The Menorah PRESIDENTS Official Publication of the B'nai B'rith Girls and B'nai B'rith Young Women CORNER Vol. II, No. 13 APRIL, 1947 Send address changes to The Menorah. 1746 M St., N. W., Washington 6, As time passes, the PRERO NEW BBYO HEAD progress made by our Na- tional B'nai B'rith Girls Organization should be far Project to Collect Key Figures in Change more evident than it is at Perlmutter Upped; the present time. Certainly, something is Music Instruments Sachar Continues lacking which is absolutely necessary for S Extended As Hillel Chief any success. This is a lack of interest, Late Start by Chapters No Change in Policy shown in the And Need Pointed Out Or Program Planned negligence of the chapters By National Officers By New Director Sara Rose to answer cor- The national project by girls' Rabbi Amram Prero, Schwartz respondence organizations of collecting musical since last September BBYO within a rea- sonable length of time and instruments for shipment to rec- Boys Director, has been ap- reation-starved settlers in Palestine it is a problem which we, pointed to succeed Dr. your officers, cannot solve by has been extended through June. Abram L. Sachar as Na- ourselves. We do not know Undertaken originally in re- tional Director of the B'nai how to plan, or what to sponse to an appeal for instru- B'rith Youth Organization, it was plan, unless we get some re- ments issued by the Committee for announced by Henry Monsky, sponse, to whatever we do the Collection of Musical Instru- President of B'nai B'rith and plan. ments for Palestine, the project Chairman of the B'nai B'rith This disinterest was dis- would have ended this month. Youth Commission. cussed at the Executive NEW BBYO NATIONAL direc- However, national officers of youth Meeting last February, but, tor is Rabbi Amram Prero (up- Simultaneously, Mr. Monsky groups felt that because many very naturally, we could per left), former Director of announced the appointment of Vic- reach no conclusion. Letters chapters were just in the process tor Perlmutter, National Adminis- Boys Work, who was named to are sent out; follow-up let- of organizing their collection of trative Assistant, as Director of succeed Dr. Abram L. Sachar ters are sent out, a still instruments and because the need Administration. (upper right) who has resigned we have no response from in Palestine was great for teach- Dr. Sachar will continue as Na- as Director after having held you. Consequently, we have ing and practice of music, the tional Director of Hillel Founda- that post during temporary re- no way of knowing how to project should be extended. organization since October, 1945. tions. Given the additional assign- profit from past experience. "In view of the fact," said Isabel Also elevated in the reorgani- ment with BBYO in October, 1945, No organization can grow Goldberg, National BBYW Project Dr. Sachar assumed the director- unless it knows "where it zation was Victor Perlmutter Chairman, "that we have not ac- (left), former Administrative ship of the youth groups on a tem- stands" with its members- complished much and in view of in our case, members scat- Assistant, who is new Director porary basis. In conveying his de- the need, I think we should extend sire to the Youth Commission to tered over many miles. This of Administration. step down, Dr. Sachar said he felt is by no means a sermon, this drive to June. I think, too, "the job of re-organization is now but, if you will have it as that we should not start any other virtually complete." such, a plea. We need your project until this one is success- When he assumed his new posi- help, if you are to receive fully completed." tion, Rabbi Prero announced that ours. Our assistance is what Executives of BBG and BBYW you expected from us when have pointed out that if members BBG to Meet at Camp Highpoint he planned a continued emphasis upon democracy in the youth pro- gram, and that the program would you elected us your officers. search their homes thoroughly and Near Kingston, N.Y. continue as it has been operating, If you let us down for the if they solicit neighbors in earnest and that he saw a test and a chal- for unused instruments, the drive lenge ahead. rest of the year, as you are All roads for convention-bounds would be boosted immeasurably, "For and by Youth" now doing, it will be in- evitable that we let you Personal visits, publicity in pub- BBG's will lead to Camp High- YW Districts I and 2 Elaborating on these three down when the final results lications and at organizational point, Broadhead, N. Y., where points, the new director pointed the national conclave of the Plan Early Conventions out that BBYO is now the largest meetings would help pave the way of the year are released. organization will get under way and fastest-growing Jewish youth for a concentrated drive, these of- District 1 will live up to its title organization. "The important The