iSRaeL: YOUNG AND ALiVE AT 25 SHOFAR TO-DAYTuesAy the ninth day in the monzh of Adar b of the Year five thous DIN and nine hundred thirty three since the Creazion of. VIDI УѴП D'STA nv. the World-13.3.1973 we the B'nai B'rith Youth Organization underisigned members of ,1973 TVY vvv DUYN ЛК Moleder Bnai Briz and the IVINT "JI UK D') 18017 representatives of BBYO are gazhering here to lay the MSVI JT'ZZ JI'WI mix 'X'S" "Л" ALEPH ZADIK ALEPH (AZA) cornerstone for the Dining Hall which symbolises and bow ПУУП 12K ЛК ПИП7 COOK EA B'NAI B'RITH GIRLS (BBG) emphases our close relazionship This Hall shall represenz ,II'YIV D'DN'I gou TV py 1317 W another important asser D'IVIT print IIVII 15 VYV' IVN ОКФШ 17 zowards the warual conract 3353 "π7 "JI" У ЛУШП "TII CIL APRIL, 1973 berween the wewbersof that TESE Movement and Moledez VIII "II лът, Briz. LRIE MAY be Gods will that this close conract will ponn " 717 rupin рл steadily increase through KTV' DY ЛИШЛ 1'7 ТУЛУ DD pin perwanenz relazions berween the Cultures of the People ЛИЛУПУ ПУДУ TUK 151 ,77111 TVX 15 of Israel living in the Diaspora and chose Living in 2 JKD the Promised Land. DISMA by UKZ P 1n witness of This we sign our names: 3793 YEAR A Cornerstone Is Laid. A Highlight of the AZA and BBG Executive Boards' meetings in Israel was ISRAELS the laying of the cornerstone for the dining hall at Moledeth. Moledeth, a B'nai B'rith collective 25TH ANNIVERSARY settlement in the Galilee, has been a highlight of the Israel Summer Institute. In order to allow more BBYO'ers to enjoy Moledeth, a new dining hall is being built jointly by the International Service Fund and the people of Moledeth. As Israel celebrates her Silver twenty-five years as the Jewish State is North American and Israeli service project. Through the International Service Fund, about to begin celebrating its fiftieth anniversary- Golden Anniversary. assistance will be given to a Noar Lenoar clubhouse which is being built for the Druze. It is fitting that in this year of dual celebrations, the International Executive Boards of The Druze are a secret religious sect, not Moslem, who have found religious and social AZA and BBG have just made history by holding their first meetings ever outside the freedom after long persecution by Moslem Arabs. The Druze also serve as loyal mem- United States in the Jewish Homeland. bers of the Israeli army. Full details on this clubhouse will appear in next month's BBYO's link to Israel goes back to the founding of AZA. The Supreme Advisory Shofar. Council (the early policy-making body of AZAI, in interpreting the name stated that Israel is much more to BBYO than just an overseas district, more than a place to tour the Zadik "stands for Zion toward which we turn in our prayers and which is the birth- in the summer, more than a place to contribute money from ISF. Israel is an integral place of everything that is high, fine, and noble in Judaism." In fact, for this reason the part of BBYO. What convention does not feature Israeli dancing and singing? What re- original AZA password upon entering the meeting room was Zion. Since then, of gion has not had an Israeli speaker? Every issue of The Shofar carries reports of chapters course, the Zadik has been reinterpreted as Tzedakah, charity. having Israeli festivals with felafel and other Israeli delicacies. So important has Israel During the early years of AZA, the national song was Hatikvah to symbolize AZA's became that the 1970 International Convention changed the Statement of Objectives of desires to see the land of Israel reborn. AZA's commitment to Israel extended even BBYO for the first time in many years. That change formalized what had for many years deeper. Seventeen years before the establishment of the State of Israel the International been accepted. The first of the four goals of BBYO now reads: AZA Convention voted to raise funds for the planting of an AZA forest in Palestine. To help its members feel at home in the Jewish community, identify them- Known as the Harry Lapidus Memorial Forest, after a charter member of the AZA Su- selves with the common aspirations of the Jewish people and The State of preme Advisory Council, it was