Congress bulletin, 1 mai 1943, Mai

[" \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Ap-5a .CA, mvp = oA a.Congress.Bulletin Vor.1, No.3 MONTREAL, CANADA May, 1943 Ask Canada Admit Refugees GCongress Submits Plans Western Jews Meet at Winni For the first time representatives of Western Canadian Jewry will meet with the leaders of the Canadian Jewish Congress in Winnipeg when the Western Conference of the Canadian Jewish Congress will be convened in that western city on May 23rd and 24th together with the session of the National Executive.Mr.Samuel Bronfman, the National President of the Canadian Jewish Congress will attend together with Mr.Michael Garber, K.C., head of the Eastern Division of Congress, Mr.A.B.Bennett, head of the Central Division, Mr.Saul Hayes, the National Executive Director.Mr.Samuel J.Zacks who head the United Jewish Refugee and War Relief Agencies in Ontario, Mr.Ben Sadowski of Toronto, National Treasurer of the U.J.R,, and Mr.L.Zuker, of the Labor Zionist moves ment in Canada, Mr.A.and: will speak at the Sunday morning session.Mr.Samuel Bronfman will deliver his address at the Sunday afternoon session at which Mr.Garnet Coulter, the Mayor of Winnipeg, will bring the greetings of the city.On Sunday evening Mr.Samuel BR - man will address a mass meeting of the delegates and Winnipeg Jewry.At this session the Hon.Stuart Garson, Prime Minister of Manitoba and Dr.Sidney Smith, President of the University of Manitoba: will greet the session.Mr.Jacob Leschtchinsky, noted Jewish economist and statistician, will speak.at this meeting.Mr.Garber.Mr.Bennett and the Executive Director of the Western Division of the Congress,\" Mr.Louis Rosenberg will speak at the morning session.A luncheon for.the delegates and guests is planned.Awarded D.F.M.Warrant Officer Sydney Back of Toronto has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal by the R.C.AF.W/O Back, R72341, is a navigator aboard an R.C.A.F.plane which has}.chalked up an cnviable record in attacks on enemy ships and installations.H.Aronovit:h, president of the Western Division wili be in che chai! Conference MR A, H.ARONOVITSH President of the Western Division of the Canadian Jewish Congress who is presiding at the Western Conference of Congress in Winnipeg.The Monday sessions will consist of a series of forums on education, led by Mr.Salem Miller; on Public Relations led by Mr.S.Hart Green; and on War Efforts, led by Mr.Alex Freeman.Mr.Saul Hayes will lead the forum on the work of the United Jewish Refugee and War Relief Agencies.- Representatives of all Western.Jewish communities from as far west as Vancouver will.be present at the deliberations.' Committee Head Mr.LJ.Oelbium, prominent worker in the United Jewish Refugee | and War Relief Agencies, Canadian Jewish Congress, Bnai Brith and the United Jewish Welfare Fund of Ter- onto.has been named head of the Joint\u201d Public Relations Committee in the Central Division, according to an announcement by Mr.Archie B.Bennett, president of the Canadian fewish Congress in the division.Mr.Oelbaum succeeds Rabbi Maurice N.Eisendrath who has left Canada for the duration to accept an executive position with the Union of American Hebrew Congregations in Cincinnati and New York.» .Mr.J.H.Fine has been named chairman of the Eastern Division Public Relations Committee.Oelbaum Named To Prime 3 Point Program Submitted Minister Canadian Jews want their government and their country to help save the Jews of* Europe.Towards this end the Canadian Jewish Congress and the United Jewish Refugee & War Relief Agencies hive been devoting all their energies and have enlisted the support of a large number of other Canadians.The press of Canada is full of condemnations .of Nazi atrocities; many periodicals are going much further, saying that expressions of sympathy are nowhere near sufficient and that specific action must be taken by the government.What can Canada do?, The Canadian Jewish Congress has formulated a Three-Point Program asking for (a) admission of Jews into Canada.(b) the feeding of the Jews in the ghet-! toes of Europe, and (c) Canadian participation in any international program that may be undertaken to aid the Jews of Europe.; The Congress has submitted a memor- Prime Minister of this dominion, and the | (NEC on MN these requests to the [Y Jews of Canada are certain that this call - of humanity will not be left unheeded.The Jews are the foremost and most uncompromising enemy of Hitlerism and the most suffering of all the United Nations.Cafiada will not be deaf to the cries of our people.The World Jewish Congress has placed the views of the Canadian Jewish Congress before the inter-governmental conference in Hamilton Bermuda.The National Committee for Refugees, an organization of leading Canadian men and women devoted to the improvement of the lot of the refugees, has convened a special session to discuss the fate of the Jews and submitted a ser of proposals to the Government urging immedi ate action, A delegation representing the Canadian Jewish Congress will soon proceed to Ottawa to discuss with members of the Cabinet specific wavs and means for \u2018Canadian participation in rescue plans tor the Jews of Europe.U.J.R.Sends $100,000 to Palestine For Gigantic J.D.C.Rescue Work FOUR FIFTHS OF U.J.R.TRANSMISSIONS ARE TO PALESTINE Thel U.J.R.& W.R.A.has sent more than $100,000 to Palestinz in the last few weeks as part of its program of cooperating with Joint Distribution Committee project of bringing aid to strick- tn Jewry.The money was used to pay for ! the transportation of many refugees who have been saved from the claws of the Nazis and have been brought into Palestine.The money is also used for the maintenance of these refugees until they jare permanently absorbed into the econ- \u2018omic life of the community.In making this announcement Mr.Saul Hayes, the national executive director of the U.J.R.stated that there have, been very heavy calls on the U.J.R.re-| icently.\u201cEvery opportunity that presents | (itself for the rescue of a single Jew is; \u201cseized upon, and we have been asked to] \u2018remit large sums on short notice.There have been times when we were called upon for more than we had.We have ynot hesitated to borrow from the banks t for this purpose, for the needy whom we {can help must not lack.But I would limpress upon every Jew our great and limmediate nced of funds,\u201d he said.Mr.Hayes also points out that Palestine has long been a very important area of U.J.R.work.\u201cSome 80 per cent of all our overseas transmissions go to Palestine where we are major partners in a great work of rescue and upbuilding.This influx of foreign funds is without .{a doubt a potent element in the life of yishuv,\u201d he said.Simon Heads.Halifax Drive The Jewish community of Halifax will conduct its annual dive for the United Jewish Refugee and War Relief Agencies during the middle of June under the chairmanship of Mr.Joseph Simon, head of the Maritime Conference of the U.J.R.