Congress bulletin, 1 juin 1974, Juin

[" congress bulletin published by Canadian Jewish Congress CJC Plenary Assemblies An Historic Perspective qi Q TENTH PLENARY SESSION ZA nayy Sessior Canadian Jewish Congresi ocre 105.10 Program _ ROYAL YORK HOTEL, TORONTO > er TTT 4 A oo Le SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10 | Cota oe 1140-00 pe A .a \u201c fabs eth OJenory Session 4 al SA CEA rT A ATE > a \"TE JET Ves TA, ' 79 PROGRAM ° saturday, May ila \u201ctait aa srt Cabin Inge Sundin.June dat fer A1 CAES NI = MONDAY, OCTOBER 12 io cnn BAT RSS ATEN) Tekh skh 1a \u201c1947 FIRST CONGRESS MEETING, MONTREAL, 1919 CONORESS BULLETIN Jusr 1962 OCTOBER, 1971 CONGRESS BULLETIN \u201cA Community Shapes Its Future\u201d CANADIAN JEWISH CONGRESS 13th Plenary Session, Canadian Jewish Congress 0 Plenary Assembly, November 13-16, 1971 Pe 2 Thursday, June 21 HP oma Cascatian og .\u201cA Community Shapes Its Future Through Education\u201d 00 a.m.Registration and Sale of Tickets ; , .p - .3 aint National Committee on Community Chairman: Harold Lande, Q.C., Montreal Saturdav.November 13 VWondav.N\\ovember 15 Services Presentation: \u201cThe Challenges in Jewish Education\u201d .: Chairman: D.Lon Harris, Toronto Due ae Shamma Te to 800am Ses Arch .ussants: avi ewman .C.'oron! Shaar Hashos fm s10n on Archives 30 a.m.Religious Welfare Session Shloime Wiseman, Montreal hoe se mov m_Synagogue Community Shapes Its Future Through Religious ssion letcalte Avenue Chaman Monty Berger.Montrest Welfare\" on bio Nathan Selchen, Winni Westmount.Quebec Session on Rehgrous Affairs = Chairman: Hyman Bessin, Ottawa meats al See Chauman Rabbs Gunther Plaut.Toronto Report: Rabbi S.M.Zambrowsky, Montreal Adan Education 1nd Cultural Services 20 o se Toa ees Ww.G Toront Discumants Julius Hayman, \"Toronto Pr penne Sesser 9:30am Sesson on Jewrsh Education e Tr e x » Gasner, To 0 as \u2019 Discussants: Rabbi Milton Aron, Winnipeg i Dr.Marvin Weintraub, Vancouver Welcoming Remarks Monroe Abbey.Q C .Montreal.Chauman Harry Stemes, Toronto Rabbi Morton Green, Hamilton Discussion - National President Summary ot Rabbi Jordan Pearlson, Toronto Consultant: Dr.Samuel M.Blumentield, of New York Chairman Dr Leon Kronitz.Montreal Working Paper David E Newman, GC.Toronto Discussion ; (for both sessions) Simultaneous Drecusson Group: 00 a.m.Community Services (Concurrent Session) .7:00 p.m.Services, Dinner and Oneg Shabbat Election of Committees ommunity Shapes Îts Future l'arough Services Beth Tzedec Synagogue, 1700 Bathurst Street Ge cures Etant Bai mn Etes mond avn, Vancouver au tm etre py ace Presentation: Miss Florence Hutner, Toronte Symposium: \u201cThe Creative Dimension in Jewish Lite\u201d Address Dr Yascov Herzog Chairman Sydney M Harms.Q C .Toronto Discussion Groups: Moderator: Dr.Albert Rose, Toronte Director-General of the Israel Keynote Address Saui Hayes, QC.LLO.1.Large Communities (over 3,000 population) Participants: Melvin Fenson, Winnipeg Prime Minister's Office.Jerusalem Montrest Chairman-Discussion Leader: Arthur Gelber, Toronto Jacob Glatstein, New York A\u2019 \" - on 2.Medium Communities (1,000 - 3,000 population) Milton Himmelfarb, New York ecepton 2 _ _ Chairman-Discustion Leader Morris Hector, Calgary A.M.Melamet, Montreal 2.30p.m Session on \u201cCongress and the Jawrsh Commumty Consultant: Mor tein, Edmonton Discussion Lavin, 3.Small Communities (nude: 1,000 population) Chawman David - A.C.Winnipeg irman-Discussion Leader: Ernest Bricker, Saskatoon 7 > .Consuliant: Bryant M.Kassirer, Toronto Saturday, June °° Sundav.November !1 6 00pm.Recepuon Hosts \u2014 ber.Q.C and ~h = \u201cpr een en - Sahbatt = 1964 PTA SEN KE SEY Pr a .on oA \u201c> o PL LL D ee ena ® OR.CCR ETL FE EINE RR SE PE 2 I KE 2 2/ CONGRESS BULLETIN - ER 01 01E Teva m.am A¥\u201c= dr IH + .JUNE 1974 Plenary Program Participants Aba Beer Donald Carr, Q.C.Barbara Frum Professor Arthur Lermer Dr.Leon Kronitz Plenary Assembly Program 5:00 p.m.6:45 p.m.7:30 p.m.8:15a.m.9:00 a.m.12:00 noon 2:15p.m.4:30 p.m., 7:30a.m.8:00 a.m.Joseph L.Kronick, Chairman, Arrangements Committee Lavy M.REGISTRATION (Hospitality Room) MINCHA SERVICES CANDLE LIGHTING DINNER LIGHT BREAKFAST SERVICES LUNCHEON GUIDED TOUR Old Jewish Toronto DIALOGUE JEWISH FAMILY LIFE Dr.Leo Davids Prof.Lillian Messinger SEUDAH SHLISHIT SHEUR-DIALOGUE Dr.Emil Fackenheim Prof.Marven Herzog 9:40p.m.10:00 p.m.10:15 p.m.11:15 p.m.ed pe Mrs.Samuel Bronfman O.B.E.Becker SERVICES BREAKFAST SESSIONS LEADERSHIP FORTOMORROW Host: Sol Kanee YIDDISH : Chairman: Prof.Arthur Lermer RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS Chairman: Rabbi Dr.W.Gunther Plaut UJRA Chairman: Professor Perry Meyer, Q.C.HOLOCAUST Chairman: Aba Beer PLENARY SESSION CONDITION OF CANADIAN JEWRY Chairman: Sydney M.Harris, Q.C.Presentation: Saul Hayes, O.C.,Q.C.Discussion Groups: a} New Structures in the Jewish Community b} The Younger Community and Its Involvement in Congress 12:15 p.m.2:15-5:00 Gerda Freiberg, Vice Chairman, Arrangements Committee Michael Garber, Q.C.Ruth Resnick, Coordinator MAARIV & HAVDALLAH REGISTRATION OFFICIALPLENARY OPENING Election of Plenary Standing Committees.Amendment to By-Laws Musical Presentation of CJC Commissioned Work.Reception for Delegates.REGIONAL CAUCUSES a Judge Harold Lande c) Diaspora-Israel Relations d) Jews in a Pluralistic Society LUNCHEON Chairman: Judge Harold Lande SAMUEL BRONFMAN MEDAL Presentation: Mrs.Samuel Bronfman, O.B.E.Recipient: Michael Garber, Q.C.PRESENTATIONS Sol Kanee Judge Harold Lande GUEST SPEAKER Shimon Peres, Israel Cabinet Minister IN APPRECIATION Philip G.Givens, Q.C., M.P.P.PLENARY SESSION NOMINATIONS COMMITTEE REPORT Chairman: Abe Steinberg Please see next page rr.NT gere TRG tm Wi r= To ee 000.7.00 1308 &008 10:30 1215 NE 1g es.pr Ww.fi M JUNE 1974 Program and participants at the Canadian Jewish Congress Plenary Assembly, Toronto, June 15 \u2014 18, 1974.6:.00p.m.7 .00p.m.7:30a.m.8:00a.m.10:30 a.m.12:15 p.m.8:00p.m.His Excellency Dr.Theador Meron Sunday, June 16 \u2014 continued PRIORITIES FOR CJC Chairman: Isidor Wolfe Moderator: Barbara Frum Panel Discussion: Norman May Evelyn Shapiro Donald Carr, Q.C.David Sadowski COCKTAIL PARTY BANQUET SERVICES BREAKFAST SESSIONS ; .PROBLEMS OF SMALLER COMMUNITIES a) Eastern Region : - b) Central Region c) Western and Pacific Regions PLENARY SESSION CANADA-ISRAEL COMMITTEE Chairman: Prof.Perry Meyer, Q.C.Panel Discussion: .; Aaron Pollack, Moderator Myer Bick Harold Buchwald, Q.C.Prof.Irwin Cotler Rabbi Dr.W.Gunther Plaut LUNCHEON \u2019 Chairman: David Satok NN & > Dr.Nadav Safran PLENARY SESSION PRESENTATION Lavy M.Becker WORLD JEWRY 7 Chairman: Lavy M.Becker Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, President, American Jewish Congress Rabbi Morton Rosenthal, Director, South American Department, Anti-Defamation League, B'nai B'rith, U.S.A.Pierre Eliott 10:30 p.m.2:00-5:30 6:150.m.Dr.Stephen J.Roth The Right Honourable Trudeau TRIBUTETO SAUL HAYES Chairman: Sol Kanee Greetings: His