The Globe & Mail May 31 2002: Menorah-trademark OK overruled - by Michael Valpy Religion and Ethics Reporter: -

A federal-government decision allowing a U.S. organizaton that tries to convert Jews to Christianity to claim Canadian trademark rights to a stylized menorah has been overturned in court after a two-year legal struggle. The president of the Canadian Jewish Congress, Keith Landy, called the ruling a victory against so-called Jews for Jesus groups and "their appropriation of Jewish religious symbols, holidays, traditions and terminology, all to facilitate their proselytizing campaign."
The CJC, which initiated the legal action, has argued that giving New York-based Chosen Peoples Ministry exclusive rights to use a menorah design would be like giving a Jewish group exclusive rights to display the cross.
Mr. Justice Pierre Blais of the Federal Court merely said the federal registrar of trademarks made a mistake.
In 1999, the registrar decided that Chosen Peoples Ministry qualified as a "public authority" under Canada's Trade-marks Act and was entitled to register a stylized menorah as its "official mark" to be used on books, brochures, stationary and products ranging from baseball caps to coffee mugs.
The menorah candelabra is an ancient symbol of the Jewish faith, believed to have been incorporated by Moses into the design of the holy of holies, the Ark of the covenant according to God's instructions.
The Trade-marks Act does not define "public authority," although the courts have interpreted it to mean a Canadian entity subject to government control and displaying a duty to the public. Judge Blais ruled that Chosen Peoples Ministry does not meet those criteria.
Only public authorities are entitled to an official mark, which judge Blais said "grants extraordinary protection, broader than the rights granted in respect of trade-marks ... [and] strangely, an official mark can be obtained much more easily than a trademark."
Official-mark protection would have given Chosen Peoples Ministry the right to exclusive use of its menorah design or, presumably, anything close to it. The Federal Court decision does not mean the ministry cannot use the symbol, only that it can't claim exclusive use.
Mitch Glaser, president of Chosen People Ministries Inc., said the case was an attempt by the CJC to establish that members of his organization - who call themselves Christian Jews - should not be entitled to the tradition of the menorah. "We feel we're being persecuted by our own Jewish people. All we wanted was trade protection on our own emblem."

COMMENT:
1. The CJC is (perhaps unconsciously) correct in comparing the trade-mark protection rights being sought to a claim by a Jewish group to exclusive use of the cross. Perhaps somewhat ironically, however, this is because both groups appear to have lost sight of the fact that the Menorah is also an important part of the Christian Religious Heritage (Revelation 1:13 and 20).
2. In an attempt to sketch a brief Biblical background to the term "menorah" the reporter has mis-represented the Biblical setting in several respects.
(a) The Menorah was not situated in the Holy of Holies, which contained only the Ark of the Covenant, but stood outside the veil in the Holy Place, opposite the table of shewbread.
(b) Jews, as such, were not in existence by that name at the time of Moses, nor do they correctly appear in the Scriptures until a remnant of a remnant of a minority tribal group returned from the Babylonian captivity and began to use the name "Jews", a short form for "Judah." [The first mention of the term "Jews" in the AV Bible, incidentally, is II Kings 16:6 where they, (actually more correctly "Judahites", ydIWhy> Yehuwdiy {yeh-hoo-dee'}), are stated to be at war against Israel.] [Some browsers may mistranslate the symbols for the Hebrew word for Yehuwdiy in the preceding sentence.]
(c) Thirteen tribes were responsible for preparing the Tabernacle in the Wilderness, of which by far the majority never gave rise to the peoples called "Jews", (either Talmudist or Christian). Evidence supports us in contending that most of the tribes became the Anglo-Celto-Saxon and kindred peoples. Hence we feel the court ruling was correct, but for the wrong reasons!

