CONSOLIDATION IS FURTHERED BY BBYM-YW Executive Board the SH Adopts Program: Plans for Year Official Publication of the B'nai B'rith Youth Organization The BBYM-YW National Ex- AZA-BBG-BBYM-BBYW ecutive Committee borrowed from the Latin in adopting a 27TH YEAR 82 JULY, 1950 1424 16th St. NW. Washington 6. D.C. new national slogan. "The Pro- Send address changes to The Shofar gram's the Thing." It is based on the abbreviated form of Rec- reation, Education, and Service (Res), for several years the na- AZA To Discuss Mobilization Effect at Meet; tional BBYW program motto. The adoption of this slogan is in effect the establishment of a Guests Urged To Attend BBG Convention common program for BBYM and BBYW, jointly administered on a national level. Talent, Festival Cookie's Ready for BBG's Plan AZA's Role The New York meeting of the National Executive Committee was Nights Special In World Crisis; held on June 24 and 25 at the Hotel Taft. Meeting after the national BBG Features organization had functioned as a Epstein To Talk joint enterprise for six months. the Executive Committee devoted BBG's are going all out in en- Top priority on the agenda at itself to adjusting administrative couraging non-delegates to at- the Mid-Century National AZA matters relating to the effective tend their national convention Convention will be given to a workings of the organization discussion of the role AZA VOLUNTARY DOLLAR at Camp Pokono-Ramona, near chapters will play in the partial The "Voluntary Dollar" plan was Bushkill, Pa., Jewel Gordon, na- mobilization of the country dur- established to equate BBYM and tional president; has announced. ing the current international BBYW dues. BBYM membership dues is $2 a year, while BBYW Scheduled to begin after lunch crisis. The convention will con- members have been paying $1 a on Aug. 30 and to continue sider not only how membership year. BBYW was asked to make through lunch of Sept. 3, this may be affected by possible fu- up the difference in receipts ture developments, but also through each chapter contributing convention promises to be one one dollar for each registered mem- of the most memorable of BBG ber. It was hoped that this plan Registrations for both the AZA would increase treasury receipts history. and BBG National Conventions without resorting to raising na- must be received at the national As opposed to last year's con- tional dues. At the same time BBYO office, 1424 16th St., N. W., BBYM and BBYW members will vention, which was devoted to Washington 6, D. C. by August 10. be sharing financial costs equally a leadership training program Registrations will be received after the program of the Pokono-Ra- that date only in the case of in- Suggestions were made to the mona meeting is designed to be dividuals who can show extenuat- chapters for raising the necessary funds through carnivals, dances and of value to all BBG's. Included in ing circumstances for the delay. other activities by which money the four-day meeting are swim- may be raised. The plan is ex- ming, boating, horseback riding, what activities chapters can plained in greater detail by Philip hiking, seminars, business sessions, sponsor as an aid to the mobili- Zimmerman, national treasurer, on a gala Festival Night and lively zation action. Page 5. Talent Night. The national story- draft of a national constitution. telling program will come to its Benjamin R. Epstein, na- climax at Campfire Night, when "COOKIE" at Camp Pokono-Ramona is ready to prepare favorite deli- adjusting discrepancies between the tional director of the ADL, will each district's narrator will tell her cacies for hungry BBG's at their National Convention. The dates are present constitutions of the national organizations, was presented to the story before the entire group. Aug. 30-Sept. 3. The camp is located near Bushkill, Pa. set the keynote at the conven- tion to be held at the Castle National Executive Committee for Folk dancing and singing will its approval. It will be submitted to Heights Military Academy, Le- be the feature attraction at Festi- the next national convention of val Night, slated to reflect the Trees Added in AZA Forest; banon, Tenn., Aug. 20-24. His BBYM-YW. spirit of many lands. Special at- presentation will set the tenor Mildred (Midge) Skulsky, Mon- tention will be given the dances JNF Presented $1600 Check for discussion at seminars on treal. was chosen national vice- of America and Israel, with dances the mid-century theme. Follow- president of BBYM-YW upon the of other countries interspersed A check for $1600 has been presented by AZA to the Jewish ing his presentation entitled resignation of Charlotte Waterstone throughout. National Fund for the planting of trees in the Lapidus Memorial "At the Crossroads of the Cen- of Detroit. Midge was national re- Hungarian-born Klara Bolgar, pop- cording secretary. Her former uular Philadelphia songstress will Forest in Israel, bringing the number of trees planted there to tury," convention delegates and duties have been assumed by Goldie present a concert of songs of many date to well over the 6,000 mark. The funds, turned over from the guests will meet in seminars to Green of Pittsburgh, District 3 nations at the festival night pro- Jerry Safur Fund, were presented to Mendel Fisher, executive di- discuss for themselves the theme representative to the National Ex- gram. A survivor of a Nazi con- rector of the JNF, by Garson Rub-> developed by Mr. Epstein. The ecutive Commitee. centration camp, the concert singer inger, District 1 aleph godol, in HENLE'S REPORT has made her home in Philadel- ceremony before an audience of Mexico City AZA seminars will be on Human Arthur Henle. New York City, phia, where she is studying under BBYO and B'nai B'rith members Rights, Israel, and Building a national president, presided. He the well-known Curtis Institute in New York City. Plans To Attend Lasting Peace. Mr. Epstein will opened the meeting with a report voice teacher, Madame Marion The money from the Jerry Sa- devote his presentation to these Freschl. on the progress made by the organ- fur Fund was turned over to the National Conclave main subjects. ization since the national conven- During the past year, she has forest fund upon action taken by tion. He recommended that BBYM A representative of a newly Louisville Play been on a coast-to-coast broadcast- the last national AZA convention. (See YM-YW, Page 5) (See FOREST, Page 7) established Mexico City AZA A special feature of the four- (See BBG, Page 7) chapter is expected to attend day convention will be a dramat- the National AZA Convention ic presentation by AZA mem- Time Out for Sports this summer. The chapter is bers from Louisville under the planning to send a representa- guidance of their long-time ad- tive in order to forge a link viser, Joe Bliss. The dramatiza- with its brothers north of the tion, "Report on Youth," is Rio Grande. based on a script by Jerome Bayer written for B'nai B'rith Dis- This is the first BBYO chapter trict Grand Lodge No. 1. to be organized in the Latin Amer- ica countries, and. of course, its (See AZA, Page 2) first project is to create other Spanish-speaking chapters. It was DON'T FORGET! organized approximately a year ago by Ernesto Deutch, a student at Membership registrations for the Mexico University Medical the year 1950-51 begin in Sep- School. tember. This date was set by When Deutch planned to organ- BBYO in order for the registra- ize a chapter in Mexico City, he ap- tion year to coincide with the proached Spinoza Lodge of B'nai program year of your chapter. B'rith there to be the sponsor. The Those registering this Septem- lodge quickly agreed to help form ber will be considered members the chapter, which began with 13 until August 31, 1951. members and now has 20. An adjustment of the dues to Assistance came to the chapter be paid the first year the plan in the person of a former BBYO is in operation has been made staff member, Milton Cohen, who for those people who had al- was once director of the New ready registered for 1950. They England Region as well as a na- will pay dues according to the following scale: AZA, $1.00: tional administrative assistant. BBG. $1.20; BBYW, $.70: and THIS BEAUTIFUL gymnasium together with other members during their four-day convention at Castle Cohen agreed to become the ad- BBYM, $1.35. athletic facilities will be at the disposal of AZA Heights Military Academy, Lebanon, Tenn. (See MEXICO, Page 6)