The 12th annual international convention of B’nai B’rith Girls opened at the University of Illinois here today with 175 teen-age girls from scores of American and Canadian communities in attendance. The youthful delegates, representing more than 16,000 members back home, will also participate in a leadership training institute following their four-day working convention.
Among the major issues to be resolved during the convention will be selection of a new international community service project for the coming year. B’nai B’rith Girls’ 600 chapters across the U.S. and Canada are currently winding up three-year fundraising campaigns on behalf of the Children’s Home in Jerusalem, and the Leo N. Levi Memorial Hospital, Hot Springs, Ark, the nation’s only non-sectarian hospital devoted exclusively to the treatment of rheumatism and arthritis.
Focus of the five-day leadership training institute will be on helping to develop budding leadership traits. Delegates will attend a series of lectures and participate in round-tables, discussions and seminars on topics related to Judaism, world affairs, human relations and others.
B’nai B’rith Girls is one of the major constituent divisions of the B’nai B’rith Youth Organization, world’s largest Jewish youth organization. BBG membership is limited to girls of high school age. BBYO’s other divisions are: Aleph Zadik Aleph, for boys 14 to 21; and B’nai B’rith Young Adults, for young men and women 19 to 26. Combined membership of all three divisions is 32,500.
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