8 Scholarships Awarded For BBYO Israel Institute Eight recipients of half scholarships to BBYO's Israel Summer Institute were announced this month. The eight- three alephs and five BBG's-will receive $462 towards the the SHO FAR full fee of $895 for the seven-week institute in Israel. Scholarship recipients are: Robert Frankel, 329 Winthrop, Toledo, Ohio. Camp To Have Official Publication of the B'nai B'rith Youth Organization Marden Paru, 319 East 21st AZA-BBG-BBYA Street, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Half Seasons Harvey Rosenstock, 1801 East Lake, Phoenix, Arizona. For Boys 36TH YEAR 6 JUNE, 1959 Office of Publications, Baltimore, Md. Send address changes to The Shofar, 1640 Rhode Island Ave., NW. Washington 6. D. O. Marion Cales, 5723 Davies In response to numerous re- Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. quests, Camp B'nai B'rith last Priscilla Gold, 3111 Aurelia month opened enrollment to a Court, Brooklyn, New York. limited number of boys to par- Cecily Goldberg, 140 Franklin ticipate in a half camping Alumnus Katz Street, Cedar Grave, New Jersey. season. Marcia Goren, 4402 Stillbrook Enrollment will be for either Drive, Houston, Texas. of two three and one-half week Judye Robbins, 3786 Washing- sessions, July 1 through July ton Boulevard, Cleveland, Ohio. 25 or July 25 through August The scholarship recipients and 18. Cost for the half season is New President the other members of the BBYO $250. Israel Institute contingent will leave from New York next month. Half-season enrollment is The group will return at the end being limited to boys only, be- of August. tween the ages of 12 and 16. In addition, several vacan- cies for the full summer sea- AZA In Augusta Of B'nai B' rith son, July 1 August 18, for Marks 25th Year boys, still remain. Cost for the August, Ga. full summer is $497. The 25th anniversary of the Additional details and appli- New Prexy Is establishment of AZA will be cations are available from the celebrated here this month with Camp's director, Mordecai Youngest Ever a weekend of activities. Kesler, at the New York office: Congratulatory telegrams from Camp B'nai B'rith, Rooms 508- To Hold Post all over District 5 and other areas 509, 299 Madison Ave., New of the nation have already begun York, N. Y. When the Supreme Lodge arriving. of B'nai B'rith met in tri- ennial convention last month ORATORY WINNER in Jerusalem, it elected an AZA alumnus to succeed an Miami Aleph Interviews His AZA alumnus as the presi- dent of the oldest and largest Jewish service organization Idol - Harry S. Truman in the world. After Philip M. Klutznick, the second Grand Miami Beach. Fla. Aleph Godol of AZA, reaf- Sixteen-year-old Neal Sonnett, aleph godol of Royal firmed to the convention that Palm AZA, had a rare privilege last month - the oppor- he would not be a candidate tunity to talk to his "favorite character in history." to succeed himself as presi- dent of B'nai B'rith, a ma- It happens that Neal's "favor- ite character" has a niche in con- sat in on the conversation. "That jority of the delegates voted for Label A. Katz, chairman temporary history-former presi- boy has a fine voice and he asked of the B'nai B'rith Youth intelligent questions." dent Harry S. Truman. Commission and a one-time The chance to talk with the ex- Among Neal's questions was a member of AZA in New request for advice about going in- president was provided by the Orleans. to politics. Mr. Truman's answer: "Miami Herald" newspaper. The youngest person ever to be "That's the best profession there It all came about because Neal is son, but don't expect to get LABEL A. KATZ elected to the top office of B'nai B'rith (he will be 41 on Septem- had picked Mr. Truman as the rich, If you want to be a ber 22), Katz has enjoyed a subject for a speech in a contest politician, you can't let criticism AT CAMP B'NAI B'RITH meteoric rise to national stature he won sponsored by the Knights bother you." in the American Jewish com- Mr. Truman also told Neal that of Pythias. "The Herald" ar- munity. He is a veteran of the toughest decision he had to District Delegations Are Set twenty-five years of service in ranged for Neal to interview the make during his term as