Excellency Dr.Theodor Meron Israel Ambassador to Canada GUEST SPEAKER: The Prime Minister of Canada The Right Honourable Pierre Eliott Trudeau REGIONAL CAUCUSES Ee Tar\u201d 7 Guest Speaker: Dr.Nadav Safran, Centre for Middle EasternStudies Harvard University PLENARY SESSION JEWISH EDUCATION Chairman: Harry Steiner Discussion Groups: a) Priorities for Jewish Schools ~ b) Teacher-Training and Recruitment c) Education and Culture for Youth and Adults d) Community Responsibility and Funding DINNER AT LEISURE Dinner Meetings (by invitation) \u2018Reception for Smaller Community Delegates A Rabbi Morton M.Rosenthal Sigmund Unterberg Dr.Stephen J.Roth, Executive Director, European Division, World Jewish Congress Alan Rose, CJC Associate Executive Director Y.Rager, Special Advisor to the Israel Commission of the United Nations and Israel Consulate of New York CONGRESS BULLETIN/3 Plenary Program Participants Professor Perry Meyer, Q.C.Joseph Nuss Alan Rose Samuel J.Sable David Satok W.Victor Sefton Murray B.Spiegel, Q.C.Abe Steinberg À 7:30a.m.SERVICES 12:30p.m.LUNCHEON 8:00 a.m.BREAKFAST SESSIONS HONOURING SIGMUND UNTERBERG ARCHIVES AND RESEARCH Chairman: Murray B.Spiegel, Q.C.Chairman: Victor Sefton ' INSTALLATION OF INCOMING JEWS IN QUEBEC OFFICERS.Chairman: Joseph Nuss To.- Harry Steiner Isidor M.Wolf 10:00 a.m.PLENARY SESSION PLENARY RESOLUTIONS Chairman: Sam Sable Report: Donald Carr, Q.C.) + we - - 23061) MF TAQ TIA MITE * 4/CONG RESS BULLETIN q To appreciate Saul Hayes on the occasion of his \u201cretirement\u201d \u2014 whatever this means of a virile priest for whom action for Judaism is synonymous with breathing \u2014 is to recall the roots of the present in the history of Canadian Jewry.As a starting point we go back to the late 1930\u2019s \u2014 in the wide world and in Canada.Hitler in full power in Germany and growing in power in most of the other countries of Europe.Jews already in torture camps in Germany.Polish Jews know exactly how inexorably they are trapped, but they can convey nothing of this to outsiders who might rescue them.No one is listening.The Jewish toehold in Palestine is threatened by Arabs, by English and by the lethargy and confusion of Jews who do not understand fully.In Canada the regional loyalism is rising to the point of nationalism and separatism.Democracy challenged as incapable of governing during an extended economic crisis.Local Fascism and other \u201cisms\u201d under a score of labels are growing, even when they do not have the encouragement International Meetings: Montreux, Switzerland, Montreal, San Francisco, Paris Canadian Jewry at Paris Peace Conference UNRRA Meeting in Montreal Congress Representatives at the United, Nations San Francisco Conference Congress Delegation: Bronfman, Bennett, Sacks, Hayes Worid Jewish Congress Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) Immigration : Congress Petitions Government to Admi Jewish War Victims Refugees Heading for Canada Shanghai Jews Emigrate Tailors\u2019 Project War Orphans Movement \u201cOttawa Aids UJRA Rescue Plans and Pledges Punishment to Nazis\u2019\u2019, William Lyon MacKenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada Relief Program CJC/UJRA Seeks $2 Million for Overseas Aid UJR Sends $100,000.to Palestine for JDC Rescue Work Congress Rushes Supplies Overseas 750,000 Men in Uniform Congress\u2019 Guests tl Tl Tr TN Vl Nt Nn Nt St Vr RA 7 Aris Wp Bt en Me Bt Tt hem Bt Ss tn Be Beha 35 Years of Service Saul Hayes, O.C., Q.C.ea Cree ry sy vee ste of foreign subversive forces.Immigration of the threatened and of the fleeing is heartlessly cut off by officials with the morality of penitentiary guards.Anti-semitism sprouting all over the land, little hampered by law or by social conscience.The Jewish stance in this country wavering for lack of a Canadian orientation as yet.The community split along a dozen lines of division, historic, philosophic, social, ideological.Each citizen absorbed with personal problems of adjustment, family- and economics in a total climate of depression, threat, xenophobia, generation gap, discrimination, uncertainty.\u2018 A fledgling Canadian Jewish Congress struggles with these problems.Men of loyalty and vision, democratic, open, seeking to represent a community, but \u2014 most sadly, not really representative, incapable of mustering effective resources, devoid of real tools of social action.In January, 1939 there comes on the scene 1 940\u2019s \u2018Mr.Samuel Bronfman, the as yet unappreciated \u201cin the Congress.authority for a universe of Jewish activity.creative genius of community formation.THE YOUNG LAWYER Soon he brings into his organization Saul Hayes, 33-year old lawyer who was already active (Strong family association with Spanish and Portuguese Congregation.His mother had been a Kaplansky, a name deeply planted in that ancient synagogue.McGill degrees: B.A., 1927; M.A., 1929; B.C.L., 1932.Lecturer at School of Social Work, McGill ; University.) Hayes had been involved in planning social and economic investigation and in academic and legal concerns; an activity that flowered in Louis Rosenberg\u2019's Canada\u2019s Jews and in a score of other \u201cpublications which provided the factual From the beginning, Hayes and Bronfman Canada Mourns Martyred Jews in Nazi Occupied Europe Congress Will Convene Conference on Jews in the Post-War World CJC Human Rights Brief Fundamental Freedoms and Human Rights Asylum Freedom of Information .Incitement to Religious Hatred Anti-Semitism Rising Quebec Anti-Semitism Anti-Semitism in Western Canada Public Relations Religious Instruction in the Public Schools in Ontario Outremont School Question Problems in Ontario Schools Jewish Education Canadian Association of Hebrew ° Schools Congress Assists Publication Jewish Literature Yiddish Youth Research Archives Library \u2018ue Mas coi ans erate a.Moti, dtl.on cial En és ihe pe de mon bay fle yo ni fur bey by | fs pu gos ea og oo le di Ha lea We i bio in an sa Sa idly Sau Clive ang ong Cignt CL, (Gil 00 ang Ouis 8 f lual han in h ty, J JUNE13974.;.2210.Le HTT Ie REV TRL, cee.LILLY DEC SC te $ se t CONGRESS BULLETIN/6 developped a personal relationship which became a saga of mutual confidence and common objectives.Canadian objectives forges in Hayes\u2019 social and national loyalties; Jewish ideals filtered through Bronfman's sensitivity for his folk whom he loved and whom he loved to lead.The whole a blessing.And it envelopes their numerous close associates and the community.Each Canadian Jew, and tens of thousands beyond our boundaries who have been touched by this community, will situate his own person in its proper place in this vast and colourful jigsaw puzzle of our society.In what follows it is neither possible nor necessary to reiterate the roles of each of the precious identifiable participants.That was \u2014 or is \u2014 the glory of Jewish organized action, a positive revolutionary discovery which Judaism made only two centuries ago.BRONFMAN \u2014 