Welcome the SHOFAR Dr. Sachar A Message From the Grand Aleph Godol of AZA By ARTHUR GILBERT THIS is a significant month for Official Publication of AZA and BBYM of the B'nai B'rith Youth Organization our Order, for it marks the first anniversary of the establishment 22ND YEAR 1945-KISLEV, 5706 Send address changes to The Shofar, 1746 M St., N. W., Washington 6, D. of the B'nai B'rith Youth Organi- zation, and at the same time the introduction DR. ABRAM L. SACHAR into our move- ment of a new leadership with inspiring and HEADS BBYO GROUPS progressive pro- gram of action. We of AZA welcome our Arthur Gilbert new director. National Director of Hillel Foundations The head of the entire B'nai B'rith Assumes Over-all Direction of B'nai youth movement, including BBYO and Hillel, is Dr. Abram L. Sachar, B'rith's Youth Program whose abilities and talents have gained for him national renown. and whose devotion to the Hillel Foundations have made them out- DR ABRAM L. SACHAR, national director of B'nai standing citadels of culture in B'rith Hillel Foundations, has assumed the additional America. We are sure that under responsibility of planning, implementing and directing his leadership the B'nai B'rith an over-all B'nai B'rith youth program under the B'nai youth movement will continue to B'rith Youth Commission, it was announced by Henry advance; we eagerly await his con- Monsky, president of B'nai B'rith and chairman of its tribution to our movement. Youth Commission. the same time it is incumbent Dr. Sachar will carry the dual TWO BBYO CHAPTERS for each of us to reflect on the responsibility of national director accomplishments of our new B'nai of 119 B'nai B'rith Hillel Foun- NAMED FOR SACHAR ris B'rith Youth Organization during dations and Counselorships and the ABRAM L. SACHAR, its past year of existence. We direction of the B'nai B'rith Youth new head of BBYO, has can't help but reconsider our pur- Organization's program. The func- long been an honored figure in lbbon, poses and our objectives in creat- tions of the National Hillel Com- AZA and BBYW. ing such an organization. But we mission and the Youth Commission program, In Chicago, the Dr. A. L. us "Be- must consider its program and will continue unchanged, Mr. Sachar Chap. 305 of AZA was amatized philosophy with a perspective that Monsky said. In respect to Hillel, organized in January, 1938, by roic ad- evidences an intelligent conscious- Dr. Sachar will continue to be re- the Dr. A. L. Sachar B'nai ness of our position in the scheme sponsible to B'nai B'rith's Hillel B'rith lodge. The Sachar chap- Besbris, of the American Jewish commu- Commission, and for the B'nai ter has been one of Chicago's tates Air con- lege. nity. strued high Our appeal organization age through boys is B'rith Youth Organization pro- outstanding groups and one of oted and to to from gram, he will be responsible to its alephs, Harold Rhein, was ian Air school to col- the B'nai B'rith Youth Com- grand aleph godol for 1944-45. trans- Its program is such that it mission. orps and might well attract and interest a Also in Chicago, a BBYW In announcing Dr. Sachar's ac- membership from every walk of chapter named for Dr. Sachar or. On ceptance of this additional re- life. Yet underlying its very pro- was sponsored by the Dr. A. L. his 12th sponsibility in B'nai B'rith, Mr. France, gram is the realization that this Sachar women's chapter of Monsky said he did so with "a very imunica- Organization can and must be that B'nai B'rith, in April, 1939. profound sense of gratification be- aircraft one youth movement in America DR. ABRAM L. SACHAR cause of my high appraisal of the bris and that, being able to appeal to youth en masse, is still very much cog- magnificent capacity of Dr. Sachar lent foundation for future develop- and shot nizant of its responsibilities as a SERVICEMEN TO GET SHANGHAI GODOL to formulate and implement a ment." Jewish youth movement, to our youth program which will un- NATIONALLY known as an his- damaged CHANUKKAH GIFTS bail out religion, to our culture, to our peo- EN ROUTE TO U. S. doubtedly win recognition from torian, lecturer and adminis- ple. to our society, and to our- Bronx, N. Y.-As their first the American Jewish community trative head of the Hillel Foun- he chan- and from educators as the fore- dations, Dr. Sachar has been im. He selves. project of the season, the Com- SHANGHAI, China David H. rescued munity Service Committee of Zysman, aleph godol of Shang- most in Jewish life." identified with youth work since THE very nature of our demo- Sholom Chap. 546 is sending let- weeks in hai AZA, and his wife have sailed In a statement of ultimate aims 1923 when he became associated back to cratic society demands that we ters to the families of all Sholom for the United States aboard the of the program he envisages for with the first Hillel Foundation continue to remain a free cul- servicemen to get the addresses e raid hospital ship "Refuge." They are reaching the teen-age area in Jew- founded that year at the University turally creative group within that of the boys so that they can send expected to land in San Francisco ish life, Dr. Sachar stressed the of Illinois. In 1928 he became di- ding and them the chapter newspaper. The talitarian cratic society. made stronger Contrasted our with country the to- is and proceed to New York, need for combining "the best in rector of the Illinois Foundation states Sholomites-at-home also intend to bail out. the Jewish and American cultural and after four years took over hidden and more demo- send Chanukkah gifts to Sholom- PEN PALS COMMITTEE and religious traditions. the directorship of all Hillel Foun- by virtue of the fact that it