n--Fthkri, Igtomiloor 2S, 1970 TUE BETROff JEWISH NEWS Spotlight on Australian Jewry By G. SHAIAK • Melbourne, Australia Melbourne, the capital of Vic- toria, and the second largest city in the Commonwealth of Australia, has a population of almost 2,000,000, yet the Jewish population isonly 35,000. The majority is of ,British and Eastern-European stoat with a sprinkling of Central Europe. However, in terms of enlightment and spiritual guidance, Melbourne is far ahead of Sydney and other capital cities. In fact, Melbourne is the lighthouse and spokesman for Australian Jewry. The city is also the venue of most Jewish gatherings, conferences, the, center of Jewish cultural life, daily schools, two yeshivot, the Jewish press and theater. In spite of the many transforma- tions the Jewish community passed through in recent years, its repre- sentative body is_ ill patterned on typical Jewish co mmunal life in England. Its name is the Victoria Board of Deputies ZVBD). There is no democratically elected Kehila. At present 40 Jewish organizations are affiliated to the Victorian Jew- ish Board, and the current presi- dent is Walter Lippman. In the past the VBD has had three Polish-born presidents; for several years the English-born M. Ashkenazy, Q.C., a well-known bar- rister, and one Australian-born- Trevor Rapke, now a judge. The new president is dub as head of figures or the "statis- tician," because his preoccupation over a couple of decades with sta- tistics of the Australian Jewish community has served to inform of increase and decrease of numbers, intermarriage ratio and a variety of other miscellaneous f a c tors which help to illustrate the nature and character of a community. He has an inbred sense of social consciousness, and reflects that if it had not been for Hitler, he would probably have taken an academic career 15 a sociologist. The oppor- faulty wi>~ denied him in his native Hamburg where he fled as a lad of 19 to Australia. He arrived here in 1938. He had contacts here on both sides of his family. His father's family had migrated from Germany in 1811, but had maintained corm- pondence with those relatives who had remained in the old country. Within a year of his arrival, Lippman was already active in communal affairs, following in the wake of family tradition. He distinguished himself in many fields in communal life, Ileld many important positions in the Jewish and general communities, served for many years as honorary secre- tary of the executive council of Australian Jewry and in various capacities of the Victoria Board of Deputies. He is also a member of the Commonwealth Immigration Advisory Board. His late father was founder of the Bnal Brith in Melbourne. His grandfather was president of the Liberal Jewish community of Ham- burg. His family has followed the Liberal Jewish tradition. Mr. Lipp- man is a member of the Temple Beth Israel, and thus the first Lib- eral Jew as president of an Ortho- dox and Conservative Jewish com- munity. Arab Terrorists Profiting From Drug Traffic to U.S. LONDON (ZINS) — The Arab terrorist organizations of Jordan and Lebanon are conducting an active contraband in hashish to the United States, using the profits from this illicit traffic to finance their operations, it was reported in the London Daily Telegraph. Quoting well-informed sources, the paper reports that the terror- ists pocket a clear profit of $25 on every kilogram of the drug sold. British authorities in Cyprus re- cently impounded a plane carrying 700 kilograms of hashish from Lebanon. Five Americans were arrested. Immortality • By MELBA KRAUSE Grand Blase, Melt Dr. Viktor Frankel, a contempo- rary Jewish psychiatrist, has stated that the strongest human need is for a purpose and meaning to life. Various philosophers and mystics intuitively believe that the purpose of life is individual evolution, re- quiring many rebirths in human form until the individual soul has evolved highly 'enough to need no further human experience. They concluded that at such a degree of development life continues in a superior realm—in union with God. Investigators in psychical re- search are in agreement with this and also affirm that death is a period of assimilation of the past life's experiences, during which time the individual consciousness functions on a plane commensurate with the quality of the efforts exerted in the human life just terminated. This is followed by a period of rest and joy, after which there is subsequent rebirth in another human infant form. This cyclic procedure continues until the individual has evolved -highly enough to graduate beyond the necessity for human experience. Life continues in a more advanced state, where the continuity of the chain of past lives is compre- hended. Present lifetime situations are a result of past thoughts, words and actions. Life in this world is de- signed to be an assignment, an opportunity, a challenge, a strug- gle, a place of obstacles and suf- fering as well as of success and enjoyment. That which each indi- vidual tries to make of his situa- tion influences his future in this life, as well as in so-called death, and future lives. -Death is not a punishment. It is a birth into a vaster dimension. However, suicide fails to provide escape from a precise cause-and- effect principle. Consequences fol- low all violations of natural law. Progress in human self-develop- ment is aided by attuning oneself to the laws of nature regarding one's physical habits — the body being the temple of the soul; and one's mental habits — what one thinks about, influences one; as well as through interaction with other people—kindness and service being incumbent upon all. 'the goal being—to serve God. Bonn Security Tightened at Home of Israel Envoy and Arabs reside in West Ger- many. Among them are 3,000 Palestinians, many of whom are connected with terrorist groups." BONN (JTA)—Security-arrange- meats were strengthened around the home of Israeli Ambassador Eliahi Ben Horin after police stop- ped a number of Arabs near the ambassador's residence. The Arabs said they were visit- ing the Arab League office located nearby. A government spokesman had previously reported that the envoy had been under constant guard since the Israel Embassy received an anonymous telephone threat last week that the ambassador would be kidnapped. At the same time, another gov- ernment spokesman said the Ger- man government had learned that Arab terrorists were preparing to renew their activities in West Germany. Werner Smoydtin, dep- uty chief of the German Intel- ligence Service, said "Thirty thous- He said the West German gov- ernment knew of Arab plans to renew terrorist activities in West Germany through "our cooperation with intelligence services of other countries." COPPER BRACELET SPECIAL Border Children Get Rest RAANANA, Israel — Forty-four young people from 17 countries, al- most 100 from border settlements and areas, and the "native" popu- lation of some 250 summer camp- ers, 'participated in simultaneous programs this summer at Kfar Batya, the Bessie Gotsfeld Chil- dren's Village, one of the network of projects sponsored by the Mix- rachi Women's Organization of • SOLID COPPER BRACELET • IRTS ANY.WBIST ONLY $225 3 far $6.00 2 for $4.25 Send Chock or Money Order to America. 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