& W.R.A.The community had already conducted its combined Congress War Effort appeal under the leadership of Mr.Noah Heinish.Mr.Abe Bronfrhan and Mr.Saul Hayes will visit Halifax to assist in the drive which, it is expected, will surpass by far.last year\u2019s quota of $10,000.Shortly after the Halifax campaign th: Jewish residents of Yarmouth, N.S will hold their drive.The Ottawa campaign date is set for June 27 when Marvin Lowenthal, out- \u2019 standing man of letters, will speak at the Canadian capital. PAGE 2 ¥ CONGRESS BULLETIN May, 1943 \u201cSomething Should Be Done for the Jews\u201d Feeling Rises in all Parts of Canada \u2018Manitoba Legislator Adopts Resolution of Congress Leader CITY COUNCILS ACROSS CANADA, INCLUDING TORONTO, MONTREAL, EXPRESS FEELING OF SYMPATHY FOR VICTIMS OF NAZIISM; URGE ACTION The Provincial Legislature of Manitoba has goné on record expressing its detestation of the German atrocities against the Jews on the motion of the Jewish member of the House, Mr.M.A.Gray, M.L.A., a member of the Dominion Council of the Canadiaii Jewish Congress.The resolution adopted by the legislature reads: Taking cognizance of the atrocities being perpetrated against the Jewish and other oppressed and persecuted peoples of Nazi-occupied countries: This House condemns the expressed policy of determined extermination and declares that these offences against humanity can only strengthen our will to overcome the Axis threat to civilization, bring freedom to all men, liberation to all oppressed and persecuted peoples, and result in an eventual and universal reign of justice._ And towards the attainment of the goal, this House reaffirms the righ \"resolve to go forward whole-heartedly until victory will crown our efforts.SY 0 {a Toronto, Montreal and other centres of Canada the city councils adopted motions of sympathy for the Jews.The resolution moved by Ald.Nathan.Phillips, K.C.of Toronto is expressive of the feelings of the municipal bodies of this country: \u201cThis Council does emphatically condemn the brutal policy of murderous termination of Jewish and other racial and religious groups in Nazi-Fascist occupied territories, and further, that this Council doss declare that these heinous crimes against humanity shall strengthen | our resolution to defeat the Nazi-Fas- cist enemy of civilization, secure the liberation of all oppressed people and 4 Churchmen Raise Funds for Jews The Christadelphian Society of Van- _couver, an association of Christian men and women, are deeply distressed about \u201cthe distressed Jews who are suffering at the hands of .those who \u2018seek their destruction.\u201d They make a practice of taking up .a collection every quarter for the Jewish victims of anti-semitism, : and they remit it to the Jewish External Welfare Fund of Vancouver.Last week the group sent $39.50 to this fund and the secretary,, Mr.Percy Houghton, wrote: \u201cOur hearts go out to them, and it is our earnest prayer that the day \u2018of their final deliverance will soon ar- .rive.We know that just as the decree of Haman failed so \u2018Hitler will likewise be unable to destroy the Jew.\"We hope that our gift will in some -small way alleviate their distress.\u201d We :send it with the best wishes for their § welfare.\u201d bring freedom to the world, and that this Council ask the Federal Government to act in unison with the United Nations in protesting the Nazi atrocities against a helpless people and to cooperate with the United Nations in the efforts to secure a haven for those victims who can be saved from the grip of Hitlerism at the present time The radio and the press of Canada are outspoken in their demand for strong measures to relieve the plight of the Jews of Europe.The memorable address of Mr.Watson Thomson over the national network of the CBC has already become an important document in Canadian public expression.It has been reprinted and very widely distributed.Further copies are available from any office of the Canadian Jewish Congress.But Mr.Thomson is in good company.Many a radio commentator has given time and earnest thought to the problem.For instance: In Winnipeg Mr.Allistair Stewart, well known radio commentator and news analyst, speaking over CJRC, stated: Now some of us may feel vaguely more comfortable when we know that the powers that be recognize the problem, that something may even be done about [it But then we're not refugees from .tims of Naziism.and non-Jewish.refugees.Greek people.ghettos.(b) © (d) \u201c nent havens be- provided.(e) Canada\u2019 \u201ccé +.- .eee a I A _ ce af What Canada Can Do Our own country can help many of the Jewish vic- It has already given refuge to a number of Jewish It has sent much food for the hard-pressed, gallant If the United Nations are to act effectively on behalf of threatened Jews, Canada must be one of the countries contributing to the solution of this problem.The Canadian Jewish Congress has formulated these proposals and has submitted them to the Government of Canada as a basis for a rescue program: | S pecific Proposals 1.In the final analysis any plan of rescue must be based upon an offer of refuge for the victims of the Axis.We therefore respectfully request the Government of Canada to grant asylum to a number of Jews, especially children, who may by this means find freedom from Axis slavery.2, In view of the fact that the Jews imprisoned in the ghettos of Europe are dying in large numbers for lack of food, and encouraged by the experience of the Government of Canada in providing food for the civilian population of occupied Greece, we respectfully urge the Government of Canada to take the initiative in organizing a system for thé feeding of the Jews in the European 3.Mindful of the great respect which our country has earned among the free people especially by its gigantic contribution to freedom\u2019s victory, and aware of the fact that further .measures, in.addition to those proposed above must needs be undertaken for the full solution of the problem, we respectfully solicit our government's.goed offices for: \u2026 @ Approach through intermediary of neutral powers and agencies, and/or the Vatican with a view to securing Axis agreement to the exit of Jews from areas controlled by\" the Axis.: Provision of shipping for .transfer of refugees.Securing of havens of refuge in allied and/or neutral countries for refugees, especially in Palestine.* Assurance to neutral \u2018states: offering temporary \u2018asylum that these refugees will not beceme a charge upon the public, that deliveries of food will be permitted to cover their needs and that transfer to perma- Establishment of an international \u201csystem similar to the Nansen Office of the League of Nations for the protection of refugees who have been deprived of their citizenship by Axis _governments.J fust Act Now - + The: \u2018most.uncompromising enemies of Naziism, the Il Jewish people, must set be-disappointed i in à their hour of.