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'Page Fourteen THE JEWISH POST Thursday, April 27, 1950' I : • , 1 Ui~ Welcome For IsraeliConsnl Sunday Night ", I! •. , , ' JORDAN· PEACE I , bO , ' '" " OR EGYPT WAR? I , 1=.5.. ~ '"0 Beersheba, (JTA) - The I' . w~ Appeal Quota i '5:: .~. nature and quantities of weapons 1 1950 United Israel ~~ presently streaming from Britain ~ . · Egypt leave no doubt about Egypt s I ~. , '/ :9 Q) I offensive intentions, Brigadier Yigal ; ....:I:> ~ Allon, fonner commander 6f the ; - .-+"' '0101 Israel armed forces in the Nege'Y, I .I""'! ...... __ bO southern part of Israel, declared ------,------'------1' >=:0) .-'" -- I today at ,a reception given for mili- _Vol. XXVI, WINNIPEG, THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1950 .~~ o. 18 tary correspondents. . ____ ~ __ ~ ______~------'----~I M TEL AVIV (JTA) - Work o. I. Po< the demarcation of the Israel­ Lebanon border has been com­ pleted to a large extent, the annis­ tice commission represented by , both countries reported today at a ewan , Israeli Vets Uolor Guard Escorts Uonsul-General ,meeting held on the Lebanese side S_ J. DRACHE of the frontier. U.N. officials at­ president, United Zionist tended the meeting. , Council of Winnipeg_ At Monday's session, the Israel At Anniversary Rally Sunday delegates agreed to return to Leb­ To Israel's -official representative anon, boats seized by the Jewish " i j to Canada, A vraham Harman, we When A vraham Harman, Israeli Consul to Canada, steps the pIane state when they ,entered Israel· , ' 011' I ' extend gree'tings. in Winnipeg, Sunday, he will review a line-up of members of the Winnipeg waters without authorization. The I ,I On this occasion of the first Mahal association - veterans of Israel. craft were turned over to the , 00 stepping on the soil of our com­ Mr. Harman, who is ·visiting WilUlipeg lor the first time, will address Lebanese authorities. I munity of a duly accredited rep .. a sell-out crowd of citizens Sunday, May 7, at the' auditorium, at 8.30 p.m., London (JTA)-Israel and Trans­ resentative of the state of Israel, in celebration of the second anniversary of the state of Israel. ~ jordan negotiators have already de­ we welcome you with open arms Held under the auspices of the United Zionist Council, the celebra­ fined 400 miles of the frontier be­ ~ ,I and full hearts - for in you we tion of Israel's independence in Winnipeg will be a gay and colorful one. tween the two states and are well , see the symbol of redemption. Blne and white bunting and flags of Israel will decorate the auditorium, on their way toward agreeing on a * 15,000 IMMIGRANTS ENTERING ISRAEL EACH MONTH. , Through you we send and. ask emblematic of the new state as a "nation among nations". ' peace treaty, the Daily Express re­ you to convey to your government Thousands are expected t~ throng the hall to. join in the festivities and, ported here. our happiness and rejoicing on In a dispatch from the " * 90,000 AT PRESENT TIME IN CAMPS. its success and achievements on celebrations and doors will open at 7 p.m. in order to avoid tno. much overcrowding. Veterans will present colors as Israeli Consul enters the Border/' the Express correspondent this - the second anniversary of said that secret negotiations have JEWISH AGENCY MUST SPEND CLOSE TO $1,500,000 A MONTH hall. . * your re-establishment. May your been in progress for months and Guest artist of the occasion will be Richard Tucker~ Metropolitan FOR THEIR MAINTENANCE ALONE. beacon shine brighter and "brighter that Transjordan is ready to end the as you gain s.trength from strength . Opera star and cantor of note. Requests for numbers have been pouring into the Zionist office, and it is hoped Mr. Tucker will be able to comply war formally, thus making it the with our help. AVRAHAM HARMAN first Arab state to defy the Arab with I"ost of them. League by' concluding a separate peace with lhe Jewish state. II" Ii The Jews In Israel Jewish Post Publisher Celebrates 60th Birthday 5,000 HERUT CROWD , " Ben M. Cohen, publisher of The Jew:ish Post, quietly attained his SCOiRES BRITISH OK sixtieth milestone Monday, after 44 vigorous and active years in Winnipeg and the west, and 25 hectic years as founder and guide of this paper. ON ANNEXATION Proud of his Muscovite heritage (Zalrnan Shneour in "Shklover 'rei Aviv (JTA) - More than 5,00' Yidden" mention's Ben's Zayda among the few Jewish families.privileged persons jallll11ed into Tel Aviv's to live in the capital), Mr. Cohen is still prouder .of the small role he has Mograbi Square, in the centre of the , been credited with in building the Jewish community here by providing city, to attend a Herut-sponsor.ed it with its first s'uccessful English language \publication. open air meeting protesting Britain's Among his cherished memories is his debut in communal affairs when, formal recognition of Transj ordan Meet This Burden· Alonel at the request of Allan Bronfman, he served as publicity chairman for King Abdullah's annexation of the the years 1921 and 1922 in bringing the work of the Jewish Orphanage and Arab parts of Palestine. , Children's Home to the attention of the western community. Fiercely attacking the leadership ! Looking back over his career, he views everything he has ever done of the British government, Menahem THROUGH THE UNITED ISRAEL APPEAL, CAN ADIAN JEWRY ... from gun smuggling in the abortiv,e rev01ution of 1905, through the Beigin, former commander of the * years of bookbinding, presswork, paperhanging and space selling in underground Irgun organization anti western Canada, as merely an now leader of the right-wing Herut, SHARES IN THIS GRAVE RESPONSIBILITY_ apprenticeship for the