Move to BB Building BBYO Comes Home After 34 Years BBYO came home last month BBYO's move, late last month, Supreme Lodge headquarters at after 34 years. was its 11th and final one. 1003 "K" St. But as BBYO grew, Home was a gleaming white Back in 1924, when AZA was with the adoption of BBG and brick building, at the corner of organized, the order's first B'nai B'rith Young Adults as part 17th and Rhode Island Avenue, office was set up in the cloak- of its program, the need for addi- just above the heart of down- room of Sam Beber's law office tional room was felt. So BBYO town Washington. in the Peters Trust Building in headquarters moved out on its BBYO will occupy two-thirds Omaha, Nebraska. AZA business own, seeking larger quarters with of the fourth floor of the new continued to be carried out in each move. B'nai B'rith Headquarters Build- Omaha until 1938-at five differ- In its present quarters-which ing. Its immediate neighbors are ent offices throughout the city. are being furnished with some of the members of the Washington In 1938, the headquarters office the most beautiful contemporary staff of the Anti-Defamation was moved to Washington, D.C. furniture on the market-BBYO League office. Initially it was housed with the (see BUILDING, page 8) the SH FAR Official Publication of the B'nai B'rith Youth Organization BBYO'S NEW HOME. Here's a view of the newest edifice to AZA-BBG-BBYA brighten Washington's skyline - the white brick B'nai B'rith head- quarters building at 1640 Rhode Island Ave., N. W. BBYO's offices Office of Publications, Baltimore, Md. Send address changes are on the fourth floor. 34th YEAR 6 OCTOBER, 1957 to The Shofar, 1640 Rhode Island Ave., NW, Washington 6, D.C. Klutznick Lauds Israel-Touring Gilner, Rosenberg Elected; BBYO'ers In Memo A recent traveler to the Middle East ran across the path of BBYO's touring Israel Summer Institute participants and obvi- AZA, BBG Map New Programs ously liked what he saw. The traveler, B'nai B'rith president Philip M. Klutznick, touring Israel, chanced upon the BBG Votes To Alephs To Study 16 BBYO'ers taking part in the 1957 Institute while both hap- Continue Its Federal Aid pened to be at Moledeth, the B'nai B'rith-founded agricultural Service Fund For Education settlement. In a recent memorandum to the Champaign, Ill. Champaign, Ill. B'nai B'rith Board of Governors Elaine Gilner of Atlanta, A dynamic and sweeping of B'nai B'rith, here is how Mr. Ga., was elected 13th inter- program encompassing some Klutznick described his meeting: "The next morning we motored national president of B'nai of the key issues of the day (see TOUR, page 8) B'rith Girls at the organiza- was hammered out for AZA tion's Bas Mitzvah conven- in the coming year by dele- Wisconsin Region tion at the University of Illi- gates attending the 34th In- nois here in August. ternational gathering at the Registers First Elaine, a 17-year-old fresh- University of Illinois here in Milwaukee, Wisc. man at Sophie Newcomb College August. Wisconsin Region has be- in New Orleans, and last year's Elected to steer the course that come the first in the order to international BBG 2nd vice presi- will take AZA into such fields as register with the national dent, is the fourth BBG from office in Washington. District 5 to hold the organiza- federal aid for public education, racial integration and fuller par- In fact, the regional office tion's top post. Elected with Elaine were: San- ticipation in Jewish communal here had registrations in be- fore August 1. dra Towsner, 16, Silver Spring, affairs, was Yale Rosenberg, an 18-year-old junior and Hillel With the final figures still Md., a high school senior and expected to grow, Wisconsin past president of District 5 BBG, Foundation president at Rice In- Region now reports 798 mem- 1st vice president, and Barbara stitute in his native Houston, Texas. bers registered in 28 chapters. Saliman, 18, Denver, Colo., a freshman at the University of Yale, last year's Grand Aleph The region's final 1956-57 to- tal, recorded on August 31, Colorado and last year's BBG Mazkir, is the second District 7 1957 was 928 members in 30 International Community Serv- aleph to assume AZA's highest chapters. It is anticipated that ice chairman, 2nd vice president. office. A member of Cyrus Adler Retiring BBG international AZA, Yale has been in AZA for this year's figures will exceed president Anne Goldstein, of Sil- four and one half years. those of last year. Steve Blank of Pittsburgh, the (see BBG, page 7) 1957 international convention co- ordinator, and former AZA inter- national athletic (1955-56) and New Year Greetings A BBYO MEDLEY. Everything was harmonious as Elaine Gilner, structure (1956-57) chairman, was Yale Rosenberg and Mort Plotnick got together for this BBYO elected Grand Aleph S'gan. Steve, I welcome this opportunity to extend warmest greetings to informal presidential portrait. The scene is the AZA convention a freshman at Dartmouth College, all of you. I fervently pray that the New Year will usher in an where Elaine and Mort were visitors. is a member of South Hills AZA, era of stability and peace to a troubled world. and has been in AZA four years. The B'nai B'rith Youth Organization has an unparalleled Klutznick Named To He is 17 years old. opportunity to service our Jewish youth. Our membership is at Sherwin Goldman of Fort an all time high, exceeding 35,000 members, and with an ever- Worth, Texas, a freshman at Yale increasing demand for affiliation. University, was elected Grand You, the Jewish-teen-agers of today have a remarkable U.S. Delegation In U.N. Aleph Mazkir. Sherwin, a member opportunity. By your participation in the BBYO program you of Rubin Gilbert AZA, has been learn to implement the ethical, social, religious, moral, and an aleph two years. He is 17 spiritual values enunciated in our Torah. (Picture, Page 8) years old. The new GAM served By thoroughly familiarizing yourselves with your Judaic A familiar face was among the American delegation to as chapter godol, regional com- heritage and history you are encouraged to develop an affirma- the United Nations when the General Assembly convened tive and positive commitment to and identification with your (see AZA, page 3 Judaism. in New York last month. By your training and experiences in our youth program, you B'nai B'rith president and B'rith plays today in American life and a great personal honor are preparing yourselves to assume a leadership role in the Where To Find It AZA alumnus Philip M. Klutz- for one of the most astute and Jewish community of tomorrow. nick is one of 10 members of the brilliant leaders of the American- Aleph Godol's Because of this knowledge, information, and experience Message you can play a significant part in fashioning and forging a rich U.S. delegation to the world or- Jewish community. Page 3 and meaningful Jewish way of life on the American scene. ganization. Mr. Klutznick's nomi- BBG President's Serving in an official Federal Message Page 7 Having observed our youth in action, I feel that all of us nation by President Eisenhower government capacity will not be can look forward with renewed confidence and faith to a bright, was unanimously confirmed by a new experience for Mr. Klutz- BBYA President's the United States Senate as one nick. He served with distinction Message Page 2 future for American Jewry. of its last items of business be- the Roosevelt and Truman admin- Chapter Chatter Page 8 Label A. Katz, Chairman fore adjourning in August. istrations during the war years Shofar Feature Section Page 6 National B'nai B'rith Youth Commission His appointment is further rec- as Commissioner of the Federal World Datelines Page 3 ognition of the importance B'nai (see KLUTZNICK, page 8)