B'nai B'rith Youth Organization SHOFAR THE ALEPH ZADIK ALEPH (AZA) B'NAI B'RITH GIRLS (BBG) B'NAI B'RITH YOUNG ADULTS (BBYA) 46th YEAR WASHINGTON, D. C. USA JULY-AUGUST, 1970 BBYO Acquires 750-Acre Site District Parleys For Summer Camp in Midwest WASHINGTON, D.C. - ish youth from countries in Stress 'Action' One of BBYO's fondest Central America, where hopes-the creation of a Jewish resources are seri- summer leadership training ously inadequate, will be WASHINGTON, D.C.-Approximately 3,000 BBYO leaders camp in the midwest-now another aspect of the camp participating in the seven district conventions that precede the second approaches fulfillment, with Mintz, program. AZA and BBG international conventions at Camp B'nai B'rith, the organization's acquisi- Development plans call Starlight, Penna., are "remarkably action-oriented and purpose- tion of a 750-acre estate at for creation of two separate ful," according to a veteran BBYO staff member at organiza- Elkhorn, Wisconsin, about youth villages, one for 16- tional headquarters here. Judging by programs in progress near 40 miles from Milwaukee to-18-year-old boys and girls, press-time, 1970's delegates, he said, are "a very serious and and 90 miles from Chicago. and the other for eight-to- determined group, indeed-mor community-minded, I would This was announced by Jack 15-year-olds. say, than any I can remember." J. Spitzer, international For the older group, there Basing his judgment on contact with BBYO members during chairman of the B'nai B'rith will be sessions in leader- a recent trip, as well as on advance district convention data re- Youth Commission. ship training along with ex- ceived from workers in the field, the national office executive The $1 million dollar tensive Jewish studies. Rec- INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS property, formerly known as reation, camping and arts Delegates from throughout North America-an many from Ruby Acres, was acquired and crafts, will feature the other lands-were preparing, at press-time to travel to Camp from Samuel D. Ruby, prom- program in the camp village B'nai B'rith for the international conventions of our organiza- inent Chicago businessman SAMUEL D. RUBY designed for the younger tions. Details in our next issue. plane and philanthropist, who also group, but it, too, will offer o my contributed a large sum to said "it's impossible not to be deeply impressed by the hunger youth camp will require con- a rich Judaic program, one f the make the purchase possible. struction of cabins and other for personal involvement that now dominates almost every appropriate to pre-teen and The Original impetus for a basic structures. Some farm aspect of BBYO programming." early-teen campers. and I Study and learning sessions, he said, frequently assume a more B'nai B'rith camp in the buildings, however, may be The camp is expected to s be- midwest came from Sam active quality than in the past. Collective visits during conven- adapted to this purpose. open next year under the di- I was Beber, Park Forest, Ill. tion time to local institutions or to civic leaders; clean-up demon- Dr. Max F. Baer, national rection of Samuel B. Skol- strations in cities near convention sites to dramatize the anti- founder of Aleph Zadik director of the B'nai B'rith nick. It will mark a new much pollution campaign, and signature-collecting brigades in behalf of Aleph, who four years ago Youth Organization, said the milestone in BBYO history. uch a made the proposal and the Soviet Jewry, are among the "active" undertaking cited. camp "will draw boys and The camp, when com- treets, Along with "bread-and-butter" convention activities: elec- first large pledge. Mr. and girls from all parts of North pleted, will enable BBYO to Mrs. Louis Perlman High- tions, contests, ceremonies, services, etc., district conventions cause America and from other augment its international land Park, Ill., are substan- this year are airing such issues as student unrest, the war in parts of the world where summer programs presently y and -tial contributors. Among Indo-China, the spreading menace of drug-abuse and Israel's there are BBYO groups. conducted at the 300-acre mina- other active participants are struggle for survival in the 70's. Need for such a camp, he property at Camp B'nai where Philip M. Klutznick and Col. So-called "encounter sessions" devoted to specific social prob- said. felt particularly in B'rith in Starlight, Penna. instra- Jacob M. Arvey, of Chicago, small towns "where Jewish lems are offered in many varieties-and BBG's famous "Free as which annually serves about and Ben-Barkin and Julius a Bird, Shackled as a Prisoner" program, a dramatic device to life is being swallowed up 2,400 Jewish youth. Many ders Atkins of Milwaukee, by the 'open society' and more are turned away each sensitize individuals to the problems of the physically-handicapped, what Since most of the estate's where only meager oppor- year because of limited fa- is being re-enacted in many areas. king facilities are designed pri- tunities exist for Jewish ed- cilities- a problem the new Often it is linked to the Operation Stork program to bring ands marily for adult use, conver- ucation and Jewish social camp will help in some de- information on birth defects and assistance to prospective sion of the property into a contacts." Programs for Jew- mothers in underprivileged areas. The program is sponsored gree to overcome. close- jointly by B'nai B'rith Women and BBG, in conjunction with the March of Dimes. you, into You pre- S of rim e to B'NAI B'RITH tennis ue in- con- who e, but MADE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL TO DWELL IN BOOTHS, WHEN I BROUGHT THEM OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT." EMPIRE apter QUEENS BORO REGION CUS 23:43) your and BBYO was out in force at New York's annual Salute to Israel parade on the occasion of the Jewish state's Independence Day. It was BBYO's biggest turnout for such an occasion, with more than 500 members marching in the parade along Fifth Avenue. Regional banners of Empire and Queensboro of District #1 shown alongside the spectacular B'nai B'rith-BBYO-Hillel float. Other district parade banners repre- sented Brooklyn Region, Nassau-Suffolk and North Jersey Region of District #3. Funds for the float were provided by the six B'nai B'rith councils of metropolitan New York in District #1, which comprise the metropolitan conference of B'nai B'rith.