Lewish POST by BEN GALLOB Remedial Teachers Assist the Youths in Making up JTA Staff Correspondent Gaps in Lbasic Educational Backgrounds
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Page Two THE JEWISH POST Thursday, February 15, 1968 Thursday. February 15, 1988 TiRE JEWISH POST Page Three , Torah 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) New York, (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 New York City, 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 " Rabbi 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 Israel 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.