ts THE B'nai B'rith Youth Organization SHOFAR ALEPH ZADIK ALEPH (AZA) B'NAI B'RITH GIRLS (BBG) B'NAI B'RITH YOUNG ADULTS (BBYA) 47th YEAR WASHINGTON, D. C. USA JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 1971 Youth, Adults Herb Gray of Canada Leaders Launch erstanding, Decry 'Dull' '71 Beber Award Winner of a better Herb Gray, first Jewish member of the Canadian cabinet and h we have Educators minister of national revenue, will receive the 1971-72 Sam kind of or- Beber AZA Distinguished Alumnus Award, it was announced by doing is to GAG Paige Reffe. The award for Mr. Gray was approved at the 1971 Campaign merely talk HOUSTON, Tex. Sixty organization's 1970 international convention, and the presen- h out ideas BBYOers and adult B'nai B'rith tation is slated for the 1971 ndence, or members agreed that Jewish convention in August. education is a highly relevant O financial pursuit in today's world, but Mr. Gray, 39, is a native of For New Members will be sent the way it's taught-in their Windsor, Ont., which sent him opinion-is something else. to Parliament four times. As a mass com- chapters is teenager, he was an active WASHINGTON, D.C.-A increase of 7,400 new members The group joined in a "Table member of the Windsor AZA for 1971 is proposed in an unprecedented build-BBYO campaign Talk" project designed to bring and later of the Hillel Founda- proclaimed by GAG Paige Reffe, N'siah Shelley Stuart, BBYO me initia- youth and adults together for tion at McGill University, Mon- International Director Dr. Max F. Baer, and by Mike Flatto and letter still frank discussion. The plan had been tried previously with treal. He is former president of Lynn Sparaga, international AZA membership chairman and to com- Windsor Lodge of B'nai B'rith BBG international program e cost of great success-in Kansas City, and has served on the board of chairman, respectively. where a series of adult-youth governors of the Windsor Jew- Small Town's Specific goals have been set discussions dealt with Jewish ish community council and the for every region. Prepared at nal Board, community affairs and with ished lines cabinet of the ADL of Canada. the pros and cons of sex edu- Rap Sessions the national office, they were amended and approved by dis- ff the very cation in the public schools. The award designate was trict directors. The projected 's the case munication The Houston program jointly first named to the federal cabi- HERB GRAY Ease Age Gap rise, it was pointed out, repre- arranged by members of the net in 1969 as minister with- sents only a 3,300-member in- -officer" or local BBYO Council and B'nai out portfolio to work in asso- Indiana, Penna., which has crease over the 1966-67 period B'rith Women, was co-chaired ciation with the minister of To BBYO Advisors only 60 Jewish families, also when membership in BBYO, as to anyone by the AZA vice-president of finance. Earlier, as parliamen- BBYO in cooperation with has a BBYO chapter that is. in many other youth groups, eat mem- the Council, Lenny Dubin, and tary secretary to the minister the Foreign Study League is very concerned with Jewish began to decline for the first that they Mrs. Sam Robinson, BBW's na- of finance. he piloted vital leg- planning a study tour for survival. The 10 girls. and time. xtra work tional chairman for BBYO. islation through the House of young people in Europe dur- seven boys who comprise the *A new publication "Go Get if people The consensus of the youth- Commons, including measures ing July and August, 1971. chapter recently sponsored a 'em: Membership for the Sev- t better adult interchange in Houston to liberalize small business Cities to be visited and the spaghetti dinner attended by enties" has been prepared for was that Jewish educational loans and student loans, and communities to be studied almost every Jewish family. the massive effort and addi- hat's 1,246 methods in some religious to make possible Canadian are Rome, London, Geneva lively discussion that fol- tional resource material is participation in international r, and the schools are "relics". Youth par- and Amsterdam. BBYO ad- visors interested in becoming lowed dealt with declining syn- available. Special membership ticipants complained hat monetary reserves. actice is to part of the program in the agogue attendance and the campaign report forms are also tting those teachers often "talk down" to Mr. Gray was a member of hose ideas, the Canadian delegations to role of counselors, are in- need for drastic change to provided, to be filed with the students who ask difficult ques- unite the community. The national office. tions. Some also said many re- international conferences on vited to contact their district adult group appeared delight- In their joint statement, the ligious school leaders are un- economic matters and served and, regional directors, or BBYO leaders called for united as chairman of the House of communicate with Rabbi ed that youth was making qualified, conduct dull and Commons standing committee Jerome Lipnick, Director of such a productive effort. dedication by districts, regions, uninteresting classes, discour- councils and chapters to fur- ans age the give-and-take of dis- on finance, trade and