The Globe & Mail June 1 2002: "History - Did Africa save monotheism? The Rescue of Jerusalem: The Alliance between Hebrews and Africans in 701 B.C.", by Henry T. Aubin, Doubleday Canada, 421 pages" headed a book review by Donald Harman Akenson.
[Summary: Nubian-Egyptians, not Yahweh, delivered Jerusalem! One paragraph gives us the review in brief: "Unless one assumes that the Almighty went bowling and used Sennacherib's men as duck-pins, or unless one accepts the occurrence of an ethnically specific epidemic (applying only to Assyrians) one needs another explanation. Aubin's is robust because it works whether or not a battle took place at Jerusalem.
Either the Nubian-Egyptians thumped the Assyrians or (if the death of 185,000 soldiers is a later textual interpolation) Sennacherib left rather than fight."]

COMMENT: Aubin's argument satisfies the higher critics!

The Weekly Telegraph No. 567, June 4-10, 2000 - 3 items:
1. Editorial lists events of Queen Elizabeth's reign (one line for each year, 1952 - 2002).

2. Rock plans referendum to bar deal with Spain [Summary: Gibraltar will try to sabotage Tony Blair's negotiations with Spain about its future by holding a snap referendum on the outcome.]

3. New fiver's numbers can rub off: THE Bank of England suspended distribution of a new £5 note after finding that the serial numbers - essential to prevent counterfeiting - can be rubbed off. Ten million notes, featuring a portrait of the social reformer Elizabeth Fry, went into circulation on May 20, hailed as "the most secure £5 note we have produced." A week later it was withdrawn.

The Globe & Mail, June 3, 2002 - Obituary: Ruby Bradley PoW nurse was an 'Angel in Fatigues: Hazard, Ky.
Colonel Ruby Bradley, a U.S. Army nurse who was a prisoner of the Japanese during the Second World War, has died of a heart attack. She was 94.
At a Japanese prisoner of war camp in the Philippines, Col. Bradley went hungry to give most of her food to children who were being held captive. She and other nurses set up a clinic to care for the sick and wounded. They became known as the Angels in Fatigues.
Col. Bradley weighed about 80 pounds when allied troops liberated the camp on Feb. 3, 1945. She died May 28. AP

The Globe & Mail, June 5, 2002: The Queen's Golden Jubilee
[Summary COMMENT: The sight of the Mall leading to Buckingham Palace, filled with fluttering Union Jacks in the hands of over a million Britons, revives a hope (which many had perhaps felt was slipping), for the patriotic (and Spiritual?) future of modern-day Anglo-Celto-Saxon and kindred Israel!

The Globe & Mail, June 6, 2002: 2 items:
1. Heading: Seized children defend faith, stir emotions in spanking case - Several angry at being taken from parents, videotaped interviews with police show.
[COMMENT: We continue to monitor developments in the trial of their parents, being held in St. Thomas, Ont., which we have previously reported.]

2. An item under the heading "Our flag into battle" begins "On June 6, 1944, The Canadian Press reported: "the Canadian ensign - popularly known as the 'Canadian flag' - went into battle today with Canadian troops for the first time in this war. Up to now the Union Jack has been flown. A few days before D-Day, Lt.-Gen. H.D.G. Crerar personally presented Canadian ensigns to the commander of the Canadian assault force with instructions that they be flown at the headquarters of divisions and brigades in the battle areas. The ensign has the Union Jack in the top left corner and the Dominion's Coat of Arms in the lower right-hand corner, all on a red background."

[COMMENT: Just a reminder of that small bit of our heritage!]

The Globe & Mail, June 8, 2002: 2 Items:
1. Heading: Sex Education - Abstinence Inc. - Virginity has become a marketable commodity in the United states, with hundreds of thousands of students being sold each year on the benefits of saving themselves for marriage. Shawna Richer reports - North Richland Hills, Tex.

[Summary: In a six-column article, we learn that "Aim For Success", a Dallas-based abstinence education-company, employing 14 speakers, delivers Slide-shows at schools, showing revealing, contrasting healthy and diseased sexual biology, with the message that abstinence is the road to safe and healthy lives.]

