2 SH FAR Let's All Attend National AZA Sabbath Friday, Nov. 13th. BUY Read Story UNITED STATES on Page One SAVINGS ,BONDS the AND STAMPS Official Organ A.3.A.-B'nai B'rith Youth Organization mnus osen, the R. VOL. XVIII October 30, 1942 quar- No. 5 rites has Sam. bott ining AZA Joins "V-Home" 860. Campaign iends 7 in com- rs.Woldman to Head AZA mem- All Chapters Urged to Cooperate Park th a the Auxiliary Co-op Group With Local O. C.-D. Officials and just Cleveland Woman Appointed by Mrs. Then said Underwood, Supreme Council President In Drive to Establish V-Homes dier, arry- you Washington, D. -Mrs. Lydia Woldman of Cleveland, Ohio, has MONTREAL AZA Ten National Youth eattle been appointed as National Chair- Ruck- man of the A. Z. A. Cooperation Group To Aid arded Committee of the Women's Su- preme Council by Mrs. Lenore Un- GOES OVER TOP In Project in to derwood of San Francisco, Na- half tional President of the Women's the Supreme Council of B'nai B'rith. IN FUND DRIVE Washington, D. This month, Barre Representatives of other B'nai at the request of the Office of lephs B'rith Districts who comprise this Civilian Defense, A. Z. A. offi- rown, national committee are: ials met with Montreal, Can. Members of isher, District 1-Mrs. Sarah Stein- the Montreal AZA undertook one the representa- plan, horn. 702 Elmwood, Buffalo, N. Y. of its largest Community Welfare tives of nine ovitz, District -Mrs. Lena Rossin, projects when it volunteered to other National ohen. 115 E. South St., South Bend, co-operate with the campaign Youth Serving and Ind. committee of the Combined Jew- agencies for the 5 are District 3-Miss Anne H. Baum, ish Appeal of the Federation of purpose of pro- erch- 133 S. Cedar St., Hazelton, Pa. District 4-Mrs. Rose Miller, TO JUDGE NATIONAL SERMON Jewish Philanthrophies, The Jew- moting the umni ish General Hospital, United Jew- newly initiated serv- 159-19th Ave., San Francisco, ish Refugees and War Relief, The -Home Cam- SERVICE CONTEST Pictured above are three of the outstanding Calif. didn't leaders of the American Rabbinate who have War Efforts Committee of the Ca- paign. Co-oper- District 5-Mrs. Carl Weinkle, read, accepted invitations to act as judges in the National A. Z. A. nadian Jewish Congress and the atnig with the o. C. D. in this 1730 Lenox Ave., Miami, Fla. was Sermon Contest. They are from left to right: Rabbi Herbert S. Canadian Jewish ongress in rais- program are the Jewish Welfare District -Mrs. Bess Turk, Goldstein, Professor of Homilitics at the Isaac Elchanan Theologi- ing sufficient funds to maintain Board, Y. W. C. A., Girl Scouts, eived 130 N. Wells, Chicago, III. cal Seminary and honorary president of the Rabbinical Council of these philanthropic endeavors. Camp Fire Girls, Boy Scouts, Boys After No B'nai B'rith Women's or- after America: Rabbi James Heller, president of the Central Conference Under the combined control Clubs of America, Y. M. C. A., ganization exists in District 7. chairmanship of Seymour Far- of American Rabbis and co-chairman of the National United Jew- Catholic Youth Organizations. With Mrs. Lydia Woldman. who re- geon, AZA Advisory Board Chair- American Junior Red Cross and awled ish Appeal, and Rabbi Ira Eisenstein, Managing Editor of THE sides at 2047 Rossmoor Road in man for Montreal, City Director the A. Z. A. page, RECONSTRUCTIONIST Magazine and associate leader of the So- Cleveland, has long been inter- Jerry Ross, Harry Hennemen, ady. ciety for the Advancement of Judaism. The purpose of the drive will ested in the A. Z. A. by virtue Advisor to Dovers Chap. 331 and of her own son's activity as a Mr. Myer Hyman of Mt. Royal be the conservation of food, cloth- Cleveland Aleph. Lodge 729 of B'nai B'rith, AZA ing, transportation and health: Dates For AZA Sabbath chapters undertook to canvas home salvage; the purchase of eight zones and went over the top War Bonds and Stamps, and also And Sermon Contest Set of their projected goal by reach- the refusal to spread rumors. ing 108 per cent of the quota. Mr. Charles Rothman of the lo- cal B'nai B'rith encouraged the Friday, Nov. 13th to Be National AZA Alephs in their work by donating a trophy to the chapter that at- THIS IS A Sabbath; Kusworm Award to Winner tained the highest percentage. This trophy was awrded to Altros Chap. 271 which reached 138 per Washington, D. C.-Friday ers of the American rabbinate cent of its objective. Dover Chap. evening, November 13, will mark have accepted invitations to act 331 was awarded a cup by the the beginning of the seventeenth as judges in the national A. Z. A. campaign organization for second annual A. Z. A. Sabbath. It has place. sermon contest. They represent now become the annual custom the orthodox, conservative and for the more than 13,000 A. Z. A. reform groups in Jewish reiglious members in close to three hun- life. Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein SIMON ATLAS CHAP. dred communities throughout the is professor of Homiletics at the United States and Canada to hold Isaac Elchanan Theological Semi- this largest organized program of BUYS $500 BOND nary and is honorary president Jewish religious services for and of the Rabbinical Council of ew by youth. America. Rabbi Ira Eisenstein is Washington, D. C.