economic Education, 1640 Rhode Is- The discussion led to a se- ther the project, but especially cussion. affairs. land Ave., Washington, D.C. ries of rap sessions, organized for action by each individual 20036. by Rabbi Barry Wolf. Discus- member. They urged: oters The AZA award, named in Younger Teachers Wanted He will be happy to fur- sion centered on such subjects honor of Sam Beber, who 1. Special meetings of coun- nish you with the details of as: "How Can Jews in Our nd friends "We would like teachers who founded AZA 46 years ago in cils and regions with manda- the program and the qualifi- Town Better Relate to One are young and have a more Omaha, Neb. went last year to tory attendance of the godol, ng devoted cations required of those who Another?", "The Rabbi in the relevant feeling for the NOW Rabbi Arthur Gilbert, dean of n'siah and membership chair- d program. will go along with the stu- Community, Leader and Um- of religion", was the way one the Reconstructionist Rabbini- man of every chapter. along with dents. pire," and "How Can Syna- participant put it. Others said cal Seminary. 2. Adoption of a member- ed. gogue Services be Improved?" they thought inadequate re- ship goal by every chapter. ligious training has contrib- The sessions, observers say, (They pointed out that if each ION'S con- uted to the weakening of re- number of JURY System: A New Plan increased synagogue attend- of BBYO's 1,500 chapters reg- ligious traditions. ance and improved adult-youth istered only five members included relationships. BBYO members more than they had registered referendum To Build BBYO in Rural Areas are taking an active part in in 1970, the international total al of U.S Friday night services, would be painlessly achieved. n, approval BBYO Donates $100 Building BBYO in rural areas ing to the council or region of Chapter goals should collec- community For Cyclone Victims is the focus of a new effort the general area of their resi- tively add up to the proposed Executive Officers problem of approved by the executive dence. regional goal, as announced. BBYO has sent a $100 a campaign boards of AZA and BBG. The To Meet Feb. 19-21 3. Planning of campaign contribution for victims of ion to end program, known as Jewish Overcoming Isolation INTEGRITY the disastrous cyclone that re- International AZA and techniques, with city-wide pro- Unaffiliated Rural Youth cently tore through eastern In this way, says Mike, BBG officers and district grams, chapter programs, pub- nored Bon (JURY), will concentrate on Pakistan. otherwise isolated youth could licity lists, etc. Planning should godolim and n'siot will con- occasion of bringing into BBYO the Jewish take part in conventions, con- include dates and deadlines for The gift, transmitted vene in Washington February rael where youth of smaller communities claves, institutes and other special events and schedules through the Catholic Relief 19th through 21st for the In- anent resi- where there are no chapters BBYO activities. They could ternational executive board for campaign milestones (half- IM chapter Services of New York for the and where there may not even also visit any chapter in their meetings to be held at the way point, etc.). anniversary purchase of food and medical be a Jewish center or syna- council or region area on pay- Executive House Hotel and Special membership kits ation meet supplies, was allocated by gogue. In some cases, the near- ment of a nominal fee, and have gone out to the interna- BBYO's International Service the B'nai B'rith building. ush Demo est city may be 20 or 30 miles could even join the chapter tional executive boards, district chapter ex- Fund which includes a spe- Paige Reffe, grand aleph away and this makes direct closest to them and participate youth leaders, regional and eated, with cial sum set aside for relief godol, and Shelley Stuart, in- affiliation with most city-based to the extent that their travel council godolim and n'siot and of victims of natural disas- ternational BBG n'siah, will fficers par Jewish groups difficult. arrangements would allow. regional and council member- ters. convene the sessions which Mike Dockterman, District Continues Mike: ship chairmen. will consider summer pro- Other recent BBYO fund Six Aleph S'gan, Rock Island, "The advantage of JURY For proposed quotas by dis- grams, international conven- TARIO RE contributions have helped to Ill., has produced a detailed should be quite obvious. AZA tricts see page 7. tions, ISF allocations, budg- feed the homeless in the Gulf zer reports proposal for increasing BBYO's could afford vast numbers of ets, membership drives, and e executive States following the Hurri- membership in rural areas. He Jewish youth an opportunity to other important business. WRITE FOR NEW FREE both "sum- cane Camille, and victims of suggests that young Jews who join with other Jewish youth in "perpetual war in the Biafran area of live in a community where worthwhile activities. It could Several pre-meetings will PUBLICATION "GO GET from the Nigeria. there are no BBYO chapters help increase the membership deal with the summer pro- 'EM: MEMBERSHIP FOR as well." grams. THE SEVENTIES" and ages should be considered as belong-