22 Friday, April 1, 1918
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For over thirty-five years. families
have been relying on Planters'Oil
for all their Kosher cooking.
On,Passover and all year through.
They like it because it's pure, light and
polyunsaturated. do the true taste
of the food comes through. Try
this traditional Passover recipe
and see what we mean. Cook it with
Kosher and Parve Planters Oil.
And Happy Passover.
New Zealand's 4,500 Jews Follow
Same Practices as Diaspora Peers
By WARREN FREEDMAN
Jews began arriving in
New Zealand even before
the country attained
nationhood. In fact, the
country's oldest business,
Cooper and Levy, was estab-
lished in 1829 in Sydney,
Australia, and sent trading
schooners to New Zealand;
the firm named two har-
bors, one Port Cooper (now
Lyttelton) and the other,
Port Levy on the South Is-
land. Cooper and Levy is
still going strong as a trad-
ing company today!
The first Jewish settle-
ment inNew2ealandwasin
1830 when Sir Moses Mon-
tefiore's cousin, John Bar-
row Montefiore, arrived
from Australia. The next
year, John Israel Mon-
tefiore, the latter's cousin,
set up a trading station on
the waterfront at the Bay of
Islands in the northern part
of New Zealand. Later that
same year Joel Samuel
Polack, an artist, writer and
explorer, landed at
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Recipe
from the
Passover Oil
ORANGE HONEY CHICKEN
Makes 4-6 servings
I (4-pound) chicken, cut in serving pieces
V: orange
2 teaspoons ground ginger
Pinch salt
:5 cup Planters Peanut Oil
1/4 cup honey
Orange slices
Rub chicken pieces with half orange.
Sprinkle with I teaspoon ground ginger and
salt. Combine Planters Peanut Oil, honey
and remaining I teaspoon ginger. Arrange
chicken in baking dish and brush with
honey mixture.
Roast in moderate oven (350' F.) 1'h to
2 hours, basting occasionally with the
honey mixture. Garnish with orange slices
before serving.
Certified Kosher and Parve for Passover
by Rabbi Bernard Levy.
Another fine product of
Standard Brands.
CR SALADS.BAKING FRY63
PLANTERS
OIL
Kororareka (now Russell).
The founding father of the
Jewish community in the
principal city of Auckland
was David Nathan of a
Dutch Orthodox Jewish
family, who in 1841 arrived
and married Rosetta
Aarons, the widow of a
ship's captain.
Nathan prospered, and
founded the first Or-
thodox synagogue, Beth
Israel Congregation, now
located on Grays Avenue.
(Nathan's great-
grandson, Lawrence
David Nathan, recently
retired as head of the
Jewish communtiyd
Three years after the
1840 Treaty of Waitangi,
which brought New Zea-
land under British rule, Ab-
raham Hort, Sr., went to
Wellington (now the capi-
tal) with the intention of
promoting planned Jewish
immigration to relieve
Jewish poverty in England.
That objective was never
reached, and the Jewish
population of New Zealand
has always been small.
However, Jewish contribu-
tions to New Zealand life
have been anything but
small.
The most eminent name
in the history of New Zea-
land Jewry is that of Sir
Julius Vogel who was twice
prime minister from 1873 to
1875 and again in 1876.
Another Jew, Sir Michael
Myers, served as chief jus-
tice from 1931 to 1946.
Recently, Auckland re-
elected Sir Dov-Meyer
Robinson for a fifth term as
that city's Jewish mayor.
Today, Jews are found in
the vanguard of business
and the professions and are
leaders in the garment,
brewery and hotel indus-
tries as well as in law,
medicine and communica-
tions.
Among the Jewish-
founded businesses in
New Zealand are
L.D.Nathan and Co.; New
Zealand Breweries;
Levin and Co.; Bailin
Brothers; Bing Harris
and Co.; and Hallenstein
Brothers.
Today there are approxi-
mately 4,500 Jewish citi-
zens in New Zealand, and
they reside principally in
the cities: Auckland, 2,000;
Wellington (including
Lower Hutt, 10 miles
away), 2,100; Christchurch,
300; and in smaller com-
munities of Dunedin, Hast-
ings, Palmerston North and
Hamilton. There are
synagogues in Wellington,
Auckland, Christchurch
and in Dunedin.
Though their numbers
are small, New Zealand
Jews live a full and rich
Jewish life and maintain
close relationships with Is-
rael.
