Friday, October 1
,
1943
TH.E JEWISH NEWS
100 Years of lanai Brith
interest in, and respect for Jew-
ish 'culture and . traditions and to
prepare them to take their place
in the fabric of Jewish communal
leadership. Heading this program
nationally is- Dr. A. L. Sachar.
Organized AZA
Reaching out to serve all-Jew-
ish youth, not only those in the
colleges, Briai Brith developed a
parallel educational program for
boys through the Aleph Zadik
-Aleph, the. Bnai Brith youth or-
ganization;. which was - founded
in 1924 by Sam Beber..
defense program for Jewish . cupational interests of Jewish
youth, Which - has mobilized for Youth.
home front tasks a legion of • In 1938, there.. was organized
young people too young to fight. the Bnai Brith Vocational Service
After heading the AZA for 17 Bureau, headed by Max F. Baer,
years, its founder retired in 1940, with a program of group voca-
to be succeeded by Philip M. tional .counselling' designed to
Klutznick, himself a product of help American Jewish youth
AZA schooling.
achieve economic adjustment.
The successful pattern fash- . Recognizing that education of
ioned by the AZA for boys has the Jew alone Was :not enough,
since been adapted for girls Bnai Brith also undertook the
through the organization of the far-reaching.. :task of educating
Bnai Brith which now has the non-Jew to - an appreciation
more than 200 units.
of .the truth about the JeW. As
The third Bnai Brith educa- - early 'as 1859 far-Sighted men in
tional: and' yotith-serving agency .: _ the organization proposed the
is its Vocational Service Bureau, creation of a "vigilance commit-
created in - 1938.
tee." . Libels against Jews during
. War,. attempts to es-
The present vocational service
program of Bnai Brith had its - tablish 'religious tests• . in- some
origin in the economic debacle of states for the holding- of public
the thirties, which stirriulated a offide, propaganda by Czarist .'
concern for the occupational ad-- agents and assaults - on Jewish im-
justment of Jewish youth. In migrants prior to_1900 had moved
1933, Aleph Zadik Aleph set Up' Bnai Brith to repeated action and
the American Jewish Economic protest. It was not until 1908 that
Cominission,. which surveyed- defamation of the JeW On stage
Jewish occupational trends in and screen,.. in the press and in
.forty7 eight small and medium- literature as well as the problem
sized communities. Two. years la- Of social and economic -discrimin- .
ter, the Bnai Brith . Hillel Re- ination. becarne the serious con-
search Bureau conducted a study cern of American. Jewry.
- In. that -Year' Sigmund Living-
of Jewish students in 1,400 Amer-
ican colleges ,and universities, ston, of Chicago, "proposed to
to which shed much light on the oc-c
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been part of Bnai Brith's com-
Nation's_ to implement their .ex- munity service since the 1870's.
pressions - of sympathy for the Its lodges,. auxiliaries and* youth
victims of the Nazi terror, and in groups spend an estimated .$200,--
the nationwide series of mass 000 a year in sponsoring sum-
meetings to mobilize public opin- mer camps for underprivileged
ion in suppOrt of action, Bnai children; free milk and lunch sta-
Brith played its 'part.
tions; employment_ bureaus; big
- Lodge in Palestine
brother programs, _welfare pro-
A supporter - of educatiOnaland jects for hospital patients; estab-
philanthropic institutions in pal- lishment and support of welfare
eStine since 1865,. Bnai Brith be- funds.: and • community. 'chests;
canie even More closely identi- contributions of equipment to
fied with Palestine after 1883 community hospitals; scholar-
When' the first . Briai .Brith lodge ships to worthy students; estab-
was formed there. •" -
lishment of libraries; distribution
In paleStine itself, Briai Brith of food baskets to the needy; and
founded the HebreW National year round participation in -and
Library, -which is now part of support of all civic and comp:1u-
the Hebrew University Library; nity . better ment projects.
built a number of colonies and
•. First JeWiSh Center
organized schools; loan funds,
Bnai Brith was 'hardly but of
hostels and housing develop 7 its - cradle . when it "opened Cove-
rnents.- Nahum . Sokolow, .Maier nantHall in New York City in
Dizengoff, Chaim Nachman .Bia- 1852 as 'the- first • Jewish. - com-
lik, David Yellin, Meier Berlin,- munity , center. America's. first
Chaim Weizmann . and Gad Jewish librariesthe Mairrion-
Frumkin were all active in Bnai ides Reading -Institution in New
Brith in Palestine.
