Congress bulletin, 1 octobre 1959, Octobre

[" PUBLISHED BY CANADIAN JEWISH CONGRESS VOLUME 13: No.8 MONTREAL OCTOBER, 1959 12th Plenary Session Meets October 29 Four-day Conference Commemorates Bicentenary, Congress Anniversary re Dr.Judah Shapiro Jacob Blaustein Plans have been finalized for the 12th Plenary Session of the Canadian Jewish Congress, convening at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, October 29 - November 1.The four-day conference commemorates the Bicentenary of Canadian Jewry, and marks the 40th anniversary of the first Canadian Jewish Congress in 1919, and the reorganization of Congress in 1934.Thursday The opening function will be a luncheon Thursday, tendered to delegates by Samuel Bronfman, National President of Congress, and Mrs.S.Bronf- man, O.B.E.His Excellency, Avraham Harman, Ambassador of Israel to the United States, and the first Israeli Consul General in Canada after the creation of the State, will be the guest speaker.Greetings will be extended by the Honourable Sarto Fournier, Mayor of Montreal, on behalf of the City.Nathan Gaisin, Chairman of the Arrangements Committee, will also extend greetings and Joseph H.Fine, Q.C.will give the Treasurer's Report.The afternoon will be devoted to simultaneous commissions on National affairs, including the United Jewish Relief Agencies, public relations, adult education, youth, and fund-raising.Delegates will attend the official opening of the Exhibition of works of Canadian Jewish artists, which is being shown at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts for a three-week period.The Honourable Ellen Fairclough, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, will participate in the opening ceremonies beginning at 5 P.MA mass meeting at Montreal High School, Thursday evening, will be addressed by Dr.Israel Goldstein, Honorary Vice-President of the World Jewish Congress and former chairman of its Western Hemisphere Branch.The meeting under the chairmanship of Harold Lande, Q.C.will also be addressed by Monroe Abbey, Chairman of the National Executive Committee.Saul Hayes, National Executive Director, will present a resume of the Congress programme and activities.Friday Following breakfast caucuses of each region, a Plenary Session of Congress will meet at 10:00 A.M.to hear reports of the commissions and of the National Bicentenary Committee.Two unique sessions will be held at luncheon on Friday.For the first time the Plenary Session will include discussion on the particular role of women in Canadian Jewish life.Mrs.Samuel Bronfman is to act as chairman of a session on the \"The Response of Canadian Jewish Women to the Imperatives of Jewish Life\u201d, at which Mrs.Wm.Riven will speak on Israel: Miss F.Hutner on fund-raising: Mrs.Clarence Gross on synagogue and educational Rabbi Abraham Feinberg Rabbi Stuart Rosenberg affiliation, Mrs.N.Zemans on organization and citizenship.Mrs.B.Cooper will be moderator and Mrs.Anna Raginsky will give the summation.A French language Session will be held simultaneously.The Honourable Onesime Gagnon, Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Quebec will receive a presentation from Alan J.Hart, descendant of Aaron Hart, the first Jew to settle permanently in Canada.Dr.Michael Simon, Consul General of Israel in Canada, will extend greetings.The luncheon, under the aegis of the Cercle Juif de Langue Francaise, will be chaired by S.D.Cohen.Jacob Blaustein, Honorary President of the American Jewish Committee and Senior Vice-President of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, will address the afternoon Plenary Session devoted to International Affairs, which meets under the chairmanship of Michael Garber, Q.C.There will also be a panel on the subject of \u201cCongress and a World Agenda\u2019 at which Messrs.Monroe Abbey, Samuel Harvey, Sol Kanee, Esmond Lando, and Dr.S.B.Hurwich will report on the recent World Jewish Congress Plenary Session in Stockholm where they were present as delegates.Delegates are invited to attend Sabbath Services at the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue Friday evening, followed by a dinner and Oneg Shabbat program.Veterans of the first Canadian Jewish Congress, which met in Montreal, 1919, will be presented with certificates of tribute in honour of their pioneering efforts.Bezelel Sherman, Director of Cultural and Community Activities, Labour Zionist Organization of America will be the guest speaker.Saturday The Board of Directors of the Spanish and Portuguese \u2018Synagogue are tendering a luncheon to out of town delegates on Saturday, to be followed by an afternoon Oneg Shabbat program at which Dr.Judah Shapiro, Chairman of the CJFWF National Cultural Study (Advisory Committee) will speak on \"A Survey of Adult Education and its Relevance to Canada\u201d.Prime Minister