BBYO's Annual Career Day Slated For Chicago May 15 Chicago The fourth annual "Careers in BBYO Day" will be held here Sunday, May 15 - BBYO's Washington headquarters office has announced. the SHOFAR The annual one-day event is designed to interest qualified for just such a purpose will also members of BBYO in careers in be explained. Additional and specific details Publication of the B'nai B'rith Youth Organization social group work. The idea for about the conference will be avail- AZA-BBG-BBYA "Career Day" was born several able from BBYO regional offices. years ago when surveys showed The May issue of SHOFAR will that schools of social work were also carry a more detailed story. 36TH YEAR 6 APRIL, 1960 Office of Publications, Baltimore, Md. Send address changes to The Shofar, 1640 Rhode Island Ave., NW, Washington 6, D. not attracting enough qualified students to keep pace with the demands. BBYO Gets Representation The BBYO Career Conference srael will be open to BBYO members in From 4 B'nai B'rith Bodies Distriet 6 and sections of Dis- hey trict who are certified by their Four major B'nai B'rith agencies have now responded Airport to BBYO requests for representation on B'nai B'rith adult regional directors as having a bodies. potential for success in a group work career. Those accepted will The national B'nai B'rith bodies have granted observer 7S receive travel rebates. It is ex- status to BBYO representatives in response to youth- ments pected participants coming housing arrange- dis- also that adopted convention resolutions asking for such recognition. will be handled for those The national B'nai B'rith Youth from tances requiring that they remain Leeds Convention Commission had thrown its influ- overnight in Chicago. her high Names John Land ence behind the youth requests TSCHUL Career Briefing with an endorsement of the idea The conference participants BBYO President at its annual meeting in New tatives RENEE will be briefed on types of jobs (Picture, Page 7) York late last year. available in social group work, which educational salary Hull, England First to grant observer status expectations have group requirements, and other They facets ask John Land of Leeds was to BBYO representatives was the of work careers. will elected national president of Supreme Lodge of B'nai B'rith. BBG an opportunity also to Great Britain BBYO at the President Label Katz has an- DANNE questions of the participating ex- RL ANN of perts who will include members 4th annual national conven- nounced that an observer from r-in-chief, BBYO's professional staff and tion here. BBYO will be invited to future faculty members from schools of It was the best-attended par- meetings of the B'nai B'rith social work. Board of Governors. ley in the history of BBYO in AZA, has Emphasis encouraging young at the conference Now the Anti-Defamation Lea- this country with delegates from on the The Hull, Leeds, Bournemouth, Lon- gue has agreed to have a repre- to come to work for don and other areas participating sentative of each of the three A special scholarship plan Some 250 persons were on hand youth associations participate as BG, placed SHOFAR Asked for the convention-closing ban- observers at the annual meetings ation. quet. of the ADL Commission and the graduating To Find Special National Community Service Other officers elected were: Committee. In addition, the Com- Kinds Of Pen Pals Nissen Kessleman, Bourne- mission on Citizenchip and Civic mouth, vice-president; Lyndia of Jennie Requests for special types of Affairs has invited a represen- Dobkin, Leeds, secretary; Geof- tative of BBG to sit at its annual Vineland pen pals received frey Lennard, Hull, treasurer: meeting. ood, Fla.; further SHOFAR have been by Edwin Schiller, Leeds, social in recent weeks. For Finally, the chairman of the ng, Md. service chairman; Angela Mar- action we herewith pass Vocational Service Commission them cus, Hull, reporter and cultural chairman. has endorsed the idea of having Levittown, Barbie along: Slass, president representatives of BBYO partici- of Convention delegates agreed pate in deliberations of local B'nai een named Pennsylvania's Levit- that social service (community B'rith Vocational Service boards BBG, writing on behalf of service) would get the major pro- or committees. group, asks for an AZA ONCE UPON A TIME, when little boys like Garry Edelman of gram focus of the coming year. 24-member chapter correspond group ages The convention bodies of both to with her Brooklyn were afflicted with arthritis they were doomed to a life Individual chapters are being en- AZA and BBG last summer had whose of pain and suffering. Not so today, thanks to the Leo N. Levi couraged to adopt various local RUBIN 14 to 18. Her address is both adopted resolutions asking Lilac Lane, Levittown, Pa. Hospital