Sabbath, Holidays' Wisdom Treasury

'Rejoice in Thy Festival'

Interesting Montreal Population
Facts in Rosenberg's Statistical Study

Louis Rosenberg, the able di-
As executive secretary of the Jewish Book Council of rector of the research bureau of
America and as director of Jewish education of the Jewish the Canadian Jewish Congress,
who is responsible for the note-
Welfare Board's Jewish Community Center Division, Rabbi w o r t h y statistical studies of
Philip Goodman has written many columns giving the historical Canadian Jewry, has completed
- background of Jewish festivals. He has compiled and expanded another study, of the Jewish
them in a book that will delight the readers. Bloch Publishing community of Montreal.
Co. has just released his book under the title "Rejoice in Thy
Published as part of the Can-
Festival: A Treasury of Wisdom, Wit and Humor for the- adian Jewish Community Series
Sabbath and Jewish Holidays."
by the Canadian Jewish Con-
It is a highly enlightening 'book, replete with wit and gress, this new study of Mon-
humor, with generally unknown facts about our observances treal's population characteristics
and with the rules anti regulations followed by Jews in many includes an analysis of the com-
communities in their celebration.
munity's schools and synagogue
The first chapter, "Rejoice in -Thy Festival" (Deut. 16:14) attendance, the origins of the
opens with a proper explanatory quotation from Erubin 656: Jews of the community, their
"A man's character may be determined by three things: present language and the moth-
by his pocketbook, by his cup (of drinking wine) and by his
er tongue, place of birth, size of
families.
anger; and, some say, also by his Laughter."
Rabbi Goodman's Interesting book fulfills the purpose of
Some of the figures in this
inspiring laughter, while imparting' knowledge.
study of Montrveal Jewry—the
Thus, his book is informative as well as entertaining. It largest Jewish community in
draws upon Jewish wit and humor of all ages. It has the great Canada and the second largest
merit of telling the stories and anecdotes briefly, to the point in the British commonwealth,
and very clearly.
are:
Some of the stories are subtle, many very realistic, all are
Jews are the third largest
on a high plane. Here is one, "Children's Responsibility," culled ethnic group in Montreal. It is
from the Sabbath section:
the only Jewish community in
"Why are you so concerned that your children should Canada with more than 350
while
you
yourself
are
so
scrupulously observe the Sabbath
Jews living in a city predom-
inantly Catholic in religion.
lax?" a woman asked her neighbor.
"Because," her neighb‘Or replied, "it is written in the
The number of Jewish fam-
Torah: 'And the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath'." ilies in Montreal is 23,000 and
The proverbs as well as the riddles also will thrill the the size- of the average family
readers of this book. The very young as well as their elders has decreased from 3.6 in 1941
will find delight in it. In the PaSsover section, we read these to 3..2 in 1951, while the size of
additional questions and proverbs:
the average family in the total
Why is the Hagada.h the same as Borsht? Because they population has decreased from
4.0 to 3.6 in the same period.
are bath read (red).
are
The total Jewish population
Why are hard-boiled eggs eaten on Passover? They
are
cooked
of Montreal is given as 80,829,
a reminder of the Jewish people. The longer eggs
in hot water or roasted on a fire the harder they become. for the 1951 census.
"Among Jewish families the
This is also true of Jews.
percentage with three or more
"All Holidays Observed" is a concluding note in the book,
reading: "It is gratifying that all the Jewish holidays are .children at home decreased
from 39.5 in 1931 to 11.1 per
observed properly. The rich Jews observe the feasts and the
cent in 1951, while the per-
poor Jews observe the fasts."
centage among the total pop-
In the Shevuot section, there is a good story, "Keep the
ulation fell from 37.5 to 20.5
Commandments .- . ."
percent during the same per-
Before the holiday, a rabbi visited members of his congre-
gation to solicit flowers and plants to adorn the synagogue on iod."
Shevuot. A nouveau riche member offered:
"Instead of giving flowers in honor of Shevuot, I will
Brazilian Youths Leave
present the synagogue with the tablets of the Ten Command-
for Settlement in Israel
ments."
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA)—A
The rabbi immediately retorted:
group of 22 Brazilian Jewish
"It would be better that you KEEP the comnurndments youths left for Israel after com-
and give something else to the synagogue."
"Rejoice in Thy Festival" will provide humor to enhance pleting a year of pioneer train-
ing at an agricultural training
the enjoyment. It is a good book, ably compiled.
center. All are members of the
Hashomer Hatzair and plan to
settle in a Hashcimer Hatzair
as
collective settlement in t h e
Negev.

Another interesting fact re-
corded by Mr. Rosenberg is
that the percentage of Mon-
treal Jews able to speak Eng-
lish increased from 93.7 in
1921 to 97.9 per cent in 1941,
and decreased to 94.1 percent
in 1951, due to the influx of
8420 immigrants in the post-
war period.
Those who reported Yiddish
as their mother tongue formed
only 54.4 per cent of the Mon-
treal Jewish population in 1951
as compared with 81.2 in 1941
and 98.9 in 1931.

Loy Henderson, replaces Mr.
Rountree as Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State.
Mr. Rountree, 39, is a career
diplomat. He entered Govern-
ment service in 1935 and has
held various posts in the Middle
East. In 1946 he was appointed
special assistant to the Director
of Near Eastern, South Asian
and African Affairs in the De-
partment of State. In 1955, he
assumed duty as Deputy Assis-
tant Secretary of State for Near
Near Eastern, South Asian and
African Affairs.

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Poems Translated
from the Hebrew

1
One day I observed a gray hair
in my head;
I plucked it right out, when it
thus to me said:
"Thou mayest smile, if thou
wilt, at thy treatment of me,
But a score of my friends soon
will make mock of thee."
—Judah Ht-Levi.
2
Go not too frequently thy
friends to see,
Lest they grow weary of the
sight of thee;
When rain is scanty, then we
pray for more,
But love not one continuous
downpour.
—Abraham ibn Chasdai.

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William M. Rountree, formerly
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State, was sworn in as Assistant
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ern, SOuth Asia and African Af-
fairs. He succeeds George V.
Allen who has become United
States Ambassador to Greece.
James Lampton Berry, for-
merly special assistant to Dep-
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Thou shalt keep the corn-
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God, to walk in his ways. . . .
For the Lord thy God bringeth
thee into a good land, a land
of brooks- of water, of foun-
tains and depths that spring
out of valleys and hills.—Deut.
8:6, 7.

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