SHOFAR Exciting Summer Awaits B'nai B'rith Youth Organization Hundreds of BBYO'ers 100.00 100.00 100.00 ALEPH ZADIK ALEPH (AZA) 160.00 B'NAI B'RITH GIRLS (BBG) 17 August 17-23, 1976 will be the dates for this year's convention Carl Bernstein, author of All The President's Men, will, hopefully, be present June-July, 1976 $101.00 to receive the Distinguished Alumnus Award 114.14 Ruach (spirit) will dominate the affair Original program ideas will be gained from the "BBYO Program Kaleidoscope" 101.00 New friends will be met 100.00 Youth from around the world will manifest An International Spirit 101.00 Maccabiad games will further the excitement of this International Convention 100.00 100.00 BBYO CAMPS HAVE The preceding acronym, spelling the word "acronym," reveals just a very small part of what 402.00 135.00 International Convention 1976 will be all about. By attending you will get the chance to 108.25 RICH, LONG HISTORY personally experience and appreciate the full scope of BBYO. 108.50 You have the opportunity to see everything BBYO stands for by participating in the 125.00 business meetings, elections of International officers, International contest finals and life ceremonies, with BBYO members from across the globe. 100.00 Programs will help participants return to their chapters and strengthen programming, 108.11 by Dr. Max F. Baer membership, and ISF. 100.00 International Director This year's theme, "BBYO: An International Spirit," will help us reach our goal of presenting those attending with an International Spirit so that local chapters and regions The acquisition by BBYO of a second camp leads me to tell you something about the will also realize that same spirit. history and meaning of this milestone in the history of our organization. For more information see your local BBYO office or write us: Way back in 1927, the Supreme Advisory Council of AZA, which was the forerunner of Jeb Brownstein Diane Ginsburg the B'nai B'rith Youth Commission, set up a committee for the purpose of investigating 50 S.W. Ridge Dr. c/o BBYO ning for the possibility of AZA buying a camp for the training of AZA youth leaders and advisors. Portland, Oregon 97219 1640 Rhode Island Ave., N.W. ly going Nothing came of this idea because there was no money to make it a reality. Washington, D. C. 20036 CVR's When the B'nai B'rith Youth Commission came into existence in November 1944, WAIT!! another committee, under the leadership of Philip M. Klutznick, was appointed to try again. you for But it was hard to find a place big enough to accommodate International AZA and BBG g truly Conventions at a price the Youth Commission could afford. Kallah & ILTC Off To Big Start As this issue of The Shofar is being delivered, about 85 BBYO members from all parts of les North America are participating in the BBYO International Leadership Kallah at B'nai 3'rith ook Rd. Perlman Camp. 06518 Featured as resident scholars for this year's Kallah are Rabbi Irwin M. Blank, Senior Rabbi of Temple Chabei Shalom, of Brookline, Mass., and recently President of the Synagogue Council of America, the national organization which includes within its membership the three rabbinic and lay groups of Reform, Orthodox, and Conservative Judaism. with the Also serving as resident scholar is Rabbi Mitch Wohlberg, rabbi of Temple Beth Sholom in concern Washington. Rabbi Wohlberg has served as resident scholar in previous years and has par- cern to ticipated many times in BBYO activities in Greater Washington Council and Northern Region. headed A highlight of the Kallah program will be "an intimate view of the magnificent melting to be pot," an historical look at the lower East Side of New York in song, picture and story by enagers Cantor Joseph Bach. Through years of research, Cantor Bach has compiled an intimate an in- history of the Jews of the lower East Side of New York and tells the story through various WS. anecdotes, slides, and songs. st-hand An outstanding Judaism staff, representing many diverse viewpoints and backgrounds, former The "main lodge" at Camp Windsor (now B'nai B'rith Perlman Camp) when will include Rabbi Wohlberg; Rabbi Philmore Berger, of Temple Avodah, Oceanside, N.Y.: ent, we B'nai B'rith acquired the property in 1951. Rabbi Shabsai Wolfe, Acting Director Hillel Foundation, St. Louis, Mo.; Peter Stark, of