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 29TH YEAR Send address changes to The Shofar, 1761 R St. N.W. 6 SEPTEMBER, 1952 Washington 9. D. C., Office of Publication, Baltimore, Md, BBYM-YW Designates Cincinnati, Ohio, As Site Of Biennial National Convention December 25 YM-YW Nears Executive Committee Makes Youth Commission Chairman $2,000 For 3 Sends New Year Greeting Plans at New York Meeting Pillars Goal BBYM-YW has selected Cincinnati as the site and De- To Members and Friends of BBYO: cember 25-28 as the dates for its second national convention Greetings and best wishes for the New Year. since the two organizations combined on a national level. A BBYM-YW is rapidly ap- May it, above all, be a year of peace. Then will committee is now at work making arrangements for housing proaching the $2,000 mark in we indeed be able to hope that it be a year of plenty. and meeting places in the its Three Pillars of Service The traditions of our faith teach us to take stock centrally located Ohio city. Fund. After about a year in of ourselves, to indulge in self-analysis. Initial plans for the conven- BBG Registers operation, the fund totals Ten days of penitence usher in our New tion were made by the national $1,742. which will be divided Year. Self-inventory leads to soul executive committee at its between the B'nai B'rith purging, giving a truly fresh start to 10,000th Member meeting in New York City, Children's Home in Israel the new year. July 5 and 6. Although spe- BBG registered its ten and YM-YW disease research In our work in BBYO a fresh start cific schedules could not be thousandth member this projects. The latter projects will give impetus to our efforts and our prepared at the time, the com- year, an all-time high in BBG will be worked out through the program. While I have been satisfied mittee selected the site and membership figures. BBG cooperation of two B'nai with the interest of our youth, a re- date, developed the general has grown rapidly in the B'rith Hospitals, the Leo N. newed interest will lead to greater framework of the convention eight years it has been a na- Levi Hospital at Hot Springs, J. J. Lieberman accomplishment. and considered several recom- tional organization and Arkansas. and the National Our prayers, however, will have to mendations to refer to the con- Jewish Hospital in Denver. be directed to the subject of the world about us. Not vention in its business ses- Twenty-eight chapters have that we can't pray for self-improvement and personal sions. contributed to the fund, and strength. But the inventory of the world's status leaves Of primary concern to the much to be desired. Maybe, if this self-analysis taught more money has come through national organization is the local BBYM-YW Councils, to by Judaism were to spread, a much-desired improvement state of its finances, upon account for the large amount in the world would follow. May it be so! which hinge several projects already received. YM-YW has And to each of you, L'SHONO TOVO TIKUSEVO! that might be undertaken if for its goal an average of May every blessing be yours. funds were available. Among Jacob J. Lieberman $1.50 for each member. The these projects are future pro- goal was established at the gram releases and a larger last national convention of BBYM-YW in Camp Achim, Chapters To Re-Register Members; travel fund which would per- mit national officers to visit Watervliet, Mich., in June of local areas more frequently 1951. Prospective Servicemen Included and allow a greater represen- Chapters began their efforts tation of chapters at national AZA and BBYM members who expect to enter the serv- conventions. toward meeting the goal this ice this year are urged to re-register with their chapters as winter, and the high rate of all of BBYO swings into the new registration year of 1952-53. Chapter Minimum participation indicates further Chapters begin re-registering on September 1. Those members The convention will also be accomplishments to be made who enter the service between asked to decide on a minimum under the Three Pillars of now and September, 1953, will of next year, his dues will be number of members required Service Program. The success- be credited with whatever credited to his chapter for the for chapters. The national ex- 10,000th BBG ful beginning of the project dues they paid before entering period he is in the service. ecutive committee is also rec- BARBARA LAVINE moved the national executive the service. The chapter will then reim- ommending that B'nai B'rith committee of BBYM-YW to passing the 10 thousand In other words, a member burse the member. However, Young Men and Young Wo- direct the chairmen of the mark in one year is a mile- re-registers for the entire year he will stay on BBYO roles men change its name to B'nai program to investigate specific stone in its development. from September, 1952, to Sep- and be considered an accredit- B'rith Young Adults. The ten thousandth name projects which may be under- tember, 1953. Should he enter ed member throughout his More specific business will to be processed this year was (See PILLARS, Page 8) the service before September (See REGISTRATION, Page 7) develop from policy and pro- that of 14-year-old Barbara gram workshop-committees at Lavine of Portsmouth, Vir- the convention, which will con- United Nations In AZA ginia. She has just joined the sider each phase of the BBYM- Henrietta Szold chapter YW program. Each workshop- there, and like many BBG's committee of the convention she gives her reason for join- will both evaluate the past ing the organization as want- year's progress and plan for ing to learn to work with "all the future at its meeting. my Jewish friends." "Take Home Value" The ten-thousandth BBG Again stressing "Take has turned out to be like Home Values," the convention many of her BBG sisters. will attempt to complete its She will enter her freshman official business early and year of high school this fall break up into implementing and is in the ninth grade of sessions on the last day of the the Gomley Sunday Schol. convention. This means that She likes dancing and swim- the first Combined Program ming, and, incidentally, is Release following the conven- proficient in both. She re- tion will be written essentially cently won a jitterbug con- on the spot, that channels for test and last year she won a informing chapters of na- medal for swimming at the tional programs will be devel- Suburban Country Club Pool. oped and that standing na- She plays the piano also. tional committees will have Barbara learned about Four new members from France, England, Germany, and Costa Rica are inducted into Bay State AZA met for initial planning. BBG through her cousin Ellen in Worcester, Mass. These new members were inducted in a United Nations program conducted by the Two national contests will Rae Frank, who has been a Worcester Council. (See CONVENTION, Page 6) (See TEN THOUSAND, Page 3)