| fascism.We don\u2019t live a life of persecution, hunted, hounded and harried, an existence in which a bullet would be an act of grace, a rope, a mercy.There are thousands of people in Europe who can still be saved, human beings like you and myself who can still be given a chance of life\u2014if we act soon enough.But what are we doing about it?Talking .yes, and while we talk people are dying, people whose lives we might have saved.At Lisbon for instance there is a large number of Jewish \u2018refugees trying to escape from the horrors of Europe.Now one of the distinguishing features between ourselves and the bruite creation is that we have hope.But the refugees have none.We give them none.Are they mere brute beasts then?Or are they men, women and children with the same love of life that you and 1 have?These tormented people have to stay there, wracked by fears and doubts while the great Christian nations solemnly discuss their fate and ponderously make plans as to what is to be done' with these victims of Nazi persecution.Even a superficial examination shows that persecution is not confined to the Fascists.Is it beyond our powers to bring them to these shores, or to England or the United States, is it beyond our capacity to rescue them first and talk afterwards?The idea is elementary, it is essentially simple, perhaps that\u2019s what is wrong with 1t.We who are members of the Christian faith talk glibly of the value we place on human personality.We talk too glibly for there is little, at times, to substantiate our faith in the way of action.More than a million Jews have been deliberately exterminated in Europe,\u201cthose who are left are the victims of inhuman pes- secution, Most of us haven\u2019t batten ad \u2018eyelid.But they are human beings.If we are a Christian nation is there any reason why we cannot give refuge\u2019 to the homeless and succor to the helpless?Montreal\u2019s Jud ge Reasserts Principle From a court of law in Montreal last week, came words of reminder of the finest tradition of Canada.A man was up before Judge J.A.Regnier charged with breaking and entering into a synagogue, causing ticles to the value of $600.In sentencing the man the Judge said, \u201cIf you had committed your odious crime in a Catholic.church you would have aroused the strong indignation of the public.I can not be any less severe to you because you commit this crime in the house of worship \u2018of a different .religion which has at.\u2018as any other religion.\u201d considerable damage and stealing ar- |' \"much right to protection and\"; respect | with the full co-operation of Capt, Samuel Cass and Flight Lieutenant Jicob Eisen who head the Jewish chaplains in Canada, and all the rabbis in the Dominion, have arranged cn extensive program of hospitality for the Jewish men on Passover leave.Those who did not have time to reach their homes for the holiday were provided with accommodation, meals and sedorim.In certain cases, where arrangements could be m:de with the nearby military camps, meals were provided for men in service for the intermediate days of the holiday as well as for the days of rest and prayer.Invitations were extended to the Jewish servicemen by the major synagogues of Canada.Community sedorim and services have been arranged in the coastal ports where large numbers of Jewish men are stationed through the efforts of the Jewish chaplains of the services.Every Jewish serviceman stationed overseas, in Alaska, Labrador and in isolated areas of Canada and Newfoundland, or in Canadian military hospitals xeceived a special Passover hamper containing matzoh, kosher salami, a Jewish calendar, as well as other little luxuries not included in official rations and issue.In addition matzohs were sent over- The Canadian Jewish Congress Servicemen\u2019s Centre at Halifax sponsored community Sdorim for the Jewish men- in uniform.Perhaps we had best let Mr.Aaron Feld, the director of the Centre,\u2019 describe it.He writes .\u201cOur Sedorim were a terrific success.The whole community is s:ying it is the biggest and swellest thing Halifax has ever done.The boys were tickled pink with it and we keep hearing all kinds of favourable comment about it.We were Canadi:n Expeditionary Force, Captain.S.Gershon Levi.\u2019 The wives of servicemen who are visiting their husbands near military camps were provided with such Passover needs as matzohs, m4 oh meal and Passover oil.Mzny families of enlisted men re- seas to the Jewish chaplain with the #cived generous hampers of groceries and so beautifully organized that there wasn\u2019t a single hitch.It was a beautiful sight to see the gracefully decorated tables and row after row of uniforms.The services were lovely, the meals marvellous and the fel' ows really had a glorious time.Between courses they sang Yiddish, Hebrew and popular songs\u2014and with gusto.The place was just a mass of happy faces.I do sincerely think it was one of the most beautiful things ve ever seen.\u201cThe first night Mr.and Mrs.N.\u2018other Passover nzeds from the Knights \u2018of Pythias through the efforts of the Canadian Jewish Congress.The United Jewish Refugee & War Relief Agencies had made certain that no Jewish refugee in this country will be without Passover accommodation for the holid:y.Invitations have been issued to Lo.THE HEAD TABLE AT THE HALIFAX SEDER rogram Enabled serve Passover Men from all Services Guests of Congress at Halifax Seder \\ Heinish acted as hosts and welcomed the boys on beh:lf of Congress and the community.The second night Mr.N.Green was host.Capt.[.Cass of the R.C.A.M.C, (brother of Captain Samuel Cass, Army Chaplain), conducted the services.\u201cThe women of Halifax really did a tremendous job cooking 400 meals (our @@ttendance for both nights was close to 400) on a small electric range in a kitchen almost 8 x 10°.They deserve a \u2018great deal of credit.\u201d all of them to avail themselves of -the services of the Congress and many refugee farmers in Ontario enjoyed spending Passover in Toronto as guests of the local United Jewish Refugee & War Relief Agencies committee.The interned refugees were supplied with matzohs, oranges, grapefruit, apples, wine, fish, potato flour, lemons, vegetables znd Passover groceries.U.S.-Canadian Seder In Newfoundland The solidarity of J:wish servicemen in various allied armies came to the fore at such stations :s Newfoundland where the American Jewish Welfare Board acted as hosts to many Canadians at a sed:r and services.Wrote Flying Officer Sydney G.Cooper, R.C.A.F., of Montreal to Chap- fain Lieut.Morton Baum:n, U.S.A., who had supervised local arrangements.\u201cI have never before enjoyed a seder service so much.I hope that sometimes in the future we Canadians will have an opportunity to return the hospitality which you so graciously offered us.\u201d ng gprs ir der To aed he he com.