The Menorah PRESIDENTS Official Publication of the B'nai B'rith Girls and B'nai B'rith Young Women Vol. III, No. 5 JANUARY, 1948 Send address changes to The Menorah 1746 M St., N. W., Washington 6, D. O. Mrs. Perlman Tells District 6 YW's BBG, YW Project By ROSALIND BRENSILBER About Age Limits Showing Results The first meeting of the District As members of the B'nai 6 BBYW Council for this year OC- B'rith Girls, we should be curred on October 25 and 26 in In Early Stages concerned not only with our Chicago. Several important mat- Within one month after organization but with every ters were discussed and acted the details of the BBG and other organization in our upon at this session which was BBYW national project of community. We cannot live presided over by District President sending creative and recrea- alone. Myrtle J. Pinkowitz. tional materials to Jewish Too often, when we Mrs. Anita Perlman, one of the children in homes in Europe, speak of inter-group ac- leaders in the establishment of the a tabulation of figures at the tivities we forget the Jew- BBYW and a member of the B'nai national BBYO office showed ish youth groups who meet B'rith Youth Commission, was FROM that forty parcels of such asked to clarify the current policy U.S.A. in our communities. Our materials had definitely 11-189 program and policies are with respect to age limits on mem- been sent to the New York unique, and we should not bership. Mrs. Perlman explained office of OSE, which is for- FROM feel that we are competing that when the national organiza- warding the packages to U.S.A. with any other group. We tion of BBYW was adopted by the Europe. It is known that 31-138 should be Youth Commission in 1944 it was many more packages are en eager to route, but are as yet unre- agreed that membership should be learn more limited to young women between ported. about the the ages of 18 to 25 inclusive. It That BBG's and BBYW's various Zion- was also agreed that those who are enthusiastically fulfilling ist youth or- the task they have set them- were in the organization at the g selves is apparent from re- tions, about time should be permitted to re- ports received from all the ortho- main as members until the organi- parts of the country. Parties dox youth zation was firmly established. Mrs. and other special programs Perlman pointed out that it was groups, and designed to increase the Roz Brensilber any now three years since that original total amount of articles to decision and that the organization other Jewish club in our com- was no at the stage where the go to these European chil- munity. older members who had contribu- dren have been planned in Don't wait for February ted so much to BBYW should step cities from coast to coast and to start your inter-group out, find places in other parts of PACKAGES FOR JEWISH CHILDREN IN EUROPEAN HOMES from Canada to Fort Worth. activities. As soon as the B'nai B'rith, and give the younger are prepared for shipment by BBG's and BBYW's of Chicago as The largest number of members of your chapter BBYW members the opportunity part of their national project to provide both fun and skill for begin to wonder what other to develop their leadership talents. those children. These packages contain every type of recreation, packages sent so far by any club members do at their Mrs. Perlman informed the handicraft and sewing article. The smiling faces are those of single community are those Council representatives that in BBG officers who helped assemble these articles. Left to right: which were sent by the meetings, form a committee Chicago a BBYW Alumnae group Tillie Morris, Marcia Brody and Vivian Brown. BBG's of New Rochelle, to plan for a joint meeting. had been formed for those who N. Y. Then, plan and work with were stepping out of BBYW. Chapters which are send- delegates of the other group The Council took two steps to- Children TypifyHundreds ing parcels have been urged to create an intergroup spirit ward stimulating mutual respect to send detailed lists of what based on understanding and and understanding in BBYO. The appreciation, not tolerance. first of these was the official rec- Receiving BBG & YW Gifts they are shipping, to their district project chairmen and On a national level, BBG ognition of projects undertaken by to the Program Department has become a part of the Canadian BBYW chapters as ap- Have you been wondering about the children who are proved projects of District 6. In at BBYO headquarters. Council of Jewish Youth the second such move, the Council receiving the gifts of toys and creative materials you are Many chapters have Organizations. The purpose voted a loan to the local BBG's sending? Would you like to know a little more about added to the list of items of the Council is the co- when the needs of the younger them? Let us introduce you to a few of them. All these which are being sent by in- ordination of activities, and girls were presented by Miriam children receive care at the OSE