John G.Diefenbaker will be the guest of honour at a dinner in honour of the Bicentenary of Canadian Jewry to be held in the Grand Ballroom of the Queen Elizabeth Hotel (Continued on Page 4) Joseph H.Fine, Q.C.Lieutenant Governor Onesime Gagnon Dr.Israel Goldstein Bezalel Sherman Jewish Farming Colonies in the Canadian West The same \u201cback to the soil\u201d movement which was so instrumental in the molding and establishment of the State of Israel, forms an interesting, if less spectacular, chapter in the history of Jewish settlement in Canada.In 1882, uprooted by anti-semitic pogroms which spread terror through the Jewish communities of Czarist Russia, several thousand refugees fled to Canada and were among the first Jews to venture into the Canadian west.Although they were relatively few in number, the first group of 15 men and 4 women to reach Winnipeg more than doubled the tiny Jewish population of that town whose total population was not more than 8,000.They and the destitute immigrants who followed CONGRESS BULLETIN The first crops were marketed, and some settlers who had left during the early years returned to the small colony.In a recently published biography of the life of James Garfield Gardiner, Canada\u2019s Minister of Agriculture for twenty years, there are extremely vivid, colourful descriptions of the Hirsch community in its early years.Mr.Gardiner, who received his Teacher's diploma in April 1905, accepted his first teaching job at the \u201cvillage cross-roads named Hirsch\u201d, the second station from Estevan on the Souris-Estevan line of the C.P.R.His biographer, Nathaniel Benson, depicts Gardiner\u2019s arrival at Hirsch: \u201cGardiner arrived at Hirsch toward the close of April, 1905.The little A prairie farm school, probably very similar to the one described in Gardiner\u2019s biography.them were a tremendous financial burden to the Jewish community, and suffered severe hardships.They found employment in the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway; they received assistance from philanthropic organizations which had very recently been established in Montreal; but in spite of their own efforts and efforts made on their behalf it was years before they were able to adapt themselves to the rigours of the new climate and life.Partly in an attempt to find an economic and social solution to the many refugees, and partly in the pioneering spirit which spurred on the \"Biluim\u201d, the idea of a Jewish agricultural colony took root.The Russo-Jewish Committee of London, with the encouraging efforts of the Canadian High Commissioner in London, was able to obtain a tract of land about 25 miles southwest of Moosomin, (today part of Saskatchewan) where 27 Jewish farmers were settled on homesteads.Lacking adequate planning, and supervision, without previous experience in farming, under pioneer conditions, and isolated from any other Jewish community, this attempt failed, and the settlers eventually drifted back to Winnipeg where they found work.But the experience gained in this abortive attempt was used to good advantage in the more successful colonization schemes which followed.Hirsch One of the most resilient of the colonization settlements was the community at Hirsch, established by the Colonization Committee of the Young Men's Hebrew Benevolent Society of Montreal on behalf of the Baron de Hirsch in May, 1892.Hirsch, named after its benefactor, is the oldest existing farm settlement in Canada.The pioneering group which settled on that tract of land in what was then the North West Territories, and today forms part of Saskatchewan, was composed of 47 families numbering 150 souls.The first years were marked by crop failures which multiplied the difficulties of adjustment.But after several years of struggle, the farmers were able to attain a degree of security.A school was established.The railway line was extended through the colony and the station was also named Hirsch.school was located about a mile north of the station.Rabbi Berner lived about half-way between the station and the school, and was secretary-treasurer of the school district.Gardiner arrived there on a Saturday and Rabbi Berner walked with him to the school, explaining that they always walked on this day, their Sabbath.He pointed out that the building was the only one suitable for a synagogue, and that it was utilized Saturdays for that purpose.Rabbi Berner took a curtain down from the top of a cupboard at the end of the teacher\u2019s platform and hung it on a wire which was stretched the full length of the schoolroom to separate the men from the women while the service was being held.