\\, (ete AMG Amp 5 Iv di.A [Cis def quil : pre 1 May, 1943 .CONGRESS BULLETIN Pace $ Soldiers At First Seder Ever Held In Prince George, Northern B.C.This historic photograph shows the seder service at Prince George, B.C., arranged by th: local Leith and Spanner famdies as part of the Congress program af religious services to the enlisted men.x Mr.Prince Ruptr, B.C.Capt.Samuel Cass, senior Jewish army chaplain in Canada, arranged a seder service for some 75 men in th: Empress Hall.Many of ; those attending were American servicemen.DIEPPE HERO RETURNS Captain Ben Brachman, Regina doctor who served with the Cameron Highlanders cf Winnipeg during the Dieppe raid, WINNIPEG VETERANS ELECT ~The General Monash branch of the .C:nadian Legion, consisting of Jewish {war veterans, tripled its membership last Congress Statistics WAS IN NORTH AFRICA Some statistics on the Congress Servicemen\u2019s Centre in Montreal: 2200 servicemen visit the Montreal Centre every month.1000 workers and junior hostesses call every month to help entertain these visitors.300 tickets to theatres were distributed to servicemen during the last two months._ ; Ten letters are written every day to the families of visiting servicemen.100 snapshots are taken every month.Every week three professional entertainments and two fre: pirties are | given.i = Join Active i Kalman Kaplansky, of Montreal, chair-; SGT.EDDIE HART, one of three Mont-~ im:an of the City Committee of the Work- i real brothers serving overseas, has just | men\u2019s Circle, member of the Executive, returned to Britain from North Africa.of Local 176, International Typograph- | His brother, Sgt.David L.Hart, won ical Union and of the Quebec Provincial, the Military Medal at Dieppe.Council CCF, has joined the Canadian | Active Army.| | manville to enlist in the Midland Reserve .; | Regiment, he joined as a private in July, Lieut.Maurice Breslin, representative 1940.Commissioned a lieutenant, he of Congress in Bowmanville, has recently acted as intelligence and security officer joined Active Service.The first in Bow- | of the unit for the past year.& Montreal JIAS $25,000 Drive Under Way The Jewish Immigrant Aid Society in m:n; Honorary Vice-Chairmen, Benja- has returned from overseas and is on.year, president Joseph Wilder reported.| Montreal is conducting a drive for funds' min Robinson, K.C., H.Barsky, Samuel In addition, the branch has enrolled 400 | to maatain their administrative services Gurtman; Joint Chairmen, Jack Segall, leavz in Regina.Captain Brachman was wounded during the raid and wis mentioned in despatches for his work during that action.He was the first Regina medical man to b:come a casualty during the present war.He first served with the 10th Field Ambulance and trained at Dandurn and was later, while overseas, transferred to lassociate members, comprising Jewish | and to wipe out j men who are or active service in the: i present war.© The following officers were recently, jelected: President, J.Wilder; first vice- | president, Alderman E.A.Brotman; \u201csecond vice-president, E.A.Krismfan; \u2018treasurer, I.Cohen: secretary, H.Rob- iins; recording secr:tary, Dr.J.Rice; Committee chairmen: visiting, N.Sel- chen; sick visiting, N.Greenstone; band, lA.Handlenin; publicity, A.D.Pascal; \"house, E.Yoal; social.D.V.Rosen; ex- | :cutive, À.Levedie.H.Levinson, E.Mos- + the Camerons as medical officer.After the Dieppe raid he was hospitalized but has now recovered.- Before the war he was a well-known skin specialist in Regina.FOUR FRFOM ONE HOME Add to the list of Jewish families with three sons.on active service the name of the Zaldins of Toronto: ; Mr.and Mrs.Nathan.Zaldin of 58 Coaltnine Road have two sons.in: the army and one in the air.force.\u20acapt.Arthur Harvey Zaldin is adjutant at Camp .Uppegwash, .Ont.; .Pre.Samue Zaldin, RE\u20acO.C., is at Montreal ; and | bert Street.Montre:l, téceived the Amer- |\u2018\u2018gerting the medal was a proüd\u201d mo- : covitch; sergeant-at-arms, N.Greenberg: parade marshals, H.Robins, I.Cohen; delegates to district command, H.Levinson.E.Yoel: archivist, E.Levadie.Th: General Monash Branch of the Canadian Legion is affiliated with the: Winnipeg Congress Council and takes an actve part in the work of the War Ef-, forts Committee of the Canadian Jewish | Congress.| - | KIN OF MONTREALERS WINS | AMERICAN MEDAL Private Milton, L.Gorobetz, nephew of.\"Mr.and Mrs.Louis Yenofsky, 72 Cuth- ican Silver Medal for \u201ccalmness, bravery and valor under fire of artillery and enemy aircraft\u201d in North Africa.Private Gorobetz 1s serving with the American Army Medicsl Corps and was given the medal.at Casablanca.He was aboard one of the five American transports torpedoed near the shore.He swim to the beach and \u201cwithout regard to his own safety and disregarding air bombardment and strafing continued to administer first aid to the injured men on the beich.\u201d .He wrote his parents Mr.& \u2018Mrs.Reuben Gorobetz of Brooklyn that his thoughts were far from medals at the time of the action but he admits that ment.1 did not know whether I was sit- AG.John Zaldin is, statieded ae Torénte.4 bring or standing.\u201d a deficit which had ac-j Harry Kirsch; Honorary Treasurers, L Whe el .SAMUEL GUTTMAN Honorary Campaign Vice-Chairmen.National President of the Jewish Immigrant Aid Society, one of the FARRY KIRSCH Campaign Co-Chairman with J.Segall Namerow and Dr.Herman Abramow- tz.Publicity Committze: S.Be'kin, H.H.Levitt, Joseph Shapiro, K.C.cumulsted during the last five years.The drive opens on May 18th and will continue till the end of the month.Formal opening of the $25,000 cam-| Campaign Council: B.Buetel, David paign will be mirked by a dinner at the|Blumer, Tobias Glickman, Hyman Montzfiore Club on Tuesday evening, Grover.B.Levit, Phil Meyerovitch, May 18th at which reports will be given K.C., A.Nissenson, Laz.Phillips, K.Con the society\u2019s activities and the responsibilities it expects to assume after the war.The drive will continue till the end of the month.Campaign Executive: D.Appelbaum, *S.Berenbaum.S.Berkowitz, Sam Black, Arthur Brown, Gordon Brown, R.B.Burko, I.Cohen, L.Cresthal.A.Charn- The J.LA.S.was estæblished after the ess, Michael Garber.K.C.Harry Green- last war and has a fine record of service 1 .co : \u201c| wood.Lou Herman, M.Lauter, M.Pu- to the newly arrived immigrants in this; d senfeld.L.Roskies, Isaac country.In recent years it has worked gach, J.A.Ro ° closely with the United Jewish Refugee Roskies, J.Shifran.G.Shuster, S.Tem- & War Relief Agencies, and its president, Lin Ben Usheroff.Mr.S.Guttman, has been recently ap-.; ; pointed to the Board of the U.J.R.& The Canadian Jewish Congress calls : : upon Montreal Jewry to respond gener- W.R.A.The campaign officers are: «+ |ously to the appeal of JIAS whose work Honorary Chairman.Samuel Bronf- deserves their utmost support. fed Pace 10 | \u2018 H \u2019 CONGRESS BULLETIN 5 Work Is Increasing So Rapidly - Shortage of Chaplains Marked \u2018active services is rising so rapidly and the work of the full-time and part-time \u201cehaplains has grown to such an extent that it has become a sizable problem to the Religious Welfare Committee of the Congress.At the present time one Jewish Chap- kin, Capt.Gershon Levi, is serving the mien oversels, and two full-time Chap- \u201clains, Capt.Samuel Cass arid Flt.Lieut.\u2018Jacob Eisen, are on duty in Canada.They, are assisted by part-time chaplains of \u2018Saint John, Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Hamilton, Kingston and Winnipeg as well as by civilian rabbis in many other.cities, But the pressure of their duties requires further appointments.The simple ~ fact is that it is difficult to procure the services of rabbis with the exacting qual- \u2018Hications required by the services.This is the more remarkable since the \u2018mumber of Canadian-born men who have been ordained rabbis is quite large; however, many of them have been occupy- ng pulpits in the United States and a \u2018number are with the chaplaincy services \" of the American forces.Recently Dr.Herman Abramowitz, \u20achairman of the Congress Committee on.