“Find Your BBG Heartbeat!”
Atlanta Council’s 2006 L.T.I. Separates Program
(Lights are off; candles are lit around the perimeter of the room. Girls running the programare spread out in a circle around the participants. Flashlights are turned on when it is your turn to speak but besides the candles and thespeaker‘s flashlight the room is dark. Those running the program are wearing all black sothey cannot be seen. Participants are given a bag with a BBG cut into different pieces)
Girls walk in by chapter (play This ones for the girls by Martina McBride)
Jordan- My sister B‘nai B‘rith Girls,
(Start beat…pat legs 4 times creating heartbeat-sounding rhythm)
Inspire (Start beat
Michelle: —It's not just the pin and the way you wear it, but the love you receive and the way
you share it“
Lauren: Dream (Start beat)
Sam: —It‘s not just the screams and the cheers But the memories of much laughter and tears“
Allie: Love (Start beat)
Nicole: —It's not just the feeling you get when someone says "hi" But the heaviness in your
heart when you have to say goodbye“
Jordan: Passion (Start beat)
Michelle: —It's not just how many calls and letters you read But the friend who sent them, which
we all need“
Lauren: Dedication (Start beat)
Sam: —It's not just an organization which is a place to me but so much more, just you wait
and see“
Allie: Believe (Start beat)
Nicole: —No, it's not just an interesting little pin. But the heart behind it, and the body within“
Michelle: Strength (Start beat)
Lauren: Sisterhood (Start beat)
(Four counts of beat then everyone stops, Jennie, Blair, Dana & Nikki turn flashlights
turn on)
Jordan: Welcome to the B‘nai B‘rith Youth Organization.
Michelle: An organization where YOU, as a Jewish Teen, have the power to make a difference.
Lauren: BBYO has the power to completely change your life within 4 years.
Sam: It has the power to transform you into the person you‘ve always yearned to become.
Allie: It has the ability to create sisters out of strangers, and make leaders out of
—followers“.
Nicole: It can take a shy girl, and create a strong and inspirational BBG.
Michelle: Keeping this in mind, in order for this organization to make an impact on your life, youmust allow BBYO to take you by the hand and lead you to places where you have onlydreamed of going.
Lauren: Take advantage of every meeting, Saturday night program, and regional convention.
Allie: Introduce yourself to as many BBG’s as humanly possible.
Sam: Run for leadership positions.
Michelle: My sisters of Atlanta Council B‘nai B‘rith girls: I challenge you to take a chance---
Lauren: Give BBG a chance.
Sam: Strive to become an active member.
Michelle: Support your chapter.
Lauren: Discover your —“place” in this organization
Sam: Dream of where your BBG heart beat can take you…
(From the spot of the circle where they are standing…)
Jordan: A chapter meeting, function or fundraiser; on the outside it appears to the plain eye
to be just a bunch of girls getting together.
Allie: Once you put on your x-ray glasses, it is so much more. You are now able to see the
vision beyond the first glance.
Nicole: You can see friendship, sisters, traditions and fun that come along with these
events.
Jordan: You can see an older member taking a younger member under her wing and making
her vision of BBG change.
Allie: Before your eyes your visions of this organization will change. You will see that
there is so much more to this order that meets the eye.
Nicole: My sister B‘nai B‘rith Girls, look beyond what your eyes can see, look for the vision
that Anita Perlman saw, look for your own vision of what BBG should be to you.
Jordan: We‘re not saying that you need to be extremely active and attend every possible
event, but you must simply make your vision of BBG your reality.
Allie: This organization is only what you make it to be, what you see it as. You may see it
differently each year of high school, but it is normal and expect that your vision will be
altered before your eyes.
Nicole: Freshman year is exciting in BBYO. You see new faces and you look up to the older
girls of your chapter. Everything is new to you but your vision of BBG is purely your chapter.
When you think of BBYO you see the 38 smiling faces of the girls in your chapter.
