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which has had its allocation from
B'nai B'rith cut by 21 percent in the
past year; its network of senior hous-
ing, funded by the federal government
but managed by B'nai B'rith; its advo-
cacy for Israel in the United Nations;
and its international presence. Rarely
will anyone say what particular issues
B'nai B'rith stands for.

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The group is often compared to a
father whose children have moved out
of the house. It founded the Anti-
Defamation League and the campus
student organization, Hillel, but both
have become independent entities
with far larger operating budgets than
B'nai B'rith itself
Hillel, which in the early 1990s
dropped the words B'nai B'rith from
its name, still receives approximately
half a million dollars from the group
but receives more than 10 times that
amount from Jewish federations.
Even B'nai B'rith's wife of sorts,
B'nai B'rith Women, left the house in
1990. For five years, the group, which
reports membership of 40,000, paid
hundreds of thousands of dollars a
year to use the B'nai B'rith name.
Then it became Jewish Women
International and made domestic vio-
lence its focal issue.
With budget cuts now hitting
BBYO, will the 30,000-member youth
group
described repeatedly as B'nai
B'rith's "crown jewel" — be the next
to leave?
"It won't become a separate agency
as long as I'm president," said
Heideman, noting that B'nai B'rith
recently launched a special fund-rais-
ing campaign for the youth group.
But fears of losing BBYO may have
fueled the resistance this spring to
Heideman's "vision statement" for a
partnership. The statement suggested
making BBYO the official youth
group of the Jewish community cen-
ters movement.
It was a move BBYO leaders —
including the teens themselves — saw
as untenable, and these opponents
succeeded in ending the discussion.
The opponents, who are quick to
point out that they were not consulted
until the statement had already been
approved by B'nai B'rith's executive
committee, say it would have ceded
control to the Jewish community cen-
ters, which are only loosely joined
together and thus not accountable to
their national movement.
"My feeling was the individual
chapters would've become nothing

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