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Page Three ThW'Sday, August l!7, 1964 Thursday, Aughst 1118& TH:g JEWISH POST 1 _ ) .~ ., .~ :n, Page Two THE .TEWISH. POST Chief Rabbis Call For Support Fro... t"~ Editor 98 BeMA Why The Split? One Partner's' View [With the announced-split be-five' from Herzlia as well as three Shaarey Zedek origin, were pre· POST tween the partners who for 'the from the Welfare Fund who sat ex- vented by the intervening of Rabbi. ,.-o! - past year were administering the Iii th Milton Aron, spiritual leader of REFLECTiONS ';ON BElL KATZNELSON The Oldest Anglo-Jewish Weekly inWestem CaMdo Ramah School in Winnipeg's south o'cio wi out a vote. At the start, Shaarey Zedek congregation. [Five thousand persons attended ceremonies this and that we must adjust our political thinking (Is8ued weekl,. in the interests of Jewish Community actlvitiee end, there has been some confu-' the president of the Welfare Fund in Winnipeg and Wmtem Canada) "Also, to the dismay of the Herzlia month on the shores of Lake Kineret commemorating accordingly. . sion concerning the plans of part- served as chairman. We would the 20th anniversary of the death of Berl Katznelson, Berl was a teacher. He would certainly object Member of the Jewish Tej.egraphic Agency ners for the immediate future • •• stress that the members of the board members on the Ramah School the famed philosOpher of the Zionist labor movement to the title of leader. Not just out of modesty, and a lack of information con- w 0 r ked together harmoniously. Board, all the teachers - with few and late editor of Davar, the Histadrut daily.] Published every Thunda,. by cerning the reasons for the break­ but because the concept of "leadeli$hip" was EMPIRE PRINTERS LTD. . up. The following is a statement There were differences, but these exceptions - who had been ori­ By DAVID BEN-GURION ginally hired by Henlia, were dis­ foreign to him. He was a teacher who understood Prlntera and Publiahen from one of the former partners were resolved and decisions were that his pupil might differ. RUPERT SHRIAR, Ph.D. LEO J. LEZACK outlining their position:]' made. The hoard apparently worked missed, and Rabbi Aron informed Berl ~Katznelson was the greatest intellectual Berl was no Rabbi, for a Rabbi requires .dis­ Editor Advertlafng ManaPI' On behalf of Herzlia Academy so smoothly that two months. after these board members that he "" as I force produced by the Second Aliya, which was ciples. Berl sought pupils, not disciples. He was Head Office: 1244 Main St., Winnipeg 4, Canada executive board, Israel Zalik, presi- it was set up, the then president of the product of disillusionment with Zionism and assuming full control of the Ramah I capable of admitting that.~ had no solution Subscription: $4.00 per annum dent, this week authorized release the Welfare Fund, which had been Socialism. with the death of Herzl, many feared to a problem. One of his great qualities was his Phoril1 JU 9-7331 Eve. Phone HU 9-2989 of the following statement: instrumental in arranging the mer- School. that the Movement was at an end. But there Authorized as second elBB8 mail by the P08t Office DepaitmeJlt. "Because of a complete break- ger, said .'he would now be able to' "This is not the type of amalga­ determination that his pupils should think for .~~,.,.,..,.,~~'~,.,.,., were those who realized that Zionism would only Ottawa. and fo~ payment 'Of pOltap in cash have a meaning if they devoted' their lives to themselves. He wished i to convey his mode of thought, . his view of things, and that his pupils , ...... -.... '. .. Welfare Fund Issues Sfafemenfon S. E. Edueafio1n ,working on the la,llI;l." ., . . . should then reach their own conclusions. regards the· Second -Alita. We remember the Th,1se men were also dlsllluSlOned wlth the .Administrative Committee for JeW­ He died before his time. He could have given Degania of 50 rears ago, but the whole country ," . Harold Schwartz, president of the such school to operate' under the Russian Revolution andEocialism ~ by 1906 they was not Degama. Not all the workers were like Jewish Welfare Fund of Winnipeg, standards and procedures set out by ish Education, stated that the basic CHIEF RABBI I. Y. UNTERMAN CHIEF' RABBI Y. NiimM so much to the State - but not in an official .. • . Ashkenazie Chief Rabbi •.• Sephardi Chief Rabbi had . little hope for this cause. These two factors position. I doubt whether he would have wanted the men of Degania. I think there are good men reported Wednesday that the board the Administrative Committee for objectives of the Shaarey Zedek and Henlia schools are identical and This year, as the State of -Israel "unite to labour '-.ever more for produced the Second Aliya - they· believed that If today as well; there has never been an ideal of directors of the Fund, at its meet­ Jewish Education. to be a Cabinet,Minister.... he would have it was to be hoped that ways and faces new challenges on all fronts,' Israel's strengthening by increased Zionism meant working on the land and in labor Jived, he would have witnessed the great change society'. 