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 • (Continued on Page 48) (Continued from Page 6). 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; - • - Page Forty-seven z 1943, 1-141 313 1' NSW YeAlt 5704 ri;14_71=5 MCA' 1#14174fir "gm WAR BONDS J. M. LEFKOFSKY Wholesale and Retail DELICATESSEN Sole Distributors for the KOSHER ZION SAUSAGE CO. • A HAPPY NEW YEAR By . 1910, when Bnai.Brith'S aid to the oppressed arid needy- had given it a reputation that spanned the globe, the Red Cross 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 We extend our America's. 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