2. Thou shall not edit Jesus, ABC told - New York. ABC says it edited the word Jesus out of a recent broadcast so viewers wouldn't be offended. For many, it had the opposite effect. The bleeped Jesus on The View has drawn the ire of Jerry Falwell, some conservative media watchdogs and even the women whose on-air conversation was altered.
"It is political correctness run amok," says Elizabeth Swasey, spokeswoman for the Media Research Center.
On the May 23 edition of The View, Meredith Vieira noted that the daily weigh-ins of her dieting co-host, Joy Behar, had ended.
"Yes, and thank you, thank you, Jesus, is all I have to say," Behar replied. Her words were aired live in much of the country, but when ABC broadcast a taped version on the west coast, Jesus was edited out.
ABC spokeswoman Julie Hoover said the usage ran afoul of a pretty clear standard. The network has no problem with Jesus Christ's name if it is used in a "prayerful and respectful manner," she said. AP

The Weekly Telegraph, No. 568, June 11-17, 2002: Kashmir is Labour's lethal legacy - Blame lies with the Attlee government, writes Andrew Roberts:
"It is only right that Jack Straw, who visited India and Pakistan last week, should now be trying to clear up the mess caused by his Labour predecessors. Both the Indo-Pakistan nuclear stand-off and the continuing Middle Eastern conflict stem from decisions taken in 1947-48 by Clement Attlee's government.
Even now, more than 50 years on, evidence is emerging of the sleights of hand employed then for which that government must be held ultimately responsible. From a letter to The Telegraph (Issue 567), we have learnt from a retired lieutenant-colonel, RJG Begbie, that 24 hours before the partition of India and Pakistan the boundary between them was shifted 20 miles westwards by Labour's viceroy and "special plenipotentiary", Lord Mountbatten, to give India a common frontier with Kashmir, over which Indian troops marched the following day.
This dovetails all too precisely with what I discovered Mountbatten had done in the Punjab..." [altering the frontier in India's favour...].

[COMMENT: The article continues, with similar reference to Labour's policies in Palestine in 1948. Not to agree or disagree, but we thought our readers should be made aware of the thrust of this article.]

The Globe & Mail , June 11, 2002: Banner front-page heading: "Is Kissinger a war criminal?" points to page 13, where a full page article by Marcus Gee discusses the question.

The Globe & Mail, June 12, 2002: Editorial heading: "Ariel Sharon's victory in Washington" states the thrust of the text of the Editorial.

The Globe & Mail, June 13, 2002 [A beautiful colour telescopic photograph of The Eagle Nebula is headed "Infinite colour." With a caption which reads: "The Eagle Nebula contains the Pillars of Creation, a star nursery photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995. This image of the nebula by the U.S. National Science Foundation telescope at Kitt peak National Observatory in Arizona shows 100 times the area of the 1995 image... .]

The Globe & Mail, 14 June, 2002: Obituary - Jim Saull - Sculptor's work honoured Canada's war dead by Tom Hawthorn, Victoria.
Carver and sculptor Jim Saull, who built a striking cenotaph atop a rock cropping overlooking the sea, has died in Victoria. He was 88. While the cenotaph has long been admired, Mr. Saull was little known by the public. However Mr. Saull was watched by thousands of fairgoers at Expo 86 in Vancouver as he meticulously carved a ship's figurehead from a block of yellow cedar.
In 1948, Mr. Saull was hired by the tony suburb of Oak Bay to construct a war memorial at Uplands Park, a large tract of bush recently purchased by the municipality. Mr. Saull, who had served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War, decided against a monument with a marital theme. "I didn't want a charging bayonet," he said three years ago.
His inspiration was a touching memorial to the dead of the First World War that he had seen in Belgium. Mr. Saull designed a three-metre-tall figure of a woman backed against a large concrete block with a granite finish that includes the names of 96 war dead. The woman's head is bowed, as though in mourning. He based the figure on his wife Dorothy.
The sculptor took seven months to finish the memorial, which includes the Biblical inscription: 'Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.' ... Mr. Saull created many plaques and monuments scattered throughout the provincial capital, including the crests of the ten provinces at Confederation Square and Fountain, across the street from the legislature... .

COMMENT: Three columns contain further accomplishments and biographical interest. We honour one who honoured so many others.]