HAYES At the head of this Jewish structure of Canadian organization since 1939 was the Bronfman- Hayes team, in effect new men in national leadership.In the annals of the Jewish civil service Hayes was among the first with legal training, academic appreciation, remarkably well read in history and biography, skilled in using his wit to place an issue in its proper perspective, in its appropriate temper and in viable temperature.In the face of the insane horror threatening Jew and humanity a measure of distancing was essential to retain sanity and to enable whatever action was open.There is a time dimension here: in the exciting and replete three decades that have passed there has fortunately been a succession of generations of initiative, of youth, of leadership.It was the Bronfman dream that this accession of energies be constant and enriching, always retaining the experience of predecessors.It has been Hayes\u2019 talent that he has continuously won these emerging new men and women to the cause \u2014 and to an appreciation of his role and of his person.It is difficult to separate out the initiatives of these two who became one and of the two hundred thousand, for they orchestrated the growing participation of more and more Canadian Jews, each in his position, each with his gifts, into a unified and mutually trusting community.It is such group creativity by citizens from Atlantic to Arctic to Pacific that unites all of Canada.In this community: associates on staff; in most cases lives of dedication to the Jewish idea.Men like Louis Rosenberg, Manfred Sallheimer, Heinz Frank.The beautiful and complex story of Caiserman.Some had intended the younger Hayes to supersede the older man.Instead, there came mutual respect and love, a familial cooperation that became the crown of each man\u2019s self-respect and saved two men for the pantheon of Canadian Jewry, at the side of their common friend Sam Bronfman.Or recall a moment in the life of a colleague, A.M.Klein, whom both Hayes and Bronfman loved so dearly.Klein had just published a number of poems on French Canada, the nucleus of his The Rocking Chair, in a Chicago magazine.Hayes was so enthusiastic over this culturally historic event in both Canadian and Jewish annals that he had three editions of these poems reprinted and distributed by the Congress \u2014 a moment of joinder of how many values and ideals! No less cordial, the relations established with Yiddish writers and scholars.A shelf of books by Dr.Simchah Petrushka, Samson Dunsky, Mordecai Husid, Melech Ravitch, Rachel Corn and others with their acknowledgements to the Congress reflect Hayes warmth for these benefactors of Yiddish and of Canadian culture.OUR BATTLE FRONTS From those early days also there stems the trust he won from that form of world Jewry labelled the Jewish Joint DistributionCommittee.This is another story never told in its full Napoleonic scale, of the proportions of Moses and of Nehemiah.In Canada Hayes became synonymous with the JDC, and in New York and on the battle fronts of relief and of solace Hayes became synonymous with Canada.: One of his tasks was to direct the emergency refugee effort, to pry open the door ruthlessly welded shut upon Jews one half a step ahead of Eichmann.Epic after epic: Jewish farmers from Danzig, Jewish engineers from Poland, refugees in Britain suddenly thrown in with Germans taken prisoner of war and then interned half-secretly in Canada; rabbis who fled from Lithuania across Siberia saved in Canada \u2014 or trapped in Shanghai by the Japanese.Of these few who crashed the Ottawa curtain, each had to be received, settled, adjusted, taught \u2014 a rehearsal for the much larger movement that was brought into Canada after Jewry had paid the tax of holocaust and of war.This migration saga was almost a personal effort, so few were the handful of Canadians concerned with the lives of Jews.During the horrible years of cannon fire, the Congress reflected the full involvement of Canadian Jews with the physical destruction of Hitlerism.Hayes translated this participation into action in a score of programs: Jews furnished the recreation quarters of men in uniform; they keptin constant touch with their own sons overseas; they highlighted the full patriotic sacrifices on the supreme fields of decision.THE COMMUNITY VOICE From the beginning Hayes demonstrated his ability to articulate Jewish passionate needs in terms which lost none of their force or clarity for being acceptable to Canadians of other religions.It was an advocacy that enabled him to establish for the first time a permanently open line between the total community and government, administration, academe, the media and thence the Canadian public.For over thirty years Hayes\u2019 has been the considered voice of the community.This has been no matter of urbane decibles.It has involved much abstract thought, much drafting, study, revision.In addition to ail its effectiveness it has also created a national unity in the community as the country\u2019s citizenry came to agree and to speak together, to decide what Jewry needed said and on how it wanted it said.At a very difficult time this process asserted the legitimacy and the propriety of the claims of the Jewish citizens.These came to be heard on the broadest range of subjects.Hayes introduced these instruments of Jewish action-on the Canadian scene and vastly enriched the country thereby.The carefully considered tones which Hayes shaped were raised by Canadian Jewry to confront the stridency of the anti-semites.A moment of this story: the tone set by the community at this time evoked the good will \u2014 daring at this period \u2014 of Archbishop Charbonneau of Montreal, to begin Catholic action against race hatred and to initiate Catholic-Jewish relations not then existent elsewhere.It is a remarkable story which repays fuller development.In the years since he discovered how to make the egg stand on end, others have gone along the same road.It is well to recall the trail blazer (if not the mixer of metaphors).AFTER THE WAR His technical profiniency with officialdom was apparent in the earliest days of Selective Service action against anti-semitism in employment,in the part-timesnatching of refugees from Iberia, in the legal controntation on the Quebec City synagogue.It was a talent that soon won international recognition, as when he was named spokesmen for world Jewry at the UNRRA Council sessions.This facility in the realm of law, mediation and advocacy stood Jewry in good stead when Hayes and Bronfman attended the San Francisco conference which founded the United Nations.This culminated months of study and preparation on post-war planning which involved down-to-earth engineering of a world recovered from the Hitler menace and set on its tracks hopefully in directions idealists had longed for.At that time men such as Bronfman and Hayes and their back-up communities sought to foresee in 1944 the world of 1948, the problems of 1956, the challenges of 1967, the issues of 1973 to ensure that henceforth Jews, too, shall have justice.So Hayes was at the fore as the community's advocate for its visions.He was at the fore in mobilizing Canadian government support and leadership for Jewish sovereigntyin Israel.This - a = [ie A RR \u201c4 - 6/ CONGRESS BULLETIN was heroically accomplished, but not easily at a time when British sargeants were hanged in Palestine and Lord Moyne was assassinated in Egypt.Out of this program flowed Pearson's Cyprus role in establishing the Jewish State, Canada\u2019s early recognition of Israel, the continuing splendid relations between the two nations, the raising of millions for the construction and the defence of the State, the millions in gifts as Jews always sent to Jerusalem moneys in lieu of goats and kine for the sacrifices; the loans and bonds and investments and trade and education and welfare and migration.