P.001 TX/RX NO.0073 10/10/96 10:11 To: Som fishet from: Colord 6 Date C B'nai Date 10/10/96 B'rith Youth Organisation B'nai B'rith Hillel House, 1/2 Endsleigh Street, London WC1H 0DS Tel: 0171 387 3115 Fax: 0171 387 8014 e.mail: bbyo@ort.org. Shalom Sam, Shana tova, I hope you are keeping well, with a new BBYO year commencing in our chapters, and with our National Exec now in place, we thought we should write to you regarding certain issues that have arisen in the past few weeks. We have now more or less completed those changes that we deemed necessary, on a staffing level, with the introduction of Angela, which is working out very well, and on structural level by reassessing our national calendar and by instructing that 12 year olds should not be allowed to become members of BBYO. The latter change will need to be assessed over a period of years, to measure its effect. two issues have arisen that we need your opinion and advise on, as I said Last summer, as you know, we sent tow delegates to ILSI for the first year time and tow delegates on the March of the living, also for the first time. In both cases those people who went on each event returned with 'rave reviews' as they say. The distinct impression that we received from them was that these tow programs were the highest quality and were particularly well suited to our members. The sense that we got was that ILSI, was a more 'international' programme and more relevant in content to the needs of our members. then ILTC, This has raised the whole issue as to whether or not we would be better served as a district by sending all of our summer delegates to ILSI next year. This could have the additional benefits of keeping them all together as a group so they could form a more cohesive national executive. secondly, we feel that our ILSI returnees could more effectively help us to promote our Israel tours in subsequent years. As we have said to you on number of occasions, we are keen that BBYO should retain an international identity and we believe that this can be P.01 8014 387 0171 Marin 15:03 96-700-01