New Zeland Jews are
proud of their virtual 100
percent synagogue affilia-
tion and their participation
in Bnai Brith, chartered in
1960 in the city of Wel-
lington, and in 1961 in Au-
ckland. New Zealand Jewry
synagogue. The present
has Zionist organizations,
synagogue was built in
and are also proud of their
1881. Today there are
participation in the Hebrew
about 60 Jewish families
and religious schools which
in Christchurch.
they have established in
The most southern
both Auckland and Wel-
Jewish community in the
lington.
world is in New Zealand —
The synagogues are af-
once it was Launceton,
filiated with Britain's Un-
Tasmania, in Australia, but
ited Synagogue which is
today it is Dunedin, where
similar to the Orthodox 20 Jewish families — 50
movement in the United
persons — still reside.
States. These synagogues
(Since 1960 there has been
operate under the juris- no synagogue nor commun-
diction of the London
ity in Tasmania.) Dunedin
Chief Rabbinate and re-
is located at the lower tip of
ceive their spiritual lead-
South Island, New Zealand,
ers: from a number of and woo oottled by
countries since New Zea-
Scotsmen. By 1880, follow-
land itself does not have
ing the gold rush, there
rabbinical training
were 200 Jews in Dunedin,
schools. (The temples be-
making Dunedin the
long to the World Union
largest Jewish community
of Progressive Judaism
in all of New Zealand.
and are in close contact
The local synagogue was
with their Australian
built to accommodate 500
counterparts.)
persons, but local economic
In addition to Beth Israel
conditions were better in
Congregation, Auckland
Wellington, Auckland and
has the Hebrew Congrega-
in Australia, so many of
tion, which is Orthodox, and
Dunedin's Jews soon mig-
Temple Shalom, which is rated.
liberal.
In 1966 the 500 seat
In the nation's capital synagogue was sold, and
city, Wellington, the Jewish
a modern 100-seat struc-
community has recently
ture was built. The prin-
cipal university medical
built a new Beth El
Synagogue and a new school of New Zealand is
Jewish social club. This in Dunedin and includes
community center, com-
both Jewish lecturers
pleted in 1977, includes a and Jewish students.
The local synagogue in
600-seat synagogue as well
as a chapel or junior Hastings is located in the
synagogue accommodating local Jewish community
100 worshippers. Cong. center.
Beth El (Orthodox) had
been built on "The Terrace" ADL Interfaith
in 1870 and again in 1929
before Wellington's Jewish Seminar Slated
population grew.
NEW YORK — A 14-day
In 1960 a Bnai Brith international interreligious
lodge was established in seminar, highlighted by a
Wellington, followed a private audience with Pope
year later by the opening Paul VI, will be conducted
of a sister lodge in Auck- by the Anti-Defamation
land. As a result of these League of Bnai Brith in
new lodge formations the Germany, Switzerland and
Australian lodges were Italy beginning May 1.
able, with the addition of
According to Nat
the New Zealand lodges, Kameny and Rabbi Ronald
to qualify for the forma- B. Sobel, seminar coor-
tion of Bnai Brith District dinators, the participants—
21. An Auckland chapter all with special interest in
has since been formed interreligious activities —
and BBYO units flourish will confer with Jewish,
in both Auckland and Christian and political
Wellington. In addition, a leaders in the three coun-
young married group of tries and the Vatican on
Bnai Brith is active in problems related to neo-
Wellington.
Nazism on German cam-
Temple Sinai at 147 puses, anti-Semitism and
Ghuznee St. is the liberal Jewish-Christian relations.
congregation. The New Zea-
land Jewish Chronicle Economic Help
serves the Jewish com-
JOHANNESBURG
munities.
(ZINS) — Israeli Finance
Wellington has. a co""- Minister Simha Ehrlich's
operative kosher butcher recent South Africa trip was
shop operated by members
used to revise South Africa's
of the Orthodox congrega- policy towards Israel Bonds.
tion.
Individual as well as cor-
Wellington's first Jews
porate investors will be able
arrived in 1840 (Benjamin
to purchase the Bonds at
and Solomon Levy). The
five percent interest for 15
state of Israel opened an
years. Ehrlich was also try-
embassy in Wellington in
ing to win concessions to
'1975.
improve Israel's negative
In Christchurch, the
balance of trade with South
local synagogue is Can-
Africa.
terbury Hebrew Congre-
It is difficult to buy the
gation (Orthodox). Jews
words of the Torah as to buy
settled here in the late
golden vases; it is as easy to
1830's, and by 1863 had
destroy them as glass vases.
received a government
—The Talmud
grant for a wooden