the SH Official Publication of the B'nai B'rith Youth Organization AZA-BBG-BBYA 33rd YEAR 6 FEBRUARY, 1956 Office of Publications, Baltimore, Md. Send address changes to The Shofar, 1129 Vermont Ave., N.W., Washington 5, D. C. Univ. Of Illinois To Be Scene Of International AZA And BBG 1956 Parleys The AZA and BBG international conventions and leadership training institutes for 1956 will be held at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. This year's events will be two separate eight-day-affairs. The BBG parley will run from Tuesday, August 7, through Thursday, August 16. The AZA convention and institute will begin Wednesday, August 22 and run through Friday, Aug- ust 31. If you have moved recently, This year's conventions and institutes will be the longest see story on page 6, this issue, individual events in BBYO history. The additional time will for an important announcement. A VIEW OF HUFF GYM at the University of Illinois, where AZA allow for more varied program ac- international convention and leadership training institute participants tivities, workshops and seminars. will hold their basketball playoffs at this summer's conclaves. BBG's First Since 1953 Steubenville BBG Is First will play volleyball at the University's Women's Gymnasium. They will be the first university 1954-55 AZA Press Club conventions for AZA and BBG To Register For BBYO since 1953, when the Champaign- Urbana campus was also used. It Summer Institute In Israel Award Winners Named will mark the third time that AZA and BBG international events will A Steubenville, Ohio BBG has become the first BBYO'er A total of 54 awards have been cause they did not submit enough to register for the 1956 BBYO Summer Institute in Israel. be held there. The first one was made in the 1954-'55 International papers-in some cases only one was She is Michele Esther Levite, 15-year-old member of AZA Press Club contest. staged in 1951. (See PRESS CLUB, page 4) Meyer Polonofsky BBG. A special panel of judges named Many of the University's facil- week, complete with $10 registra- 13 aleph-produced publications as ities will be at the disposal of tion fee and the signed approval gold certificate winners, 30 as sil- BBG Rituals BBYO for its international events, of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. David ver certificate winners and 11 re- including Illinois' famed George Levite. ceived certificates of honorable Booklet Off Huff Gymnasium, where AZA bas- ketball tournaments will be held. She will participate in the seven- mention. BBG's will hold volley ball and week Institute along with other (See full listing of winners on page 4. The Press basketball contests in the Univer- BBYO'ers this summer attending sity's Women's Gymnasium, The seminars, study groups, visiting The judges expressed great sat- A "Guide to Chapter Rituals," gymnasia swimming pools are also points of interest and hearing lec- isfaction that they were confront- expected to be open for BBYO use. tures by top-ranking Israeli gov- ed with considerable difficulty in compiled by Ann Lansky, Inter- ernment officials. The BBYO Insti- making their final selections. "The national BBG 1st vice-president, Convention participants and staff tute participants will leave New has just been published by the will be housed and fed in two wings competition was extremely keen," York by scheduled airliner in late BBYO Department of Programs of the Men's Residence Halls. they reported. June or early July, spending two and Publications. In addition, outdoor basketball One of the Silver Certificate Pa- days sightseeing in Paris en route pers was the Spanish language The 23-page mimeographed pub- courts, tennis courts and a large to Israel. They will be accompanied "Logias Juveniles B'nei B'rithi- lication includes rituals for the baseball diamond will be at the by a member of BBYO's field staff lighting of the menorah, prayers disposal of BBYO convention dele- ans," published by Mexico City's and travel as a unit during the Alberto Einstein AZA. for opening and closing meeting, gates. entire Institute. elections, installation of MITS, in- More Data Later Criteria Listed stallation of officers, life member- Deadline Is April 15 Among criteria used in the judg- ship ceremonies and two special Some of the larger meeting The Institute, first one to be were: excellence of written ma- features- Sabbath cantata and rooms on the campus are air-con- sponsored by BBYO, is being un- terial, excellence of production a section on ceremonies ideas. ditioned. Mass indoor events will dertaken in cooperation with the (well mimeographed, etc.), art "There is nothing more beautiful be held in those rooms. Michele Levite Youth Department of the Jewish work, make-up, degree of chapter or meaningful than our rituals," On the sprawling campus is Il- Agency, which has conducted simi- participation in the production of Ann says in her introduction. Com- lini