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May 20, 1988 - Image 16

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1988-05-20

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I LOCAL NEWS)

COLONY
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BBG members (from left) Marla Pickstein, Marci Light and Becca Broder
await election results during the BBYO conclave at Camp Maas.

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Leaders Of Tomorrow

ELIZABETH KAPLAN

Staff Writer

T

he lawn outside the
auditorium at South-
field-Lathrup Senior
High School was covered from
one end to the other with lug-
gage, sleeping bags and more
than 160 teenagers.
The teenagers, members of
B'nai B'rith Girls and Aleph
Zadik Aleph, were on their
way to the annual B'nai
B'rith Youth Organization
Elections Training Conclave,
held last weekend at Camp
Maas.
It started with a bus ride to
the camp. During the journey,
the BBYOers bypassed the
age-old tradition of singing
camp songs in favor of blaring
their ghetto blasters with
music that ranged from the
comparatively mild Whitney
Houston to the multi-talented
Ozzy Osbourne (yes, the one
who bit off the bat's head).
Ah, youth.
Leading this pack off into
the wilderness were the in-
trepid Arnold Weiner, BBYO
senior executive director;
Adele Lewin, assistant direc-
tor of BBYO; Jon Isenberg,
assistant director of BBYO;
and 13 men and women who,
for reasons unknown to the
rest of us, volunteered to
serve as advisers for the
program.
BBYOers Ilene Goldfine
and Jon Freed worked as coor-
dinators of the event, together
with Lewin.
After the harrowing hour-
long journey that brought
them to Camp Maas, the
teenagers were, naturally,
ready for some sustenance.
This arrived in the form of
dinner — noodles and chicken
and "bug juice!' a tradition
that spans all generations of
campdom and creeps even
beyond the boundaries of city
and state. Yes, bug juice can

be found as close as Camp
Maas and as far as Camp
Ramah in Wisconsin and
Henry S. Jacobs Camp in
Mississippi.
After dinner it was time for
unpacking — a job more dif-
ficult than might appear to
the camp novice. For the girls,
there were curling irons to be
untwisted and diaries to be
hidden under pillows. For the
boys, there was the "Mr.
Cool" aftershave to be set on
the shelf and unpacking of
the myraid of T-shirts, newly
puchased and subsequently
ripped to affect a used look.
Those who would assume,
however, that it was merely a
weekend of the proverbial fun
and games should be
prepared to answer questions
posed to the teenagers during
the first evening program,
"Wandering Jews!"
Divided into small groups,
the BBYOers went from sta-
tion to station, where they
were required to answer both
factual questions and more
esoteric ones, such as "Do you
think the Jews have a biblical
right to Israel?" Each station
was devoted to a certain
theme, including Jewish
entertainers, the history of
Israel and Jewish holidays.
Asked, at the latter stop, to
name the most important
Jewish holiday, participants
most frequently selected
Israel Independence Day,
Passover and Yom Kippur.
The teenagers also were
willing to confront issues
many adults might prefer to
ignore. Separated earlier in
the evening into their respec-
tive BBG and AZA groups,
the young women and men
discussed such topics as the
need to address AIDS. Karen
Gold, outgoing BBG presi-
dent, said she hoped she had
accomplished one of the goals
she cited at the beginning of
her term — to bring back

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