(Director\u2014 Canada-Israel Development Corporation, Canada-Israel Ltd., National Conference for Canadian Israel Securities Ltd.; Chairman, Jerusalem Emergency Conference.) The millions.To-day we all say, /ts only money.We estimate the lives also paid for Independence.But the money thus raised was not mere coinage.As they were leading the growing outpouring of private wealth, Hayes and Bronfman and their associates in the united and combined and affiliated appeals were simultaneously mobilizing the loyalty and the determination of a people whose sacrifices were but a symbol of their loyalty to their very being.The anguish of Yom Kippur and of the following days reveals the significance of this organization of souls that the associates set on foot in those days of mere fund-raising.THE REDEEMED The displaced in the camps.The slow return of human balance for those who had experienced the inhuman superhumanly.The restoration of body and of a measure of mental health.With Congress\u2019 help, the rejoinder of contact with relatives in Toronto and Vancouver.The redeeming dissolution of the camps with full honours.The flow of food and clothing from Canadian ports became Hayes\u2019 concern; and in reverse, a pathetic shipment: ancient Hebrew books and Sifrei Torah rescued from defiling German hands, restored to the sons of Jacob.A vignette: Post Jacob Isaac Segal in Hayes\u2019 office meditating over Mishnayoth and Responsa, thetreasuredpossessions of Polish Lomdim, now salvaged for peacefulness in a Canadian haven.Closer home, Hayes mobilized Canadians \u2014 Jews and others \u2014 and the wrecked machinery of Europe to bring to Canada tens of thousands of Jews to share our Canadian heritage and patriotism.It is a saga that multiplied our community and invigorated it many times more.It took legislative action, legal studies, appearances before parliamentary commitees, coordination with labour unions, welfare and migration agencies, shipping companies, international refugee organizations, casework, staff supervision, provincial health and welfare authorities, professional corporations, staff, and administration of considerable budgets.The whoie a project of governmental proportions, clean as a hound's tooth, life saving, constructive of a society.The result: An enlarged Canada.Broken men mended.Children grown up in Canadian freedom.The tailors\u2019 and furriers\u2019 and orphans\u2019 projects and the private cases have brought to Canada many of your friends, many citizens whose names mean Canadian distinction and others who have rebuilt the urban and the business geography of the country.Hayes\u2019 office was the focus and the dynamic centre whence all this activity and energy flowed out.And all this while, rehabilitating many thousands of Jewish veterans returned from the fronts.) Then redeeming the collectable debt the Germans owed.Trips to Europe to the Paris Peace Conference, the Conferences on Material Claims upon Germany and Austria the United Restitution Organization, the World Jewish Congress, and the United Nations action for children.(Director \u2014 United Restitution Organization, Conference of Jewish Material Claims against Germany, Committee for Jewish Claims on Austria.) A FREER CANADA With the war ended and mankind sorely catching its breath, Hayes directed the community attention to the vision of a better world that he had never blinked from even in the agonies of emergency.Began a series of programs of great daring because they were so new in history: Jewish idealism seeking to translate its ethical value in social and state terms.Judaism active in the post- Napoleonic world, with Jews as the equals of all free citizens.Giving applied meaning to old prayers and to national dreams of justice.Hayes devoted himself to legislation for the protection of minorities against discrimination \u2014 in jobs, universities, home acquisition, trade union membership.The new front was legislation against hate propaganda, with a series of appearances before government.Propagation of the ideas of basic human rights, the formulation of federal and provincial charters and declarations to this effect, and ensuring that these do not remain vague statements but become the real foundation for law and practice.Canadian unification through the setting up of Radio Canada, the National Fiim Society, adult education, Canadian literature, oecumenism, broad Canadian community organization, meaningful citizenship, the common fight against disease.(Vice-president, Canadian Association for Adult Education; Director=National Film Society, Jewish Film Society; Chairman, National Seminar on Citizenship.Associated with International Conference on Social Work; Canadian Welfare Council; Canada Foundation; National Culture Foundation.) PEERLESS SERVANT It is not surprising that Governor General Vincent Massey recalled Hayes\u2019 appearance at the hearings which resulted in the setting up of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.Mr.Massey remembered Hayes as one of the peerless servants of Canadian society.He incorporated this tribute to Hayes in his volume of collected addresses.(Coronation Medal; Citation from the United Nations for advancing the appeal for children.ORDER OF CANADA.) Canadian defense of threatened Jews overseas, not least in Soviet Russia and in the Arab states of Africa.Civilized legislation on divorce and on the poor, on the status of women.Within the community: the reorganization of education and facing the remnants of Christian denominationalism in the public schoois of Ontario and elsewhere.In Quebec, in particular, the anomally of a religious school system constitutionally imbedded in a society less and less given to church control; yet with no provision for the Jewish faith.A continuous Jewish effort to make Jewish children comfortable in the Protestant schools where they are so prominent; the need to democratise the educational system.Underlying the current concern is the Jews\u2019 long problem in relation to francophonie.The complex related problems of the French language, of linguistic communication between the ten provinces, of Canadian unity.This unity of Canada is one of the lasting and persistent visions, the lodestar of Hayes\u2019 life, and it has been fostered by his every action in advancing civilized life and law across the nation., To-day all this is for Mr.Hayes the timetable of the day's work.As Sam Lewin, an associate for over thirty years, put it over a glass of wine, \u201cNo one has ever come to the office in the morning before Mr.Hayes.He never went home without a brief case.The following morning work papers were distributed to everybody in the office.