home, LaJoie, in Paris. cluding candies, soap, and the dissemination of informa- Albert, past National President of Meet Claire Indyk who other articles which will help tion about the member or- BBYW was born in Lemberg, French Army when the war make life pleasant for the ganizations. The Council Plans were initiated for this Poland year's District Convention and for broke out in 1939. He was children in the homes re- would like to eliminate twelve and a duplication of efforts in the a BBYO rally in Chicago on Feb- half years wounded in 1940 and was ceiving the gift parcels. Although each district's ruary 29. various Jewish youth organ- ago. Both in the hospital until 1945. parcels are to go to a izations, and is working her parents, Simone's mother was de- Recipe: Doing Things separate home in Europe, through the Jewish Youth two brothers ported by the Germans in they are all to be shipped Community Councils which Result: Membership and one sis- 1942. She has not returned. c/o OSE, 24 West 40th are being formed in all com- ter fell into Nazi hands dur- munities. If your community The Rebecca Gratz BBYW of ing the war. One older Simone was placed with a Street, New York 18, N. Y. does not have a Jewish Detroit, Mich., is keeping their brother, Simon, aged 24, is family in the country by the Reports of outstanding contributions or outstanding Youth Council, why doesn't calendar filled with a host of ac- working as a varnisher in Red Cross and survived the ways of collecting these your chapter take the lead tivities. This intense and varied Paris. Claire spent the years occupation there. articles will be printed in in forming one? (Consult the program has been reflected in an of the war hidden in a Edgar Biro was born in The Menorah as they are staff members in your area, increase in membership with convent. Vienna on September 17, received. or write me). fourteen new members signed up Here is Joseph Kro, aged 1936. The The Jewish youth of the at their Thanksgiving paid-up 11 1/2. His father, who had family fled world must take the ini- membership party. come to Paris to France tiative in developing a strong During recent months, Rebecca from Poland. Montreal to Have when the Jewish youth movement, Gratz has participated in the city- was deported Germans and your chapter has a very wide S. O. S. drive by donating by the Ger- marched in- BBYOuth House important place in the pic- canned foods and assisting in the mans in to Austria. ture. If we develop such a collection. As a part of their ob- 1944. He The mother, who was not The BBYO of Montreal, Que., movement now, we will not servance of Chanukah, they sent has not re- Jewish, left her husband and is going to get what it has been be faced with the situation Chanukah gifts to the patients of turned. During the occupa- son and instituted a suit for wanting for a long time-a BBYO that exists in Jewish life to- the Percy Jones military hospital at Battle Creel: Mich tion, Joseph was hidden in divorce. Edgar's father is un- house which will provide meeting day with practically every organization insisting on its When they had a talk on Per- the country. His mother is able to support his son. facilities, work rooms, and-a cen- sonality Development by Richard sick and unable to take care Here is Abraham Albert ter for all BBYO activity. The own plan for the good and Satterfield of the John Robert of Joseph or of Joseph's 3- 8'nai B'rith Lodges of the com- Birmann who was born in welfare of the Jewish year-old brother, who is in munity have pledged themselves Powers School in Detroit, interest Lieven to the purchase and alteration of people, and unwilling to co- was so high that the janitor had a nursing home. France, a a building which will meet these operate or compromise. By to evict both the girls and the Here is another one of little less needs. including intergroup meet- speaker so he could close the your friends, Simone Haus- than ten The BBYO Council of Montreal ings in your chapter pro- building for the night. They have mann, W also heard a talk on psychiatry by years ago. has promised that in order to show gramming, by forming or will be 8 in Both his their appreciation of this move, joining Jewish Youth Com- Dr. Irving Edgar of Wayne Uni- versity and a talk on Chanukah February. father and they will themselves raise $3,000 munity Councils and partici- by Rabbi Gordon of the Hillel Her father, his mother were deported to meet part of the cost of this pating in the activities of the Foundation at Wayne University. who had during the German occupa- undertaking Present plans call Council, you' be doing your cometo for the money to be raised by a They have scheduled a showing tion. They have not returned. share in promoting a united BBG and BBYW Queen Contest of films on Falestine for the early France from Abraham was hidden in the Jewish youth movement. with all votes to be accompanied part of January 1. Poland, volunteered for the country. by a specified sum.