venture he many imitators since. He, for· his promised "a struggle such as the undertook early in 1924 when he part, has -relished his work, deftly British Empire never saw before founded The Post. compromising the contradictory for the liberation of the whole .f How well he then gauged the claims of admen. and editors to the Palestine." community's needs may be judged end that the readers may have solid from the flattery paid him by his reading fare; the industrialists a publisher's staff of life . . . Ben D. P. GOTLIEB M. Cohen looks back on a career • . campaign chainnari~ Winnipeg well suited t9 his temperament ani 1950 . well performed. "Ben Shishim . The impact of the celebration' of . Judaic Dept. At Manitoba U. L'Ziknoh" say the sages . . . but the second anniversary' of the nite srae ppea ampalgns BEN M. COHEN. those who know his effervescent establishmeut 01 the state 01 Israel A Department of Judaic Studies which will offer courses in Modem quaJities today are prone to rewrite . will be a very considel'able ~ne in Hebrew and Jewish History. has been· established at the University of valuable medium, and the linotype scriprure . . . and join in wishing our community, I feel, certain. . Manitoba, President A. H. S. Gillrou announced tltis week. (For official operator the size pay envelope his him long years ahead packed with All 01 us join, in gratitude lor. the statelll<)nt by President Gillson, see boxed item on page 16.) union suggests_ youthful vigor and lasting achieve­ progress that the. state has made ment. AVRAHAM HARMAN to date and· rededicate ourselves The president announced further the appointment of Rabbi Arthur Self educated; gifted with a per- A. Chiel, director of Hillel at the university, as the departnient's head. eeptive grasp of world affairs; pos­ to lendrog our every ellort to Surrounded by an admiring family Israel in the trying period that Rabbi Chiel will have the status of assistant professor. sessed of that intuitive, feeling for circle .' .. his wife, two daughters' Israel Consul General in Canadal Guest Speaker Negotiations for the new department have been under way between the essentials of Jewish life that and son-in-law . . . his associates still lies ahead. The UJA in winnipeg must and offic~ . of the B'nai B'rith ~il~el FowlClation . . . a .bene~ciar~ of the acts as a brake upon the headlong and friends . . . may he find the will deliver a maximum support Jewish. Welfare Fund of. Wmrupeg .. _ and the. Wllve~lt:i smce last. flight from everything recognizably second quota of the appointed 120, to the Jewish state· through its September. ,The local plan was evolved after studies of similar depart-I Jewish today; and hlesspd "vith a no less interesting and rewarding than the first_ REGINA MOOSE JAW .. 1950 campaign. (Cont. on Page 16) native, promotional flair that is. the SUNDAY ...... APRIL 30 SATURDA Y ..... ______.. ______...... __ .... MAY 6 to a high Israeli ollicial giving a report of the then-ragin!: ISRAEL'S SECOND ANNIVERSARY: war. When, in the course of his address he reached the .. See exclusive* feature * words: . "It is my govermncnt's opinion," I felt that I had article on A vraham Harman heard words spoken which the Jewish people throughout MEDICINE HAT MELFORT and HUMBOLDT on page 3. history had waited since the year 70 to hear, 70 that fatal TUESDAY, ______.... __ .. __ .. __ . ____ .. ____ MAY 2 MONDAY __ .... _____ .____ . __ .__ ..... ______.. MAY 8 Thoughts While Saying Hallel year which saw the end of the Jewish state. Between these two scenes which came to my mind, the first which took me By R,ABBI DR. SOLOMON FRANK, Montreal bar mitzvah. Under the guidance of a truly* great* educator, baclt to my b~yhood days and the associationship of the I got an insight not only· into the age-old yearning of my Zionist club and the second, the appreciative uudel'standing CALGARY PRINCE ALBERT IYAR 5, 5710. This morning at synagogue services, in people, but in the efforts already then underway to put this of the creation of the Jewish state, my own education in WEDNESDAY MAY 3 TUESDAY ______. _____ . ____ ...... MAY 9 keeping with the custom which has been adopted by Jews dream into action. I saw the spiritual portrait of the im­ Jewish nationalism had taken place. And I felt, as I said throughout the world,' we read the Hallel, the tra~itional mortal lIerzl who huil given his life to the creation of Jewish the Hanel thut I uwe(l infinitely much to all those who, in Psalms of Thanksgiving in celebration of the Israeh Inde­ national rebirth. I learned to feel what he had strivcn to the course of my lifetime, had showed me not only by oral p'endence Day. I know that .Jewish Law requu'es concenn:a­ do. I rc.alize now that I felt it only imperiectly. It took precept, but by the sinccrity of their example, the l'eal LETHBRIDGE SASKATOON tion on prayer. But this was one occasion when ll1,:mory ran many years of study, of experience, of Jewish living and meaning of Jewish nationalis,m. of contact with older and wiser Zionists to understand the THURSDAY, ______... ______. __ . ____ MAY 4 WEDNESDAY .... " ...... _. MAY 10 riot. Throughout the rccital of the J:lan~l reco~lechons rela­ tive to and Israel kept commg mto mmd. l'eal ill1)lort of his ;message. Our survival as a people is OllC of thc miracles of recorded Somchow the first thing I remembered was my first And then with the rapidity of the flying seron I saw a history. Although our numbers have been few, we held on Zionist club which I joined as a boy, several years before second scene. This time, many years later, I was listening to life with great tenacity. (See RABBI FRANK, page 13)

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