\u201d by DAVID ROME K * JUNE 1978 ty pe gio Internal London Worl Worl Work Cort Ay Il Cars Ioag fom Hrl Mas fir Six Hex hug Jews Jig United hin Holo Gi Eig \u201c~~ tly iy ad ny Ish in A i old ia 1 8 === gg CD JUNE 1974 .+ CONGRESS RULLETIN /7 International Meetings: New York, Geneva, London, Brussels, Jerusalem World Jewish Congress World Conference on Jewish Organizations World Zionist Congress Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany Israel Canada-Israel Committee Israel Independence Day Celebrations Yom Kippur War Air Link between Canada and Israel Massacres: Lod Airport, Munich, Kiryat Shmoneh, Maalot Soviet Jewry World-Wide Protest Alexei Kosygin Visits Canada Austrian Transient Camp Closed Jews in Arab Countries: Syria, Iraq.Jewish Communities: Cuba, Chile.United Jewish Relief Agencies (UJRA) Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) Holocaust CJC National Holocaust Memorial Committee Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Observations United Restitution of Canada (URO Nazi War Criminals Danish Heroism Saluteg Immigration Jewish Immigration immigration Submis The Right Honorable Prime Minister of Ca National Executive Human Rights Twenty-Fifth Annis Universal Declara on Human Right Human Rights Cd CJC Brief Urd Quebec Adopt Rights and Es, Human Rights Q sion Canadian Civil Libé Association RE Multiculturalism Community Relations Fait Francais/French Fact United Church of Canada Canadian Council of Churches Canadian Council of Christians and Jews CJC Brief on Bill 62 (restruction of school organization on the Island of Montreal) CBC Meetings CJC Statement on Poverty Grapes and Lettuce Boycott Samuel Bronfman House Samuel Bronfman House Official Opening Bronfman Museum Exhibitions Regions: Pacific, Western, Central, Eastern Winnipeg Jewish Community Council/CJC Western Region National Budgeting Conference Community Services Kashruth Supervision Kashruth Legislation Chaplaincy Committees Religious Affairs Youth Canadian Union of Jewish Students Regional Activity x.fish Education Le.ternational Conference on Jewish Education bnal Educational Conference Wësièrn Association of Jewish Schools JewiBh Studies at Canadian Universities æaegeor-Training Jewish Music Month Jewish Book Month Vaddish National Yiddish leommittee gional Yiddish Dé tivity ex0R ai Societies 8/ CONGRESS BULLETIN The Administrator tigen Tyce \u201c JUNE 1974 Sigmund Unterberg LL.D.Over thirty years ago the talent treasury of the Canadian Jewish Congress was enriched with the experience and traditions of the Austrian world of administration.The precision of administration developed in Vienna's high Academy of Commerce was urgently needed by Canadian Jewry as it suddenly organized on an unprecedented scale.Canadian Jewry suddenly sprouted large offices across the country, staffs, contact with tens of thousands of servicemen across the world, relations with a dozen governments, scores of institutions.It entered the world of the economics of fund raising, rescue and passenger traffic.Al! this required strict controls and efficient action, close collaboration between organizers, executives, soli- citors-and the accountant.Mr.Sigmund Unterberg came upon the scene, and single-mindedly set fo administer the growing range of Congress work, then of the United Jewish Refugee and Was Relief Agencies, and of the Joint Distribution Committee in Canada: then the settling of refugees on Ontario farms, Iberian immigrants in Canadian cities, shipping clothing overseas, purchasing food from Canadian farms and processing plants on behalf of world Jewry for displaced persons, Canadian fund-raising for Israel, the Israeli bond program, European rehabilitation, managing the purchasing and activities of the Canada- Israel Corporation \u2014 and so on, the entire gamut of Hanan Aynor, Vice-Consul of Israel to Canada (right) is shown accepting evidence of a shipment of Canadian wheat on behalf of his country from Sigmund Unterberg, Manager of The Canada-Israel Corporation.(1954) Reviewing overseas aid at a Conference of the United Jewish Relief Agencies, Montreal.(1955) RELIEF AGENCIES OF casa di UNITED JEWISH pu ; Camano oe Yo a mie yup TE TEE TERR TI ure = = Ste T= CANADIAN JEWISH CONGRESS mais Meeting of the Jewish Immigrant Aid Society, Montreal.(1968) Meeting of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds hel din Cleveland.(1967) our community history during the thirty stormy, changing years of our lifetime.And most immediate and dramatic was the assis- tanee to individual refugees who came to Canada, a fraternal creative assistance which has rendered so many of them independent and often leading citizens at our side.Some of his official titles help to tell the story of his career and of community concerns: Director of the United Jewish Teachers\u2019 Seminary and of the Jewish Immigrant Aid Society; trustee of Congress-Charities Commitee; director of the Congress Museum and Archives: member of joinc committees with the Zionist Organization of Canada.the B'nai, Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds.It has been a responsibility that has superseded the administrative and has placed Mr.Unterberg among the executive officers of Congress and of its far- ranging associated agencies.Inevitably the controller helped to shape the cultural policies of the community.He is one of the Canadian citizens who has affected all phases of the development of the community with his judgment, his power of analysis, his integrity, his breadth of sympathies.PC.CJC National Executive.