SPRING 2017 Chabad Newfoundland Tolerance First Lt-Gen. Roméo Dallaire Shalom speaks in Halifax CONNECTING THE ATLANTIC JEWISH COMMUNITY YOM HASHOAH COMMEMORATED IN ATLANTIC CANADA JEWISHÊFEDERATIONSÊOFÊCANADAÊ-ÊUIA הפדרציות היהודיות בקנדה -ÊUIA FƒDƒRATIONSÊJUIVESÊDUÊCANADAÊ-ÊUIA 309 $3000 $400 $180 will send one young Jewish will provide a new oleh from will buy a functional computer adult from Atlantic Canada on France with a one-way fl ight from for an underfunded school in our a tranformative Birthright Israel Paris to Tel Aviv partnership region in Israel experience $72 $36 $100 will feed 10 university students will provide one year of will provide two hot meals to at a Shabbat dinner hosted by Jewish themed books to a family an elderly person in Ukraine Hillel Atlantic in Atlantic Canada for one year No gift has a greater impact or touches more Jewish lives across the world. This fall, please support the United Jewish Appeal of Atlantic Canada. Live generously…it does a world of good Atlantic Jewish Council | 5670 Spring Garden Road, Suite 309 | Halifax, Nova Scotia | B3J 1H6 P 902-422-7491 www. theajc.ns.ca IN THIS ISSUE SPRING 2017 VOL. 42 | NO. 1 IYAR 5777 SHALOM MAGAZINE Shalom President MICHAEL ARGAND FEATURES Executive Director 13 Lt-Gen. Roméo Dallaire Speaks in NAOMI ROSENFELD Halifax Editor 14 Canadian Young Judaea Celebrates EDNA LEVINE 100 Years! Contributing Editor 17 Chabad Newfoundland JOEL JACOBSON 18 Opening Remarks From Yom Hashoah, Design Halifax MEGHAN RUSHTON Yolana Wassersug reads the Opening Remarks from Yom HaShoah, Halifax. Page 18 21 Tolerance First – International Holocaust Advertising Remembrance Day EDNA LEVINE ON THE COVER MIKE SHVARTZMAN Address all correspondence IN EVERY ISSUE including advertising enquires to: 4 President’s Message: Michael Argand EDITOR, C/O SHALOM 5 From The Desk of Naomi Rosenfeld, ATLANTIC JEWISH COUNCIL Executive Director 5670 SPRING GARDEN ROAD SUITE 309 HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA B3J 1H6 7 From The Desk of Edna LeVine, Director of Community Engagement TEL. 902-422-7491 | FAX 902-425-3722 8 Camp Kadimah News [email protected] [email protected] 10 The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) Report www.theajc.ns.ca 11 Campus News This publication is printed by: Mezuzuh and The Scribe’s Case 30 Rabbis Corner HALCRAFT PRINTERS INC. by David Silverberg Mailed under Canada Post: DAVID SILVERBERG, PUBLICATIONS MAIL SALES AGREEMENT B.A. , R.C.A., F.R.S.A., AROUND OUR REGION an internationally acclaimed artist/ NO. 40052452 printmaker, was born in Montreal in 20 Halifax 1936. He studied with Arthur Lismer Cape Breton and received his B.A. from McGill 23 University in 1957. That same year 24 Newfoundland NOTE TO OUR READERS he studied engraving in Paris with 25 Moncton Our Atlantic Jewish community is losing more William Hayter at Atelier 17 and was influenced by those around him, including Max Ernst, 26 Fredericton and more members as the years go on. In the past, Mark Chagall and Matta. Shalom has printed stories of regional community Silverberg’s passion for art and travel is legendary. He has 27 Saint John members who have passed away. While we try to worked in 86 countries. His critically appreciated work 29 Prince Edward Island acknowledge the major contributions of many of has been the subject of over 200 solo exhibitions around our late friends and family members, we request the world. His interest and research into his heritage is that you inform Shalom of passings of which evident in many of his engravings and folios “The Song we may be unaware so we may recognize these of Songs” and “The Psalms of David”. After 32 years as a professor of Fine Arts at Mount Allison University, individuals. Shalom’s editorial staff reserves the Silverberg was appointed Acadia University’s first Artist in right to determine the length of memorial pieces to Residence in 1995-2000. He lives in and has his studio be printed in the magazine. in Wolfville, N.S. He has been fortunate enough to have been to Israel on 6 occasions. Silverberg has many Written articles are the opinion of the friends in Halifax, where he has exhibited often and given individual writers and do not necessarily presentations both in galleries and synagogues and has reflect the opinion of the AJC. contributed regularly to Shalom magazine. theAJC.ns.ca WINTER 2016-17 Shalom 3 PRESIDent’S MESSAGE MICHAEL ARGAND President of the Atlantic Jewish Council If the first few months of 2017 at the AJC party, we sent seven teen boys to Winnipeg as have taught me one thing, it’s that the times part of the Asper Foundation’s Human Rights they are a-changing. I’m confident that these and Holocaust Studies Program, and we’re in changes will help strengthen our organization the midst of organizing a trip to Israel for 20 