ed THE Official B'nai B'rith Robert Int Re- Ohio SHOFAR Youth Organization Newspaper ALEPH ZADIK ALEPH B'NAI B'RITH GIRLS B'NAI B'RITH YOUNG ADULTS named area, n Bar- 44th YEAR WASHINGTON, D. USA APRIL, 1968 of the ission. d, Mr. Univer- degree BBYO Issues New Petitions for Soviet Jewry ty and m the had an 1 work profes- We Cannot Be Silent Chapters Launch Massive Effort AZA of a Current Soviet policies are subjecting Russian Jewry to Urging End of Repressive Policies Council tragic cultural and spiritual deprivation. recip- The Russian Jews, whose contributions to Jewish thought A great new BBYO protest in behalf of Soviet Russia's 3,000,000 Jews is now under way. It David. and literature are among the crowning achievements of our will culminate in mass action to be held in connection with the annual BBYO international history, may soon no longer exist as a distinctive and crea- conventions at Camp B'nai B'rith during the summer months. tive minority. A petition calling on Soviet authorities to reverse their recently-intensified anti-Jewish policies is True, they are not confronted with the threat of physical now circulating throughout the chapters. The petition appears on Page two. Additional copies may annihilation that was fostered by the Nazis. But they face be obtained from your nearest what may well be equally disastrous in the long run: the BBYO office. They will be pre- photog- destruction of their culture, their religious customs, their Noted Scholars, 2 Israelis sented to Soviet authorities in folkways, their opportunities for creative expression; in this country when the drive to en- contest short, all the things that define their existence as Jews- ends. n with and that make their lives meaningful. Join Summer Camp Staff Recent reports indicate mount- or Hu- In the face of this disaster, we dare not remain silent! ing hostility toward Judaism 68 has To be silent is to share collective guilt. As a Jew of Kiev BBYO's International Leadership Kallah at Camp B'nai B'rith and Israel in the Soviet Union, NESCO said to Elie Wiesel, author of "The Jews of Silence": "Don't this summer will feature scholars and specialists who have as well as in Poland, in line of the our cries reach you? Or do they reach you and not move you? notably served this program in the past and, for the first time, with stepped-up Communist entries If that is so, we are truly lost, for you live in a world wholly a couple of staff visitors from Israel. This was announced by courtship of the Arab states fol- be dis- foul, and all is lost." Dr. Daniel Thursz, director of BBYO's Summer Leadership Pro- lowing the June War. Many The unified effort of the world's largest Jewish youth rmany, grams, who, in conjunction chapters were actively engaged 6. organization counts for something! It may help to begin with Steve Doochin and Bernice in protest prior to the new na- to answer the sorrowful plea of that Jew of Kiev. It will Tabak, is planning this sum- IN MEMORIAM tional effort, and reports have prove that we are not "The Jews of Silence." not be mer's events at the camp. appeared in previous issues of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. The SHOFAR. Edward A. Zelinsky Randy S. Glassman Rabbi Ira Eisenstein, distin- ge and AZA Grand Aleph Godol BBG N'Siah (President) 1929-1968 A run-down of some of the guished scholar, writer and edi- entrant Harvey Berk latest activity (other items will tor who has taken part in the back of (See Editorial-Page 4) BBYA President appear next month): block (Continued on page 3) BBYO's Northern Region, Dis- trict Five, was the key factor in uld not organizing an historic youth than 71/8 X BBW Convention Highlights BBYO's Community Service demonstration which was slated for Washington, D. C. near the Washington Monument, with hite or WASHINGTON, D.C. the wife of the President, Mrs. B'nai B'rith Women Children's Chairman of the B'nai B'rith can be BBYO's significant role in fur- Lady Bird Johnson. Home in Israel. Youth Commission and advisor the cooperation of the Jewish thering programs to aid the un- to BBG: Mrs. Milton T. Smith, Community Council of the city During four days of delibera- Randy reported to Mrs. John- is lim- derprivileged received national tions, delegates heard Vice- BBW Second Vice-President. and its environs. BBYO chap- son on community work with attention here during the Tri- currently District Seven repre- ters, synagogues, schools and ant. President Hubert H. Humphrey, which the eight young people sentative on the Youth Commis- Jewish organizations of the area. all im- ennial convention of B'nai B'rith Israel's Ambassador Yitzhak are associated, including such chil- sion; Mrs. Louis Kash, BBW's Women. The delegates from Rabin, outgoing BBW President projects as Adopt-A-Grandpar- Washington Rally reation, throughout the United States Mrs. Arthur G. Rosenbluth, BB new Third Vice-President, who ent, Operation Bookstrap, ISF cial re- and several other countries President Dr. William Wexler, has been serving as BBYO Jewish youth groups of all clean-up programs, tutoring of BB Executive Vice-President Chairman for BBW, and as a three branches of Judaism joined etc. elected a new three-year slate underprivileged children, visits of officers headed by Mrs. Mi- Rabbi Jay Kaufman, and many Youth Commission Vice-Chair- BBYO in the protest, which pre- to hospitals, and many others. other BB, BBW, government and man, and Mrs. D. J. Wasser- sented Rev. Walter E. Fauntroy, to chael Shapiro of this city. (See photo below.) vice-chairman of the Washing- Council, community service leaders. strom, the new BBW Treasurer, A high point of the gathering The BBG N'siah also took Among new officers are sev- a former member of BBG and of ton City Council and prominent York, was a Salute to Youth luncheon part in a dramatic presentation eral closely associated with the the B'nai B'rith Young Women. Negro civil rights leader; Rabbi at which BBG N'siah (Interna- of poetry, music and dance in BBYO. Another former Vice Chairman Richard G. Hirsch, director of tional President) Randy Glass- celebration of Israel's 20th an- They include the newly-elect- of the Youth Commission, Mrs. the Religious Action Center of man, presented six BBYO and niversary of independence and ed First Vice-President, Mrs. Louis Perlman, was convention the Union of American Hebrew two Hillel Foundation guests to of the 25th anniversary of the Nathan Holstein, former Vice- chairman. Congregation, and other speak- ers. A device to publicize the pro- test is protest seals produced by the Cleveland Council of Soviet Anti-Semitism, now in use by several regions. They are (Continued on page 2) Cost of A Tree In Israel: $2.50 Please take note: the price for a new tree in the B'nai B'rith Martyrs' Forest in Israel is now $2.50. The increase announced by the Jewish National Fund for all tree-planting projects is the first in a decade and was un- avoidable due to rising costs. The BBYO national office earnestly asks that you send in put on At from the the Richard BBW Triennial Convention, BBG N'siah (International President) Randy Glassman presents youth leaders to Mrs. Johnson. From left: Jeffrey Levin, American U Hillel; the correct amount with your St. Godol Anderman, Silver Spring, Md. (Montgomery AZA Aleph Godol); Barbara Levin, Baltimore (Rose H. Klein, BBG President); Richard Michlovitz, Harrisburg, Pa. (Aleph AZA); Mrs. Johnson, Carol Plotka, Hillel U of Maryland; Sheri Seidman, Baltimore (President Baltimore Council BBG); Randy Glassman, Steven White, Mattapan, tree-planting requests. plant. (member Louis Needel AZA), and Andi Farbman, Silver Spring (Community e Chairman Gan Eden BBG).