(1971-74) Hold pg Ca (eS, ete À papi His beg fe ro game IS Hows [ake fg eed became k red f generat fade alos.Thence farting, presses vu Highae 3 he you fences figndless.men in is and he Talmud delance la lo Zionism.Pubic Li The ser Chronicle brel by could not His gr caught in Possibly th bhecaug onto the of his pou which ie 5 tl Litk 1 av y i Sem Tor his fe radical Conan © Gemoora nihog ft ceci Pes $ nent Mature Jewish chi Panel he tient (ize Comnigy Harty ang in any LAT Sh gy | hing ae à à of liens story nary le of ness swith 1 Fed- seded mig 5 far roller unit.ws oh Tonity gil, § i éme =\u201c JAN 3071.Plenary Assembly Presentations Michael Garber,0Q.C.World Jewry honours Michael Garber, Q.C., statesman of the Canadian community, voice in The World Jewish Congress, the cool brain and unwavering heart which sought to realize the high ethical Jewish ideals in Canadian society of the past fifty years.His beginnings are basic to an understanding of his entire life, for of him it can be said that his older years have not shamed his youth.He was born early enough to be able to claim to be a genuine Litvak before his father Reb Simcheh, who knew the Talmud by the needle, migrated to Canada.Here the elder Garber became known as the independent and tremendously respected Baaleboss \u2014 cheerful wit, teacher of the A.M.Klein generation, spiritual leader of Chevrah T'hilim Linath Hatzedeck \u2014 itself a name which is a capsule of semantics and traditions.Thence young Michael derived his Litvak dedication to learning, purified to dryness but with a wit which further expresses truth and explodes pretension and obfuscation.Michael Garber's dedication to truth was tested by sacrifice.as the young lawyer early turned to action on behalf of the defenceless, the poor, the oppressed, the workers, the friendless.There was a touch of spite against the establishment in his searching out causes and cases of the oppressed and the helples.Talmud-laden, free spirit Garber became the labor defence lawyer, the civil libertarian whose idealism extended to Zionism.The lecturer before the working men at the Jewish Public Library became the disciple of Ruben Brainin.The semi-anonymous columnist with the Canadian Jewish Chronicle was also the incisive lawyer who sharpened Jewish briets by ruthlessly excising any phrase or word on which he could not stake all.His greates horror, it always seemed, has been to be caught in an exaggeration, even in a fighty figure of speech.Possibly this stems from the forms of Talmudic debate where to be caught out in logic is to be mate.Possibly it was his reaction to the new-immigrant effervescence of the Jewish society of his youth, to.the one phase of the indisciplined Shtete/ to which He selected not to adhere.Possibly it was the inexplicable Litvak in him \u2014 austere with himself, ever ready to debate accuracy with all comers; the Gaon of Vilno, not the Baal Shem Tov of Mejbuj.In his younger years during the De Sola age Garber was the radical who, with Bennett, toppled the revered leader of Canadian Zionism from the prassidium to bring on the more democratic epoch of the Freimans.In those days of the first Canadian Jewish Congress he ran for election in the universal suffrage campaign on the Progressive Zionist ticket, together with J.J.Myersdn and' Dr.S.Ortenberg.Naturally, in the dramatic dispute on the schooling of Jewish children, Garber sided with labour for a separate Jewish panel; he gave of his time, his effort and his prestige for the cause which had a distant Jewish vision.The governement recognized his talent and he was named to the Jewish School Commission when it was constituted.But the opponents of separate schools were the majority among the commissioners and in any case had no option under the intense government pressure but to enter into an agreement with the Protestant School Commission.IN HoMAGE 13 MicHAEL GARBER,Q.C.FOR HIS ZEAL FOR JUSTICE AND HUMANITY, HIS ROLE FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS AS AN ARCHITECT OF THE CANADIAN JEWISH [CONGRESS AND AS A MENTOR OF UNUSUAL GIFTS AND RARE QUALITIES THIS MEDAL IS PRESENTED, June 17,1874 GANGRESS:BYLLETIN/Y, Garber's eyes laugh more easily than his lips, with a catalogue of a hundred humours \u2014 from amusement to anlysis, to contempt, to appreciation, to courtsey.Words come harder except to express, after long thought by a quick mind, with exquisite honesty, a finely honed truth that needs to be said.Independent, cultured, urbane, polyglot, liberal, anti- authoritarian, militant idealist \u2014 it is no wonder that his K.C.came later for him that for others admittedly his inferiors.Samuel Bronfman was always proud of his ability to seek out talent \u2014 and then to trust them.Upon entering Congress early in 1939 he set up a team \u2014 ad hoc \u2014 which was an example of his genius with people.From Day One Garber was the guide whom he followed unfailingly as he followed no one else.Henceforth it was true not that Garber was the man behind the Bronfman power but that Garber\u2019s wisdom was the Bronfman strength.At one other moment in community history Garber opened an aggressive attack on the enemy.As late as 1945, after the war, the Protestants of Outremont peremptorily decided that they would have nothing of the Jewish children who had been in their schools.It was something to see Garber at thé Adath Israel auditorium on that occasion, pouring out his advocats\u2019s anger at those offenders against Jewish rights and against Jewish dignity.He won that school battle for the Jewish children and their parents.In his scale of our century, one Jewish value stands at the - heart of Garber's Jewish dedications, at the peak of all the heights \u2014 Al Rommo Shel Ma\u2019alsh, as the untranslatable Hebrew has it: Israel.Zionism has been his attachment since the first days of his self-awareness.He had shared in the co-presidency of the Canadian Zionist Organization some fifty years ago.When the ideal triumphed into real earth and water and men and Israeli babies, Garber led a representative group of Canadians to Israel to meet with Ben Gurion.In 1956 he became national president of the Zionist Organization of Canada, and served with the same dignity which he gave to his years as national president of the Canadian Jewish Congress.In retrospect Garber sees a Jewish people which has passed throught horrible agonies, has survived in dignity, has united in loyalism and has snatched Zion out of Auschwitz.As he looks at himself in the mirror of our here and now, even the cool Litvak Garber must admit to himself that he has contributed greatly and in a manner all his dear own.Always, title and position meant little and mean little to Michael Garber.Wherever he sits at a meeting becomes the seat of honour, authority and decision, as the eyes of those present turn constantly in that direction for a balanced judgment and for approval.He will permit no gross error to pass.Under these conditions, positions of trust were bound to pursue him, as in the classic Hebraic dictum: He who pursues honours, honours escape him; he who flees from honours, honours pursue him.Folk humour asks: Where is the just reward of the better man if neither ever attains honours?And answers, in the traditional reason-monologue, There is a distinction in the fate of the two men; the truly modest man, choosing to accept honours in a moment of personal need has an option not open to the seeker after honours: he can flee from honours more slowly.Garber has never faltered in his flight.