and our community for years to come. mothers of young children from Halifax and First, we have strategically changed the New Brunswick. way we communicate with our constituency Finally, we’re changing up the way we in an attempt to better provide information educate and advocate on behalf of Israel and and clarity. In what used to be a clearing- other Jewish causes to the community at- house of endless unorganized information, large. In January, we co-hosted our first-ever our weekly newsletter is now a succinct and Atlantic Canadian Advocacy Grassroots Consul- concise report, highlighting six upcoming has been a huge success and is emblematic of tation with our national partners the Centre Jewish events and one general community some of the larger changes we are working to for Israel & Jewish Affairs. Through these im- event we feel would be of interest to you. In implement at the AJC. portant initiatives, we heard from our com- so doing, we have increased our readership Another change happening at the AJC munity members what they thought were the from 600 people to over 1,300 people across has been a concrete decision to prioritize most important advocacy issues we needed to the region. programming for “the next generation” – address. Furthermore, last month, we hosted As part of this same initiative to enhance youth, teens, young adults, and families with more than 15 politicians and public figures, our communications, we have also signifi- young children. We believe this program- as well as a huge contingent of friends from cantly improved our web presence. Now, our ming will pave the way for a strong Jewish the LGBTQ+ community in Halifax, at our website is an up-to-date tool that allows Jews future in Atlantic Canada. With this priority Yom HaShoah event – allowing our message from all over Atlantic Canada to learn both in mind over the last few months, we ran a of the importance of Holocaust education about our institutions and our upcoming hugely successful teen Shabbat dinner out of and awareness to reach even further. events. My favourite new page, our events our house on Walnut Street with Canadian I want to thank the ever hard-working calendar, gives a calendar view of all the Jew- Young Judea’s JOLT program, we danced team of staff at the AJC and my fellow board ish holidays as well as all the Jewish events in the night away at the Lord Nelson with members – in particular my fellow members our region. You can even add this calendar our young adults and university students at of the management committee – for partak- to your preferred scheduling tool (Google, Hillel’s beautiful Purim Masquerade Ball, ing in this process of transformation with me. Outlook, etc.) by simply subscribing to it. we sang with children’s musical-sensation I could not be more excited to see where the Overall, our new communications initiative Sonshine & Broccoli at our Yom Ha’atzmaut AJC goes from here! S Congratulations to the students and Thank you to the families of the 2017 Asper Foundation Human volunteer educators: Rights and Holocaust Studies Program: Dawn Frail Jacob Appleton Judith Goldberg Benjamin Berman Lewis Novack Jordan Collins Joseph Lecker-Evans And educator and Gilad Maianski chaperone: Aidan Rittenberg Craig Fox Adar Svidler 4 Shalom SPRING 2017 theAJC.ns.ca FROM THE DESK OF NAOMI ROSENFELD From The Desk Of NAOMI ROSENFELD Executive Director Kadimah for some clarity. WHAT DOES IT MEAN Many of you reading this know that my first introduction to Atlantic Canada was the TO BE A REGION? time I spent at Camp Kadimah; however, many of you probably don’t know how I Earlier this year, I sat in a meeting of execu- ended up there. tives of “small Jewish federations” in At- In the summer of 1977, my mom found lanta. As you may know, the AJC represents herself on a plane surrounded by a cohort Atlantic Canada in the Jewish Federation of Jewish 17-year-olds from across Canada movement, working with national and in- – including a large contingent from Atlantic ternational partner organizations to help shared isolation (both linguistic and geo- Canada. These teenagers, including my accomplish our goals of supporting our graphic) from central Canada. But are mom, were off to experience Israel for the local communities, fostering Jewish identity, these the factors that unite us as a Jewish first time as part of Canadian Young Judea’s and supporting the State of Israel – among community? Biluim Israel summer program. My mother other things. Each year, Jewish Federations On a recent Sunday afternoon, I was did not know many people on the trip; of North America, the continental umbrella cleaning out the AJC’s basement storage however, she was quickly embraced by the organization of the federation movement, locker when an old picture in a damaged warm and welcoming Kadimah crew.