\u201cThe Rabbi indicated that the cupboard was divided into three sections, one rather commodious central section, and two narrow sections, one on either side running up and down.He said the one to the left was for chalk, slates, paper, pencils and school books, and handed the teacher the keys.He then said: \u201cThis central section you must never open \u2014 the regalia, scrolls, and other necessities for our religious services are kept there.\u201cThe new teacher remained for the service that day, and had his first im- OCTOBER, 1959 In connection with the 200th anniversary of Jewish settlement in Canada, the Congress Bulletin is presenting a series of articles throughout 1959, highlighting various periods of particular interest in Canadian Jewish history.The following is based on B.G.Sack's History of the Jews in Canada, and None of It Came Easy (Burns & MacEachern, 1955), the biography of James G.Gardiner by Nathaniel Benson.pressive lesson in the solemn religious practices of Canadians of Jewish faith\".Secretary Mr.Benson goes on to describe Gardiner\u2019s auxiliary functions as English secretary when some business was to be drawn up with non-Jewish persons outside the community.Rabbi Berner would invite the school teacher to act as secretary at the community meeting, and these notes would then be used as the basis for agreements.\u201cOn one of those occasions it was the hiring of a Scotch mason to build a tomb, in accordance with their beliefs, in the cemetery.On another, it was to build a bath, in accordance with the regulations laid down in the Old Testament.\u201cWhen the meeting was called to discuss the building of the bath, the mason, the Rabbi and Gardiner sat on the platform at the teacher\u2019s desk.The Rabbi would explain what it was proposed to put in the agreement in Yiddish.Then there would be an animated discussion, all in Yiddish, none of which Mr.Gardiner understood.The discussion often became wildly controversial, with two or more men attempting to hold the floor at one time.Eventually all of them would sit down, and Rabbi Berner would interpret to the mason in English the decision on the matter under consideration, and Gardiner would write into the agreement just what was to be done and the payment the mason was to receive, The bath was finally built and utilized as outlined in the exacting Old Testament Scriptures.\u201d Benson concludes: \u201cThese were highly interesting experiences for the young school teacher, and gave him most profitable insight into the beliefs and teachings of the Race which handed down to western civilization the highest ideals and basic truths of a Faith which did most to establish modern, western civilization.\u201d Other Colonies The community at Hirsch was only one of several successful Jewish attempts at colonization.After John Heppner, a pioneer Jewish farmer, settled on a homestead near Wapella, approximately 40 miles northeast of the previous Moosomin settlement in 1886, he was joined by some twenty Jewish farmers who formed a small but integrated colony.In the early years of the twentieth century settlements were founded at Edenbridge (Jew\u2019s bridge) in the Carrot River Valley, at Sonnen- feld, and several other places in Saskatchewan.The idealism of these pioneers is expressed in this fragment of a letter from an Edenbridge farmer: \u201cI sit upon my plow and my eye is enchanted with the sight of the brown earth being turned upwards furrow by furrow.If the field is a long one and one starts with a straight furrow, it takes on the appearance of a Tallith, with broad blue stripes at the edges and when the sun's rays strike the eye Among the pioneer Jewish settlers in Manitoba were Jacob and Deborah Pierce who settled near Oxbow in 1888.They are shown above as they camped in the summer of 1902 at Oak Bank, with a boy who, though not definitely identified, is believed to be a grandson.One grandson, Sidney Pierce, O.B.E., was former deputy high commissioner to the United Kingdom, and was appointed Canadian ambassador to Belgium late in 1958.Send applications to: APPLICATIONS ARE INVITED for staff position in the fields of COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION AND FUND-RAISING for the ATLANTIC PROVINCES REGION of the CANADIAN JEWISH CONGRESS and ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF CANADA Jewish background, fund-raising and community organizational experience preferred.Salary to be discussed.Zionist Organization of Canada, 2025 University Street, Montreal, Canada.All communications will be treated in strictest confidence.and the breeze blows the squadrons of little flies past, it seems as if the black strips of ploughed land twist and turn.It is a picture which I am not able to place upon paper.Later, when one has to run after the harrows, no matter how hard it is, the work draws like a magnet.The field behind takes on another appearance.From a piece of coarse common cloth it becomes like linen, and another stroke of the harrows makes it into velvet, silk, or a