1 do not yearn for the days that have ing on Tuesday, Aug. 25, unani­ As long as these conditions are as the soul and spirit of the national revival. 1'hey not met, there will be no financial means will be eventually found to a call was issued to world Jewry by support of her financial channels in the 'Jewish people. For some time he feared gone. mously reafiirmed its position that assistance to Jewish education in resolve their problem. His commit­ Chief Rabbi Isser Yehuda Unter- amongst which the most importan; were Socialists but not the preaching kind, for that the Holocaust had destroyed our people. He He took part in defence affairs. Sometimes .' them it meant evolving a way of livng for a free we did not see eye to eye, because I was for much it would give complete financial that area of the city by the Jewish tee will continue to use its I good man and Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Nis- are State of Israel Bonds, whose waR very pessimistic. . If he could, have lived he offices to establish a community working community. would have seen, not only the catastrophe, but more extreme measures. As a rule, in politics, support to a single Community Welfare Fund, he said. . sim, calling for support of special mission is to serve as a lever of I do not say that they worked by any pre­ also the State. He 'would have seen the Oriental we agreed. He was a superb person, there was school system in south Winnipeg, Ronald Slater, chairman of the school in south Winnipeg. efforts for Israel Bonds being held development for Israel, her settle- arranged system. Their ideas merged from their immigration which hardly existed before. He nothing petty aQout him. There are truly great on the forthcoming High Holidays. ments and her economic flourishing. experiences, they learned by their mistakes, by would have seen how things change, that there men who are petty,but not he. In his message, Chief Rabbi He added: "It is incumbent upon constantly searching for improvement. And the are requirements of State, that there is a need '. Berl definitely envisaged a Jewish State. The Unterman stressed the importance us to understand the needs of the man who gave the 'fullest expression to their for the Army, that there are Government ser­ idea was raised as far bacll: as 1919. I recall of lending money not only to indi- State of Israel, which are so very viduals but. to the whole nation of great and so very vast in the fields searchings and thinking was Berl. Before he vices - and that al1 these require pioneering as that, w~en I came back from one of my trips came there, he was less of a Zionist than many . abroad m 1940, I was told that Bed had come ,- Israel, according to the command of education, building, industry, well - it seems to me that I know what his of the Bible: "For this you will be agriculture and others; to pave the others. The Socialist vision was part of him from attitude would have been. round to recognizing the immediate necessity of hi!! youth. He was, however, di!!illusioned by Nowadays science occupies a central role. He Statehood. privileged to see the blossoming and way for additional multitudes of our the Socialism in Russia. always fa-yored,science and learning ...As. a rule, Ever since I got to know hini we worked in \ progress of our state," he said. brethren who shall, in the years Berl came here in 1909, preferring not to join' not all the men of the Second Aliya held this view, unison. lIe was more active in the educational \ Chief Rabbi NissUn, in his mes- ahead of us, come to the land from either of the two existing workers' parties, not many of them cast their books aside ·and out of and ideological spheres and I in political affairs. sage, called upon world Jewry to all corners of the globe." agreeing with either of them in full. In those idealism went to work. He was the first to start I do not regard myself as his successor or "The Herzlia community, based on early years I hardly knew him. I met him once mobile libraries for farm workers.' He would have his pupil. We came from different ends of the th'\ Herzlia-Adas Yeshurun Syna­ K/ufzniek.. For Men's Youfh Aliyah or twice at meetings of agricultural workers. I understood .that pioneering of today could not line. He was not always a Zionist. I was born gogue, and the former Herzlia Acad~ really got to know him after I returned from just be of a personal nature, but of necessity . a Zionist, my father was a member of the Hovevei emy School, has decided to operate America with Ben-Zvi in the Jewish Legion, 'and IllUst be State-initiated. Many people do not' see Zion before the Zionist Movement. Berl came nursery, pre-nursery and kinder.