Page Two THE JEWISH POST Thursday, February 15, 1968 Thursday. February 15, 1988 TiRE JEWISH POST Page Three , Umesorah Youth Corps Program T.T. Men's Dinner Enrols C.J.C. Plans Plenary 'Session lEwISH POST By BEN GALLOB remedial teachers assist the youths in making up JTA Staff Correspondent gaps in lbasic educational backgrounds. Many Patrons, Sponsors The Oldest Anglo-jewish Weekly in Western Ca1l.aM The agency finds both the prospects for the (leaued weekly in the interests of Jewish Community activities in Winnipeg and Western Canada) , (JTA) - 'Fifty-four New York program and appropriate work assignments. The 54 enrollees are working at clerical posts, tutor­ Mem~r of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency City high school dropouts, ~ostly .Jews. and s?me Puerto Ricans, are enrolled m a cltY-Wlde Neigh­ ing, junior mechanic ta~~, mac~ine operators, Published every Thursday by borhood Youth Corps program directed [by Torah kitchen assistants and bmldmg mamtenance. The EMPffiE PRINTERS LTD. Umesorah a national organization for Hebrew work sites are schools, Jewish centres and hospi­ Printel"9 and Publishers tals - all non-profit institutions. The counselling ELIZABETH MALKIN CAM, Hons. B.A. LEO J. LEZACK day sehodls, under a grant from the Office of Editor Advertising Manager Economic Opportunity. includes family help in situations where home difficulties have contributed to the problems lead­ Head Office: 1244 Main St., Winnipeg 4, Canada The program is designed to find jdbs with Subscription: $4.00 per annum ing a youth to drop out of school. One remedial status and a career potential for the young men. specialist is on .the Torah Umesorah staff. Others Phone 589-7331 Eve. Phone HU 9-2989 To reach that objective, Torah Umesorah develops Authorized as aecond closs mail by the Post Ofnce Department. are called in on specific assignments. Ottawa. and for payment of postage in cash work ·experience assignments for the enrollees The day school agency also administers a to help them compete effectively in the real job Neighborhood Y(mth ,Corps program for teen­ market. In addition to gaining. experie~ce and agers in poverty areas aimed at preventing stu­ work skills in jobs which fit their aptitudes, ell:ch dentsfrom.... beeomingdropouts. This "in-school" In Search of, Identity enrollee receives $45 a week. This out~f:schOol program,' funded at $6&,000 for 134 teen-agers, program has been funded from December 1967 provides them with some money as well as Recently 150 French-Jewish intellectuals at­ to December 196.8, at $124,000 for the period. tended the annual debate organized by the French experience in such jobs as library aides, teacher About $103,000 will be used to pay the enrollees, aides, derical helpers and recreational instruc­ section of the World Jewish Congress; this turn­ all of whom are from poor families in designated out established a record. Among those attending tors, in non-profit institutions. The program not S. M •. CHERNlACl(, Q.C. D, I. VICTOR . poverty areas in , a:nd the balance only helps the potential dropout, Torah Umesorah were for the. first time, .such personalities as is assigned for administrators and for the reme­ N. SELCHEN , • • nominatiing chairman • . • resolutions cIutInnan officials said; but also is of direct benefit to M. M. Ra~ond Aron, the noted international commen­ dial counselling whkh is part of the program. SUCHAROV ADAM GOSZER . . co-chairman Western RegiOD Western Region non~profit tator of the Paris daily, "Le Figaro"; Professor many institutions. The teen-agel's are ... honoree . . • ticket chairman national planning " Ronald Greenwald, a staff member of paid at the rate of $1.25 per hour:. In addition Congress on behalf of the Jewish against anti-Semitism and the dis~ Leo Hamon, a Gaullist figure; and Claude Lanz­ A record number of patr~ and Torah Umesorah, is serving as director for the to individual counselling for varIOUS personal chairman of the sponsors committee. ''The 15th Plenary Session of community of Canada in the com­ semination of hate lit~atUre, ~~.~ mann, who is said to be Sartre's right-hand man. sponsors have enrolled to date"f(>t out-of-school project. Rabbi Moses Biberfeld was problems, the enrollees are brought together Assisting the Men's Dinner com­ Canadian Jewish Congress will take ing three years." in. the promotion of human ri~?;' They did not participate in the debate, but the annual Men's Dinner of the Tal'.