© The number of Jews in the Canadian\u2019 Boxes of Comforts Are Ties with Home The cigarette and comforts fund programs of the Canadian Jewish Congress are designed largely for the benefit of Canadian Jewish men overseas.But Congress is generous in waiving this rule.Only recently one of the Jewish chaplains asked that two Christian men overseas be put on the list: they were not L receiving parcels from any one else.One of «hem is from Bermuda.\u2018 The men are now receiving comfort boxes and cigarettes as frequently as any Jew overseis.oo = * + Once 2 man reaches overseas he is put ion the list for comfort boxes and cigarettes, and these go to him regularly.Last week a letter received from an infantry major overseas told once again how valuable the comforts program is: A box of cigarettes reached a base inf | Britain addressed to a Jewish soldier who had since \u2018been returned to Canada: The Religious Welfare, discussed this matter | Cigarettes were distributed to the men in with the Jewish Theological Seminary of | the unit who had not received as many America and the support of this group Cigarettes as others who were more for- bas been offered in filling the ranks of | ! : : \u201cthe Canadian Jewish chaplaincy service.loverseas thanking the Canadian Jewish RABBI CASS AT CONFERENCE , OF EASTERN CHAPLAINS ; tunate, and now there are more soldiers community and its Congress.» * .On one day the Toronto office of Capt.Samuel Cass recently attended Congress dispatched 683% packages of cig- $ at Montreal.,the Chaplain\u2019s conference of M.D.4 and arettes and 725 comfort boxes to Jewish men stationed overseas.May, 1943 Congress Program For Soldiers\u2019 Welfare: Is| \u201cThank You\u201d of Canadian Jewry 1 - a col ia Ne pri un Jewish Servicemen are Thankful For Fascinating \u201cPocket\u201d Books Mr.Samuel J.Zacks of Toronto, one fof the foremost leaders of the Canadian Jewish Congress and of Jewish communal activity in this country, has had the happy thought of making.a personal gift to each Jewish serviceman from Canada.His gift \u2014 a copy of that excellent book, the Chief Rabbi\u2019s \u201cBook of Jewish Thoughts\u201d Jn the special servicemen\u2019s edition.; A year ago he purchased 1,000 copies for the Canadian Jewish Congress to distribute for him, and now he has ordered a further 2,000 copies to be distributed in the same manner.The need for this book in Canada is so great that arrangements have been concluded on this continent for the printing of a special Canadian edition, and the Chief Rabbi has been generous enough not only to grant his permission but to waive his royalty rights.The books are distributed with the assistance of the full-time Jewish chaplains in Canada and overseas and the part- time chaplains here.The volume has proven so popular that requests frequently come to the offices of Congress from non- Jewish servicemen for copies of the book, and Mr.Zacks instructions have been that no request be refused.Mr.and Mrs.Louis Wolfe of Montreal, sponsored 1,000 copies of \u2018this book for servicemen a year ago.Every Canadian Jewish soldier is given a little pocket library of fine literature by the Canadian Jewish Congress.In addition to \u201cThe Book of Jewish Thoughts\u201d he is also given a Jewish Prayer Book through the courtesy of the Department of National Defense; a Jewish calendar which is really a compact reference book on modern Jewish life, and a copy of the condensed \u201cReadings from the Scriptures\u201d.These books contain material which is useful and permanent and the whole \u201clibrary\u201d can be carried in the hip pocket without bulging.It is easy to imagine the thrill of parents or wives of servicemen who receive in their morning mail a package containing \u2018a phonograph record.They put it on their machine and they can hear\u2014 their son or their husband.The mystery is not very deep.The serviceman visited the Canadian Jewish Congress servicemen\u2019s centre in Montreal Fu On : the days the Women\u2019s Division of the Canadian Jewish Congress packs comfort boxes and cigarettes for the Jewish men overseas they practically take over the offices of the Co ngress.Congress.The women are too busy to notice that on the shelves be historical material which forms the archives of Congress.Photograph shows -them paeking in the library of the hind them is the great collection of Canadian Jewish æ «Hello, Mom, This is Your Soldier Son\u201d - Gift of Congress Service Centre = ~-= and there a recording was made of ais message to his folks back home.It was sent off with the compliments of tne Women\u2019s Committee of the Congress.It is no wonder that letters such as this one from Winnipeg are being received regularly by Mrs.Lazarus Phillips who heads the Women\u2019s Committee operating the centre: On behalf of our family and myself I would like to thank you and the other fembers of the Canadian Jewish Congress for your kindness to my brother, Joe.7 We received the record with his message last week.Let me assure you it was certainly appreciated.We haven't seen Joe for about seven menths.so Fm sure you will understand how thrilled we were to hear his voice again.We have zlso received your postcards periodically.and they have never failed to cheer us up.Joe has repeatedly written of how much enjoyment he and Paul .have had at the Jewish Centre.I myself am a hostess at the Jewish Centre kere.znd realize how much work and effort are involved .in entertaming the boys.So ycu can belicve me when I say we fully zppreciate everything you are doing to make Joe's visits to the Centre pleasant.The vcice recording machine in the Congress Centre is the gift of Mr.and Mrs.A.Schachter of Montreal.The government recognized that the value of the \u2018machine to the morale of the men is so high that it permitted its importation duty-free.2 : Sidney Goldsifin, son of Mrs.Betty Goldstein, 4669 Hutchison Street, Mantreal, has been commissioned by the RCAF.i + Tw + UE _ Acting Staff Sergeant Abraham Zalmon Cohen of'the 3rd Fortress Coy, RCE, | 4 has been chosen for the Officers-Selection and Appraisal Centre at Three Rivers, Quebec.gen fi od jou! eo nth a fel pe fre Jo { wal ard nil Di : gel ir gph fe | The Ton + ge Jul ptr! So bk | ri 4 ques whi ; \u201cThan J air md th rok Lod here tk ci] | de of Ce bud tn as ly por à Jah Coban Hdd i edlfis © ps oh * fed- \u2019 Tes deux, fs Sr y Dik fi ly tied i telly J bi lhe il Doky ol taf ry res fo Pis où og tong 4; IS Live .d, Nour tout ii RE & enr rs 1 of Jersif 3 kr of of hk 2 à Jr compl vid i Roast hs co of pei \"tn pit hs tt W kof 18 es of is bb Lo werd I wa grits pau ped!\u201d TN p Cone ; brother.+ i mse of ot it faved! | wing rd ! i spi ld li aN Suga + oid a May, 1943 CONGRESS BULLETIN Toronto Jews Led in Canadian Drive To Send Passover Aid to Jewish War Victims \u2014 Canadian Jews responded enthusiastically to the appeal for special assistance to Jewish war victims overseas for the Passover.The Jewish community of Toronto distinguished itself in the Mocss Chittin drive; among the communities which contributed gencrously in response to this appeal were Montreal, Winnipeg, Sydney, N.S., Perth, Ont, New Waterford, N.S.:nd Yarmouth, N.Sand others.The Moiss Chitin drive in Toronto was an overwhelming success.This was evidenced not only in the considerable sum of money raised to provide Passover needs for Jewish War victims, moneys supplementary to the sums raised for the U.J.R.