established in the Hills of Galilee. During the last Israel and make contributions of distinctive Jewish values to the mosaic of years of the British Mandate, the full grown forest served as a secret training center for their country's culture; to help its members enhance their knowledge and ap- units of the Haganah and it later shielded a unit of the Israeli Army in the War for Liber- preciation of Jewish religion and culture. ation in 1948. Just five words "and The State of Israel but it symbolizes the very natural In 1937, Julius Bisno, then Executive Secretary of AZA, traveled to Palestine where way in which Israel has always managed to be a part of BBYO. he founded the first AZA chapters in the Jewish Homeland. During World War II, North As Israel moves into its second quarter century and BBYO enters its second half cen- American BBYO chapters raised several thousand dollars to help resettle orphans of tury, every chapter, region, council and district should recommit itself to Israel. This the Holocaust in Palestine. In fact, to date, BBYO has allocated nearly one quarter of a special issue of The Shofar contains many ideas to help you do just that. million dollars to various Israeli projects. BBYO has helped emotionally disturbed chil- dren receive care in the B'nai B'rith Women's Children's Home; has given Israeli high school students scholarships (high school in Israel is not tree) through the BBG Harmon Scholarship; has planted over 10,000 trees in the B'nai B'rith Martyr's Forest and.earlier in the Lapidus AZA Memorial Forest; has helped sustain Noar Lenoar, out counterpart in Israel; has provided needed assistance to one of B'nai B'rith's twin agricultural settle- ments, Ramat Zvi, and is now in the process of building a new dining hall to serve members of the BBYO Israel Summer Institute at the other of the twin agricultural settlements, Moledeth. In fact, the International Executive Boards participated in lay- ing the cornerstone for this new building while in Israel. But BBYO has done more than contribute money and plant trees. Through the Inter- national Service Fund, BBYO has provided scholarships for some of the BBYO'ers who have traveled to Israel with the BBYO Israel Summer Institute over the last seventeen years. Besides sending BBYO members to Israel, ISF funds have helped bring Noar Lenoar members to North America. In the summer of 1968, this two-way bridge con- INTERNATIONAL cept began. Since that time, nearly one hundred members of Noar Lenoar have toured EXECUTIVE BOARD 1973 the east coast and then spent a week at Camp B'nai B'rith as delegates to the Inter- national AZA and BBG Conventions. Our connection with Noar Lenoar is one of the foundations of BBYO's relationship with Israel. In 1967, BBYO formed a partnership with an existing Israeli youth organiza- tion known as Noar Lenoar (Youth to Youth). Until then, Noar Lenoar had been a group EXEC BOARDS ARRIVE IN ISRAEL. The International Executive Boards of AZA of autonomous high school clubs organized to provide volunteer service to young im- and BBG recently met in Israel. This was the first time the Executive Boards have migrants and other disadvantaged youth. Now that Noar Lenoar is a part of BBYO, it is met outside the United States. Shown behind at the left edge of the banner are known as District 14. International N'siah Tracy Robinson and Grand Aleph Godol Mel Nasielski. Kneel- Noar Lenoar now has about 5,000 members working in a variety of volunteer activ- ing at extreme right in front row is International Director, Dr. Max F. Baer, and ities. Not only do they work with the immigrants particularly new olim (immigrants) standing at the extreme left edge of picture is International Program Director, from the Soviet Union they are also working with physically and mentally retarded Emanuel Mandel. Immediately to the right of Mandel is Yehuda Erel, Noar Lenoar youth and in Druze villages. National Coordinator. A detailed account of the Board Meetings will appear in next While in Israel, the International Executive Boards approved plans for the first joint month's Shofar! MORE ARTICLES, PROGRAM IDEAS, AND NEWS ABOUT ISRAEL CAN BE FOUND ON PAGES 6, 7,AND 8.