ober, 1950 Is Your Chapter nd, ge the Registered? Registrations for 1951 began in September. Send Yours In pective or- Promptly. the duties Commission ich I shall Official Publication of the B'nai B'rith Youth Organization assure you AZA-BBG-BBYM-BBYW dual which 27TH YEAR 82 NOVEMBER, 1950 1424 16th St. NW. Washington 6. D. eless, is at Send address changes to The Shofar significance e plans for nd freedom The Synagogue Goldman Visits AZA United Na- BBYO INTRODUCES In Jewish Life wondering has made al progress To Be Debated WRITING PROJECT advances subjected Debate Committee retrogres- Open to All, Embraces Every ink now of Selects Subjects build upon By Mail Ballot Form of Literary Expression its Supreme The AZA debate topic for this Grab that paper, put ink in your pen, oil the typewriter. The pledged to year will be "Resolved, That BBYO Jacob J. Lieberman Creative Writing Program is under nited States. cking of our Synagogues (or Temples) way. Beginning appropriately during Jewish Book Month, the individuals Should Become Centers of program will embrace all forms of creative writing-poetry short e that back- Jewish Life." The topic has been stories, essays, plays, book re- he family of officially designated and con- w dedicated YM. YW Discussion views and radio scripts. testants are given the "go" An innovation in BBYO national Organization this pledge signal to proceed with their Program Will Be projects in that it is not limited plans and preparations for 1950- to one form of literary expression, called upon On Free Speech the Creative Writing Program is part of one 51 debating. named in honor of the chairman of emphasizes After much study and evaluation our purposes BBYM's and BBYW's will be the B'nai B'rith Youth Commission. are prepared of subjects available, the debate BBYO, and before that, AZA has speaking freely as they discuss our country, topic was selected by a mail refer- sponsored many national literary "How Free Should Freedom of programs, such as the sermon writ- for it." Let endum conducted through the na- in the face Speech Be?" The topic is the tional debate committee and the Frank Goldman, president of the Supreme Lodge of B'nai B'rith, ing program, essay contests, book that we may took time out from a busy schedule to visit the 14th annual AZA Yom one selected for the national review programs, etc. This is the AZA executive committee. This Kippur Dance in Philadelphia. He is shown shaking hands with Bernie first time that all literary styles are BBYM-YW Discussion Program, 1 enter upon procedure was necessitated because Albert, godol of the Philadelphia Council. incorporated into one overall pro- a plan by which members will gram. e same high the pressure of time at the national characterized convention did not permit adequate be able to take part in informal Will Be Published deliberations on the topics sug- Chanukah To Climax YM, YW panels or round table discus- The program is open to all mem- I every one gested. sions with people from other bers of BBYO, whether AZA, BBG, tion and fun Implications parts of the country and Can- BBYM or BBYW. All material that des planning The selected topic implies that Children's Home Project is worthy of publication will be ada. ture and for a synagogue (or temple) should not printed in one of the BBYO publi- extension of only serve as a house of worship The BBYM and BBYW project of aid to the B'nai B'rith The final discussion will be cations. BBYO members have about have been religious school, but that Children's Home in Israel will reach its peak during Chanukah. held at the national BBYM-YW three months in which to submit should also sponsor cultural, social material, for entries must be re- Chapters which began projects in October and November will convention, where a representa- people jus- and recreational activities. ceived at the national BBYO office et us look strive to complete them at this time. In addition, new projects tive from each district will par- by April 1, 1951. hope and It is a particularly appropriate subject for study and debate be- may be started throughout the ticipate. The representative will The theme of the material is left h has been cause its theme is timely and sig- country. BBG Story-Telling receive a travel allotment equal to the discretion of the author. nificant in the planning and de- Special arrangements are being to that of a delegate and will Since it will be published for BBYO ur delibera- velopment of the American Jewish attempted to create contacts di- and your re- Gets Underway participate in the complete con- members, the material should, how- community. With the re-vitaliza- rectly between some of the chil- ever, be focused on any topic of divine bless- The National BBG Story-Tell- vention program, although not tion of interest and concern in the dren at the home and BBYM's and interest to American Jewish youth. and through- secular aspects of Judaism has BBYW's here. The children are in permitted to vote. ing Program will be underway The material must be original. come a conscientious effort to need of friends and the knowledge opportunity next month as the first of re- Chapter Selects The Jacob