burden is now on your ficers feel. on Sept. 2. Camp Highpoint is in in conventions this year with the point," he said, "is not size or the shoulders: upon your action Some chapters have undertaken Ulster County near Kingston. first BBYW district meeting pace of expansion, but that we are rests the success or failure fund-raising affairs and have made Delegates and visitors are ex- scheduled for the Number 1 wom- a youth organization-for and by arrangements for buying instru- of your present administra- pected to arrive the afternoon of youth. The responsibility of the ments. en at the Park Central Hotel in Sept. 2. and supper will be served staff is to guide without domina- tion. Instruments should be sent to: that evening. The convention New York. tion so the young people may carry Committee for Musical Instru- proper is scheduled to get under Originally scheduled for the out a program in their own or- All St. Louis BBYO ments for Palestine, c/o Mr. Mor- way the following morning and Hotel Lincoln on April 19 and 20. ganizations." ris Mandelbaum, 127 Belmont Ave- will ortinue until late afternoon. the site was shifted a month ago The present program will be Joins in Pre-Seder nue, Newark, N. J. Sept. 5. BBG's will be meeting at without any change in time or continued, Rabbi Prero went on. District project chairmen were the same camp as members of other plans. Beside business meet- "No revision whatever," he as- reminded that they are responsible All 15 St. Louis BBYO chapters AZA, and will follow directly in ings, a workshop, a theatre party, serted, "will be made in the policy for reports from their respective the wake of the alephs, who will and a midnight supper have been or the basic program of BBYO co-operated in the sponsorship of areas being sent to the national pull up stakes the afternoon of planned. that has been continued and a Pre-Seder the night before office. Sept. 1. strengthened under Dr. Sachar. Cincinnati will be host city to Passover began at the YM-YWHA Joyce Treskunoff, of Washing- the District 2 BBYW convention (See PRERO Page 2) with groups from the "Y," Council BBYW Contest Deadline ton, has been named chairman of on May 3 and 4. The District 2 House, and Habonim. the convention. She will contact all convention is scheduled to be the Passes in District 6 An interpretation of Passover chapters shortly with news of the second district meeting. Tulsa Organizes convention. Thus far all that is District 5 BBYW has revealed was presented at the Seder. Youth Although its BBYW convention State's First BBG definite is the registration fee for that its convention would prob- members conducted a traditional isn't scheduled until the end of the the conclave. A fee of $21 will ably be the last week in June. It month, District 6 convention spirit The first Oklahoma BBG chap- seder and presented a skit in com- cover expenses for each girl at- is scheduled for Washington. is in the air because the deadline ter has been organized at Tulsa memoration of the anniversary of tending the convention. date for a quintet of contests was with a nucleus of 17 girls. Or- the battle of the Warsaw Ghetto. set for April 15. BBG Districts I and 2 to ganization of the Tulsa group came On the night after the second Prizes will be offered at the during the District 7 convention AZA To Be at BBG Site seder Temple Israel House was convention in Chicago's Congress Lead Other Conventions in that city. the scene of the Matzoh Ball of Hotel Memorial Day week end for Earlier-YM at St. Louis Several Houston, Texas, girls the best poetry, song parody, District 1 is scheduled to lead planted the seed for the beginning the St. Louis BBYO Council. poster, essay, and oration. The AZA national convention off the parade of district BBG of the Oklahoma pioneer chapter Dancing and enteratinment by St. Subject for the poetry phase is will be on Labor Day week end, conventions this year. The con- in December and the harvest was Louis BBYO members was fea- any part of B'nai B'rith work, and beginning the evening of Aug. 29 vention of that area is scheduled reaped in March. tured during the evening. a similar subject was assigned to and ending the afternoon of to meet at New York May 3 and 4. Rabbi Amram Prero, National Earlier that night Midwestern the song parody contest and the Sept. 1, at the same camp as the St. Louis will be the site of the Director, was the guest of honor poster competition. "What Being a BBG convention. next District 2 convention-the BBYM and Missouri BBYM spon- and featured speaker for the first Jew Means to Me" was the an- BBYM will meet in convention second of the 1947 BBG district public function of the new chap- sored a Third Seder at Temple nounced subject for the essay and at St. Louis July 7-9. It will be meetings. Dates for that event are ter-a joint AZA and BBG instal- Israel House. oratorical contests. a hotel meeting. May 16-18. lation.