piece of smoothly polished furniture.It serves as an enchantment which prevents the feet from feeling tired\u201d.The dream of a mass Jewish agricultural movement in Canada was never realized.But though they are not today, and never have been a majority in Jewish life, the pioneering farmers and those who encouraged their settlement were a vital factor in the history of Jews in Canada.The note they introduced was one of strength, vigour and perseverance.a f jasc fe \\eit! In à Jose as Tra at les thé bi (0 de elm Comm fou The pe 0 æ Way [erst jou Ou th tte | fe sh The where New fob the b There Énem tha but 1 The Wy smell why Yo ihn maki Now loa ll their 3 he th abl 5 lg she 0 jo pied si ik pre e 0 jui por pd je (+ OCTOBER, 1959 ISAIAH Between the mountains of spices the cities thrust up pearl domes and filligree spires.Never before was Jerusalem so beautiful.In the sculptured temple how many pilgrims, lost in the measures of tambourine and lyre, kneeled before the glory of the ritual?Trained in grace the daughters of Zion moved, not less splendid than the golden statuary, the bravery of ornaments about their scented feet.Government was done in palaces.Judges, their fortunes found in law, reclining and cosmopolitan, praised reason.Commerce like a strong wild garden flourished in the street.The coins were bright, the crest on coins precise, new ones looked almost wet.Why did Isaiah rage and cry, Jerusalem is ruined, your cities are burned with fire.On the fragrant hills of Gilboa were the shepherds ever calmer, the sheep fatter, the white wool whiter?There were fig trees, cedar, orchards where men worked in perfume all day long.New mines fresh as pomegranates.Robbers were gone from the roads, the highways were straight.There were years of wheat against famine.Enemies?Who has heard of a righteous state that has no enemies, \u2018 but the young were strong, archers cunning, their arrows accurate.Why then this fool Isaiah, smelling vaguely of wilderness himself, why did he shout, Your country is desolate, Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching her hair which is pure metal black no rebel prince can change to dross, of my beloved touching her body no false swearer can corrupt, of my beloved touching her mind no faithless counsellor can inflame of my beloved touching the mountains of spices making them beauty instead of burning.Now plunged in unutterable love Isaiah wanders, chosen, stumbling against the sculptured walls which consume their full age in his embrace and powder as he goes by.He reels beyond the falling dust of spires and domes obliterating ritual; the Holy Name, half-spoken, is lost on the cantor\u2019s tongue; their pages barren, congregations blink, agonized and dumb.In the turns of his journey heavy trees he sleeps under mature into cinder and crumble: whole orchards join the wind like rising flocks of ravens.The rocks go back to water, the water to waste.And while Isaiah gently hums a sound to make the guilty country uncondemned, all men, truthfully desolate and lonely, as though witnessing a miracle, behold in beauty the faces of one another.Leonard Cohen: Troubadour, at Solo CONGRESS BULLETIN LICHT la a æ PY Leonard Cohen shown reading his poetry to a Montreal audience.Messiah Sing to fish, embrace the beast, but don\u2019t get up from the pond with half your body a horse's body Or wings from your backbone.Sleep as a man beside the sleeping wolves Without longing for a special sky To darken and fur your hands.Animals, do not kill for the human heart Which under breasts of scale or flesh will cry.O swallow, be a heart in the wind's high breast, River the limbs of the sky with your singing blood.The dead are beginning to breathe: 1 see my father splashing light like a jewel In the swamp\u2019s black mud.Before The Story [23 .and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself.\u201d \u2014Second Samuel Far from the roof, the child, Absalom, is storming through the shadows of the throne, pausing in the dark to smoothe his scarlet hair.Jewish writers and poets.This page, devoted to the work of Leonard Coben, Montreal poet, is the third in a series of articles on Canadian And we are lying beneath the thrones.Far from the roof, the king, David, begins the ageless psalm which rings through caves and tears the cobwebs from the sleeper\u2019s face.Published monthly except July and August by the Canadian Jewish Congress, 493 Sherbrooke Street, West, Montreal, to report on the activities of Canadian Jewry and matters of interest to them.Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa.National President.Samuel Bronfman Saul Hayes Ruth Wisse And we are lying beneath the caves.Far from the roof, the woman, oh the girl, Bathsheba, bares her dripping shoulders 1n a secret room, far from any lover, far from any man.And we are lying beneath the castles .O far from any roof, we are lying beneath the castles, among deep branches of silver, and the wilderness moon lives above the whole world, and in her light holds us, holds us, cold and splendid, in her vast and cloudless night.Leonard Cohen's first book of poems, \u201cLet Us Compare Mythologies\u201d was hailed by critics across Canada as the work of an important new writer.Desmond Pacey, in the Queen's Quarterly, called the book \"a brilliant beginning\u201d.Northrop Frye, in Letters in Canada, wrote that the poems were \u201cthoroughly original\u201d.Margaret Avi- sen, in the Tamarack Review, summed up the general feeling with which the book was greeted \u201cThe discovery of a poet of stature .Here is vigour; unstudied control and range that extends to a high seriousness very few modern poets can sustain, and seldom with Cohen's amplitude\u201d.Of his recent work Milton Wilson has written, \"His richly ornamental ritualistic love poems are memorable.What gives his poctry its unique and exciting flavour 1s the way he merges the Biblical with the mediaeval, the canticle with the ballad or chanson, like a French trouvere at the court of Solomon\u201d.He writes out of the same cultural and religious tradition which has given so much richness and strength to the distinguished work of A.M.Klein and Irving Layton.As Wilson observed in the Queen's Quarterly, \u201cMaybe it could only happen in Montreal\u201d.Leonard Cohen is 25 years old, a graduate of McGill University and is at present travelling in Europe and Israel on a grant from the Canada Arts Council.All the poems on this page are from his forthcoming volume, \u201cThe Spice- Box of Earth\u201d which is to be published by McClelland and Stewart in the fall of 1960.As The Mist Leaves No Scar As the mist leaves no scar On the dark green hill, So my body leaves no scar On you, nor ever will.When wind and hawk encounter, What remains to keep?So you and I encounter, Then turn, then fall to sleep.And many nights endure Without a moon or star, So will we endure When one is gone and far. 4 Variety of Bicentenary Events Announced CONGRESS Governor General Receives Proclamation The delegation of Canadian Jewish Congress shown after presenting Governor General George P.Vanier with a copy of the Proclamation of Faith and Thanksgiving on the occasion of the Bicentenary.From left to right: Lavy M.Becker, Monroe Abbey, Bertram Loeb, Irving Oelbaum, the Governor General, Samuel Bronfman, J.H.Fine, Q.C., and Saul Hayes.In making the presentation, Mr.Bronfman called Canada \u201ca country where by dint of understanding and through patient projection of the various cultures it is possible to build a multicultural nation.\u201d He said all Canadians can utter thanksgiving that the preservation of traditional values and the maintenance of individual cultures are inherent in the concept of Canadianism.The Governor General, acknowledging the presentation said: \u201cThanksgiving is a matter of gratitude .it is of great virtue and it is easy to forget about it.I congratulate you by saying that the Jewish population of Canada has always been a loyal, industrious and law- abiding element.\u201d The month of October has been crowded with commemorative events in celebration of the Bicentenary of Canadian Jewry.The Proclamation of Faith and Thanksgiving, issued on the occasion of the 200th year of permanent Jewish settlement in this country, was presented to His Excellency, Georges P.Vanier, Governor General of Canada, during a special ceremony at Government House, Ottawa, on October 13.Those who made the presentation on behalf of Canadian Jewry were Samuel Bronfman, National President of Canadian Jewish Congress, Lavy M.Becker, Chairman of the National Bicentenary Committee, and Messrs.Monroe Abbey, Joseph H.Fine, Q.C., Saul Hayes, all of Montreal; Bertram Loeb of Ottawa, and Irving Oelbaum of Toronto.The Proclamation will be presented to His Worship Sarto Fournier, Mayor of Montreal, on October 28th at City Hall.Representatives of the Montreal Jewish community will sign the Golden Book, and the Mayor will declare Bicentenary Day.Following the ceremony, a new plaque will be dedicated at the site of the Shearith Israel, the first synagogue built in Canada in 1777.The beautiful old plaque at what is today 96 St.James Street will remain, although it is quite eroded and almost illegible.Art Exhibit The Honourable Ellen Fairclough, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, will participate in the official opening of the exhibition of paintings and sculpture of Canadian Jewish artists which will be on display at the Martin Gallery of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts for a three-week period beginning October 26.In addition to representative works of Jewish artists from all parts of Canada, there will be a