the egional Early in 1950 the break came. B'nai B'rith District No. 3 owned an orphan home known Bureau of Jewish Education, Boston, Mass.; and Rabbi Sol Landau, of Beth David Con- join us as the B'nai B'rith Home for Children in Erie, Pennsylvania. The new practice was to place gregation, Miami, Fla. such as orphans in foster homes rather than in institutions. The Erie Home was abandoned. B'nai In addition to various specialists in the arts, special staff brought over for the summer from public B'rith District 3 offered the property to the B'nai B'rith Henry Monsky Foundation for a Israel, additional members of the Judaism staff, group work specialists and a number of youth encampment. Maurice Bisgyer, the late Executive Vice-President of B'nai B'rith, and administrative staff members, several BBYO professional staff members will serve on the S being I went to Erie to inspect the property. We found it wholly unsuitable for camp purposes. group work staff. These include Fred Rubin, Program Assistant from Chicago, who will be people District 3 agreed to let us sell the property and to use the money to buy a real camp, on at both Kallah and ILTC; Lew Hamburger, Assistant International Director for Program cam- condition that the camp would be located somewhere in District 3. Services, and Ruth Cantor, Greater Washington BBYO Director who will both be at the puses. I spent more than a year running around Pennsylvania and New Jersey looking for the ILTC. Both the ILTC and Kallah are under the direction of Dr. Daniel Thursz, Director of most right property. In the summer of 1953 Joseph Sklover, Comptroller of B'nai B'rith, and I Summer Leadership Programs. "soft stumbled upon Camp Windsor. Though it was located only eight miles from the New York In addition to the almost 175 BBYO members from North America, six participants from ny im- border, it was in Pennsylvania (Starlight). Though the buildings were old and inadequate, Great Britain and 18 participants from Noar Lenoar in Israel will participate in the ILTC and brain- Joe and I were impressed by the beauty of the grounds, 1800 feet high in the Pocono stay over for International Convention. For the first time, the Noar Lenoar delegation will a total mountains, and the great potential of the place. include two representatives of Moledet B'nai B'rith, the Moshav (collective settlement) ties, in- Phil Klutznick, then President of B'nai B'rith, negotiated the purchase of the property in which serves as an important base for BBYO'ers going to Israel on the Israel Summer Insti- s. The January 1954. That same summer Camp B'nai B'rith was operated as a children's camp tute. In addition, the delegation will contain representatives from all parts of Israel including rything and conference center by the B'nai B'rith Henry Monsky Foundation. It was used by BBYO, Eilat, Dimona, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, etc. The Great Britain delegates will come from Essex, Moon Hillel, and the B'nai B'rith Department of Adult Jewish Education. Hull, Yorkshire, and Middlesex. While many BBYO'ers are participating in the leadership training programs at B'nai AZA, BBYO Assumes Management B'rith Perlman Camp, a record delegation of nearly 200 BBYO' are touring Israel in five Jewish Too many cooks were spoiling the broth. In January 1957 the Monsky Foundation turned groups as part of the BBYO Israel Summer Institute. Led by BBYO staff members, Steve com- the management of the camp over to BBYO. There was one condition: we had to agree to Klein (and his wife Linda), of Baltimore; Hal Bordy (and his wife Cheryl), of Cleveland; Ross and operate the camp so that it would pay for itself. This we have done for almost 20 years. Klein (and his wife Nancy), of Illinois; David Sofian (and his wife Simone), of Cincinnati; and During those 20 years we tripled the population of the camp. Every year we added to the former BBYO staff member, from Denver, Jill Rotem, the BBYO members are participating facilities through money raised by BBYO. What cost B'nai B'rith $175,000 in 1954 is now in the unique living laboratory of Judaism which the Israel Summer Institute represents. lewicz worth well over a million dollars. Full details on all the summer programs will appear in the October-November issue of (continued on Page 2) The Shofar.