at Hot Springs, Ark. which specializes in the care of service projects. that they be given a voice on the and research in arthritic diseases. The Hospital, one of the BBG The weekend convention meet- ively. Anita Friedman of 839 Linden adult bodies which legislate de- Service Fund beneficiaries, had a recent Board of Directors meet- ing included a full program of cisions affecting them. The re- Brooklyn, N.Y. asks SHO- ing to which Donna Schneiderman of Milwaukee, BBG Service Fund religious activities with alephs quest was beamed not only to help her find an Israeli her chairman, was invited. During her visit, Donna stopped long enough conducting Sabbath services and B'nai B'rith but to Jewish com- be PEN PALS, page 8) at Garry's bedside to read him a story. youth members leading their own munity councils, synagogue third place discussion and seminar groups. By Rabbi Sandmel boards and similar bodies. AT MID-YEAR BBYO Publishes Third In Pamphlet Series, "Judaism And Christianity" AZA, BBG Service Funds the "Judaism and Christianity" by Rabbi Samuel Sandmel, Lagging Behind Goals third in the popular BBYO Judaism Pamphlet Series, fessor of Bible and Hellenistic The BBG and AZA International Service Funds showed be released this month, BBYO's Washington headquar- Literature. signs of lagging behind their goals, a BBYO headquarters ters office has announced. Last year he was a guest lec- Dr. Sandmel's pamphlet re- turer at the BBYO International office survey this week showed. as a basis for reaffirmation of the values of their own heritage. Leadership Training Institute at With totals for the first six- around one major point In his pamphlet, Dr. Sandmel Camp B'nai B'rith where he in- months of the 1959-60 program chairman, issued urgent appeals ~"cousins need not live in the troduced some of the material surveys the history, basic beliefs year recorded, contributions were for stepped-up Service Fund ac- house." and practices of the various contained in his pamphlet. less than half the goals. tivities in the remaining months "Indeed, it is better for each A writer of considerable sta- of this program year. Christian denominations, com- paring them to Jewish views on ture, he is the author of several Contributions receipted by have his own home," he says. highly-regarded and definitive BBYO's Washington office How Districts Faring such issues as "Attitude toward homes can be in same neighborhood; it makes visiting Monotheism," "Authority in Re- works, including "A Jewish Un- through the end of February The totals below show contribu- tions recorded by BBYO's Wash- ligious Life," "The Nature of derstanding of the New Testa- showed a total for BBG of ington office from the period be. People whether cousins or Man," "Sin and Atonement," ment," "Philo's Place in Judaism," $7107.39. AZA for the same period other when "Charity" and Community Re- "The Genius of Paul," and is cur- (See FUNDS, page 3) visit learned something each they rently preparing for publication had contributed nationally a total in common and sponsibility.' by the Alfred A. Knopf publish- of $3181.53. to get, along with Discussion Material other." ing company "The Hebrew Scrip- One indication of the slow pace Where To Find It The attractively illustrated, tures." at which contributions were com- Dr. Samuel Aleph Godol's there important emphasizes two-color pamphlet includes a Dr. Sandmel serves presently ing in was the per capita rate. Similarity - as well as differ- are areas Message section of questions and program as vice-president of the Society Only in District 2 AZA, where the Page 3 ideas designed to stimulate dis- of Biblical Literature and per capita contribution stood at BBG President's Christianityetween and that a strong Judaism and cussion based on the material in Exegesis. $.59 and in District 3 BBG where, Message Page 5 the booklet. "Judaism and Christianity" will the per capita contribution was BBYA President's exists for goodwill between One of the nation's foremost sell for $.35 per copy, as do its $.57, were BBYO'ers within Message Page 2 Jewish authorities in New Testa- two popular forerunners in the range of the $1.00 per member Chapter Chatter Page 7 and Christianity" is ment and its relation to Judaism, BBYO Judaism Pamphlet Series, goal. BBG Names In The News. Page 3 to the concept that it Dr. Sandmel is Provost of the "What Is A Jew ?" by Dr. Ira AZA Service Fund Chairman the for Jews to understand Hebrew Union College - Jewish Eisenstein and "Judaism and Alan Akman of Silver Spring, Shofar Feature Section Page 4 other than their own Institute of Religion at Cincin- Ethics," by Rabbi Norman Md., and Donna Schneiderman of Sport-Scope Page 7 nal (right). an aid to brotherhood and nati, where he also serves as Pro- Frimer. Milwaukee, BBG Service Fund