Official B'nai B'rith Youth SH the Organization Newspaper ALEPH ZADIK ALEPH (AZA) B'NAI B'RITH GIRLS (BBG) B'NAI B'RITH YOUNG ADULTS (BBYA) 43rd YEAR WASHINGTON, C. USA NOVEMBER, 1967 Have You Re-Registered? BBYO RAISED $52,140 IN '66-'67 Contributions totalling $52,140 were raised by BBYO for the international service funds during the 12 months ending September 30. During the same period, members were engaged, in the all-out financial emergency effort to tide Israel over the Six Day War-induced crisis. Along with contributions given directly to our own Israel Emergency Fund, members gave generously to local Jewish Welfare Funds conducting the world-wide effort. For the second consecutive year, it was AZA's District Seven that recorded highest per capita contributions for ISF, an average of $1.64 per member, as compared with last year's $1.57. BBG's top-ranking per capita area was District Henry Denker, Playwright, Three, with $1.23 per member. In all, BBG raised $29,051, 1967 Beber Award Recipient AZA $19,561 and BBYA $3,528. Henry Denker, one of the country's outstanding play- Just below AZA's leader per wrights, whose comedy, "What Did We Do Wrong?' is cur- capita District Seven was Dis- rently featured on Broadway, is the 1967 recipient of the trict Two, with $1.61. Other Sam Beber AZA Distinguished Alumnus Award. AZA results were District Registration table for new as well as old members was an indis- Five, $1.35; District Three, The award will be presented at a ceremony to be held at pensable part of this get-together of the Detroit AZA-BBG Council. $1.32; District One-22, $1.09; the AZA-BBG International Occasion was a kickoff dance planned and carried forward by co- District Four $0.80 and Dis- conventions at Camp B'nai ordinators Steven Sussman of Sporn AZA No. 939 and Renee For several years he wrote trict Six, $0.48. B'rith in the summer of 1968. Bernath of Freeman BBG. It drew some 1,000 people. Admission "Radio Readers Digest", the BBG's second-ranking per was by membership card. Mr. Denker, author of four Ethel Barrymore Show, Du- capita area was District Four, novels and five plays presented Pont Cavalcade and many with $1.19. Others were Dis- on Broadway, and a TV writer other popular programs. He trict One-22, with $1.10; Dis- New Officers, On Tour, and producer of note, is a na- was the writer, director and trict Two, $1.06; District tive of the Bronx, N. Y., where producer for a decade, of "The Seven $1.03; District Five he was a member and an of- Greatest Story Ever Told", Meet With Local Leaders $0.91 and District Six, $0.71. ficer of Rehovoth Chapter No. the program that has won the District Five, $0.91; District 89. In 1931, he was a finalist most awards of any program Six, $0.71. Brooklyn, Baltimore, Pitts- an address on Jewish values in the AZA international de- in the history of broadcasting, burgh and Lincoln, Neb. were in BBYO. He also led both a bate competition held in St. Film credits include "Time among cities visited by AZA stimulating seminar and a ses- Louis, Mo. Scholarship Funds Grand Aleph Godol Ed Zelin- Limit", the provocative Kirk sion of folk dancing. Ed is Douglas-starring drama titled Total countribution break- sky and BBG N'siah Randy slated to participate in the 3 Famous Finalists "The Hook", and "Twilight of downs for BBG included $591 Glassman in pursuing their Kansas City Council Conven- announced policy of striving Recalling that memorable Honor", starring Claude Rains for Anita Perlman Scholar- tion, at which he will speak, occasion, Mr. Denker said he and Richard Chamberlain. In ships, $2,078 for the Anita to bring international leader- lead workshops and confer ship in closer contact with with BB leaders. went to St. Louis with three addition he authored the Cha- Perlman Leadership fund; other finalists. They were Leo nukah Festival at New York's $225 for the Martyrs' Forest communities and chapters. Both Ed and Randy met Both of BBYO leaders later local leadership during a trip M. Cherne, the distinguished Madison Square Garden in be- and $26,156 for service funds. addressed the Baltimore AZA to Pittsburgh. Both, also, will sculptor and economist, who half of the Israel Bond Cam- Corresponding figures for be in Washington in Novem- was Sam Beber Award recip- paign. and BBG councils at the be- AZA: $695 for the Richard ginning of their travels, Ed in- ber along with BBYA Presi- ient in 1952; Sam Weiler, the Mr. Denker is the 17th win- Klutznick Memorial Scholar- stalled the new AZA council dent Harvey Berk, for the discoverer and manager of the ner of a Sam Beber Award, ship Fund; $170 for the Mar- B'nai B'rith Youth Commis- late Italian tenor-actor Mario officers and Randy spoke mov- which is presented annually tyrs' Forest and $18,741 for ingly about BBG's 40th anni- sion meeting at National Lanza, and Milton Abelson, a in honor of the founder of service funds. Headquarters. Washington economist. versary. Aleph Zadik Aleph. Contributions from non- In Brooklyn, both leaders Although he practiced the Philip M. Klutznick, former chapter sources to BBG in- attended a regional dance and In This Issue legal profession for some time, U. S. Ambassador to the Eco- cluded $700 from Mr. and Mrs. informally discussed BBYO his literary gifts, exercised as problems and prospects with 2 nomic and Social Council of Louis Perlman, $100 from Soviet Students in Israel a hobby at first, eventually 2 the United Nations and Daniel Lane, $100 from Mr. a number of local officers. Here, There, Everywhere became his major field of in- Chapters in Review 3 Honorary President of B'nai and Mrs. Ray A. Kroc, $65 Ed attended the Cornbelt BBYO Opinion Page 4 terest. After serving with the B'rith, was the first winner of from Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Region's Judaism Institute BBG Activities 5 Office of War Information dur- the award, in 1951. Schneider, and anonymous held at the Nebraska Center ILTC in Action 6 ing World War II, Mr. Denker contributions of $29.75 - for for Continuing Education at Programs of the Year 7 took on many assignments for a total of $994.75. Lincoln, where he delivered Operation Israel 8 radio. BBYA Receipts Rise BBYO Lists 45,345 Members: For BBYA, which slightly exceeded last year's receipts, BBG'S 40th Year Adds 792 the Laurentian Region ranked first, with contributions total- A total of 45,345 members AZA listed 17,358 members for District One-22, a total of ling $1,217. Southern Ontario in 1,624 chapters was recorded in 673 chapters, and BBYA 1,786 for District Two, 2,704 was second, with $784, and by BBYO for the 12-month 1,867 members in 71 chapters. for District Three, 2,600 for South California third, with period ending August 31. BBG membership by dis- District Four, 1,958 for Dis- $704. B'nai B'rith Girls, capping tricts reveals for District One- trict Five, 3,460 for District a year-long celebration of its 22 a total of 7,465; for Dis- Contributions allocated by Six, and 937 for District trict Two: 2,483; for District Seven. AZA, BBG and BBYA inter- 40th anniversary, fittingly Three: 3,607; for District BBYA: for District One-22 national boards through Inter- registered a total of 26,120, a Four: 3,752; for District Five: a total of 544, for District national Service Funds cover gain of 792 members, in its 2,837; for District Six: 4,672, Three, 318; for District Four, a vast range of charities, 880 chapters, over last year's and for District Seven: 1,304. 491; for District Five, 93; for health funds and leadership total of 25,328. AZA membership lists 3,913 District Six, 421. HENRY DENKER programs.