Fill in the Ranks the SH FAR Replace Every Member Who Enters The Armed Forces Official Publication of the B'nai B'rith Youth Organization AZA-BBG-BBYM-BBYW d 28TH YEAR 6 SEPTEMBER, 1951 1424 16th St. N.W. Washington 6. D.C. Send address changes to The Shofar of of V, AZA INITIATED 100,000 SINCE FOUNDING te S, of BBYO Chapters To Register Largest Numbers Have Been Enrolled e n- First Week In September By Milwaukee, Wisc., Chapter No. 39 The first week of September is registration week for 0- BBYO. All new and old members will register with their The Aleph Zadik Aleph of e- regional and district offices during this week. The registra- tion will cover membership from this September until Drugs For Israel the B'nai B'rith Youth Organ- ization has initiated more than e September, 1952. 100,000 members since its Three National New BBYM-YW manuals founding, according to infor- at will be issued to members who mation released by BBYO W he Scholarships Are register this year. The manu- headquarters in Washington, als have just come off the D.C. t, Given By BBG press. The contents relate the a- An actual count of names of history and structure of the n, individuals initiated between For the first time in BBG organization, all pertinent in Z, May 3, 1924 and August 31, e- history, three Anita Perlman formation of interest to both 1951, on file at BBYO head- Scholarship awards will be old and new members, and a es made this year. The BBG's description of the national quarters, discloses a grand total of 100,763 former and raised the unprecedented sum BBYM-YW program. All this os present members of AZA. This ss, of over $977 this year to make is vividly illustrated with figure does not include indi- the three awards possible. amusing drawings and car- m viduals initiated by the B'nai ed WINNERS toons. The booklet is small B'rith Girls, B'nai B'rith ng The winners are Gilda Sil- and easily carried in pocket Young Men and B'nai B'rith verman, Philadelphia ,Naomie or handbag. Young Women. A count of for- Hershorin, New Orleans; and New BBG and AZA mem- mer and present members of ce- Marilyn Cohen, Dorchester, bers will, of course, receive these other units of BBYO im Mass. The awards were an- copies of the AZA and BBG will be undertaken within the en nounced at the National BBG manuals upon registering next several months. the convention at the University Both the AZA "Inside Infor- of Illinois, August 26-30. mation" and the "BBG Mem- District 1 initiated the larg- wo Each recipient was awarded ber's Manual" have been re- est number of AZA members ap- rm $200 to continue her educa- vised to bring the latest in- - almost 26,000. Almost a tion. The remainder of the formation to new members. fourth of these joined chap- nal money will be carried over in EARLY REGISTRATION Members of Henry Monsky AZA in Dallas, Tex., load the truck ters in the New York City rey the Anita Perlman Scholarship Early registration assures that carries the drugs the chapter shipped to Israel. The chapter region. The high count in Dis- sent $1,000 worth of drugs to the Monsky Lodge in Tel Aviv. From ich Fund for next year. chapters that they will con- trict 1 reflects the large Jew- left to right are Arthur Ungerman, Arnold Sweet, Charles Ross, ect Every year BBG awards at tinue to receive The Shofar Danny Krause and Sidney Stahl. ish population in this part of least two such scholarships to and Career News without in- the country. W's ber members who show that their terruption will be permitted Dallas AZA Sends $1000 In Drugs District 6, in which AZA got in need, interest in BBYO, and to participate in all BYO func- its start more than twenty- as activities in school and the tions: and will receive the lat- iro community warrant assistance To Monsky Lodge In Tel Aviv seven years ago, initiated est program materials as they more than 21,600 members ter to continue their education. are released. Henry Monsky AZA of Dallas, Texas, has sent over $1,000 for the second highest tally. the The unusual number of con- The date of registration was worth of drugs to the Henry Monsky B'nai B'rith Lodge in A little less than a fourth of tributions to the Scholarship set for September last year in Tel Aviv, Israel. these members joined chap- the (See SCHOLARSHIPS, Page 4) (See REGISTRATION, Page 6) The drugs include such needed items as penicillin, vita- ters in Chicago. mins, sulpha drugs, baby food and District 3, which includes and other necessary items for the NEWYEA MESSAGE diseased and undernourished peo- large Jewish population cen- ple of Israel. ters in Pennsylvania and New This is a long range project which J. J. Lieberman, National Chairman, B'nai B'rith Youth Commission Jersey, shows the third high- has been under way in Dallas since last November. At that time Henry est count with more than onal Greetings to all of you in and threats, for peace rather and left, make men mere Monsky AZA gave a Sweetheart 15,900 members initiated. sen the family of BBY0-to the than war, for brotherhood and automatons of the state, mere Dance and raised over $200 to de- members of our youth groups, digits of large numbers, mere fer the expenses of the project. Next comes District 4, understanding rather than Correspondence with the Henry which embraces the states on to the national staff and the conflict and bickering and sus- ants in massive anthills, to be Monsky B'nai B'rith Lodge of Tel (See AZA, Page 8) staffs throughout the United picion and mistrust. stepped on and exterminated Aviv, decided what drugs were to States and Canada, to our This is our holiday of intro- with no more compassion or be sent. ding advisors and committees and spection, of self-inventory, of feeling than if a pile of sand Most of the drugs are samples Sept. 10 Is Next received by doctors; however, a councils, to the members of self-study. May we hope that were kicked aside! Judaism large number were donations from Shofar Deadline our Youth Commission, and to it be such not alone for us as emphasizes the value and doctors and institutions. Also a The deadline for the October our friends in B'nai B'rith: individuals and Jews, but also vitality of the individual, gives sum of money was taken from the issue of The Shofar has been set treasury to purchase over $300 at September 10. The November My best wishes to all of you for the nations. importance to his status, worth of drugs from a wholesale issue deadline is October 10. for a very happy New Year. We learn in our religious gives height to his stature, druggist. These were penicillin and Stories must be at the Shofar My fervent prayers go up for vitamin capsules. office early in order to prepare lore of the importance and hence raises man to a plane Donations came from other all the material for a fifteenth clearing up of the world's dignity of the individual. Each ills. for a clarification of the of dignity and honor, making wholesale drug houses, doctors, lo- of the month publication date. individual worshipper prays to cal hospitals, the Carswell Air Chapters are urged to send world's confusion, for a purifi- him a precious part of the Force Base Hospital in Ft. Worth, news of an event as soon as it his God, as an individual, as cation and strengthening of Creator's cosmos, Each voice and from the local B'nai B'rith is held without regard to dead- well as in his capacity as a lodges. is important in the chorus of lines. This will permit your story democratic processes, for member of the congregation. The drugs have cleared customs to be included in the earliest blessings instead of tension the congregation, and when and are on their way. However, Dictatorships of today, right issue possible. (See GREETINGS, Page 8) (See DRUGS, Page 7)