¢ Ben Taube Sol Kanee, LL.D.CJC President CITATION In recognition of 35 years of distinguished services to the Canadian Jewish Community.His contribution to the Canadian Jewish Congress to World Jewry, to Israel and to his fellow citizens of all faiths has established him as a national leader of great renown.This 17th Plenary Assembly of the Canadian Jewish Congress extends its greetings and grateful recognition together with our expression of high esteem and deep affection.The Hon.Judge Harold Lande CJC Vice-Pretident CITATION ; In recognition of 40 years of distinguished services to the Canadian Jewish Congress.His contribution to Canadian Jewry, to his fellow citizens of all faiths has earned him enduring gratitude and profound respect.This 17th Plenary Assembly of the Canadian Jewish Congress extends its greatings and grateful recognition together with our expression of high esteem and deep affection.Lavy Becker CJC Past Chairman, Exécutive Committee CITATION In recognition of 30 years of distinguished services to the Canadian Jewish Community.His contribution to the Canadian Jewish Congress to the World Jewish Congress, and to his fellow citizens of all faiths has established his as a national leader of great renown.This 17th Plenary Assembly of the Canadian Jewish Congress extends its greeting and grateful recognition together with our expression of high esteem and deep affection. JUNE 1974 Ground-breaking, ceremony-December 18, 1968.culptured menorah which was presented by the Hadassah-WIZO Organization of Canada to Canadian Jewish Congress, in honour of ~ ongtime Congress President, the late Samuel Bronfman.This beautiful menorah, Memorabilia Over a long period of activity in the Jewish community, Mr.Samuel Bronfman amassed a considerable number of awards, tributes and personal letters from the geat and near great.Friends of Mr.Bronfman personally undertook to furnish such a room in the Congress building in a prominent area where all the memorabilia pertaining to the career of Samuel Bronfman could be permanently displayed and housed.The room, however, does not give sufficient visability to these items.Therefore, a special showcase was prepared which is in the lobby (as pictured beside.The exhibits in this showcase will be changed every six months so that graces the reception area of- Entrance, Samuel Bronfman House.JERUSALEM MURAL A ceremony dedicating the Jerusalem mural presented to Canadian Jewish Congress by Mr.& Mrs.\u201cRay D.Wolfe of Toronto in honour of the late Samuel Bronfman took place at the Samuel Bronfman House in - Montreal on May 13.1974.The mural, by Joyce Rose, is executed in enamel on copper.The work measures 12\u2019 X 9°.Present on the dais were Joyce Rose; His Excellency, the Ambassador of Israel, Dr.Theodor Meron; Consul General of Israel, Ariel P.Aran; Mr.& Mrs.Ray D.Wolfe; Mrs.Samuel Bronfman, OBE; Mr.& Mrs.Allan Bronf- man; Mr.& Mrs.Charles Bronfman; Monroe Abbey, Q.C.and Rabbi and Mrs.W.Gunther Plaut.Saul Hayes, O.C., Q.C., CIC Executive Vice President, presided.More than\u201d two hundred persons were present.Rabbi Plaut dedicated the mural following a brief address by Mr.Wolfe and official greetings on behalf of Israel by Dr.Meron.The following telegram was received from Theodor | Kollek, Mayor of Jerusalem: \u201cPlease accept on behalf of the City of Jerusalem our greetings on the occasion of the dedication of the Jerusalem mural presented by Mr.& Mrs.Ray D.Wolfe to the Canadian Jewish Congress in honour of the late - Samuel Bronfman.This impressive work created by Joyce Rose will be an enduring symbol linking Canadian Jewry and Jerusalem.\u201d + ATI UT .a home for Canadian Jewishness The Canadian Jewish Congress, Museum and Archives building is located at one of Montreal\u2019s busiest intersections, on the southeast corner of Cote des Neiges Rd.and McGregor Avenue.A multi-purpose structure with a total area of 32,000 sq.ft., the building consists primarily of three sections: \u2014 The offices, located on the two topmost floors of the building and having an area of 11,500 sq.ft; \u2014 The ground floor, assembly hall enclosed in glass and seating 200; \u2014 The lower levels, the top one will house Congress\u2019 Canadian Museum (see opposite page ); the lowest floor area provides parking facilities with access on Cote des Neiges Road.Fred Lebensold was the architect; !.Reichmann, the project architect; and Margaretha Martijn, the interior designer.Depicted on these pages are some of the treasures found in the Samuel Bronfman House which reflect Jewish history and heritage.occupied almost entirely by an exhibition and there will be a rotating number of objects representing the collection of memorabilia.Pictured beside in the showcase are innumerable awards presented to Mr.Bronfman by the State of Israel recognizing his many activities on behalf of Israel (Israeli coin collection, a clock illustrating the Twelve Tribes and medals struck on various occasions) together with a medal re- vresenting the American Jewish Ciongress Stephen S.Wise Award, and a rare Bible dating\u2019 beth | (1558-1603) presented to Congress by Mr.Jacob M.Lowy honouring Mr: Bronfman on the\" opening of the Samuel Bronfman House.back to the Reign of Queen Eliza- 14 4 1 4 4 4 Su 5 a 0 4 60 14 151000 0 1020406000 G SEC AIAGE tte RBRe Ser To p£ caste .Yas crc mea esreer ere ~n- \u2018JUNE 1974 EN £ 322¢ vrvar vary .ae an creer veu as 60 820000 \u201cte pL vse gy CONGRESS BULLETIN /11 , AB esha ex à \u201c \"528 m0 11 V2 à FSU SU 955 rn EE RE I I I SR MUSEUM A most important, innovative and exciting project has been made possible by the close relatives of Samuel Bronfman CC, who honoured him on his 80th birthday by establishing a fund to create a Canadian Jewish Museum.The Museum will be uniquely dedicated to portrayal of Canadian Jewish lite from its earliest beginnings in the late 18th century to the present.It will be restricted to Canadian Jewish life.Show cases will contain books, papers, documents, and three-dimensional objects, all of which will be fully explained as to their ambiance and reiationship to the Jewish lite of the time.Audio-visual treatment will be by way of graphs, maps, photos, reproductions, with the push-button technique of presentation against screens and audio explanations.Meetings have also been held with the Secretary General and Director of the National Museums of Canada discussing technical arrangements for this project.Experts.who have already drawn up the plans will soon be requested to translate the proposals into reality.This Museum will enable school children and adults, Jewish and non-Jewish, to obtain a bird\u2019s eye view of Jewish history in Canada from its inception and will make this history a living concept.The hoped for date of completion is for 1975.Mrs.Saidye Bronfman, OBE, is chairman of the committee responsible for the creation of this museum.