Message from the GRAND ALEPH the SH FAR GODOL Official Publication of AZA and BBYM of the B'nai B'rith Youth Organization 24TH YEAR OCTOBER, 1947 Send address changes to The Shofar, 1746 M St. N. W., Washington 6, D. a. By MYRON TEITELBAUM Another page has been written in the yearbook of 207 Attend 24th AZA Conclave our Organization and we now look forward toward celebrating AZA's 25th anniversary. Our Grand Lieberman Elected AZA Elects Teitelbaum, Three Delegates Up Dues Order has been expanding steadily in activities and To Chairmanship Other Experienced Leaders Plan Tourneys, Ask membership until now it stands foremost among By Commission More Education Jewish youth organizations. Meeting for the 24th AZA Con- Our Five Fold and Full Elected by the B'nai B'rith vention, 157 delegates and 50 Program was established SO Youth Commission as its Chair- guests from all parts of the United that all Jew- man, Jaccb J. Lieberman will States and Canada jammed the fa- ish youth draw on more than 20 years' ex- cilities of Camp High Point, Sho- might find perience with BBYO in his leader- kan, N. Y., from Aug. 29 to Sept. some field of ship of that body. 1. The schedule of activities in- interest in Mr. Lieberman had served as cluded business sessions at which AZA and acting Chairman of the commission then through plans were made for the coming since the death of Henry Monsky contact with year of activity, religious services in May. Under Mr. Monsky he our entire conducted by AZA members on was Vice-Chairman Before the gr a m organization of the Youth Com- Friday evening and Saturday Teitelbaum they would mission, Mr. Lieberman served as morning, seminars, finals in the soon de- First Vice-President of the AZA national debate and oratory tour- velop an interest in all Supreme Advisory Council for naments, a campfire program, aspects of Jewish life. In more than 18 years. He also heads swimming and other athletic this manner AZA has taken the BBYM Advisory Board. events. a positive approach to the A native of Denver, Mr. Lieber- The opening Friday evening question of our youth stray- man is now a Los Angeles attor- ing from Judaism. By means ney. He has been President of his services, led by Alephs Al Wolf Denver B'nai B'rith lodge, chair- of our program Jewish and Sid Shapiro, of Philadelphia, man of the Board of Trustees of were held outdoors. Following the young men have found that Los Angeles Lodge 487, and a services, the delegates heard an spirit of fraternalism and member of the General Committee address by J. J. Lieberman, Los love which binds them to of the District 4 Grand Lodge. Angeles, Chairman of the B'nai Judaism. Mr. Lieberman was graduated B'rith Youth Commission. The Besides giving our mem- from the University of Denver MYRON TEITELBAUM evening ended with an oneg Shab- bers an understanding of Law School and was city and bat program including community their cultural and religious county attorney while living at Myron Teitelbaum of Lima, Ohio, was elected to be Grand Aleph singing of Hebrew songs and the Denver. He was a member of the Godol of AZA for the coming year. reading of a Sabbath story by heritage, AZA has another Masons there Mr. Lieberman was Manheim S. Shapiro, Program Di- important aim-that of in- Although there were three candidates for the office at the conven- also a special writer for The rector of BBYO. stilling within Alephs a Denver Republican and The tion at Camp High Point, Myron won a clear and overwhelming Monsky Eulogized feeling of responsibility to Rocky Mountain News. He edited majority on the first ballot. For- The services on Saturday morn- the Jewish community. Un- The Jewish Outlook. mer Aleph Godol of his chapter, for the ensuing year, needs no in- ing were devoted to the memory less the younger generation After moving to the West Coast region, and district, Myron has troduction to of Henry Monsky, late President assumes this responsibility, in 1924, Mr. Leberman continued been awarded the Shield of David AZA members. of B'nai B'rith. Grand Aleph Jewish community life in his activity in civic, legal, and for Leadership and Activity and Winner of the Godol Earl Pollock delivered the America will inevitably de- service work He was special was a finalist in this year's nation- 1946 oratory fi- sermon eulogizing Mr. Monsky. teriorate. Through our ac- nals, he was The services were planned by al debate tournament. During the elected as tivities AZA attempts to Aleph Nate Feinstein under the past year, he served as chairman Grand Aleph guidance of Rabbi Tzvi Porath, give Alephs this sense of of the national