memorial section showing work of the late Ernst Neumann and Alexander Berkovitch.Mrs.Samuel Bronfman is the Honorary Patroness of the opening.On October 24, marked throughout Canada as the Bicentenary Sabbath, congregations included a special prayer of thanksgiving as part of the regular service.Based on the Chief Rabbi's prayer on the occasion of the Three Hundredth Anniversary of the resettlement of Jews in England, it reads: Prayer \u201cSovereign of the Universe, Guardian of Israel, we turn to Thee with prayers of joy and thanksgiving for Thy manifold blessings to us at all times.More especially is it meet for us in this land who belong to Thy holy congregations, to raise our voices in this year of grateful commemoration, to bless and render thanks to Thee with full hearts for the grace and the favour Thou hast shown us and the generations before us.Thy kindnesses and mercies have never forsaken us.Throughout the generations this land was a beacon of light and hope to our brethren living in lands of darkness; many of those delivered from persecution and evil decrees found shelter in this kingdom founded on the pillars of liberty and justice.Our beginning was small and we are now become a great congregation.May it be Thy will, O Father in Heaven, to continue Thy favour to us.May we and our children be worthy to remain faithful to Thy covenant, filled with a knowledge of Thy law, upright of heart and righteous of deed.Look down from Heaven upon this glorious land and bless Her Majesty our beloved Queen, Her counsellors and all the inhabitants of Her realm.Crown the land with glory, and may peace and prosperity reign within its borders.May the Redeemer come unto Zion.Amen\u201d.The dedication of the Ezekiel Hart plaque at Trois Rivieres, which was to have been unveiled by the late Premier Maurice L.Duplessis, and which was postponed following his unfortunate death, took place October 22.The Honourable J.Paul Beaulieu, Minister of Trade and Commerce, unveiled the plaque commemorating the enactment of legislature guaranteeing full rights to the Jews in Canada.Participating in the program were Samuel Bronfman, Lavy M.Becker, His Worship Laurent Paradis, Mayor of Trois Rivieres, and members of the Hart family.The plaque is permanently mounted in Champlain Park, facing Hart Street.In Montreal, the major department stores will feature window displays depicting various aspects of Canadian Jewish history and life.Beginning the week of October 26 the following stores will have displays: T.Eaton & Co.Art; Henry Morgan & Co., The Hart Family; Simpson's, Military; Jas.A.Ogilvy's, Canadian Jewish Literature; Holt Renfrew, The De Sola Family; Dupuis Freres Ltd., Music; Henry Birks Ltd, The Rubinstein Athletic Family; Mappins Ltd., Religious; John Russell Ltd, The Joseph Family.BULLETIN \u201cThe Canadian Jew\u2019 On CBC TV Nov.5 \u201cThe Canadian Jew\u201d is the subject of a one-hour film which will be shown coast to coast over CBC-TV on the program Close-Up of Thursday, November 5 at 8:30 P.M.EST.The program was arranged in conjunction with the Bicentenary of Canadian Jewry and includes interviews with more than 40 Jews in all walks of life.Among the prominent community leaders who were interviewed for the program are Leon Crestohl, Q.C., M.P.(Montreal Cartier); Saul Hayes; Rabbi Stuart Rosenberg, Beth Tzedek Congregation, Toronto; Rabbi David Mon- son, Beth Sholom Synagogue, Toronto; Mrs.William Riven, National President of Hadassah; Dr.Reva Gerstein, Honorary President, National Council of Jewish Women; and Rabbi Reuben Slonim, Toronto.In addition to the interviews with the known personalities, among whom are Al Passman, professional football player with the Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen; Hans Fread, resturateur; Mayor Harold Paikin, Waterloo; Max Sherman, former mayor of Brantford, Ontario; and Ralph Hyman, reporter for the Globe and Mail, the film will include conversations with Jewish teenagers, housewives, merchants, students.Hart Philip Hart, great-great-grandson of Aaron Hart, the first Jew to settle permanently in Canada, will be interviewed in connection with the historical aspect of Jewish life in Canada.Interviewees comment on many of the popular misconceptions held about Jews, including the belief that they \u2018look Jewish\u201d that \u201cthe Jews own Canada\u201d, and explain the Jew\u2019s role in the pluralistic Canadian society.The questions of the Jew's feelings for Israel, intermarriage between Jew and non-Jew, religious teaching in the public schools, the importance of home and family, the deep meaning of Jewish holidays, will be commented upon and discussed, Plenary Session (Continued from Page 1) Saturday evening.Samuel Bronfman will give the Presidential Address and will make a presentation to the Prime Minister for the National