Tishrei/Cheshvan 5750, October 1989 Aleph Zadik Aleph (AZA) B'nai B'rith Youth Organization (BBYO) B'nai B'rith Girls (BBG) The B'nai B'rith Beber Camp B'nai B'rith Teen Connection B'nai B'rith Perlman Camp 400 Youth Leaders At International Convention; Launch Program Year, Elect AZA,BBG Executive Boards Hundreds of Jewish youth leaders International Mazkirah Rachel from seven countries convened at Armel, International Doveret Lori Starlight, PA's B'nai B'rith Perlman Introligator, and International Camp in mid-August for yet another Sh'lichah Yael Zur. outstanding BBYO international Moskovitz' board consists of convention. Grand Aleph S'gan Eric Muller, The August 17-23 event featured Grand Aleph Mazkir Doug Levy, virtually non-stop activity as, within Grand Aleph Dovair Bryan the course of one week. the youth Schwartz and Grand Aleph Shaliach elected a new slate of international Jonathan Bentwood. officers, kicked off the 1989-90 Receiving special recognition program thrust and membership during the convention were campaign, and participated in Youngstown, OH's Esther Marks and important Jewish identity and self- Yalowitz. They were awarded the expression seminars. 1989 BBG Anita Perlman More than 400 delegates Distinguished Alumna Award and represented BBYO's 35,000 the 1989 AZA Sam Beber members at this year's convention. Distinguished Alumnus Award, Attending were Jewish youth from respectively. Australia, Canada, England, France, The youth also paused to In a year when many hesita ted to travel to Israel, more than 700 Israel, Spain and the United States. remember their peers who had BBYOers from around the world spent a summer in the Jewish state. Also in attendance were various passed away during the year as well Above, Israel Summer Institute participants relax in the Israel sun. B'nai B'rith dignitaries including as U.S. Representative Mickey B'nai B'rith Youth Commission Leland (D-TX). The Houston Education Way To Fight Anti- Chairman Edward Yalowitz and BBG Congressman had perished in a international organizer Anita plane crash only days before the Semitism, Speaker Tells Delegates Perlman. convention. He was lauded for his The 84-year-old Perlman, as continuous support of Ethiopian "Tonight, you're going to hear a killed, that's a number someone usual, thrilled the convention body Jewry and promotion of Black- invented." when, before addressing it, she took Jewish and Israel-Africa relations. side of history that's been denied off her sweater to reveal the now The remainder of the week was you," Hans Schmidt, a professor of And so it went for the next half- Germanic language told the 418 famous T-shirt that reads "Anita hour as Schmidt relayed his vitrolic spent on Jewish identity and Perlman Is Alive And Well." delegates at this year's BBYO anti-Semitism. leadership training activities. International Convention. "Why are you here in the first The week, whose theme was One overseas delegate, who spoke "Reach Out And Touch Someone," "History has often been place?" one of the many incensed for many, said the array of events manipulated," he continued. was coordinated by 1988-89 BBG had left her exhausted but BBYOers who had been jeering the "History has been manipulated in International S'ganit Renee Wizig invigorated. speaker finally shouted. this country especially among the Sensing that "Hans Schmidt's" and 1988-89 Grand Aleph S'gan "It's amazing, when you realize Brett Berlin. Jewish community. Germans and point of view had struck a deep not only what we did and learned the German community have been chord of Jewish identity, the speaker One of the convention's many here, but how much fun we had as knew it was time to deliver his final highlights came with the election of well." she said. portrayed as the bad guy. That's the 1989-90 international executive because the Jews in this country startling piece of information. Wasting no time in acting on the control the media. The Jews run it youth boards. After hours of lessons they had learned, all As for the six million people caucussing and voting, it was limmediately following the See Program Thrust, Page 3 announced that the new convention, AZA and BBG key International N'siah is Channon N. leaders stayed at the camp for an BBYO Sending 80 To Poland, Kane of Miami, FL. while the Grand extra day of business sessions. Aleph Godol is Daniel J. Moskovitz During those meetings Kane and Israel, On "March Of Living" of Foster City, CA. Moskovitz, with their boards and Rounding out the BBG board is regional presidents, mapped out International S'ganit Lori Shapiro, their plans for the coming year. BBYO is preparing to send more Maidanek and other sights. than 80 members primarily from Following Poland, the youth will North America to Poland and Israel fly directly to Israel where, for the Look Inside For this spring for the second biennial Jewish state's Independence Day March Of The Living program. celebrations, they will receive official Participating in the April 19 to greetings and be the government's Convention '89 Insert May 2 program will be 2,000 Jewish guests. teenagers from around the world. The March of the Living also including a special BBYO delegation. includes seminars and workshops The youth will spend one week on understanding the history of ON THE INSIDE including Holocaust Memorial Day European Jewry and its destruction in Poland. That will be followed by during the Holocaust. In 1939, one week in Israel, a time that Poland's Jews number more than 3 International Convention 1989 Page 1,3 includesthe country's Memorial Day million. Today that body stands at Leader's Lines Page 3 and Independence Day. no more than 5,000. Summer Programs Page 4,5 During the two-week trip, BBYO's International Director, Regional Rolls Page 6 participants will visit Poland's Dr. Sidney Clearfield, is helping Happenings Page 7,8 concentration camp as well as the shape the educational format of the BBYO Around The World Page 9 remainder of its Jewish community. program as he is a member of its Teen Connection Page 10 The youth will hold special executive committee. Features Page 11 cermonies at Auschwitz-Birkenau See March of Living, Page 3 Potpourri Page 12