& W.R.A.in Ontario.The Toronto drive was conducted by the United Jewish Relief Conference, a department of the Canadian Jewish Congress headed by Mr.A.Ladowski.Mr.A.Weinberg was chairman of the campaign which raised some $11,000.The campaign evoked a high spirit of unity and the finest cooperation among the orthodox groups in the community.As a revolt of this new integration it is planned to appoint a Chief Rabbi for the city.Mr.A.B.Bennett, the president of Congress in the Central Division is heading a committee which is work- on plans in this matter.Equally significant was the evidence it provided that the cause of aid to the Jewish victims of war is close to the hearts of the Jews of that community.Hundreds of contributors streamed to the offices of the Congress and the newspapers who accepted donations to this fund.* * * .- The Jewish men stationed at Camp Sussex, Sussex, N.B., assembled at Jewish services just before Passover remembered the Jewish victims of Naziism whom they are fighting to save.They each chipped in for the Mo\u2019es Chitin Fun of the United Jewish Refugee & War Relief Agencies and remitted it to the Toronto office.\u2018 Among the contributors were Lieut.C.Aspler of Montreal; Pre.E.M.Barsky, C.W.A.C.; Gnr.J.Dwartz and R.Feld- stein; Pres.J.C.Miller, S.Vine and H.Siegal; Staff Sgt.F.A.Redlich of Montreal; Cpl.Meyer Greenberg of Toronto; Pte.Irving Ginsberg of Toronto; Kfm.J.Blittenthal of Toronto; and Pte.L.Yuffe of Toronto.Baby Minders Aid Congress The Junior Hadassah of Montreal have a Baby-Minding Bureau which helps out in the present labor shortage and at the same time contributes to the war effort.The Bureau sends members to homes to care for babies se their parents can have the evening off, maids or no maids, and the preceeds are devoted to the extensive war effort program of this Zionist girls\u2019 group.In previous years the proceeds were spent on warm socks for Canadian seamen and on cigarettes sent te Jewish servicemen overseas through the Congress.\u2018 \u201cThis year the Baby Minding Bureau has sent 25 comfert boxes to Jewish men overseas as of the Youth Division drive for $4,000 for the Comforts program of Congress.* \u201c Miss Norma Levitt heads te War \u2018Efforts Committee of the Junior Ha- IX = The United Jewish Refugee & War Relicf Agencies has sent matzohs and other Passover products as well as Hag- gadas for the Jewish refugees still interned in Canada.In this work it has received the co-operation of the Vaad Ho\u2019ir of Montreal.Evacuee mothers from England with their children have been provided with seder accommodations and with other requirements for the holiday.+ + pa Da * FOR SOLDIERS\u2019 COMFORTS Province.Among those who helped to make the comforts program possible during the last month were the Sharon + Hadassah Chapter of Brantford, which is headed by Mrs.A.G.Miller; the Guelph Women\u2019s Committees of which Mrs.M.Eneshevsky is the chairman; the Hamilton National Council of Jewish | Women, headed by Mrs.J.Mandell; the Contributions for the Congress com-! fort fund of Ontario have come from Jewish communities throughout the Hebrew Ladies Auxiliary of Englehart; (Mrs.D.Henerofsky, secretary) and the Trenton Jewish Women\u2019s Committee.NORTH BAY ORGANIZES North Bay has organized a Jewish Council with Mrs.Fanny Herman as secretary.And After The War.POST-WAR PLANNING OF THE CANADIAN JEWISH CONGRESS The Canadian Jewish Congress has a program of action in the sphere of planning and post-war rehabilitation, and this program is well conceived and is being pursued actively.In so far as this very difficult and still tenuous subject lends itself to analysis and report the following points can be made: What Are the Facts?Any conclusions and programs which Canadian Jewry will be aple to put forth must be based on facts, on scientific and thoroughly established analyses of pertinent experience.This has been the | the U.J.R.& W.R.A.to prepare a dossier on Jewish settlement in Canada since 1936.At this very moment the U.J.Ris attempting to secure the services of a competent scientist to undertake this work.Not the Only Jews A realistic appreciation of our problem will make it clear that the interests of Canadian Jews are to a large extent parallel to those of other democratic countries, and in sever# of these countries the Jewish communities are older and have {experience and facilities in dealing with this problem which can be a valuable policy of Congress in all important phases, guide to Canadian Jewry.In addition of activity and this procedure has proven itself valid.For this reason the Congress has devoted much attention to its Bureau of Social and Economic Research and the first book which Congress has published was Mr.Louis Rosenberg\u2019s analysis of the facts and figures on \u201cCanada\u2019s Jews\u201d.Congtess does not intend to rest on its laurels or to allow the information and conclusions in that volume to go out of date.The Bureau has already issued a study of Jewish poulation figures emerging from the National Registration of 1940 and a score of other studies are in the process of completion.By the same token Canadians and other American peoples will reach polciies on immigration after the war on the basis, to a large extent, of their experience with refugees who came to this continent in recent years, What were these experiences?What are the facts about refugees in Canada?The Canadian Jewish Congress and the United Jewish Refugee and War Relief Agencies are deeply concerned with these questions.Their offices have collected an invaluable mass of.materials on this subject and a series of questionaires iis being sent out to supplement the information in hand.But the U.J.R+& W.R.A.have felt that it is insufficient to have the raw materials of this information; this must be worked over, analyzed, conclusions drawn and placed before the interested parties in che incontrovertible manner.Towards this end the U.J.R.has invited the National Committee on Refugees to make a survey study of refugee settlement in Canada since 1936.The U.J.Rand the National Committee are now collaborating on the initial steps of this project.lt is a coñfifmation of the merit of this \u2018approach that \u201cthe International Labor Office which had been established Joy.the League of Nations has requested there is the common concern for the Jews overseas who have been stricken by the war.; To implement its conclusion the Canadian Jewish Congress has established contact with such agencies as the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the Institute of Jewish Affairs which the American Jewish Congress has established, and the American Jewish Committee\u2019s Institute on Peace and Post-War Problems.The chairman of the Congress Bureau of So- cifl and Economic Résearch, Professor Jacob Finkelman of the University of Toronto, has visited the directors ef the American institutes and %as established procedures of consultation with them.The close relations