-Simon At- HOME ers All aspects of the services are managing editor of The Recon- las Chap. 126 yielded to the call in the hands of A. Z. A. members. structionist and is associate lead- of tradition of doing things in a er who serve as rabbis, cantors and er of the Society for the Advance- big way. The chapter recently pur- choir members. All sermons de- ment of Judaism. Rabbi James chased a $500 War Bond as a Mrs. Lydia Woldman livered on A. Z. A. Sabbath are G. Heller is president of the starter in its all out War Service entered in the national A. Z. A. Central Conference of American Program. Wife of Albert A. Woldman, sermon contest, the author of Rabbis and is a co-chairman of The puchase was made pos- lawyer, author. assistant Law Di- the United Jewish Appeal. sible after the Alephs received a V-Home Emblem which receives the Sidney S. Kus- rector City of Cleveland and mem- worm award. ber of General Committee B'nai All sermons submitted must be final report on the result of their Homes co-operation in the V- Launched in 1927. A. Z. A. typed in triplicate and mailed to Annual .Yom Kippur dance. It Home Campaign will receive cer- B'rith Grand Lodge of District Sabbath is a part of the year- Isidore Cooperman, national A. was announced that 1,200 young tificates awarded by air raid war- 2. Mrs. Woldman is the mother round program of religious activ- Z. A. educational director, 1003 men and women were present at dens when they have passed qual- of Robert Woldman, P. A. G. of ity which includes attendance at this affair. K Street, N. W., Washington, D. ifications set down by the O. D. Sigmund Freud Chap. 447. She religious services, sponsorship of is a past president of the Cleve- C., by December 1, 1942. URGED TO CO-OPERATE junior congregations, observance land Auxiliary and Women's Aleph Godols and Advisors were Bergson Alephs High In order to co-operate in the of all religious holidays by the V-Home Campaign, Julius Bisno, Grand Lodge District 2; treas- recently mailed a booklet on five hundred A. z. A. chapters. urer and publicity director, Plans and Suggestions for Nation- In New York Metal Executive Director, recommended This religious inspiration has the following course of action for Women's Supreme Council; Ed- al A. Z. A. Sabbath. The ma- prompted a number of A. Z. A. itor of B'nai B'rith Women; Scrap Contest A. Z. A. chapters: terial in final form is to be made alumni to enter the rabbinate. 1. That the V-Home Campaign Chairman War Service Activities Among the A. Z. A. alumni in the a part of a manual for A. Z. A. be discussed at the next chapter Committee WGL District 2: rabbinate are Rabbi Abraham D. religious chairman. Recipients were urged to send in comments New York, N. Y.-Alephs of meeting and the Alephs go on President of B'nai B'rith Wom- Shaw of Baltimore, Rabbi Joseph Henri Bergson Chap. 482 have record pledging to make their en's Council of greater Cleve- and criticisms as revisions will be Narot of Atlantic City, Rabbi made in the final form based on just reached the 19,000 pound homes eligible for a V-Home cer- land; member of executive Philip Berger of Toronto, Rabbi mark in their scrap metal drive. tificate, and further, to promote board of local branch of the Theodore Gordin, director of the these suggestions. The booklet This drive is being run in con- the V-Home Campaign a m American Jewish Congress; B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation at deals with the development of the Sabbath, publicity hints, general junction with the NEW YORK friends, relatives, neighbors and member of Executive Commit- the University of Wisconsin, Rab- instructions. last year's winning POST which is offering a prize of members of B'nai B'rith. tee of the War Bond Staff, bi Samuel Silver, army chaplain, two hundred and fifty dollars to 2. That a special chapter com- Women's Division, and director and Rabbi 1 Fine of Wilmington. sermon, two suggested chapter any organization representing a mittee be appointed to meet with County: and Chairman of the A. Z. A. alumni now studying for projects, a Sabbath quiz, and sug- house of worship that collects the local officials of the O. C. D. in War Bonds and Stamps for Jew- the rabbinate are William Sajo- gested bibliography. ish Community Council and witz of Dayton, Ohio: Wilbur S. All Aleph Mazkirs were sent most scrap. order to find out what is being B'rith To date the Bergson A. Z. A. done about the local V-Home Jewish Women's Federation. City Stein of Houston, Texas; Stanley three copies of the Sabbath pos- stands second in this contest and Campaign. The advisor should The appointment of the Na- Rabinowitz of Des Moines, Iowa; ter. Additional copies are avail- Top according to their report, they head the A. Z. A. committee in tional A. Z. A. ooperation Com- Melvin Kieffer of St. Paul, Minn.: able from the A. Z. A. Supply De- partment. are closing in on first place. The its meeting with O. C. D. officials. ts of mittee on the part of the Wom- Rabbi Abe Kulick and Robert Bergman high individual contributors are If there are other A. Z. A. chap- en's Supreme Council is another H.: of New York City, and Jerry Alephs Mel Shorell and Jerry ters in your city, you should con- Guard (Continued on Page 7, See Klein of Pittsburgh, Pa. BUY UNITED STATES WAR Lieberman, who lead with 7,250 (Continued on Page 7. See "Auxiliary.") Three of the outstanding lead- BONDS AND STAMPS pounds. "V-Home.")