Committee on Godol, and has District 3 BBYO Director. responsibility. Jewish Education. Myron's elec- become known Among the more important ac- On viewing the achieve- to all members tion was greeted by an ovation tions taken by the convention were ments in this field, we find of the organiza- from the assembled delegates. the following: tion through his that we have a long way to POLLOCK 1. An increase in national dues Chosen to complete the staff of work as GAG. go before we have the right officers for the year were Louis M. to $1.50 per member annually. Lederman, Grand Aleph S'gan; 2. A decision to hold national to celebrate our accomplish- Dick Brownstein, Grand Aleph Marshall AZA Gathers basketball and bowling tourna- ments. In our chapters, Mazkir, and Earl Pollock, Jr. ments. regions, and districts more Commissioner. Ton for Roumania 3. Recommendations urging correspondence and activity "Lou" Leder- upon chapters the planning of man, of Pitts- is needed and committees The largest single collection to more programs which would in- burgh, has also crease members' knowledge of must become more depend- served as Aleph date of religious and educational Jewish background and the Pales- Godol of his articles in connection with the tine issue. able. We should realize that chapter, region, project to help rebuild the spirit- our national officers are Seminar Mandatory and district and ual life of Roumanian Jews has elected to represent AZA was chairman 4. A ruling_making mandatory come from Louis Marshall AZA a of the national seminar, panel discussion, or and they cannot do this be- J. J. LIEBERMAN, Chairman of group 220, Syracuse, N. Y. workshop on some subject of Jew- the Youth Commission, speaks tween the chapters and the ish interest at all regional and to the alephs at Sabbath serv- Committee last LEDERMAN Approximately a ton of material district tournaments and conven- National Organization. ices. year. He is en- was gathered by the chapter-far tions. tering the University of Pittsburgh Therefore, during this to take a pre-law course. exceeding anything reported to the 5. Decision to continue Book prosecutor of his county, Vice- year before our silver anni- Dick Brownstein, new Grand national office. The religious arti- Review and Sermon Contests. President of the Los Angeles Jew- versary, let us draw all Aleph Mazkir, a member of Port- cles were collected as a result of 6. Resolutions supporting un- ish Community Council, Chairman of the Bureau of Jewish Educa- land AZA 65, an organized campaign that COV- restricted immigration to Palestine segments of our Order into has risen to na- and the passage of the Stratton tion of Los Angeles, and President ered the whole city. a more closely knit organ- tional promi Bill permitting displaced persons of Temple Emanu El. ization. Let us see that all nence through The drive was begun after the to enter the United States the ranks. He, AZA Executive Committee re- 7. A decision to retain The Sho- committees function and St. Louis Plans Series too, headed his sponded to an appeal by Dr. Alex- far in its present form and editor- that the individual Alephs chapter, region, St. Louis chapters have laid and district. ander Shafran, Chief Rabbi of ship. keep in contact with their plans for their third annual dis- Roumania. Rabbi Shafran had At the final session of the con- and acted as officers so that they can ex- vention on Monday, Sept. 1, the cussion series under the auspices chairman of the noted, while in this country, that newly elected officers were in- press the views of AZA of the area council, national Com- Roumanian Jewry, while the larg- stalled by Rabbi Amram Prero, democratically and lead Each program in the current se- BROWNSTEIN mittee n est community surviving the Nazis, Director of BBYO, The incoming ries will be sponsored by a chap- Palestine when was destitute in religious and edu- our Order onward toward officers for the year 1947-8 are ter. Titles of the four programs Bob Cohn was unable to serve. cational material with which to Myron Teitelbaum, Grand Aleph the fulfillment of its ideals planned for the series are: This Is Dick is also president of the stu- rebuild spiritual living. Godol; Louis M. Lederman, Grand -brotherly love, charity, BBYO, What Is Judaism, What dent body of Lincoln High School Chapters of AZA were joined in Aleph S'gan; Dick Brownstein, Can We Do About Prejudice?, and in Portland, Ore. many communities by other BBYO Grand Aleph Mazkir, and Earl and harmony. Intermarriage- Threat? Earl Pollock, Jr. Commissioner units in this drive. Pollock, Youth Commissioner.