Grove, a large tree-lined picnic Michele, a sophomore at Steuben- lar institutes since 1948 for teen- paper, variety and originality pilation of the booklet was done area, where some of the conven- ville High School, where she is a agers and young adult's from all of ideas. with the assistance of Flo Rozen tion and institute outdoor activi- member of the Latin and Math over the United States and Canada. Among things which counted of District 4 and Martha Miller, ties are expected to be held. Clubs, has been a member of BBG The Jewish agency will assign most heavily against papers were District 2. The district delegations, rebate since June, 1954. She is also a members of its staff in Israel to f-color jokes and poking of fun Ann points out that the rituals formulas, registration fees, regis- member of the National Federa- the BBYO Institute to conduct par- at an individual's expense. included "are but a few of the tration deadline and other infor- tion of Temple Youth. ticipants on a series of guided tours Some papers were placed in the 'wealth of ritual material' available mation will be published in sub- Michele filed her application with not ordinarily available to the aver- honorable mention category be- to chapters." sequent issues of SHOFAR. the BBYO Washington office last (see ISRAEL, page 5) Newspapers, Magazines Give Wide Coverage To BBYO Activities An unprecedented amount of newspaper and magazine Regional convention in Atlanta and are constantly growing as a result In addition to wide newspaper coverage has been given to BBYO activities within recent the third was an article pointing of the "coming of age" of children coverage of the election of Larry weeks, a survey of clippings arriving at the SHOFAR office up the financial needs of BBYO's born in the early 1940's. Schwimmer of Los Angeles as indicates. program in the South. The "Inter Mountain Jewish international BBYA president, a The bulk of the published ma- ary 15 which featured a two-page The same newspaper on January News," published in Denver, Colo- variety of other BBYO stories ap- terial has been concerned with 27 carried an editorial entitled picture story on the AZA Five- rado, carried a two-column editorial peared throughout the United "Shall We Fail Our Children?' various regional events, although Fold program in Houston. The four by editor and publisher Arnold States and Canada. there has been wide coverage of pictures which appeared were ac- which was a plea to B'nai B'rith Gamzey lauding the recent Rocky Numerous BBYO regional con- series of articles by BBYO Na- companied by a story explaining lodges and chapters to provide Mountain Regional convention vention stories which appeared in tional Director Max F. Baer deal- AZA's program by staff writer Lila more funds for BBYO's growing which he had attended. various publications have not yet Gordon. program throughout the South. with the history, aims and ob- The January issue of the "Pro- been brought to the attention of sectives of the organization. Many NJM Gives Big Play gram News of the Canadian Jew- On January 22, the Sunday sup- SHOFAR. daily and Anglo-Jewish news- ish Congress," gave prominence to plement of the "Boston Globe" ran "The National Jewish Monthly," papers also gave good coverage to an article on "Jewish Goals for two pages of pictures and an ac- official organ of the B'nai B'rith recent international executive Youth," by Dr. Baer. Where To Find It companying story on the recent Supreme Lodge, published in Wash- committees of AZA and BBG in BBYO University Weekend in ington, D. C., in both its January Others Not Reported Aleph Godol's Message Page 3 Washington. Individual releases on Boston. and February issues, carried arti- A somewhat different approach BBG President's various executive committee members were sent to papers in The Anglo-Jewish newspaper cles authored by BBYO National was used by Philadelphia's leading Message Page 5 "Southern Israelite," published in Director Max. F. Baer dealing with Anglo-Jewish weekly "Jewish Ex- Chapter Chatter Page 5 communities. Atlanta, Georgia, carried three sep- the objectives and programs, of ponent," which had staff writer Looking Back Page 7 Picture Story arate stories on BBYO in its issue BBYO. In addition, NJM's Febru- Joan Friedman write a story on One On The World Stage Page 2 of the biggest newspaper of January 20. One item reported ary issue carried an editorial "The BBG's programs there. The article spreads to appear was the one in Names In The News on the Cotton States Regional con- War Babies Are Coming of Age," Page 5 was so effectively written that Sunday rotogravure section of Sport Scope vention in Memphis, another dealt Page 7 in which its was pointed out that SHOFAR reprinted it in its en- "Houston Chronicle" on Janu- World Datelines with the District 5 Southeastern Page 5 demands for membership in BBYO tirety. (See January, 1956 issue.)