THE Official B'nai B'rith SHOFAR Youth Organization Newspaper ALEPH ZADIK ALEPH B'NAI B'RITH GIRLS B'NAI B'RITH YOUNG ADULTS 44th YEAR WASHINGTON, D. C. USA MAY-JUNE, 1968 BBYO Preparing for International Conclaves 3 Groups Plan Programs For July, August Events BBYO's 45,000 members are now focusing on the year's key organizational events, the three international conventions at Camp B'nai B'rith, which will outline major policies and recom- mendations and elect new international officers for 1968-69. Del- legates are being chosen in all districts for these major deliber- ations. Still Time to Attend BBYA's 23rd annual conven- The BBYA Convention tion and fourth annual Judaism institute will be held from July The Young Adult's 23rd 12 through 19. AZA and BBG annual international conven- will hold separate conventions tion and fourth annual Juda- simultaneously, from August 19 ism Institute at Camp B'nai through 26. YOUTH B'rith still offers accommoda- Preceding the latter will be tions for participants - but the seven-week BBYO kallah, ORGANIZATION time is growing very short! June 30 through July 31, and SERVICE The program this year prom- the three-week International CANDY ises to be the most exciting in FUND Leadership Training Confer- BBYA history. Those who at- ence, July 31 through August tended in the past regard these 18. Programs for all summer BRn annual events at Camp B'nai events were still in preparation SAMMY DAVIS, JR., currently appearing in Chicago in "Golden Boy" with members of the Chicago Region International Service B'rith as a vital educational at presstime. Fund Committee as he purchases the first box of candy to kick off the 1968 candy sale for ISF. During the last ten years Chi- experience. cago Region AZA and BBG members have contributed over $25,000 to the International Service Fund. With Mr. Davis, from Facing one of the most mo- left, are Linda Gollay, Paul Arnold, Stewart Hersh and Lynn Shamberg. Get your registration form mentous years in its history, the from your regional office, or from BBYO national head- Young Adult group has selected "The Challenge of Freedom" as Petition Drive Shifts To High quarters. Registration for the convention is $55; for the In- its Judaism Institute topic and "No Man Is an Island" as its stitute, $18.50. Combined rate: They came in quantity with Accompanying a filled-in peti- $65. convention theme. Top members Requests for additional peti- of the national BBYO staff and every mail delivery: BBYO peti- tion blanks are arriving every tion from Resnick AZA, Detroit: BBYA leaders-and noted na- tions brimming with names of day, some from as far away as "We used the petition as an people in all walks of life, in Senate Hails tional speakers-will join the Great Britain! For instance, integral part of a Friday night delegates in probing new de- protest against Soviet and Polish Jonathan Lipman, secretary of program at a Camp Ben F. discrimination against the Jew- AZA's Pioneer Chapter in Leeds, Asher project during a recent BBYO Action velopments among today's youth ish people. And still they keep and the new ways which BBYA asked for a batch to circulate weekend. The program featured Congress is taking note of can expand and strengthen its coming! in that English city. From Win- a film 'The Price of Silence', BBYO's significant community influence. More than 100 dele- BBYO's campaign to persuade nipeg, Manitoba, Canada, comes and a plea in behalf of Soviet the Russian government to halt activities. This was dramatically gates are eligible to participate. a request for 50 extra copies. Jewry by Israel's Chief Rabbi." its anti-Jewish policies reaches underlined by a telegram re- From Duluth, Mich., a filled- From Rochester, N. Y., a its climax at the time of the ceived by Mayta Paul, District Separate Conventions in petition with a note: BBYO sent in 125 names of Six BBG President from Sena- upcoming International AZA An innovation at the AZA "If we keep everyone aware high school teachers and stu- and BBG conventions this sum- tor Everett Dirksen of Illinois, of these persecutions maybe it and BBG conventions this year dents, many of them non-Jew- mer where the names will be approving BBG appeals for pro- will help keep another Nazi era will be their separation of busi- ish, and the statement: "I took presented to Soviet and U.S. test against Soviet anti-Jewish ness sessions, schedules and from coming again anywhere in this petition not because I'm authorities. policies. A further indication of the world." programs. AZA is entitled to 112 Jewish, but because it is right!" Continued on page 3 delegates, including one each from Israel and Great Britain, as well as 32 non-delegates. For BBG, 102 delegates and 54 al- POLES, ternates are eligible. DeceNCy DON'T In addition, accommodations ANNIVERSARY LET TRAGEDY 20,000 are provided at the AZA conven- FaiRNess REPEAT tion for international officers JEWISH EMBER and chairmen, oratory con- Scapegoats testants and outgoing district godolim, amounting to 22, in all. The BBG total includes in- Chicago ternational officers and chair- Were men, oratory and storytelling 6million contestants and outgoing district OF presidents : a total of 30. enough Specific details, costs, travel rebates and other data, are available at national BBYO EQUAL WARSAW Shetto headquarters. Dr. Daniel Thursz, director of April/21,1968 BBYO's summer leadership pro- grams, announces that Rabbi AZA-BBG Moshe Feller, a leader of the STOP PolishGvt Lubavitcher movement, the famed Hassidic organization which is engaged in a world- CHICAGO-Under the auspices of the Chicago Region AZA and BBG, youth anti-Semitic propaganda and discrimination began at a wide effort to enrich under- demonstration marched in front of the Polish consulate of this city to call attention are noted in the Soviet Union, which is drawing sharp protest in the U.S. time when similar tendencies Mean- standing of Judaism among Jew- new wave of official prejudice now in evidence by the Warsaw regime. The while, reports from Warsaw indicate that the campaign continues. ish youth, will serve as Visiting Scholar.