Archives in Ottawa.Sunday On the final day of the four-day conclave, the morning will be devoted to a Plenary Session at which reports of the standing committees will be heard, followed by the election of officers.Dr.Stuart Rosenberg, Rabbi of the Beth Tzedek Congregation in Toronto, will be the guest speaker at the Sunday luncheon.Two workshops \u2014 on Intercultural programming, and on Music and Cultural programming, will be held simultaneously during the afternoon.Jean Boucher, Director of the Citizenship Branch, Department of Citizenship and Immigration, will be the main speaker at the intercultural session, chaired by S.Harris, and a panel of discussants will include A.Andras, Director of Legislation and Government employees of the Canadian Labour Congress, Professor Charles Hendry, Director of the University of Toronto School of Social Work and Montague Israels, Q.C., Chairman Joint Public Relations Committee, Western Region.The Workshop on Music, Arts and Letters will discuss the \u2018Role of the Jewish Composer, Writer and Artist in the Cultural Life of Jewish Communities\u2019, Jewish Education The first national conference on Jewish education ever held in Canada will convene at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel immediately prior to the 12th Plenary Session on October 28 and 29.Shamai Ogden, Chairman of the National Education Committee of C.J.Chas announced that Dr.Judah Pilch, OCTOBER, 1959 Montreal CJA Drive Launched Rabbi Abraham Feinberg, of Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto, will be guest speaker at the annual kickoff dinner for Montreal's 1959 Joint Campaign for Combined Jewish Appeal and United Israel Appeal, sponsored by Samuel Bronfman, on Monday evening, October 26th.Percy Caplan, general chairman of the 1959 campaign, has appealed for contributions in line with the donor\u2019s actual standard of living from every contributor in the campaign this year.\u201cWe need $1,000,000 more than was raised last year if we are to meet our objective and extend maximum aid to the thousands of people depending upon agencies,\u201d he said.The Joint Campaign supports the Federation of Jewish Community Services of Montreal; Canadian Jewish Congress; United Jewish Relief Agencies; Jewish Community Camps; Jewish General Hospital; Jewish Immigrant Aid Services of Canada; Jewish Public Library, B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation at McGill University; and the Jewish Agency through United Israel Appeal.Mr.Caplan and his four special advisors \u2014 Maxwell Cummings, Michael Greenblatt, Louis Reitman, and Sam Steinberg \u2014 were hosts at a dinner on October \"14th, at which Morris W.Berinstein, general chairman of U.J.A,, was guest speaker.The Samuel Bronfman dinner will be the last of a series of Special Names events which started on September 12th with a Dinner-Dance at which Dewey Stone and William Mazer of U.J.A.and John Fienberg, Chairman of Toronto's record-breaking 1959 campaign, were guests of honor.Since then special names donors, both men and women, have been invited to dinners, luncheons, and receptions.Community Achievement Award Made to CJC In recognition of the Bicentenary of Canadian Jewry, the United Synagogue of America has announced that it will bestow upon the Canadian Jewish Congress the Solomon Schechter Award for Community Achievement.In a letter to Samuel Bronfman, Bernath L.Jacobs, President of the United Synagogue of America, states: \u201cTo mark the 200th anniversary of Jewish community life in Canada, and in recognition of the notable record of service and achievement of the Canadian Jewish Congress, the United Synagogue of America wishes to bestow upon the Canadian Jewish Congress the Solomon Schechter Award for Community Achievement.\u201d An invitation was extended to Samuel Bronfman to accept the award in person as President of the Canadian Jewish Congress on behalf of the Congress and the entire Canadian Jewish community.The presentation will be made at the Biennial Convention on November 18 at the Concord Hotel, Kiamesha Lake, New York.Executive Director of the American Association for Jewish Education will participate in the public session Wednesday evening.He will speak on the survey on Jewish education conducted recently by his association in the United States, and Dr.Joseph Diamond of Toronto will relate the findings of the survey to the Canadian scene.The discussions will follow Thursday morning under the chairmanship of Ben Beutel, Chairman of the Eastern Region Education Committee of Congress.A panel comprising S.M.Sel- chen, Winnipeg; Harry Steiner, Toronto; and Rabbi M.Lewittes, Montreal, will lead off the discussion.Julius Hayman will summarize, and M.M.Sumner, Windsor, will present the resolutions to a special meeting under the chairmanship of S.Harvey, Montreal."]