J. Lieberman Creative evaluate and determine the role of to wish all that there are people across the sea gion and district conventions A chapter will select one Writing Program was inaugurated y and pros the institutions of the synagogue who are interested in them. Chap- last year as a book review program. and temple in the life of the Jewish ters could arrange for their mem- are held. The program permits member to represent it at a re- It has now been broadened to in- nally, community. bers to write letters and send an each chapter to present its se- gional or district discussion pro- clude more areas of creative ex- LIEBERMAN Differences occasional token to the children in lected story-teller as a partici- gram. Stress is placed on the pression. Differences of opinion have arisen this "Cheer a Child" activity. Those pant in the program. Each dis- informality of the program, Words Limited among our Jewish people as to the chapters interested in arranging direct contact with the children trict will select its best story- which bars the preparation of Essays and book reviews should real function of our religious insti- be limited to a maximum of 1,500 tutions. and the proponents of the teller to represent it at the next speeches or of "canned" de- ry should write to Irving Canter, na- words, and short stories and radio various plans have presented im- tional BBYO program director. national BBG convention. livery. scripts should have a maximum of pressive reasons for their particu- 1424-16th St., N.W. Washington 6. e national The National BBG convention The discussion program is ac- 3,000 words. The length of poetry lar viewpoint. It is, therefore. D. C. Should enough interest be ving their this year decided that no one tually "controlled conversation" and one-act plays will depend on fitting that the committee has given displayed, Mr. Canter will trans- the nature of the material. lutions to the members an opportunity to mit requests to the proper authori- person would be named national among several persons inter- Material should be typed, double- h better study this controversial subject by ties in Israel. story-teller. Rather, the story- (See DISCUSSION, Page 7) (See WRITING, Page 8) can occur. means of the debate. it is prob- Large Equipment telling program will be present- In the next edition of The Shofar The home needs special large ed at the next national conven- e chapter bibliography on the subject, rules equipment, such as a motion pic- tion as an entertaining and in- Relaxing at Canteen and regulations, and general hints ture projector, a record player and and information for debaters will formative feature of the conven- stration. ng dues, be published. a public address system. Chapters (See ISRAEL Page 7) tion program. Each story-teller ransmis- will receive the same travel al- ress on me and National Presidents Select lotment as a delegate and will participate in convention discus- of the Chairmen of Committees sions and programs. because Each participant may select and na- any story of Jewish interest member- 10 Chairmen Named Weiss Names AZA that interests her. Original stor- r has just By BBG President District Members ies are encouraged, but the fact ion. This that a story is original will not National BBG President Mar- comes out. National Committee Chair- affect judges' decisions in dis- S issued ion Litinetsky has announced men for AZA have been ap- trict contests. The story-tellers es eight the names of the chairmen of pointed by GAG Ronnie Weiss. will be selected on the basis of National Committees for this The national chairmen will head delivery and content. Stories we are year. The chairmen, represent- committees composed of repre- may be humorous or dramatic, ing each of the seven BBG dis- n form is sentatives of each district. Their tricts, are each assigned one folk tales or the work of a spe- function is to collect sugges- cific author. family dog phase of the BBG program. Each chairman, with her com- tions and ideas for chapter pro- Three impartial judges will grams and to spread this infor- mittee, will develop plans for select the district story-teller in d he feels should ask national programs from those sug- mation to the various chapters the run-offs. First, second and he nearest gested by the districts and will throughout the organizations. third place winners in the dis- disseminate the information The members of the national AZA trict will be designated wher- es of com- through releases to the chapters. committees are: ever possible. Any BBG, wheth- Interim: Grand Aleph S'gan Clar- Relaxing time at the national BBG convention meant one thing- that their The national chairmen are Vice- er she has participated before a snack at the canteen. Two BBG's carry on a conversation while the causes president Goldie Lipshutz, Chicago, ence Borns, Gary, Ind., chairman: Alan Gold, Louisville: Perry Scherz. or not, may enter the program. waiting their turn for service. Note the distinctive hats. The one at (See BBG, Page 2) the left signifies District 7. while the one at the right denotes that the (See AZA, Page 6) (See STORIES, Page 2) wearer is from District 1 and also from Canada.