­ .they listened to what their colleagues had to say engaged by the agency to act as coordinator for regularly for group sessions at which guidance mittee, and directing dinner arrange­ place m Toron10 at the King Ed­ Canadian Jewish Congress is con­ It is also concerned about theproblf,,, the project. Counsellors and guidance specialists counsellors seek to boost bruised egos and help mud Torah, it was reported this ments, are Mrs. Betty Reisch and ward Hotel from !May 16 to May 20, cerned with the position of the Jew­ lems of Jewish education ·and . find.. aibout ·French Jewry, diaspora Jewry, their rela­ week by Saul IE. Zitzerman, chair­ tions with and their own identity. provide vocational training and personality re­ develop pride and hope for their future. The Mrs. Bal'bara Goszer, president and and plans are now being made for ish community in ·Canada, especially ing new ways of solving these"prob­ habilitation for the enrollees. In many cases, program is now in its second year. man. The dinner, to Ibe held Wed­ vice-president, respectively, of the the active participation of the Jew­ in the light of the 'prlXless of self lems. Another group of Jewish intellectuals, m.ainlr, nesday, March 6, at the Rosh Pina PTA. ish communities throughout west­ examination now going on in this "We are especially. anxious," de­ left-wing, have set up the "Club Gaston Cremieux Auditorium, will honor' M. M. Tickets to the dinner may be ern Canada in this all-important country. It is also concerned with 1 ed Mr L 1 "to resent a true as a meeting-place for "confrontations, debates Sucharov, president of the school, car .evn, p . obtained from the school office national gathering of Canadian the aftermath of the ·Slx-Day War and discus'sions." for his many years of dedicated 1968 Brotherhood Week Message through iBurt Halpert, executive di­ Jewry," stated Lavid Levin, Q,C., in the Middle East last June with consensus of the views of western The events of last June, followed by General service to Tahnud Torah. de GauUe's November press conference, seem to rector, at JU 2-2346, or froin any chainnan of the Western Region. the disintegration of age-old Jewish Canadian Jewry to ·the Plenary Ses­ By THE HONORABLE WALTER WEIR global body contained this warning: "If fools Guest speaker at the dinner will member of the Men's Dinner com­ communities in other parts of the sion on all these isSues. We are have sparked off of a craving for self-definition Premier of Manitoba !Appointed to lead the. prepara­ and folly rule the world, the end 'Of man in our be the president of the Religious mittee. Ticket committee members world bringing about a new flow therefore looking for the fullest par­ by many French-Jewish intellectual;;. . Honorary Chainnan of Brotherhood Week for Manitoba time may come as a rude shock, but it win no tions for Western Region repre­ . Gaullist newspapers used to pubhsh the Vlews Zionists of America, iRaJbbi Hershel are: Adam Goszer (chairman), Phil sentation and !participation at the of refugees; with the warning sig- ticipation in the area meetings and longer come as a complete surprise." Sabering Schacter, who serves as chainnan. Kravet~ky' (co-chainnan), Morris na1s of neo-nazlsm from Germany conferences' that will ,be held be-' of Jean~Francois Steiner, of "Treiblinka" fame. The President of the United Nations General words such as these, spoken thy a responsible conference are Nathan Selchen, as Since he married a scion of the German General Assembly had some startling words to say. on of the Council of Presidents of Major Altman, Aaron Boroditsky, Monte co-chairman of the national plan. and with the plight of Russian fore the iPlenary Session. We also world statesman, serve to emphasize and rein­ Jew ish Organizations. Spiritual Binder, !Allan Chisvin, Gerry Daien, Jewry, among other problems CClveJ'oo h~pe to have ih~lmlresi ~d most von Brauehitsch's family, he has remained silent. his retirement this past September. Referrmg force the extrellle need for brotherhood in, the ning committee; Saul M. Cherniack, 'Roger Stephane, a noted ll'lft-wing Gaullist to nuclear arms escalation, his message to the leader of the Hoshulu Parkway Bob Feldman, S. Feldman, Hartley Q.c., chainnan of the nominating seas. informed delegation frqm· we~tern world today. Jewish Center since 1946, Rabbi Gale, Marcus Bressler, Dr. Jerry In Canada, Congress carries