1955 AZA Alumnus Label Katz New BBYC Chairman the SHOFAR Official Publication of the B'nai B'rith Youth Organization AZA-BBG-BBYA 32nd YEAR 6 SEPTEMBER, 1955 Office of Publications, Baltimore, Md. Send address changes to The Shofar, 1129 Vermont Ave., N.W., Washington 5, D.C. GINSBERG NEW GAG; BBG NAMES BLANCK "Great Year" AZA Alumnus Label Katz Bellefaire Named BBYC Chairman Home Main Pledged By en- of BBG Slate Starlight, Pa. AZA Project rold Another AZA alumnus moved into a top B'nai B'rith post tes, here last month as Label A. Katz, New Orleans attorney and Starlight, Pa. Starlight, Pa. realtor, was elected chairman of the B'nai B'rith Youth Com- Leon Ginsberg, 19-year-old Delegates to BBG's 11th in- mission at the Commission's annual meeting. Mr. Katz, 36, college sophomore from San gan- ternational annual convention succeeds Jacob J. Lieberman of Los Angeles who served Antonio, Texas, was elected here last month elected 18- as chairman of the Commission AZA Grand Aleph Godol at II the ven- year-old Sharon Blanck of since 1947. Mr. Lieberman was the organization's 32nd Inter- named honorary chairman of the has Vancouver, B.C., Canada, as national Annual Convention Commission and was presented here last month. rates, international president for with a Jewish National Fund at- scroll by B'nai B'rith Presi- Ginsberg, a major in govern- 1955 56. Sharon's election itute marked the first time that a dent Philip M. Klutznick as a sym- ment, will head a top AZA in- con- bol of the Lieberman Garden which ternational officer team for 1955-56 ipate Canadian has held BBG's top is being planted by the Commission that includes: Gary Filerman, 18, inars office. in the outgoing chairman's honor. Minneapolis, a sophomore at the these University of Minnesota, Grand Elected to serve with her for Other Commission officers elected and were: Hyman Chipkin, New York, Aleph S'gan; and Herbert Pruzan, of the next 12 months were: Ann 19, Seattle, Wash., a junior at the (see BBG SLATE, page 7) Sharon Blanck For (see KATZ, page 8) University of Washington, Grand luled Aleph Mazkir, Elliott Rothman, 20, ader- Pittsburgh, Penna., last year's in- con- ntion Joint Leadership Institute ternational president will serve as Grand Aleph Kohen Godol this BBG year. Rothman is a student at Car- A Success; BBYO To Benefit negie Tech, where he is majoring ident in architecture. (For biographical will sketches of new officers see page 5.) eve- Label A. Katz From "Take-Home" Values Bellefaire Adopted In other major decisions taken Starlight, Pa. Mrs. Perlman by the more than 200 delegates from all over the United States and Canada, AZA adopted the BBYO's 1955 Joint International Leadership Training Institute at Camp B'nai B'rith Urges Youth B'nai B'rith Bellefaire Home, here last month is being proclaimed an eminent success. Evaluations of the more than 240 Cleveland, Ohio, a home for emo- participants to the institute show a decided majority who benefited from the institute's carefully planned and executed programs which stressed Judaism and democratic leader- To Speak Up ship. But the real fruits of last month's six-day experience will be harvested during the Starlight, Pa. coming year as BBYO leaders who participated in the event apply the skills, insights, BBG delegates attending the knowledges, and techniques learned here to their local 11th international BBG con- This situations. Additional coverage of the vention here last month heard ap- One of the most graphic demonstrations of 'take-home" AZA and BBG international utive skills stressed at the Institute is expected to be a series of conventions and the BBYO a criticism of the nation's ecial Joint Leadership Institute, in- local Israel Youth Conferences throughout the year. The newspapers for failure to give cluding two full pages of pic- then- BBYO National Program Office is as much stress to "the posi- tures, will be found on the inside rship "but the difference is that Israel is now preparing material for use pages of this issue. tive deeds of young people as (see INSTITUTE, page 3) BBG in local communities in connection they do to examples of ex- n at with these conferences which would as be patterned on the Institute's Klutznick Blasts Delay On treme negative actions." The charge was made by Mrs. dis- day-long affair. Louis Perlman of Chicago, puble Just Climax Of Event Meeting Needs Of Youth president of the B'nai B'rith Women's Supreme Council, pute The Institute's Israel Youth Con- Starlight, Pa. and former vice-chairman of ference was the climax of last B'nai B'rith President Philip M. Klutznick voiced the the B'nai B'rith Youth Com- costs month's event. Featured speaker hope here last month that the needs of youth will be given mission. cent- was Yohanan Meroz, first secre- priority if the problem of juvenile delinquency is to be over- Mrs. Perlman told delegates: tary of Israel's Embassy in Wash- come. Mr. Klutznick, in the major address at the AZA 32nd "Newspapers have a responsi- ceive ment ington, D. C., who delivered the International Convention, said caus- Refutes "Fossil" Charge bility for helping to correct keynote address to a mock session tically: "While adults investigate, the erroneous impression held by Leon Ginsberg youth must wait." Mr. Klutznick also took excep- of the "Knesset," Israel's parlia- many adults that most of today's tionally disturbed children, as its ent The B'nai B'rith leader pointed tion to the recent statement by teen-agers are terrible." She urged ent ment. Institute participants. at- to the present plight of the na- British historian Professor Arnold major fund-raising project for the young people to institute a pro- coming year. The B'nai B'rith ent tending the "Knesset" session heard tion's public schools as one area Toynbee that Jews have survived gram of self-help. She called for Henry Monsky Foundation, which ent the Israeli diplomat concede that which demands immediate atten- "as fossils of an ancient world." a federally-sponsored national will erect the new B'nai B'rith ent Israel has made mistakes which tion. He asserted that in many cit- Said the B'nai B'rith President: youth conference, followed up by Building in Washington next year, ent have contributed to the present ies the rule is overcrowded class- "Here in our own country, we have a series of state and local com- was continued as a major fund- ent rooms and underpaid teachers. He the example of the American Jew- munity meetings, to give youth an ent strife in the Middle East. "The raising project. Another major also charged that in many commun- ish community which over a period opportunity to verbalize what its AZA fund-raising project will be ent picture on neither side is all black ities recreation programs for youth of 300 years has learned to grow needs are. The impetus for such its Richard Klutznick Leadership ent or all white," Mr. Meroz asserted, are rapidly becoming a luxury. (see KLUTZNICK, page 8) (see MRS. PERLMAN, page 8) (see AZA, page 7) ent