THE SHOFAR B'nai B'rith Youth Organization ALEPH ZADIK ALEPH (AZA) B'NAI B'RITH GIRLS (BBG) CAN HITLER WIN December, 1976 AFTER ALL? by Dr. Aryeh Nesher do, Fla. Dr. Aryeh Nesher, Special Representative of the Prime Minister of Israel, un- ISF's Where Your Money Went derstands deeply and personally the relationship between Hitler, the Holocaust, Israel and world Jewry. A survivor of the Holocaust, he was active as an under- ground fighter- once impersonating a Nazi helped fight for Israel's independence. Dr. Nesher is a member of the Board of Governors of Hebrew University, and Region The International Executive Boards of AZA and BBG are charged with the responsi- handles a number of special assignments in the United States on behalf of the Prime Minister. Region, bility of allocating ISF funds raised in the previous year. Shown below are the alloca- tions made for the 1975-76 program year (ending July 31, 1976). Funds raised this Dr. Nesher spoke before this summer's International Conventions of AZA and program year will be allocated next year. For a full explanation of each recipient, see BBG just a few days after returning from Israel. We think Dr. Nesher's speech is important enough to reprint so that all BBYO members may read it. the publication, ISF, available free from your local BBYO office. About ten days ago I was at the northern border of Israel, a border which is called by BBYO LEADERSHIP PROJECTS AZA BBG TOTAL the Arabs today the "good fence." This is where all those who give us advice on how to International Leadership Training make peace could have found the answer. This is where the child of Moslem parents, who Conference and Kallah $ 8,723 $11,466 $20,189 only a year ago harbored terrorists who came to kill us, today is getting medical assistance in Israel Summer Institute 4,700 8,000 12,700 Israel. At this border Christians who are being slaughtered today by their fellow Arab BBYO Staff Associates Training 500 700 1,200 Moslems find work in Israel. can Noar Lenoar Tour of America and At this border a piece of history is happening today, whereby against the world which has ple, to International Convention 1,000 1,000 2,000 defined Zionism as racist and against the world which has attempted to repeat- least Ser- TO DISTRICTS for politically an act committed only by Hitler (and we'll come back to that), this world has to istrict LEADERSHIP TRAINING face the moment where Arab and Jew are meeting in peace. District #15 (Great Britain) 600 700 1,300 Now what does that mean? Where does that leave us and where do we come together? ay be Back to Seven North American Why should you young Jews of America listen to me about Jewish problems? Are they my Districts for Leadership Training 4,900 6,588 11,488 problems? Your problems? Or our problems? d win PROJECTS in ISRAEL The aim of my encounter with you tonight is to implement a dream which I had in my Bubbe B'nai B'rith Women's Childrens Home 100 300 400 years after Hitler. The dream said that if I would stay alive long enough I would go wherever and Max F. Baer Druze there are young people and tell them, "Don't be like us." We died in Europe because we Cultural Center in Osefia 100 100 200 believed that we were safe. And German Jews lived a thousand years in Germany- test Moledet B'nai B'rith 5,500 4,000 9,500 thousand years and they were destroyed. You know your whole business here is only 200 topic ADMINISTRATION 2,272 2,857 5,129 years if we exaggerate it, and you Jews are here 100 years for real if you exaggerate that. Since I'm one of those who believe that it won't happen in America, I have to share with you origi- RESERVE my instincts, the symptoms that show up in this world against us, and that you and we to- youth TOTAL 28,395 35,711 64,106 gether can fight and win under one condition: that we realize the lessons of Jewish life. nven- BALANCE IN RESERVE 2,206 5,612 7,638 Now, leaving the "lesson" and dealing with a little bit of recent Jewish history, I'd like to A or *Breakdown of ISF funds distributed to each District talk to you about three Israels: the Israel of 1967, the Israel of October 1973, and the Israel BBG of July 4, 1976. You know the recent business of July 4th really made your Bicentennial a DISTRICT AZA BBG TOTAL happy event. There's great symbolism in the fact that on the Bicentennial of America which apter 1-22 $ 744.80 $1,300.27 $ 2,045.07 symbolizes liberty for a great beautiful country, a small Jewish country defied the world of 2 564.97 