on a Canada ever to attend a Plenary journalist and television produeer, wrote that Sorely as it is needed on the international committee for the Western Region, any decent Frenchman, particulariy.a Jew, .should Schacter has earned an interl}ational Goldenberg,' Bernie Goldstein, Dr. and D. I. Victor, chairman, Western continual program ih the fight Se~slon." level, brotherhood must begin among neighbors reputation a5 lecturer, .Qrator, and P. Goldstein, Norman Goltsman, show his dislike of Israel's aggresslve deSIgns. at the grass roots of society. By making brother­ 'Most of these commentators have discovered Brotherhood hood a desirlllble goal on our home ground, a world traveller. Irwin Green, J. Greenberg, Bert !~~:;O~~ti:~c:=:.ee, with Pioneer 'IIdmen. Sponsor their links with Judaism only very .recently. But, start is made in extending its influence to national Ticket sales for the dinner is con- Glesby, Burton Halpert, Larry ·In Winnipeg local affiliates of the· is giving to others the rights tinulng under >the energetic chair- Hecht, Jack Kay, J. Klein, Bob Kop­ at the same time, they have dtscovered the prob­ . . . and international co-operation. Winnipeg Congress Council and all lems of dual loyalty, of Zionism and of French and respect we want for ourselves, manship of Adam Goszer and Phil stein, Saul Leszcz, Leslie 'Litman, R. major Jewish organizations have M.en's Child R. escu. e··D. i.nn,·. e. r A true spirit of brotherhood promotes amity Kravetsky. iMorris Altman is treas- Lowenstein, C. Marantz, Aryeh centralism. and understanding among the various groups that been advised as to the number of The community as a whole, however, is doing BRAHMANISM: urer of the dinner committee, and Meller, N. Micay, 'Nate Nurgitz, M. delegates to which they are entitled make up the mosaic' of our society. Without it, assisting in the sale of tickets. Peters, f. Pinczowski, Syd Ritter, much less soul-searching. Perhaps it is easier for "This is the sum of duty; do naught prejudice, distrust, hatred and bigotry are given and have been asked to proceed the ordinary Jew to understand what being a unto others which would cause. pain if fertile ground to undermine communal, national, Patrons and sponsors are being Sol Rifkin, Max Reisch, Max Saper, with the election of. their delegates. , Jew means, and what ,his rights and duties are. done unto you." solicited under the leadership of Allan Silverberg, Moe Sucharov, H. Other communities throughout the \ and international relations at the religious, social Sussman, Dave Thomson, Fred Toll, Hartley P. Gale, patrons committee region have also ,been informed I BUDDHISM: and political levels, S. Turner, Max Wasserman, Rabbi While we are still far removed from the day about the need to elect delegates. r "Hurt not others in ways that you chairman, and Larry Hecht and Joe Avie Waxman. Joe Wiesenthal, Abe Plans are being made for a series yourself 'Would find hurtful." when "people shall live as one family of man," Wiesenthai, chairman and co- Yanofsky, S. Zitzerman. 'ShabbatShirra' we must constantly strive for that ideal, and any of area and community . meetings and conferences throughout the (The Sabbath of Song) JUDA;ISM: force that promotes it must be vigorously sup­ "What is hateful to you, do not to your ported. Western Region io assess the views February has often been designated as Jew­ of the western communities on vital ish Music Month. In the past, many. groups have fellow man. That is the entire law, all Such a force is the Canadian Council of Brotherhood Week.. Proclaimed the rest is commentary." Christians and Jews. Through its Brotherhood issues. These gatherings will begin planned at least one program with this in mind. with an area meeting for 'Lethbridge Among the mail that has come to our desk Week, it focuses attention on the need to practise CONFUCIANISM: brotherhood fifty·two weeks of the year. I and !Medicine Hat taking place in so far this month, we 'have Ilot come across any "There is one maXIm of loving kind­ Lethbridge on Sunday, 'March 24. that has indicated that any organization ha:s ness: do not unto others what. you strotlgly endorse the aims. of this annual observ­ ,artliriged anl;'i:f.ternoon or 'evening around Jewish ance and commend them to all citizens of This will be followed later that swpe would not have them do unto you." Manitoba. week with community meetings in comp()sers, Jewish musicians, or a