,I macher, ,stolen from his parents by relIglOus mann, Paris correspondent of the Montreal Jew- mittee, with true English feeling for consistency ship of Joe Busheikin" will be ,sa , or 0 ana a, IS xce ency I 394 a II ocations' h a d b een mad e. launched Sunday, Feb. 11, at 8 p,m. Ya acov Herzog and Mrs. Herzeg, I , zealots. ' ish Eaglef thinks he has found the answer. of conduct and earnestness of religious sentiment, j As for, the EI-AI plane, this was a. Jewish Explaining quite primly that he h'as no wish to prevailed on his Continental colleagues, less pre­ in the Community Buiiding, The The program is set for 8 p.m, in the! 'Presiding at th~ official program , Agency matter and "1 don't know what the pry into the star'!; private life for purposes of pared to appreciate the scruples of the Jewish next evening (Monday, Feb, 12) the Alexandra 'Room, Royal Alexandra I will be Manitoba Bond "chairman Agency does," said the aged l~ader. mere sensation-seeking, he states that the key hanker, to postpone the meeting from the Sab­ campaign will open in Regina, where Hotel. ' M'aitland B. Steinkopf, Q,C. lies in Brigitte's current male interest - the 'bath to the following Monday, although a less chairmen Sam Shragge a~d David This will be' the Ambassador'.' GRAVE 'CONCERN: Who would expect to young French, film actor Samy Frey. Samy is a conV'enient day, when the Baron took the c4air." Isman have 'orga~ized a strong com- firs~ official visit to ,Manitoba Jewry. I . find an excerpt from the Alenu prayer in a tele- J'ewish youth, 'both' of whose parents were deported mittee including Charles Freedman. He Holds a warm place in, the i H· t d tEl phonedirectory?-It is quoted in Hebrew to adver- by the Nazis land never returned. He was raised ,MOSES HAD NO TV: "Moshe Rabenu never Ben Shapiro, H. oFages, I. Spector, affections of Canqdiqn Jew,:y be- 'I IS a ru n ers tise a Jewish cemeteI:Y in the Washington, D.C., by relatives and in orphan -homes until he grew knew of television, and got along very well with- J. Weinberg, A. Wass<rrman, I. Free- cause of the qualities of intellectual I · " , classified directory. The use of the phrase, "Who up and went into film work. , out it. I do not believe ,TV will really be of' man, M. Malt, L. Reinhorn, R. David, concern for JeWish survival demon:' ntenslve Phase has' not made us like other nations," is puzzling. In one of her interviews wiiJi the press ex- value towar<Js man's progress. To my r,egret, D. Moss, E. Segal, P. Buchalter, J, strated in the performance of his ' One would have thought that in death, at least, pla.ining her resistance to ,the OAS pressures, the however, it seems that our televisionists, with Sharp, A. Be~covichi A. D. Sam':;els, diplomati~ mission. all were alike. blonde actress stated: "I -have no desire to live 'Teddy (the reference was tO'Teddy Kollek, Direc- ,L, Hyman and P. M'oscovitch. ,Mr. and Mrs. Herzog ha~e been CHA CHA CHA: Quoting the June 1961 in a Nazi country." It was Samy's terror-haunted tor-General of the Prime Minister's, Office), will ' boyhood that help~d identify the Algerian anti- defeat l'II:e On TV.," Thes.e 1"emarks yrere l,llade 'by , Two days later the campaign invited to Winnipeg as the Israel U.S. Population Bulletin, Trude Weiss-'Rosmarin De Gaulle terrorists in ,Brigitte's mind with the when on , openings nl0ve west again as chair- Bond drive chalks, up a notable '.Ben-Gu~lOn ques~lOned .hl~ att~tude !.o m':1n Gen,e Rolingher initiates Eo.- success, placing..
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