Define Attitude of B’nai Brith Hillel Foundation to Other Student Bodies

(Jewish Daily Bulletin)

The attitude of the B’nai Brith Hillel Foundation to other Jewish student organizations was defined in a resolution adopted at a meeting of the governing board of the B’nai Brith Foundation. In this resolution it is declared that conflict between the Hillel Foundation and any other existing Jewish student organization at the various universities in unthinkable.

The B’nai Brith has established Hillel Foundations at five universities the Universities the Universities of Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and California.

The resolution reads: “The B’nai Brith Hillel Foundation seeks to surround the Jewish college student with a Jewish atmosphere–social, educational, recreational, religious, and communal–during the four most formative as well as the most susceptible and impressionable years of youth. As such, it naturally welcomes all other Jewish organizations on the campus, and frequently includes all of them. The Intercollegiate Menorah Society, for example, which is largely cultural, and the Avukah, which is primarily Zionistic, are dedicated to some aspects of Jewish life and endeavor, while nothing Jewish is or can be foreign to the Hillel Foundation. It is Jewishly all-inclusive. It does not attempt to supplant or to compete, but always to coordinate, supplement, and cooperate with such activities as are already in existence, and will help to create them when not in existence. A conflict between the Hillel Foundation and any other existing Jewish student organization at the various universities is unthinkable. The Hillel Foundation, like the B’nai Brith itself, under whose auspices it is functioning, is neither Orthodox, Conservative, nor Reform, nor is it Zionistic, non-Zionistic, or anti-Zionistic. Every shade of Jewish thought and every Jewish aspiration is welcomed.”