793.85 1,358.82 avail- terrorists and Bolsheviks and Qaddafi and Idi Amin who had it all set up for us. In a feat 3 610.05 1,155.54 1,765.59 which is against human logic, going 3,000 kilometers, Jonathan and the other young Jews 4 1,034.88 854.02 1,888.90 proved that on July 4, 1976 the Jewish hand reaches far away. 5 781.55 1,016.31 1,797.86 Fate dictated that I was to be a speaker on July 4th at my university (Hebrew University) 6 579.18 846.56 1,425.74 for a council of the Board of Governors and they had the American ambassador with them. 7 584.57 621.45 1,206.02 Only a few months earlier, he had explained to us that Israel must understand that Arafat is TOTAL $4,900.00 $6,588.00 $11,488.00 a fact and that great Palestinian power is power, and that we would be very reasonable in $100.00 being logical and understanding. Then came July 4, 1976 and he was sitting next to me, and I told him that I could speak as $100.00 a man who had survived Hitler. When I heard of the news that we "did it," I told him I imagined that in 1943 there would have been a State of Israel and a group of paratroopers $100.00 Your Chapter Can would have jumped into Auschwitz, would have destroyed the SS men just like Amin's gang, $125.00 would have picked up 100 Jews alive, and brought them back to Israel. Hitler could not have killed six million Jews, would not have. $103.09 FEEL More Jewish Almost all the countries of the world, including your own, send notes of congratulations to Arafat, the murderer of Christianity, not of Jews, forget Jews man who kills Christians. by Girt Bossak You people gave in, all of you. There is a great sentence in the Bible, "Or Lagoyim," "light Assistant Regional Director to the gentiles." Into a dark world we brought light and we showed that if you are a proud Florida Region BBYO human being and are prepared to risk your life for liberty, those who want to destroy liberty $100.00 must lose. This was July '76. $118.36 Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Succoth are long behind us, Chanukah is almost upon I told you about October '73 and of the Israel which was caught unprepared, which was us. It is important that we not let the mood of the "holiday season" pass by. We should con- beaten in 48 hours, beaten badly. Thank God the 2,500 young men in the Israel army were tinue this mood of commitment to Jewish life year-round. Ushering in a new year; thoughts able to undo the terrible mistakes of our leadership. Compare this with '67, a glorious Israel $214.56 of atonement and evaluation and self-probing call for the taking of a deep breath, squaring that won the battle in four hours. The question is, "Why?" Same Dayan. Same army. Same the shoulders and searching for some kind of positive action that will perpetuate a meaning- generals. In '67 we won the war in four hours, in '73 we almost lost the war in 48 hours. ful Jewish life. Why? $300.00 Please make note of the fact that meetings in the name of BBYO are not held on Jewish You've heard all kinds of explanations. I'd like to give you mine, because it has to do with 100.00 holidays, including the Shabbat; and concern for those who are observant should be given your life, not only ours.-The days preceding '67 were days in which every speech made by top priority in planning events. Every advisor and every president should carry around with our leaders said, "Auschwitz, Never Again.' In '67 the Arabs and the Soviets prepared our him a pocket size Jewish calendar or the BBYO Program Calendar Workbook. Fund- destruction and we fought with Auschwitz at the back of our minds, and we won in four 100.00 raising should be done any day but on our Sabbath (and Jewish holidays) as well. hours. In 1973 every speech before October said, "They can't make war for ten years" Services should be followed with a meaningful sermonette. Ongai Shabbat should in- that's what Dayan told us. "They wouldn't dare. They can't do it." We got drugged with a 100.00 clude the fraylichs (the gay, the light the music, song and dance) of our people. Supermannish feeling. We became infected by a non-Jewish aspect of safety -nothing can There are many Jewish holidays. Build chapter programs around them. Invite your Chris- happen to us. And we were beaten for 48 hours. Because even a Jewish state that forgets 100.00 tian friends to witness and share in rap sessions on "How we are Different." that there is somebody who plans to destroy you is doomed. (Continued on page 8) (Continued on page 2)