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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE end The legal Chronicle

Friday, September 15, 1944

A NEW YEAR for JEWISH YOUTH

The Creation of the Bnai Brith Youth Organization

By JULIUS BISNO

Editor's Note—Shortly after the High Holidays there will come
into being a new nationwide Bnai Brith Youth Organization
composed of Aleph Zadik Aleph and the Bnai Brith Girls.
Mr. Bisno, executive director of Aleph Zadik Aleph, explains
the philosophy underlying the creation of this new movement
by Bnai Brith.

We enter the year 5705 with
the grim knowledge that the
past few years have witnessed
the brutal slaying by the Nazis
of four million Jewish men, wo-
men and children in Europe.
The cannibalistic German beasts
have thus literally destroyed, in
cold blood, one-fourth of the
Jewish population of the world.
Gone is the reservoir of Jewish
community life and Jewish learn-
ing which used to be pre-war
Europe.
Now there are approximately
twelve million Jews left in the
whole world and of these, the
largest number, about five mil-
lion, are found in the United
States. Ever since World War I,
American Jewry, because of its
numbers and comparative secur-
ity, was looked to for leadership
by European Jewry in all mat-
ters pertaining to relief and the
raising of funds. European Jew-
ry still held the edge somewhat
in matters pertaining to Jewish
scholarship and things of the
spirit.
Now, however, the Jews of
America will have to take the
leadership in all matters pertain-
ing to Jewish cultural life. One
of the most urgent tasks facing
post-war American Jewry is the
problem of planting Jewish cul-
tural roots deep in the soil of
America. The future of Jewish

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life in the world, even the fu-
ture growth and development
of the Yishuv in Palestine, will
depend in large measure on the
quality of the Jewish leadership,
including the quality of the Jew-
ish educational institutions and
Jewish community life generally,
which American Jewry will be
able to foster in the next gener-
ation.
if American Jewry is to rise
to the historic occasion which
the European tragedy has forced
upon it, it will have to take
measures on a national scale to
insure that the growing Jewish
youth in America shall not be a
"lost generation," Jewishly
speaking. Next to raising funds
for relief and rehabilitation
abroad, our chief concern will
have to be with the Jewish edu-
cation of the Jewish youth of
today, from whom will come the
Jewish leaders of tomorrow.
There is an ancient Jewish leg-
end which says that when the
Israelites gathered at the foot
of Mt. Sinai, ready and willing
to receive the Ten Command-
ments, God said to them: "I am
about to present you with the
most precious of treasures, a gift
beyond compare. Possession of
this gift will bring not only
satisfaction and joy to yourselves
but peace and happiness to the
whole world. What pledge or
guarantee will you offer that this
treasure, this gift of the Torah,
will be properly guarded and
safely preserved throughout the
generations?"
To this the Israelites replied,
"Think of our forefathers, Abra-
ham, Isaac and Jacob. Is not our
glorious past a sufficient guar-
antee that the Torah will be safe
in our hands?"
"No," came God's answer.
"Such a guarantee is not good
enough. I cannot accept it. No
people can live on its past alone.
No nation can live solely by the
merits of its founding fathers."
"Then think of the Prophets
who will arise in our midst; of
the great men in every genera-
tion who will uphold the Torah
in days to come. Let them be

the guarantee," pleaded the Is-
raelites.
"No," came the answer again.
"This pledge also I cannot ac-
cept. A people's treasure can-
not properly be preserved and
made to become the possession
of all by the loyalty of a select
few alone."
At last, the Israelites after
much thought offered their chil-
dren as security. "Our children,"
they exclaimed, " will be our
pledges. For we shall ever try
to teach the Torah to our boys
and girls, our young men and
young women."
"This is truly an excellent se-
curity," came the reply from
God. "This pledge I accept."
It was then that the Israelites
became the proud possessors of
the Ten Commandments and the
rest of the Torah.
Among the Jewish organiza-
tions in this country, which have
made an earnest effort to grap-
ple with the serious challenge
to Jewish survival occasioned by
the war, is the Bnai Brith. In
the preamble to Bnai Brith's
constitution, one reads: "Bnai
Brith has taken upon itself the
mission of uniting Israelites in
the work of promoting their
highest interests and those of
humanity; of developing and
elevating the mental and moral
character of the people of our
faith." In the spirit of this pre-
amble and in compliance with
the pledge which our forefathers
made at Mt. Sinai, Bnai Brith
has set in operation machinery
which will shortly establish the
largest Jewish youth organiza-
tion in the country.
Already Bnai Brith maintains
Aleph Zadik Aleph, a young or-
ganization for boys of 14-21.
The Bnai Brith Women have or-
ganized similar chapters for girls
of high school age throughout
the country. Early this fall,
Aleph Zadik Aleph and the Bnai
Brith Girls will come under the
coordinated direction of the new-
ly-created Bnai Brith Youth Com-
mission. The two organizations
will function independently but
along parallel lines. Together
they will constitute a nation-
wide Bnai Brith Youth Organi-
zation for Jewish boys and girls
of high school age.
The establishment of this
youth organization, under trained
professional supervision and vol-
unteer leadership, will usher in
a new era in American Jewish

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In accordance with the prone values of justice, right-
primary objectives of Bnai Brith, eousness and peace. It is in the
this youth organization, unlike spirit of this affirmation, hal-
other Jewish youth organiza- lowed by centuries of Rosh Hash-
tions, will not propagate one onahs in Jewish history, that
particular doctrine or viewpoint Bnai Brith, heeding the call of
of Jewish life, nor will it favor
See YOUTH—Page 14
a partisan approach in those
matters that divide Jewish life.
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democracy, and as participants
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munity of tomorrow.
The Bible mentions the fact
that when the Israelites escaped
from Egypt and approached the
Red Sea, they thought themselves
trapped. In the front of them
they saw an impassible barrier,
while behind them merciless
Egyptians were in hot pursuit.
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from destruction; the rest you
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During this High Holiday sea-
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