ites-in-service. e Nor- Brooklyn, N. -Alephs of Pvt. "For two decades," he said, dations. escaped controlled and run not through the machination of one political SELL $200,000 IN BONDS Jerome S. Miller Chap. 584 have "B'nai B'rith has carefully pre- Since then Hillel has grown party, or one ethnic group, or one Savannah, Ga. Savannah-Da- formed a committee which will pared the ground and has distilled to a vast national and interna- small clique, but through the vid Finn Chap. 206 quadrupled its keep in touch with members in an experience in the field which tional movement, serving 40,000 original goal, selling more than service and see that they receive has been tremendously valuable Jewish students at 119 colleges peaceful co-operative effort of rive groups of minorities, of cultural $200,000 in bonds. plenty of mail, and which will serve as an excel- and universities in the United and political and religious groups States, Canada and Cuba. Born in New York in 1899, Dr. each of whom is given the right to express its own personality and Dr. Sachar States BBYO Aims Sachar took his bachelor's degree is expected to make its contribu- at Washington University, St. AN tion to the sum total of American Louis, in 1920. In 1923 he received will As OUTLINED by Dr. Abram tudes. It is important, there- subordinated the individual to ps culture and democracy. his doctorate from Cambridge Sachar, the B'nai B'rith It is in a sense our democratic fore, to bring to young people the community. Social welfare University, England. That same h men's Youth Organization's program projects, therefore, belong to responsibility to continue to exist a sense of pride which does not year he entered the history de- women's will be guided by the following this total youth program and as a strong well-integrated youth degenerate into chauvinism, but partment of the University of ovember objectives: they must be given a central movement interested in the educa- which brings poise and serenity. Illinois where he taught until place. tion and the preparation of its 1928, impaign. 1. "The basic need is to pro- The proper celebration of holi- "I recognize, of course, that B'rith membership towards contributing vide Jewish information to days, the stimulation of aes- As a speaker he is known to community centers, temples, oll new to the life of their society through the young people. There is an thetic traditions, the imple- audiences throughout the con- synagogues, and other com- the traditional channels of their extraordinary amount of ig- mentation of a mature inter- tinent. Dr. Sachar is the author of the tre- munity agencies all subscribe own historical heritage. norance on the basic data of faith program, are but a few two books, "A History of the Jews" to these objectives and attempt order. AT the same time we have an our Jewish heritage-its his- of the many approaches to the and "Sufferance is the Badge." In to influence the teen-age group tory, its literature, its ethics, its building of a wholesome Jewish 1943 he received the honorary de- groups even further responsibility to for these purposes. Many of opening folkways, its traditions. There esprit de corps. gree of Doctor of Humanities from them are gratifyingly success- (Continued on Page 2) are agencies in American Jew- issued ful. But, despite all that is now Illinois Wesleyan University, the ish life that specialize in the 3. "Still another need is the first non-Methodist in the univer- ct of- development of social re- done, vast areas among the Zelonsky Wins preparation of such resource sponsibility. It is not enough young people are not reached. sity's history to be given this material. We must use these organ- for young people to be informed There is assuredly room in honor. Dr. Sachar is a delegate Bronze Star very fully. What is lacking of the and to carry themselves with American Jewish life for the to the American Jewish Con- must be created. Loyalty can- he dis- dignity. They must be aware supplementary contribution of ference, as an elected repre- es have MILWAUKEE, Wis.-Sgt. Philip not be elicited merely by ap- of their responsibility to the the B'nai B'rith youth program, sentative of all Southern Illinois peals to duty. Loyalty must be Zelonsky, alumnus of Milwau- Jewish community. The ego- emphasizing information, dig- communities. ze cam- grounded in understanding. kee Chap. 39, was awarded the centric emphasis which, at its nity, and social responsibility. Bronze Star for heroic action 2. "A corollary need is Jewish worst, has come out of the war, The long experience of B'nai already DORCHESTER WINS against the Germans while serv- dignity. There is a terrify- and at its best, has come out B'rith, the ideological diversity ict Di- ing with the 3rd Army medical ing malaise in Jewish life, of the excesses of progressive of its membership, its generous BOND CITATION n made teas, corps. Zelonsky, who was in the which is the product of discrim- education, must be counteract- allocation of resources for such Dorchester, ss.-Joseph Pu- Normandy invasion, received the ination and unfriendly pres- ed by proper training in group projects, fit it ideally to make litzer Aleph Club and their BBG Purple Heart twice. He was sures. Just as adults are con- responsibility. This is really a a basic contribution to the sister-chapter received a Treas- y serv- BBYM wounded at the battle of St. Lo fused and uncertain, SO young return to the best in the Jew- moulding of future Jewish ury Department citation sell- and during the crossing of the people reflect these social atti- ish heritage which has always American leadership." ing $100,000 in bonds during the Saar River. sixth and seventh loans,