In This Issue: AZA-BBG Conventions, Institutes In Pictures (See Pages 4 and 5) SIXTH RECIPIENT Label Katz Is AZA's Outstanding Alumnus Of 56 Label A. Katz, who just last month was reelected to a the SH FAR second term as National Chairman of the B'nai B'rith Youth Commission, has been named AZA's "Outstanding Alumnus of 1956." Designation of Mr. Katz was made by delegates Official Publication of the B'nai B'rith Youth Organization attending AZA's 33rd annual international convention at the AZA-BBG-BBYA University of Illinois. He will receive the "Sam Beber Dis- tinguished Alumnus Award" at next year's international 33rd YEAR 6 OCTOBER, 1956 Office of Publications, Baltimore, Md. Send address changes to The Shofar, 1129 Vermont Ave., N.W., Washington 5. AZA convention. Mr. Katz, a New Orleans at- torney and realtor, was an AZA member some two decades ago. District Five's Lefcoe, He joins a select circle of six former members of AZA who have been similarly designated. Previous recipients are: Goldstein Head AZA, BBG 951-Philip M. Klutznick, Park Forest, Ill.-world president of B'nai B'rith, and former Commis- Mrs. Perlman AZA Delegates sioner of the Federal Public Lauds Parents' Hear Klutznick, Housing Authority. 1952 - Leo M. Cherne, New New Attitudes Katz Addresses York - chairman of the In- ternational Rescue Committee, Champaign, Ill. Champaign, III. and executive secretary of the Creation of a nine-project With a brilliant cast of Research Institute of America. service fund was one of the former AZA greats on hand 1953-Julius Bisno, Los An- highlights of BBG's 12th an- to participate in the order's geles - executive director of nual international convention 33rd annual international the Los Angeles Jewish Com- and leadership training insti- convention and leadership munity Council, and former exe- tute at the University of Il- training institute at the Uni- cutive secretary of AZA. linois here. versity of Illinois here, 1954 - Samuel D. Gershovitz, The unique innovation in BBG George Lefcoe, 18-year-old New York - executive vice- community service programming Dartmouth College sopho- president of the National Jewish shared the spotlight with con- more from Miami, Fla., was Welfare Board. vention elections which saw Anne elected the 32nd Grand 1955-Dr. Joseph D. Lohman, Goldstein of Silver Spring, Md., Chicago, Ill. - Sheriff of Cook Aleph Godol in AZA history. named international BBG presi- County, Ill., and former chair- Named to serve with Lefcoe dent. were: Dave Cantor of Boston, Anne, a 17-year-old freshman Mass., grand aleph s'gan, and at the University of Maryland, Yale Rosenberg, Houston, Texas, heads a slate of top executives grand aleph mazkir. Leon Gins- which includes: Deborah Getzik, berg, past international GAG 17, Philadelphia, Penna., a high was elected grand aleph kohen school senior, first vice-president; godol by acclamation. Elaine Gilner, 16, Atlanta, Ga., a high school senior, second vice- AZA's new slate of top officers president; and Cindy Towsner, 17, are all veterans of the youth Silver Spring, Md., a high school CONGRATULATIONS. The two new chief executives of BBG and movement. senior, secretary. Sharon Blanck, AZA beam congratulatory smiles at each other at their first meeting Lefcoe is a past District 5 1955-56 international president, at the University of Illinois. Anne Goldstein, of Silver Spring, Md., godol and one-time international will serve as counselor. and George Lefcoe, of Miami, Fla., racked up a clean sweep for membership chairman. Cantor, 20- 150 Attend District 5 at the international parleys. It is the first time in BBYO year-old senior at Boston Uni- history that the BBG and AZA presidents are from the same district. Some 150 teen-age delegates, versity, served last year as AZA International Human Relations representing the more than 16,000 B'nai B'rith Girls throughout the Twin B'nai B'rith Colonies chairman. Rosenberg, 18, a sopho- United States and Canada, heard more at Rice Institute, was 1955- their parents praised for adopting 56 international leadership train- a more liberal atttitude toward In Israel Get Major ing chairman. youth behavior. Mrs. Louis Perl- A highlight of the parley, at- man of Chicago, president of the tended by some 165 boys B'nai B'rith Women's Supreme AZA Convention Attention from all over the United Label A. Katz Council and one-time chairman