presi- B'nai B'rith, a rising star in ex-president via long-distance dent was to intervene in Korea. other national Jewish causes, and telephone. Mr. Truman parried On the use of the atom bomb: For International Parleys a man of prominence in his own Neal's questions at the other end "Neal, the atom bomb was just community. He is admirably of a telephone wire in Washing- another weapon of war. We had to equipped for leadership in Jewish ton. do something to prevent more lives from being lost and we did." BBG's To Study Mr. Truman received Neal's as- Alephs Will View life, having had an unusually firm foundation in Judaic studies. surance that he would send him a On America's educational sys- Current Issues Jewish World He also is a keen student of copy and a tape-recording of his tem: American life, particularly of the prize-winning speech. A total of 129 accredited "AZA Looks At the Jewish social ferment now taking place "American education needs im- When the interview ended, proving, Neal. But remember, it's delegates will do some ad- Community" will be the in the deep South, where he was vance preparation for adult- reared. Mr. Truman commented to a still the best educational system theme of the 36th annual in- "Miami Herald" reporter who had in the world." hood at BBG's 15th annual ternational convention of Like Philip Klutznick and some international convention at Aleph Zadik Aleph at Camp other B'nai B'rith leaders of to- Camp B'nai B'rith, Starlight, B'nai B'rith, August 19-25. day, Label Katz began his B'nai B'rith career in AZA. He joined Pa., August 19-25. A total of 129 accredited, vot- Abe A. Fried, Chapter 118 of New Delegates to the five-day par- ing delegates will be on hand for Orleans, in the Fall of 1934, serv- ley, which will run concurrently the fast-paced five-day parley ing as Aleph Mazkir. Like Klutz- with AZA's 36th annual conven- which will be divided into a lead- nick, he specialized in debating, tion at the same site, will devote ership training ortion and an- representing his chapter in de- their time to a program revolving other for discussion of new bate contests for several years. around the theme, "We, Teen- issues. He participated in the national Age Citizens Now." The conven- The leadership portion of the debate finals in 1938. Mnay years tion will be patterned on the convention will utilize a unique later, when he was chosen as forthcoming 1960 White Confer- twist - the setting up of a model president of B'nai B'rith District ence on Children and Youth and Jewish community with alephs Grand Lodge No. 7, he spoke will cover roughly the same areas serving as "citizens" of that warmly of his past experiences to be discussed at that Washing- community, coming to grips with in AZA: ton meeting. and attempting to resolve a va- Included on the convention pro- riety of "typical" issues facing Inspired By AZA gram will be workshops on in- Jewish communities. The issues "As a result of my many ex- terfaith activities, neighborhood will range from support of Israel periences in AZA, I have been improvement, interpreting the to establishing new synagogues. inspired to perpetuate the ideals work and role of the United Na- In addition, there will be ses- and objectives enunciated in its tions and a study of methods of sions on training for leadership program and I feel better quali- prevention of juvenile delin- in music and dance. fied to accept any role of leader- quency. Internal Issues ship which I may be called upon to assume. A LIFE MEMBER of Hull AZA. GAG Steve Blank is presented with Jewish Values Questions of structure and re- "As a member of AZA, I gained his life membership from Hull godol Geoffrey Lennard (right). S'gan In all their discussions, dele- view of the AZA International first-hand information about its Stuart Rosenthal (second from left) and past aleph godol Stuart gates will be mindful of the val- Service Fund will be among the cultural, religious and social serv- Fredenthal look on. The presentation was made last month during ues and ideals of the Jewish her- major internal issues to be aired. ice activities. The program incul- Blank's tour of BBYO in Great Britain, (See BBG PARLEY, page 5) (See AZA, page 3) (Continued on Page 8)