* The National Museum of Congress, contains among other priceless treasures Jewish objects of religious, historic and artistic interest.Examples of these treasures are depicted below.Banners of 12 Tribes of Israel \u201cAny work of art which theTwelve Tribes of Israel, simply cannot help but radiate jubilation and a tremendous spirit of strength and splendour,\u201d says Norman Laliberté, whose magnificent banners cast just such a spell throughout the auditorium of the Samuel Bronfman House.Laliberte\u2019s approach to delineating the story of Israel's twelve tribes through the medium of cloth, involves a gitted and highly personalized style of imagery and symbolism.His figures \u2014 people and animals \u2014 at first view appear elementary and almost child-like in their presentation.But upon closer examination one becomes aware of more than a mere segment of cloth outlining the shape of a king or a lion Quite suddenly, adjoining symbols, background, positioning and minute details within the figures themselves give them individualized meaning and the overall composition seems to create not only a sense of time, but one of timelessness.The original simplicity gives way to a high degree of sophistication and something historic or intuitive triggers the memory, as yesterday a now tend to merge.Each banner or tribe has its own individual history \u2014 physical or symbolic, to relate as interpreted by Laliberté.In explaining some of the factors which helped shape and mould the individual banner rendition, he draws on a rich reservoir of biblical knowledge, and an unusual talent to translate quotation to a poignant graphic reality.Though each of his banners is individual and independant, collectively they radiate a feeling of abundance and revitalization that overwhelms the viewer.The joy and jubilation of which the artist speaks is ever present.Laliberté has succeeded in illuminating what lives in Jewish collective memory and has given it a spirit of.glory, effervescence and fresh interpretation.Special plate used for Seder ritual Chapel The Joseph Mitchell Franklin Memorial Chapel was dedicated Monday evening, November 15, 1971, at Samuel Bronfman House.The Chapel, donated by Mitchell Franklin, perpetuates the memory of his father, Joseph Mitchell Franklin, and constitutes a tribute to his mother, Frances Herschorn Franklin, of Saint John, New Brunswick.The Place of Worship, which seats 15, has Sifrei Torah and Aaron Kodesh, as well as siddurim and tallesim.Lou Zablow, founding President, on behaif of the Association of Survivors of Nazi Oppression, provided the Ner Tamid, the Eternal Light.Officiating at the ceremonies was Rabbi Dr.W.Gunther Plaut of Toronto, Chairman of the National Religious Affairs Committee of CJC, and Rabbi Morris Halpern, Chairman of the Board of Jewish Ministers.One of the Sifrei Torah is the Scroil of the Law which was presented to the late Samuel Bronfman when he presided at the National Conference for israel and Jewish Rehabilitation in 1951.THe Scroll was one of the Torahs rescued from the Nazi Holocaust and was presented to Mr.Bronfman for the Congress Archives by a young orphaned refugee from Europe.Symbolizes According to Montoe Abbey, Q.C., Past President of Canadian Jewish Congress, \u201cthe Chapel symbolizes the totality of Jewish life and the image of a united community which expresses itself religiously, linguistically, culturally, and nationally.\u201d .-Mr.Abbey added, \u201cSamuel Bronfman House would not have been complete without a place of worship and meditation as a concrete symbol of a faith of a community.\u201d It was in this spirit that the generous offer of the Franklin family to equip such a place of worship within the headquarters of Congress was accepted.Mr.Abbey noted that \u201cthe Chapel is dedicated to the memory of a Jewish pioneer and a leader of note, Joseph Mitchel! Franklin and as a tribute to his widow.whose family continues in the tradition of making communal welfare a guiding and overriding motive of life.\u201d The Chapel will also evoke the memory of the six million Jewish martyrs of Nazi oppression and to whose heroic deeds the Samuel Bronfman House has devoted a memorial window at the entrance to the hall.E.Shulchan Aruch printed in 1753 Holocaust Memorial Marcelle Ferron\u2019s stained-glass window at Samuel Bronfman House succeeds in telling a tragic story in a symphony of hopeful colour.The verriére acts as a divider between the entrance lobby and the conference room of the recently completed national headquarters of the Canadian Jewish Congress Museum and Archives building.The high, floor-to-ceiling window, in contemporary abstract design, is a dramatic burst of reds, blues, yellows, ggeys, violets and white.It serves as a permanent memorial to the six million Jews slain by the Nazis.The artist has fixed forever in tran- parent glass.the tragedy and hope of la condition humaine.Appearing in the lower left-hand corner of the verriére, and not part of the artist's design, is the legend, spelled out in Hebrew, Yiddish, English and French: And in their deaths bequeathed to us a life, a life that will endure for evermore.Painting in the abstract manner has always been Miss Ferron\u2019s style and she has carried over this non-figurative manner into verrière.It is typical of the artist, one of a handful of female verriers engaged in this technically complex and difficult medium, that she accepted the Congress challenge to design a window with a predetermined theme, for a Jewish organization and with a two-month time limit.\u201cI was intrigued,\u201d said Miss Ferron, \u201cfor | had never done anything like this before.Mr.Lebensold called me to meet with him and Mr.(Saul) Hayes and they gave me the theme.It seemed to call for something figurative.| didn\u2019t want to do anything expressionist in style, it had to be in abstract vein and yet, how to convey all those people?A thousand and one ideas occurred to me.| have some Jewish friends and | know the word for peace.| wanted to stay closer to the spirit of the Jewish past than to have an expressionist approach and so | thought of taking each of the letters of Shalom and portraying them as destroyed.In this way they would be symbolic of the destruction of the Jewish people.\u201cThe red colours that surround the broken letters represent the fire which consumed the people.The upper section is /e soleil à moi, my sun of hope.Connecting the two areas is a boit of lightning that is both functional to the design and symbolic of the eternal hope that rises from out of the destruction.And so the colours become lighter and brighter as the design moves upwards.\u201d 12/ CONGRESS BULLETIN CJC National Presidents we [congress bulletin published by Canadian Jewish Congress Volume 28, Number 8 June 1974 Lyon Cohen Samuel Bronfman, Michael Garber, Q.C.CC., LL.D.\u2018d Us gs v Fv 2 ; âê & g Ty FI 5 89 ë 2 2 \u201c3 5 8% PL S 5 Ês #2 Monroe Abbey, Q.C.Sol Kanee, LL.D.sé 8 35 #2 I 1 : 5 § 57 x, 3 CJC National Executive Directors ii 3 = 1919-1974 AVININOW SIN3a 1S gout 3N03HLO0Iglg ¥311dVD S304039 uu 621 CJC National Headquarters Samuel Bronfman House, Montreal \u2014\u2014 oem Seem 2e CJC 17th Plenary Assembly Issue Royal York Hotel, Toronto June 15- 18,1974 31YNOI1VN REGU LE 1G Juif 1974 À BIBLIOTHÈQUE NATIONALE Ii fi DEC ; "]