York,' the Mendelssohn.. Library
- Bnai Brith in the United States Association in Cincinnati . and a
furthered the - cause of Palestine- library of similar, name in San
JULIUS BIEN
through monetary contributions. Francisco--were . established by
President of Bnai Brith from 1860
for varied . purposes. Housing, Bnai .Brith .in the 1850's and
1900; Scientist and Educator
purchase of land, aid to emigra- 1860's. After the Civil War many
Founded
on the Bnai Brith
tion, various , scholarships, re- of the lodges supported secular
principles of Ahavah (broth-
schools and academies.
-erly love), Tzdokoh (ben-
In 1923 Bnai Brith became the
evolence) and Achdus (bar-
sponsor of- a unique and pioneer- \ mony), the AZA represents
ing campus institution at the
the most concerted effort
University of Illinois—the Hillel
yet made to develop a tru-
Foundation.. That- experimental
ly representative Jewish
unit—inspired by a Christian ed-,
movement for teen-age boys;
ucator, • Dr. Edward - Chauncey
Since its_ inception, AZA has
Baldwin, and founded by a con-
guided over 50,000 boyi be-
secrated a rr -cl _Self-sacrificing
- tween 14 and 21 to the emu-
young rabbi, Benjamin Frankel
lation of seven basic virtues
has its counterpart ...in
—patriotism, Judaism, filial
more than 100 - Bnai Brith Hillel
loire; Conduct, purity, charity
Foundations and- Counselorships
and frateinity.
-
strategically centered`- in every
The
•
Bnai
Brith
youth
-
organi.
part of the country. - -
nation ; directed -by Julius Bis-
These Hillel units, each headed* no,. operates ill 275 communities
by a trained rabbi or profes- under the direction of 1,500 • vol- .
RABBI BENJAMIN FRANKEL sional youth leader, are cultural, unteer leaderS and is adminis.
Founder of the First Bnai Brith Hillel religious, and - social 'welfare tered - by . trained-- workers serv-
Foundation at Illinois
Centers that . now serve 45,000 ing from field offices spread
search, social work—all these in- Jewish college men - and women across the continent.
terests have been served by Bnai with a program designed to
In 1940 -the Briai Brith youth
spire them with an awakened - organization conceived a national
Brith funds. The Alfred M. Co- -
-
hen Colony in 1936 was followed
by a second $100,000 gift for the
establishment of the Bnai Brith=
Henry .Monsky Colony.
Help War Victims
Since the beginning of World
War II, Bnai Brith has again
been openhanded in helping war
victims. Through direct alloca-
tions from national funds and lo-
cal Bnai brith contributions over
$650,000 in
and supplies was
made. available for war relief and
refugee aid in 16 . countries
tWeen. Sept. - -1, 1939;; and Sept. -1;
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to the oppressed arid needy- had
given it a reputation that
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sought out the Bnai Brith as a
natural ally.
EVen before the- American Red
Cross was founded, Bnai Brith
already was pioneer=ing in furn-
ishing , relief to victims of disas-
ters, both at home and abroad.
By 1915, more than $2,000,000
was contributed for the relief of
victims of natural and man-made
catastrophies. Since 1915, when
an emergency relief fund was
established through the earmark,-
ing of 50 cents of every member's
dues, an additional $1,500,000 has
been spent for such purposes.
Closely related to its- humani-
tarian activities is the broad so-
,cial welfare program which -has
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