­ met hini in the desert, a.t Tel-el-Ka-bir. I had come it this way. I:ere, with a considerable knowledge of Hebrew garten classes and a five-sessions-a­ across an article of his, "Towards the future," I do not think that· present-day Israel society hterature. He was profound and without plati- week night school, grades one to in an anthology called "Work." On reading it, I is anything like that en:visaged by Ber!. But tudes. . ,seven. It was with a great deal of said- to myself - this is what I believe too. . . . neither was society, during his lifetime, exactly There is no man who can. fill his place. On regret that we, who introduced the Sol went to see him. Berl wrote of the workers' suited to his taste. People are all mistaken as his level there is no one. Day School movement to the south mission to create a free Jewish society of men end of Winnipeg, find it' impossibl~ living by their own labor, of the. resolve to redeem for the time being at least, to re­ the nation and of the desire to free the workers , , sume operation of a full day school, _ both 'aims being part and parcel of the same MACABRE C'AMP CONCERT , without a community subvention cause' that the message of the Jewish worker which the Jewish Welfare Fund of By DR. RUDOLF ILTIS attended c,:!ltural evenings arranged by the pri­ Winnipeg has now promised only ------.---- could 'not be put across by routine methods but soners. It IS also true that Eichmann visited the through his life and his work; he called for mass Most of the Jews incarcerated by the Nazis camp, although not at the time of the first per­ to an amalgamated institution. PLAN ME,M'B'E'RSHIP CAMPAIGN immigration, creation of farming and industry in the Theresienstadt concentration camp met formance of the Requiem. "Having made our decision to go with the full cooperation of science and cultural the same fate as their six million co-religionists "The. idea of a performance by concentration on our own again, we feel we owe work. camp pnsoners was Raphael Schachter's and it it to the general J ewish commun~ No one said those things before him. The from all over Europe - they were transported to the death camps in the East, there to be killed was thanks to his tremendous energy that the .ity to disclose some of the factors ideas had a tremendous impact. Above all, he had by one or other of the barbarous methods the I!-lmost unimaginable difficulties facing the pro­ that prompted it. a briJIiant style. In his day there was no one like .Jec~,were overcome," continued Professor Berman. "When Herzlia Academy. was him. What Bialik was to poetry, he was to prose. Nazis employed to hasten the "Final Solution." But some of them survived to tell the story There was an orchestra in the samp, con­ established in 1954, we operated a RABBI PHILIP SHNAIBSON I know of nO writer who.bettered him in the form lUi. of one of the most remarkable and at the same ducted by Karel Ancerl, today chief conductor in day school and_ five session-a-week One of American Jewry's most and richness of expression. He outlined the path distinguished leaders, Philip Klutz­ home of Mrs. Lorne Wolch, 808 Oak -j time, macabre, events of the many that hap­ P:,-,ague. I asked Schachter at the time, why he night school. At that time Shaarey ; to future greatness. He was the finest intellectual Street, when Rabbi Shnairson will • pened in Hitler's Europe in the 1940's, the The­ dld not make use of the camp orchestra and he Zedek Religious School offered only nick, past world president of B'na! expression of all that was positive in the Second be guest speaker. Canvasser kits told ~e that it was not suitably constit~ted for . , three sessions-a-week' night school, B'rith and subsequently moving Aliya. By expression I mean not in words, but in resienstadt Requiem. will be distributed at that time. , Heinemann's published an English translation Ve~dl s score. That was why, he said, he had its day school having been added force behind the construction of action. He had a clear mind, political thought, In charge of the women's com­ of the story ("The Terezin Requiem," by Josef deCided to have two good pianists instead later. Herzlia was organized to meet Israel's Negev seaport at Ashdod, i, vision. He showed us the way to base our lives will be guest speaker at the men's mittee are Mrs. A. Keenberg, chair­ , \ Bor, a Czech writer) last October. It describes "The pianists he chose were: Gideon 'Klein, the needs of those parents who on physical work and settlement of the land. man; and Mesdames D. M. Levitt the performance, by concentration camp prison­ who was also a composer, and Edith Steiner­ wanted a more intensiv"-; . Jewish annual Youth Aliyah Dinner this Be!'l was the one who voiced the unity of labor, and S. Shenkarow, secretaries­ ers, Jews, for an audience of S.S. men, of Verdi's Kraus~ Gideon KleilJ, was murdered by the Nazis education and a more Orthodox­ year, it was announced this week U as (in the case of) the merger of three agricul­ treasurer; L. Walch and M. Corne, But Edith Steiner-Kraus came through the camp~ oriented one for their children'. In by Rabbi Philip Shnairson, dinner t Requiem. This was only one of many famous . , chairmen of canvassers; R. J. Kim­ , tural workers unions ... and the Histadrut. . . alive and today lives abroad. . 