THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Best Kept Secret In Town! BBYO Activities AZA and BBG members will participate in the fourth annual Youth Sym- posium on the Holocaust 8:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Wayne State University Student Center. A char- tered bus will depart from the BBYO office at 7:45 a.m. For information, contact Brian Ackerson at the BBYO office, 552-8260. Auditions will be held for the talent show for the BBYO regional convention 1 p.m. Dec. 12 in the Dubin Meeting Room at the Bnai Brith Building. All chapters wishing to enter an act in the talent show must be present at that time. The Great Lakes AZA Council announces the ap- pointment of Gary Fealk, of Samson AZA, as chairman for the AZA Basketball League. The league will be held on Sundays from January through April. The Great Lakes BBG Council announces the appointment of Paula Katz of Brice BBG as chairman of the BBG/ Bnai Brith Women's annual joint program. This year's BBG/BBW program will take place Feb. 6. The Michigan Region BBYO convention will take.glace Dec. 26-30 at the main Jewish Com- munity Center. The con- vention is open to all members of AZA and BBG and applications have been mailed to each registered member. Additional applications are available from chap- ter presidents or from the BBYO office. The deadline for the AZA and BBG Council fund rais- ings is Dec. 10. All chapter candy money from the ini- tial shipment must be brought into the BBYO office .by that date in order for chapters- to benefit from the fund raising incentives. Ahavah BBG and Akiba AZA will host Chavayrim BBYO from Grand Rapids this weekend. Tonight the groups will par- ticipate in a six-chapter Sabbath service and oneg Shabat at Cong. Beth Ab- raham Hillel Moses. Other chapters involved are Aliyah BBG; Shalom Aviv BBG and Hart AZA. After the service Murray Feldman of Channel 2 will speak on "Jews in the Media." 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Boris Smolar's Between You . . and Me' Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, JTA (Copyright 1982, JTA, Inc.) JDC CONCLAVE: Something new has been added this year by the Joint Distribution Committee in the pro- gram of its worldwide relief activities — something that reflects the humanitarian sentiments of the American Jewish community. The innovation consists of starting to give aid to Chris- tian and Moslem Arabs in Lebanon who had been the vic- tims for years of terrorism by the Palestine Liberation Organization and are suffering from the present warfare in the country. A detailed report on the subject will be pre- sented at the 68th annual meeting of the JDC by Henry Taub and Ralph I. Goldman, president and executive vice president, respectively, of the organization. Both were in Lebanon. The annual conclave will take place in New York next week, attended by Jewish communal leaders from various parts of the country. JDC PROBLEMS: The JDC supports 105 programs in Israel aiding the aged, the handicapped, chronically ill, mentally ill and others. It also assists 127 community cen- ters. It allocates about $1,400,000 a year for religious- cultural programs which include subventions to 170 yeshivot with about 27,000 students. Many of the programs supported by JDC in Israel are based on matching funds. Neither the Israel government nor the institutions involved are now in a position to meet their matching obligations because of the cost of the Lebanese war. The JDC may therefore be faced with the necessity of reviewing some of the programs it supports. A major problem are the yeshivot. The JDC board has for some time been discussing the need to review its religious-cultural program in Israel of which the yeshivot constitute the largest part. They -have been supported by JDC since the outbreak of World War I. 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