The Globe & Mail, 15 June, 2002: 2 Items:
1. 'You've got to use a Robertson' - A TV documentary pays homage to an invention that's so Canadian, Americans don't use it - the square-drive screw - heads a six-column illustrated article.
[Summary: a 94-year-old invention of Peter Lymburner Robertson, an Ontario inventor, is the best screw made, but Americans don't use it. The documentary reveals why, and something of its history.]

2. Obituary - Kenneth Patrick - Aviation visionary took risks - Founder of company that makes flight simulators said his goal was 'to create something Canadian and take advantage of a war-trained team that was extremely innovative and very technology-intensive'.

The Weekly Telegraph, No. 569, June 19-25, 2002 - 2 Items:
1. Arena shows how gladiators once fought in London by Nigel Reynolds, Arts Correspondent. -
[Summary: A colour-illustrated article describes a Roman ampitheatre buried 1700 years in the heart of London, which is being revealed by archaeologists. An oval which once seated 6000 spectators held gladiatorial fights, executions, and formed a parade ground for a neighbouring garrison.]

2. Obituary: Princess Liliane of Belgium, Commoner whose marriage to the widowed King Leopold upset may people.

Link Magazine, Summer, 2002 (Globe & Mail insert, June 27, 2002) printed an article by Alan Sharpe, "Can digital detectives undo paper shredding?"
[Summary points: deleted e-mails and paper shredding do not always remove evidence of wrong-doing. "Computer delete" simply removes the index pointer. Document may still be retrieved by special software.] (Paper shreds can be scanned and matched up by computer also, we understand!)

University of Toronto Magazine, Summer 2002, Vol 29 No 4, p. 15: Yiddish Gets A Boost -
Prior to the Second World War, about 12 million of the world's 16 to 17 million Jews spoke Yiddish....
[Summary: War took away half of these, but a grant to the U. of T. for a Yiddish Studies Programme is designed to rectify the matter in perpetuity.]

The Globe & Mail, 25 June, 2002 Editorial - Repent - oh, never mind
In the never-ending game of cosmic dodge ball, Earth sidestepped a close one earlier this month. An asteroid approximately the size of a soccer field came within 120,000 kilometres of our planet, or roughly one-third of the distance between here and the Moon. As long as we're using World Cup-friendly references, it was the astronomical equivalent of ringing one off the crossbar. The asteroid, had it hit, wasn't big enough to cause another ice age or anything. But it could have made a mighty big hole and caused the kind of damage we normally equate with large nuclear explosions. Which is to say, big and messy. If you find that shocking, here's the kicker: This sort of close encounter happens all the time. About once a week, on average, a 100-metre-diameter asteroid ventures between the moon and Earth. Yet the closest one has come to making contact was in 1908, when one exploded over Siberia and flattened a forest the size of a large Canadian city.
Given the regularity of close calls, you have to wonder if maybe doomsday prognosticators might not be on to something. They've got the general idea right, they're just off the mark with their basic assumptions and calculations. Like some of the economists we know.

The Globe & Mail, June 27, 2002 - Heading: "Sharon can't be tried, Brussels rules"
[Summary: Background - 800 Palestinian refugees in the Sabra and Shatila camps were killed by Lebanese Christians 20 years ago, under Sharon's oversight as Israeli defence minister.]

The Globe & Mail, June 28, 2002 - 2 Items:
1. Obituary: The Duke of Norfolk - Catholic duke a 'reluctant aristocrat' Miles Fitzalan-Howard won the Military Cross and led church laymen but was known as a 'largely invisible duke'.

[An illustrated five-column page gave details.]

2. Judge puts on hold his 'under God' ruling - San Francisco. A day after declaring the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional, a federal appeals court judge put his ruling on hold indefinitely. Circuit Judge Alfred Goodwin, who wrote the 2-1 opinion that said the phrase "under God" violates the separation of church and state, yesterday stayed his ruling until fellow members of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decide whether to reconsider the case. He gave no reason for his stay order; the ruling, which covered nine western states, was automatically on hold for 45 days to allow for legal challenges, which are expected from the government and other parties. AP ['Under God' was added by Eisenhower in 1954... .]