1957, the Herzlia school became the chairman, musical works produced in Theresienstadt, often " mel and N, Greenberg, chairmen of t Unity was important to Berl, because he did "Many of the solo parts were learned by three south end branch of the Talmud Mr. Klutznick was appointed a hours before some of the performers were taken hosts committee. not regard the workers as a separate class, in off in cattle' trucks for their last journey. singers. As far as I know, 'Hedda Grab Ada Torah and at that time negotiations U.S. delegate to the United Nations, opposition to Left Poalei .Zion, b~t as part of The briIIiant young conductor who staged the Schwarz - Klein and Mrs. Aronson - Lindt the started for an amalgamation with with ambassadorial status, by the the nation and as responslble for Its fate. mezzo-sopranos., are still alive, as are the sop~anos Shaarey Zedek school at the sug­ w. S. (BILL) KATZ JACK MARKSON late President John F. Kennedy Ber! always Jived with the idea that what we performance, Raphael Schachter, did not survive Sliehof to tell his story. But one of the participants, Mrs. Borgerova and Mrs. Marion Podolier gestion of the Welfare Fund. By Chaim Weizmann Club, the largest committee of past presidents con­ early in the latter's term of office, Serviee were doing was not just for the sake of a party Karel Berman, did. Today he lives in Prague, "The three tenors - David Grunfeld-Garen July of 1959 negotiations broke men's Zionist group in western Can­ sidered the problems. Heading this Because of restraints he felt imposed Af Herz/ia but for the common good. where he is the director of the Prague National Michael Gobets (a Dutchman) and Frantisek down and in November of 1959 the ada, has embarked on a membership special committee are W. S. (Bill) upon him in expressing his views He opposed me about Partition in 1937. He Weissenstein (a Czech) - are dead. Grunfeld­ Welfare Fund granted the Talmud drive in order to prepare to fulfill Katz and his co-chairman, Jack on U.s. Mideast policies involving Preceding Slichot services Satur­ Opera and one of its soloists. This summer, he day, Aug. 29, the ritual committee dreamed of the integrity of the land. But he did and his company journeyed to Edinburgh to Garen died in the United States shortly after the Torah a subvention to help run its its share of the responsibilities which Markson. Israel, Mr. Klutznick resigned his agree finally to the formula that if the Mandatory of Herzlia - Adas Yeshurun Syna­ war:. Gobe~s was killed at the Kaufering camp. program in the Herzlia school. the new and expanding tasks of Included on the committee are post. Government would keep to the Partition scheme, .participate in its annual festival of the arts. gogue will hold a M'laveh Malkeh In an interview with the JCNS correspondent Welssenstem was picked out at the same time' "Negotiations for amalgamation the organization are demanding past presidents: H. D. Altman, Hart The dinner will be held on Thurs­ with certain improvements - Jerusalem and the through the members of Zionist Green, Q.C., M. E. Kopstein, Q.C., day, Nov. 19, at the International at 10 p.m. in honor of Rabbi Meyer in Prague, Professor Berman described the back­ as I was at a se~ection conducted by Dr. Mengele. were resumed early in 1963, and borders - we would discuss it. Then came his D. Leven, Q,C., F. Marantz, M. J. Inn, with kosher catering arrange­ C. Horowitz, the congregation's new ground of the book, and reminisced about the Mengele sent hlm to the right, for gassing, and an agreement to form Ramah He­ clubs. article, during World War II, in a pamphlet Silverberg, Dr. L. L. Singer, M. M. ments being handled by Auby Gal­ spirttual leader and principal of the Requiem performance. me to the left, for forced labor. ' brew School was entered into for • The first meeting to plan "an entitled "The Crucible," where he wrote of the Sucharov; plus incumbent president pern of Blue Star Kosher Caterers. Herzlia Academy school. "In his account, Bor describes events that . Two of us studied the bass part - Herrmann a two-year trial basis. A board attack" upon membership retention immediate need for a Jewish State, arguing that M. P. Rosenberg; M. Lentz, treas­ Women who will be distributing The community is invited to meet really happened, though not necessarily at the Fned, who is chief reader in a Copenhagen syna­ was set up August 21, 1963, to oper­ and organize for a membership drive the Mandate would not last and that the State urer; and W.· H. Pitch, executive tickets will gather at a canvassers the rabbi and to attend the Slichot time of the performance of Verdi's Requiem," he gogue today, and myself. But I sang it at the ate the school, made up of five for 100 new members was held would not cover all parts of the land. This was rally on Thursday, Sept. 17, at the services at 12 midnight. said. "It often happened that the camp staff See MACABRE CONCERT, pg. 11 , Shaarey Zedek representatives and Wednesday, Aug. 26, when a special member. his strength - he realized that conditions ch.ange ; i I ( ~'I\", . i "

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