Jewish musical Calgary and Edmonton. On' Sun­ theme of any kind. TA:OISM: A study of the' native musk emerging from "Regard your neighbor's gain as your day, April 7, there will be a Sas­ own gain, and your neighbor's loss as CO-EXISTENCE katchewan area meeting in Saska­ Israel in various forms, would no doubt prove toon for all Jewish communities in informative and rewarding. It has been said your own loss." Geneva, (JTA) - The movement of men and goods across the bridges of the Jordan River and tha t province. On Sunday, oMay 5, I. ZIPURSKY LOU ELKIN that only on its own soil can a people create there will be a city conference of •.. treasurer . . . ticket chairman truly representative music. ZOROASTRJANISM: the brisk, if unofficial trade betw..een the East "That nature alone is good which and West banks demonstrates that peaceful co­ Canadian Jewish Congress in Win- An enlarged, enthusiastic men's 'February was the month set aside to com­ refrains from doing unto another what­ for 'Pioneer Women, with Mrs. Lit memorate Jewish music because at least part existence is possible Ibetween Israelis and Arabs nipeg. committee has Ibeen formed to en- Rosenberg as co-chairman. of the month of Shevat usually falls during Feb­ soever is not good for itself." despite the hostilities engendered by war and "The Plenary Session of Canadian sure the success of the forthcoming Guest speaker will be Meyer ruary. 'Last Saturday was the eleventh of Shevat. CHRISTIANITY : absence of treaties of peace, Israel's former Jewish Congress, which now takes Men's Child 'Rescue Dinner spon­ Levin, distinguished novelist, jour­ On this day, the portion of Torah known as "All things whatsoever ye would that Deputy Minister 'Of Defense, Simon Peres, de­ place once every three years, is the sored by Pioneer Women's Orga­ nalist, film-maker and war corres­ "Beshalach" is read in the synagogue. A few men should do to you, do ye even so dared in an addres's here. Mr. Peres spoke in most important representative gath- nization, it was announced this pondent. verses of this portion contain what is familiarly to them; for this is the law and the the course of a tour on behalf of the Swic3 Zionist In his capacity as honorary chairman of Brotherhood Week, 1968, ering of the Jewish community week. ·While ticket spIes are being known as the Song of 'Moses, part of whkh reads, prophets." Federation and WIW - Women's International in Manitoba, the Hon. Walter Weir, Premier of Manitoba, presents his throughout Canada," Mr. Levin de- To be held Monday, March 25, at handled by members of Plo:neer ''This is my God, and I will praise Him; the Zionist Organization. He noted that despite the Brotherhood Week message to Julius Berkowitz, co-chairman, Central dared. ''The Plenary Session re- 6:30 p.m. in Rosh Pina Synagogue, 'Women's chapters, a committee of God of my father, and I will exalt Him." ISLAM: lack of peace, the Arabs in Israel-occupied terri­ Region, the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews. views the work done under the the dinner will be under the co­ men is contacting prospective spon­ "No one of you is a believer until he tories have not been cut off from the Arab world. auspices of the naiional and regional chairmanship of Abe !Rich and Abe sors to defray dinner costs, thus The Sabbath on whkh the Song of Moses is Inthe photograph (left to right) are: Thaddeus L. Charne, direc­ desires for his brother that which he Mr. Peres saw little immediate prospect for a executives and the national council Yanofsky. Honorary co _ chairmen releasing entire dinner proceeds for read came to be called Shabbat Shira (the Sab­ tor, OCCJ; Robert A. Kipp, director, OCCJ; Julius Berkowitz, co­ bath of Song). The month is not yet too far desires for himself." permanent peace and said that was a condition of Congress in the preceding three are Maitland B. Steinkopf, Q.C., child rescue operations in Israel. . "The Canadian Council of Christians and Jewr/' that Israel, as well as the Aralbs, must live with chairman, CCCJ; Premier Walter Weir; Desmond Kimmitt, executive years and approves the programs and Samuel N. Cohen. Mrs. Nettie advanced for at least one of our local groups director, OCCJ, and Sol Kanee, director, CCCJ. Serving with the. chairmen on the to arrange a suitable program. How about it? for the time being. and policies to be carried on by Koffman is dinner project chainnan See CIDLD RESCUE, page 10