between the Congress and the British Board of Deputies are of very great importance and serve as an additional link between the Jewries of the empire.All Canada The future of the Jews of Canada and their.projects for post-war settlement are integral to the future of Canada as a whole and the Congress has accepted the policy of collaborating with the planning bodies of this dominion.Exploratory conversations have been held with representatives of the Canadian Government Committee on Reconstruction and Rehabilitation and Congress has maintained its relations with the Departments of Colonization of the railways of Canada.From these discussions it becomes possible to form an impression of the probable direction of Canadian post-war development and to formulate plans for the Jewish Community in consonance with the wider picture.In the Meantime In the meantime there are certain specific tasks which \u2018are a foreshadowing of the larger post-war problem and with these tasks the Congress is dealing.A number of Jews are among those honor- Pace 11 ably discharged from the armed forces; problems of soldiers\u2019 rehabilitation are few in comparison with what they will be when the large numbers in the armed forces will be demobilized after victory.But the present cases must be dealt with and they may well be studied so that experience gained in these cases may be applied to the larger problems when they, arise.> & The economic problems of Canadian Jewry after the war also have been present aspects.For example the question of technical training for young Jews will greatly affect -the future of our com=~ munity, but it is also an important war effort at this time when the industrial mobilizaton of Canada is so vital to vic~ tory.i It is enough to recall that the U.J.R.& W.R.A.is contributing to the ORT! program in Canada to indicate that this aspect is receiving careful attention from our national representative institutions.Close to this aspect of post-war plan= ning is the question of vocational guidance for our young men and women.It is clear that this subject presents special aspects arising from our economic and social conditions and the Congress is giy=~ Ing 1t every attention.Cd Bi] Ontario Activities Cornwall recently conducted theit first Congress campaign in several years The campaign was under the leadership of Mr.A.Dover.Mr.H.M.Caiserman, General Secretary of the Canadian Jewish Congress, addressed the meeting and urged the organization of a permanent Congress committee in Cornwall.Plans are being made to organize this committee.COHN IN WINDSOR AND HAMILTON Mr.Martin M.Cohn, Executive Direc~ tor of the Canadian Jewish Congress, together with Mr.J.Kravitz, field representative of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, and Mr.Walton Strauss, president of the Jewish Community Council of Erie, Pa., atténded a special meeting of the Windsor Welfare Fund, called to discuss revision of their constitution and the organization of a Community Council.Mr.Cohn attended the first meeting of the new Public Relations Committee of the Hamilton Council of Organizations, under the chairmanship of Mr.J.Mandell.- J Calendars Readied | For Jewish Men \u20ac Every Jewish soldier in the Canadian armed forces will receive a copy oË the Servicemen\u2019s copy of the religious calendar which was published by the.War Efforts Committee of the Canadian Jewish Congress.This calendar contains Jewish holidays up to January 1, 1944, a list of the servicemen\u2019s centres of the Canadian Jewish Congress, information about Jewish chaplains, the Jewish war ef-, forts in Canada, on the Canadian Jewish Congress, on the Jews in Canada and in Palestine, as well as a list of .names and addresses throughout Can- .ada and in England where Jewish sol~ diers may call for service and entertainment.- Two thousand copies of this calendar.have already been shipped to England to Capt.Gershon Levi, fist Jewish chaplain to serve with a Canadian expeditionary force.Copies of this calendar may be obtained by servicemen at the offices \u2018of of Senadian Jewish: Congress in, Mon Toronto, and Winnipeg, at the servicemen\u2019s centres throughout Canada or from their chaplains._. â D: | ; 1 4.PacE 12 CONGRESS.BULLETIN May, 1943 Brothers Serve Jews in Two Armies Two Toronto brothers in two Allied armies are doing a superb war job at the opposite ends of the earth without firing a gun.They are the chaplains of the Canadian Army Overseas and of the AmericanArmy in Australia \u2014 Captain Gershon Levi, the first Jewish chaplain with a Canadian expeditfonary force, and Chaplain Eliezer A.Levi, the first Jewish chaplain to serve with an American army in Australia, the sons of Mr, and Mrs.Paul A.Levi of Toronto.Today Capt.Levi is in England working at a terrific tempo at a job which covers the entire country and which contributes infinitely to the welfare of the hundreds of Canadian Jewish boys overseas.He is father and spiritual advisor, friend and defendant, lawyer and confessor.healer and teacher to them, and a bond with Canada which is home.- - « His experiences as related in his letters to his friends are proof that at least his job is as fascinating as it is arduous.He writes, \u201cFhursday we travelled in a downpour and visited many units.My most interesting experience was with a famous French Canadian Regiment.The language of the unit is French and everything is done in that language.You might ask what I was doing there.The adjutant is a Jewish officer.He speaks perfect French and says they do in his home.He has his taliss and tphilin with him and he never misses his (morning) prayers.His brother distinguished himself at Dieppe.[ was invited to the mess for supper and had a very charming time.| The Colonel was most solicitous as was the Padre (both, of course French Canadian R.C.\u2019s).Most of the talk was in\u2019 French and I begged them not to talk English for my sake .\u201cThe first one I met when 1 walked in the door was a young officer from Montreal.Friday night 1 had a pleasant chat with him and two young R.A.F.officers (non-Jewish) one of whom had served in Palestine about the time we \u2018were there.: \u201cI spent Shabbos visiting my boys around the town, on foot, and gave my driver a day off.In the morning I went to the microscopic little synagogue.and arranged for some of my boys to be let off and attend.Without us there wouldn\u2019t have been a minyan .\u201cI went to a central point in.a Canadian military area for the holiday services.I teamed up with Chaplain Barnett.Our congregation was about two thirds Canadian, one third British Jews, and even a few Free French.The services proceeded very nicely indeed.I met a lot of fellow\u2019 I knew, or knew about.\u201cI stayed nearby at the mess of my former unit.Saturday Barnett took me home with him (a few miles walk!) for lunch.Saturday night, after services I went for supper with one of the few Jewish ciyilians from the nearby town.© \u201cThe second day I made an interesting friend, a.young lieutenant of the Free French Forces who came to Synagogue.He comes of an old Franco-Jewish family, byt it would be best for me not to mention his name, as he has relatives still trying to escape.,*\u2018After service I invited him to lunch with me at the Officer\u2019s mess, but he said, \u201cCouldn\u2019t we have something more intime \u2014 especially on this day.