The Independent Order of B'nai Brith (Hebrew: "Sons of the Covenant") is the oldest continually-operating Jewish service organization in the world. It was founded in New York City by Henry Jones and 11 others on October 13, 1843. The organization is engaged in a wide variety of community service and welfare activities, including the promotion of human rights, assisting hospitals and victims of natural disasters, awarding scholarships to Jewish college students, and opposing racism and anti-semitism through its Anti-Defamation League. Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by 6 million people mainly in Israel, parts of the Palestinian territories, the United States and by Jewish communities around the world. ... The word Jew (Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity; and often a combination of these attributes. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, the most densely populated major city in North America, and is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture. ... Henry Jones is a fictional character in the movie Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. ... October 13 is the 286th day of the year (287th in leap years). ... 1843 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... A black man drinks out of a water fountain designated for black people in 1939 at a streetcar terminal. ... The Eternal Jew: 1937 German poster. ... The Anti-Defamation League (or ADL) of Bnai Brith is an American organization set up by Bnai Brith whose aim is to stop, by appeals to reason and conscience and, if necessary, by appeals to law, the defamation of the Jewish people. ...

Besides its welfare activities, B'nai Brith is also a vocal supporter of the state of Israel. Together with AIPAC, it created in 2002 an initiative called 'BBYO 4 Israel'. U.S. President George W. Bush addresses AIPAC members in Washington on May 18, 2004. ...

Also, until 2001, B'nai Brith sponsored the B'nai B'rith Youth Organization (BBYO), which is now BBYO, Inc. BBYO is the oldest Jewish youth group (for high schoolers), and is parent organization to the Aleph Zadik Aleph (AZA), a fraternity, and B'nai B'rith Girls (BBG), a sorority. Bnai Brith Youth Organization (BBYO) is a worldwide youth-led organization for high-school age Jewish teens. ... Aleph Zadik Aleph (AZA) is the mens order of Bnai Brith Youth Organization (BBYO), an international youth-led high school fraternity for Jewish teens. ... A fraternity is an organization that represents the relationship between its members as akin to brotherhood. ... Bnai Brith Girls or BBG is the womens order of Bnai Brith Youth Organization(BBYO), an international youth-led high school sorority for Jewish youth. ... While the term fraternity can be used to describe any number of social organizations, including the Lions Club and the Shriners, fraternities and sororities are most commonly known as social organizations of higher education students in the United States and Canada but there are fraternities in the whole world (for...

B'nai Brith Canada

The Canadian section of B'nai Brith was founded in 1875 and is the country's oldest Jewish service organization. In recent years it has competed with the Canadian Jewish Congress as "the voice" of Canada's Jewish community and is considered to be the more outspokenly conservative body of the two, particularly in its publication Jewish Tribune which is more openly right-wing than the more moderate Canadian Jewish News, which is more closely linked to the CJC. B'nai Brith Canada (BBC) is also considered to be closer to the Likud in its view of Israel and Zionism than CJC which is officially non-partisan when it comes to Israeli politics. In Canadian politics, though both groups are officially non-partisan, several former senior officials in the CJC, such as former President Irwin Cotler have run as candidates for the Liberal Party of Canada while Frank Dimant, executive director of B'nai Brith, considered running as a candidate of the conservative Canadian Alliance in the 2000 federal election. 1875 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... The Canadian Jewish Congress is an umbrella group of Jewish organizations in Canada and constitutes the main lobby group for the Jewish community in the country though it often competes with Bnai Brith Canada in that regard. ... The Canadian Jewish News is a weekly, English_language tabloid-sized newspaper serving Canadas Jewish community. ... Likud party logo Likud or ליכוד literally means consolidation. The Likud is a right-wing Israeli political party. ... Irwin Cotler The Honourable Irwin Cotler PC , OC , BA , BCL , LL.D. , LL.M. , Ph. ... The Liberal Party of Canada (French: Parti libéral du Canada) is Canadas current governing political party. ... The Canadian Alliance (in full, the Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance) was a Canadian right_of_centre conservative political party that existed from 2000 to 2003. ... The 2000 Canadian federal election was held on November 27, 2000. ...

B'nai Brith was widely criticized after its Ontario chairman for B'nai Brith's Institute of International Affairs in October 2004 made a statement on The Michael Coren Show in Canada, saying that Israel’s acts of self-defence against Palestinian terrorism could be construed as “state-sponsored terrorism”– a position he says he took in light of the definition that the panelists on the Michael Coren Show had adopted for the purposes of their discussion. According to Aptowitzer, the terminologies agreed upon by the panelists, effectively meant that “deterrence could be classified as a terrorist action.” The group has also been criticized for demonizing militia groups.

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• B'nai Brith Canada
• The Changing Role of B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League
• Canadian Muslims, Arabs Call On B'nai Brith To Repudiate "terror" Comments
• The Defamation League