More than 160 teen-age delegates, representing some 14,000 members throughout the United States and Canada, are attending the 33rd annual international convention and leadership training institute of Aleph Zadik Aleph, boy’s division of the B’nai B’rith Youth Organization, which opened here tonight at the University of Illinois.
Delegates will participate in a five-day leadership training institute to be followed by a four-day working convention. Both events will run through Friday, August 31. Major convention speakers will be Label A. Katz, New Orleans attorney, chairman of the B’nai B’rith Youth Commission, policy-making body for the B’nai B’rith Youth Organization, and Dr. David Fellman, professor of American Government at the University of Wisconsin.
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