\u201d He wanted to talk about Jewish things, as he hadn\u2019t had the opportunity for so long.So we went off to lunch together.i \u201cI don\u2019t know which one of us talked moré.I found him very \u201cspirituel.He's: 26, à pharmacist by profession, a university man, passionately *fond-of music: (his spare money goes for symphonic records \u201c One Crossed Atlantic with Canadians; the other with U.S.Forces in Pacific and he lectures on music) and quite philosophical.If I marry ever, says he, T will have a thoroughly Jewish home.He feels with a Latin intensity that this war is for the ideals of the Torah.I said, yes, we Jews have a wonderful standard, but are we worthy to bear it?He didn\u2019t get my English at first, then when he did, he translated it to himself\u2014\u2014\"Nous ne sommes pas dignes de le porter\u201d,\u2014and his translation has stuck in my mind.We exchanged addresses and I hope to see him again .Another of his adventures\u2014every step in war England 1s an adventure\u2014brought him in contact with an Algerian Jew who would not wait for the British-American invasion of North Africa but decided to come to Allied territory to join the Free French.He walked to Spanish Morocco, stowed away on a ship and reached Spain.Here he was caught and arrested by the Spaniards and placed in a prison, but he jumped out of a window and escaped his jailers.Hé walked for days and eventually, after swimming for hours, he reached Gibraltar.\u201cI was awfully tired,\u201d he said, \u201cbut I said the Shema and I was cured.\u201d Today he is with the Free French in England.IN ENGLAND 1 Capt, Gershon Levi was born in Toronto where he received his early education at the Jarvis Collegiate Institute, later graduating from the University of Toronto, and Columbia University.He was ordained Rabbi by the Jewish Theological Seminary of New York in 1933 and has since specialized in Jewish education.In 1935 Rabbi Levi visited Palestine and spent considerable time studying the country.Capt.Levi was the first Jewish Chaplain td receive a commission on Active Service, having been appointed in March 1941.Since that time, two additional full-time chaplains, Capt.Samuel Cass and Flt.Lt.Jacob Eisen, as well as a number of part-time chaplains, have been appointed to riinister to the growing number of Jewish men on Active Service.Before his appointment, he was associated with the Congregation Shaar Ha- shomayim in Montreal.He was a member of the Education Committee of the Canadian Jewish Congress and of the editorial board of the Canadian Zionist.After his induction.into the service he made several tours of army camps across Canada and visited every major Jewish community in the Dominion, He was formally attached to M.D.4 Head- güarters in Montreal, but his services were called upon from every part of Canada.He instituted and improved the religious services in the military camps of the country, initiated the presentation of the Chief Rabbi's \u201cBook of Jewish Thoughts\u201d.and the Jewish calendar -is- sued by the Congress to the men, cooperated with the Canadian Jewish Congress in establishing the nominal roll and the personnel records of the War Efforts Committee and performed countless - personal services for the men.His authority extended .to the R.G.A.F.and the-Royal Canadian Navy a5 well as to.the Canadian Army.IN AUSTRALIA Chaplain Eliezer A.Levi was born in Toronto.He attended public school, collegiate and the University of Toronto | there, and completed his B.A.degree at the College of the City of New York.In 1932 he was graduated as rabbi: from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York City.As a student he served as Jewish chaplain to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and has been particularly interested in the handling of delinquent children.- After his graduation he received a call to act as rabbi of Temple Beth-El in Birmingham, Ala.In 1935 he became the Rabbi of Congregation Bnai Israel in Auburn, N.Y., and became well known in Central New York.During his Au- In August, 1941 he left Auburn to accept a call to Sydney, Australia, and became Chief Minister of the Central Synagogue there.After Japan's entry into the war, he took a leave of absence from his synagogue for the duration and entered active service with the U.S.forces.On Aug.6, 1942 he was formally inducted as a First Lieutenant in the American army, the only Jewish Chaplain serving American forces in tliat area.o His work takes him far afield.His most recent letters home have been from an advance base in New Guinea.ANOTHER CANADIAN IS U.S.CHAPLAIN Another Canadian Jew who is serving as chaplain with the United States army is Rabbi Martin M.Perley, the son of Mr.and Mrs.B.Perelmuter of 2247 Maple- wood Ave., Montreal.William H.Novick, R159619, son of Mr.David Novick of 4100 Rivard Street, Montreal has graduated from -the R.C.AF.school at Brantford, Ontario.Between his more routine duties there are more interesting contacts.He has been named honorary member of the Anglo-Palestine Club and he serves on the board of the Centre for Jews in the United Nations Forces.At his invitation a number of Christian chaplains attended the Albert Hall memorial meeting to honor the Jewish victims of Naziism.It is a hard life, but one of true service to the finest men of Canadian Jewry, and it has its rewards.Y.M.H.A.HONOR ROLL \u2014WINNIPEG.An honor roll, containing the names of 357 former members of the Y.M.H.A.now in the armed forces, was unveiled in ceremony conducted by Wing Com- \u201cI mander B.M.Aronson.The roll is the third one prepared since the outbreak of war.It contains a large V on which is mounted the Y.MJH.A.crest, while on either side are the Union Jack and the Jewish flag.C.Rhodes Smith, M.L.A.praised the social work of the Y.M.H.A., its war effort and the amount of work done to wipe out its capital debt.The guard of honor at the unveiling of the roll was composed of Cpl.Leo Rosenberg, of the R.C.AF.; Cpl.Jack Zamick, of the army, and O.D.Ernie Nelko, of the navy.Members of the 19th Boy Scout troop acted as ushers.Cpl.Louis Sotolov, R.C.A.F., played two violin solos, accompanied by Tova Boroditsky.- A.J.Blond, president of the Y Me: H.A., was chairman.\u2019 Arrived Overseas Air Weman Esther Cohen of Halifax surprised her two brothers overseas when she arrived at their base with the last contingnt of the R.C.A.F.One brother, Flt.Sgt.Charles Cohen R.C.A.F., had just returned ro England from the Middle East.Her other brother, Air Woman Esther Coben Samuel Cohen, is a private in the Canadian Dental Corps.George Herman, son of Mrs.Anne Herman of 5261 St.Lawrence Blvd., Montreal, has received his commission from the R.C.AF.He has just arrived in Britain.Pilot Officer Louis Robinson of Ottawa, who was a noted rower before he enlisted with the R.C.AF.has reached an wver~ seas base.\u2019 P/O A.I.Mann, son of Mr.and Mrs.H.Mann of 4859-St.Urbain Street, Montreal, has transferred from administrative to air-crew duties with\u2019 the RCAF.and has: now been posted overseas as a navi~ gator.2 Re Q "]