of States and Canada, and Ivan AZA's Distinguished Alumnus BBG Advisory Board, told dele- Champaign, Ill. Lester, president of the BBYO for 1956 gates that more enlightened par- Council of Great Britain, was the ent-child relationships are elim- Looking to the early fulfillment of its Bellefaire and presentation of the "1955 AZA man of the National Capital inating a major cause for Henry Monsky B'nai B'rith Building pledges, the 1956 Inter- Sam Beber Distinguished Alum- Planning Commission under ex- youthful rebellion against nus Award" to Dr. Joseph D. national AZA Convention here selected the twin B'nai B'rith President Harry S. Truman. society." Lohman of Chicago, Sheriff of colonies in Israel, Ramat Tzvi and Moledeth B'nai B'rith as Cook County, Illinois. Dr. Loh- Given Annually A former vice-chairman of the (See BBG, Page 7) the sole International Community Service projects until the man, a one-time member of AZA The Sam Beber Distinguished in Denver, Colorado, was the fifth 1958 conclave. Alumnus Award, named in honor recipient of the award, which is At the same time, a Service of the man who founded AZA in BBYA Launches given annually to an AZA alum- 1924-Sam Beber, now of Park Fund was set up to handle future nus who has made notable con- Colonies Products Forest, Ill.-is given annually to Member Drive fund-raising activities. tributions in the Jewish or gen- a one-time member of AZA who Of BB Interest With $2100 of the $2500 Belle- eral communities, has made outstanding contribu- A stepped-up drive to recruit Moledeth B'nai B'rith and faire pledge already "in the till," Sheriff Lohman, a national tions to the general or American- graduating alephs and BBG's into the Service Committee under the authority on juvenile delinquency, Ramat Tzvi, the twin Israeli Jewish communities. BBYA's ranks has been an- is a former chairman of the Na- colonies which will be recipi- chairmanship of Steve Schilder, Mr. Katz joined the New Or- nounced by Charlene Lipsitz, In- Brooklyn, N.Y., will focus di- tional Capital Planning Commis- ents of BBYO support this leans B'nai B'rith Lodge No. 182 ternational BBYA Membership year, are both products of rectly upon the completion of (See AZA, Page 8) when he was 21, and very quickly chairman, on behalf of the order's B'nai B'rith interest in the their goal. To insure its success, he was named to a steady suc- executive board. Jewish state, the Convention body directed that cession of important organiza- Efforts will be made during Moledeth, founded in 1938 no national fund-raising project Where To Find It tional posts which culminated in this month to enroll outgoing or with an initial B'nai B'rith be promoted until the Bellefaire 1953 in his election as president recently-graduated members of grant of $100,000, is an attrac- campaign was over. Aleph Godol's Message of the B'nai B'rith District Grand AZA and BBG. To help with its tive and relatively thriving While pressing the Bellefaire Message Page 3 Lodge No. 7. He achieved recog- month-long membership cam- community. All production is project, the National Committee BBG President's nition on a national scale in 1955 paign, SHOFAR is carrying a carried on cooperatively by will prepare to launch its cam- Message Page 7 when the B'nai B'rith Youth Com- membership clip-out form on the 75 families who live there. paign for the new Service Fund. mission elected him its National page 7 of this issue. As presently constituted, the BBYA President's Ramat Tzvi is a small-hold- Chairman. Prior to that he had Charlene points out that com- ers settlement with the only Service Fund will include the Message Page 2 served as his District Grand pletion of the form is in no way cooperative features being Henry Monsky Building and the Chapter Chatter Page 8 Lodge's representative to the an obligation to join. "We sim- buying and selling. The colony, "Twin Colonies." In setting up Names In The News Commission - a post, incident- ply want to have the opportunity less financially able than Mole- the Fund, the National Executive Page 8 ally, he continues to hold. of approaching you with the deth, is in great need of a Board was empowered to divide Program Corner Page 2 A graduate of Tulane Univer- merits of our BBYA programs," school building. funds received in the BBYO Na- What Do You Think Page 2 (See ALUMNUS, Page 2) she says. (See ISRAEL, Page 3)