Message from the GRAND ALEPH the SH GODOL Official Publication of the B'nai B'rith Youth Organization AZA-BBG-BBYM-BBYW By MYRON TEITELBAUM 25TH YEAR JUNE 1948 Send address changes to The Shofar. 1746 M St. N W., Washington 6. D O. This column in the June issue of The Shofar is the No Shofar in Summer last for this summer, for PHILADELPHIA DEPOTS LADEN YM, YW to Have With this issue, publication July and August are vaca- of The Shofar is suspended tion months. It is fitting at during the summer months of this time to remind all will resume publication in Sep- WITH - DAY UNIFORM DELUGE NewSeminarPlan July and August, The Shofar Alephs that the prime goal tember. Stories for the Sep- At Conventions of our Five-Fold a nd Full tember issue must be in the The drive was on. BBYO members swarmed out of Program is to make good National Office by August 5. trucks and cars in every neighborhood of Philadelphia. Striving to establish for and THINKING Americans Address your copy to The Householders were ready for them. Their drive had been themselves a concrete pro- and Jews of all of us. We Shofar, BBYO, 1746 M St. preceded by sound trucks, radio announcements, flyers, must always hold this dis- N. W., Washington 6. D. C. and newspapers. The BBYO'ers knocked on doors and gram based on "The Role tinct motive in view; other- came away with armloads of shirts, trousers, helmets, of Jewish Youth in the World wise our organization would GAG Urges shoes, and sweaters. Today," BBYM and BBYW not have the right to exist. Trip after trip was made. One impor- Synagogues, temples, and BBG Meet Plans will meet jointly during their All to Aid National Conventions to dis- tant way to vacant stores were filled cuss this problem, Helene achieve our with materiel. When aim is to be New State night came, BBYO had col- Nearly Complete Fishbein and Seymour Co- hen, National Presidents of fortified with lected 350,000 articles of facts and With a full three days of BBYW and BBYM re- Expressing the desire of clothing for the fighters in spectively, have announced. knowledge. seminars, business sessions, AZA to assist the new State Haganah. H-Day was a suc- outdoor sports, and social A new type of discussion Vacation of Israel in its efforts to cess. functions making up the group will be inaugurated time is op- portune to establish itself firmly, Grand This drive to collect uni- agenda, plans for the Na- with the consideration of Aleph Godol Myron Teitel- forms for the Haganah was catch up tional BBG Convention are this topic. It will begin with Teitelbaum with the baum has urged all echelons inaugurated by Philadelphia near completion, Rosalind a keynote address by an neglected reading of Jewish of the order to organize and BBYO in an effort to do Brensilber, National Presi- authority in this field. The history, literature, and folk- implement plans for co- something concrete to help dent has announced. Convention body will then operation with local and the Jews of Israel. More lore. Through this reading Approximately 100 dele- be divided into small groups national drives to assist the than 500 BBYO'ers met at where an attempt will be you will learn that being a gates and as many guests as new Jewish nation. five area headquarters early conscious Jew has its com- the camp can hold are ex- made to answer key ques- In a letter addressed to on May 16 to receive final pected to attend the Na- tions put forth by the pensations, and you will better strengthen yourselves all members of the national instructions. Taps were tional Convention at Camp speaker. Another speaker AZA Community Service sounded for the Haganah Achim on Aug. 26 to 29. will sum up the decisions, SO that you will not easily be Committee, Teitelbaum dead and the declaration of One delegate will represent arrived at in the small group dismayed by the name- calling, libels, or dis- wrote: the Jewish State read before 65 members of BBG. The meetings, immediately be- criminations which you you should devote the young people started on list of delegates and alter- fore the joint business your efforts to stimulating their rounds of the city. nates elected at District Con- session at which resolutions surely will encounter during the coming years. You will chapters to aid in the drive The organization of Ha- ventions are to be forwarded will be made. KNOW that right is with us. for uniforms, to sign up ganah Day was set up under to the National President im- The three-day meeting that the religious, moral, blood donors, and to work the dynamic leadership of mediately. Alternates must will be at the Hotel Tuller and social ideals and hopes with the United Jewish Ap- Bertram Rosenberg, Director also be duly elected and (See YM-YW, Page 3) of mankind were proclaimed peal. The district offices of Boys' Work in the Phila- cannot replace delegates un- by our people thousands of will be able to help you in delphia Region, and various less their names are on this years ago. You will KNOW leaders of BBYO. Learning AZA Will Feature these endeavors, and if you list. that until the present time do a good job here, your that Hadassah was beginning All delegates and guests committee will have its efforts to secure blood Jews were always to be are requested to register Oratory, Debate found in the vanguard of achieved a great deal." donors for the Red Mogen immediately with the Na- those who work and fight Although the Executive Dovid, the campaign di- tional Office. The deadline Plans for an efficient, Committee of AZA plans rectors arranged for the for registrations is Aug. 1. well-oiled Convention body for social righteousness, for liberty, and for peace. that the national convention BBYO members to distribute Registration forms can be are evolving for the Na- should consider the adop- 10,000 cards appealing for secured from District Di- tional AZA Convention to By inculcating yourselves tion of a single national volunteers to give blood. rectors. Completed forms begin on Aug. 31. GAG with a thorough understand- ing of Jewish history and project in this area for next No sooner had H-Day are to be mailed to BBYO, Myron Teitelbaum has an- the Jewish way of life, you year, the local units of AZA been declared than tele- 1746 M St., N.W., Washing- nounced. Lasting until Sept. (See ALL AID, Page 2) (See H-DAY, Page 12) (See BBG, Page 4) 3, the Convention will will become proud of be- feature national oratory longing to a people that had SOME UNIFORMS FOR HAGANAH and debate finals, business the stamina to survive the sessions, social affairs, out- vicissitudes of time- door sports and seminars. only living people with a One delegate represent- history of four thousand ing 118 AZA members is years behind them, and with the ratio set by the Na- a glorious future before tional Executive Committee them. in an effort to keep the Con- With this in mind, I urge vention expenses low in you to keep on reading and order to allow a gala Anni- THINKING, and to become versary Convention next enriched and stimulated by year. Preference as guests our deep tradition, so that will be given alternates, who you may be qualified to take were elected with the dele- an active part in the shaping gates at the District Conven- of Jewish history to come. tions. Today the Jewish people is Delegates and guests can beginning a new era, and in obtain registration forms this time of grave crisis our from District Directors. people is in dire need of These forms must be filled in leaders and workers. By completely and returned to your participation in this the National Office by program you can prepare August 1. The registration yourselves to fulfill your fee is to accompany the duties and obligations to registration form. Address your people. the forms to BBYO, 1746 To all Alephs, my sincer- M St. N.W., Washington 6, est best wishes for a joyous D.C. vacation, and to the dele- A SMALL PART of the 350,000 received such overwhelming re- tons of clothing were collected gates to our National Con- army uniforms collected by sponse that storage depots over- in the campaign in which every The registration fee of flowed and new facilities for BBYO members in Philadelphia neighborhood in Philadelphia $18 will cover all expenses vention, I hope to see you at storing the pants, shirts, shoes, was canvassed. This clothing incurred at camp. Those Camp Achim this coming are shown here. Inaugurated blouses, and helmets collected and equipment is armarked for who plan to attend the Con- August 31. on H-Day, May 16, the drive had to be secured. About 50 the Haganah. (See AZA, Page 2)