Jordan: Sophomore year you see things in a new light. BBYO is still exciting and mostly
about the chapter but now you have met many people in the region. Your vision of BBYO has
changed. You now see the cute AZA that you met at New Member, you see your new
best friends from Kallah and your vision of BBYO now includes your chapter as well as the rest
of the council.
Allie: Junior year your vision changes once again and you recognize the region as a
whole rather than seeing each chapter individually. You see that each chapter does work
together to help create the concil and help it to become strong.
Nicole: Senior year you pass your vision on to others. You finally see what BBYO is all about
and you want the incoming freshman to continue your vision that you work so hard to achieve.
Jordan: A chapter meeting, function or fundraiser; on the outside it appears to the plain eye
to be just a bunch of girls getting together.
Allie: look beyond the piety fights, the AZAs, and the lost elections.
Nicole: Instead look at the separate programs that brought you to tears, all the hard work put into S.R.C Runoffs, and the sisterhood sleepovers where sleep was just a word.
Jordan: At first glance BBG is just an organization but once you take the time to look through
the looking glass you will be able to find your own vision of what BBYO truly is.
Allie: for each person the vision is different; just make sure your vision can come alive for
you.
Jordan: How do you see yourself in this organization? Please take out the Vision part of your
BBG and write where you see yourself in this organization.
(Play What a Wonderful World)
Michelle: To you just re-entering B'nai B'rith Girls we extend a warm welcome. You are a
member of the largest organization of young Jewish women in the world. B'nai B'rith Girls has
given to thousands the wonderful opportunity of developing leadership among girls and young
women. At the same time you are enabled to relate to the young men of the Aleph Zadik
Aleph and work together with them towards a better society and a stronger Jewish community
under the banner of the B'nai B'rith Youth Organization.
The unique B'nai B'rith Girls way of life helps you find and express your Jewish identity while
expanding your circle of friends. There is no one path to Jewish commitment. BBG offers you
the chance to acquire knowledge and to make choices.
Your first choice was your decision to become a part of BBG. You now have choices of
activities and also the choice of how much of yourself you will invest in this great cause. The
more of yourself that you will give to BBG, the more you will receive.
Shalom, Anita M. Perlman
(From the spot of the circle where they are standing…)
Nicole: OMG, yesterday it was like really snowy outside, and when I was walking into school
I totally didn‘t want to get my new Ugg boots or my Sevens dirty.
Lauren: Omg, what‘d you do?!
Nicole: I made my little sister‘s friends walk in front of me so I wouldn‘t get my designer
clothes dirty.
Lauren: I totally do that all the time!!
Nicole: Ok, we know you‘re probably thinking ”what does that have to do with this program?‘
Lauren: But we swear we have a point.
Nicole: —Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it.
well in possibility“ œ Oprah Winfrey
Lauren: —I don‘t wanna be the next anybody… I want to be the first me.“- Vanessa Carlton
Nicole: —In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different“ -Coco Chanel
Nicole: Entering BBG, everyone has a choice.
Lauren: You choose what chapter to join,
Nicole: what programs to attend,
Lauren: what boy to fall for,
Nicole: and even how active you want to be.
Lauren: Your four years in BBG are determined by which path you choose.
Nicole: When you enter BBG, you are following the footprints that someone else has left for
you.
Lauren: Following the same path that they once took while at the same time, having the
ability to do things differently… in your own way. The choices you make in BBG will remain
long after you graduate.
Nicole: Your journey in BBG is about developing a legacy, a character, and a footprint that
is worth leaving behind. Something you can look back on and be proud of.
Lauren: Something that other people will want to follow.
Nicole: You want people to think of you and how you inspired them, how you changed their
life, or made them a better person.
Lauren: You are a role model. Everyone in this room is.
Nicole: Whether it is an older girl, a younger girl, or even someone of the same age that
looks up to you, you have made a difference in someone else‘s life just by being you.
Lauren: You may think of yourself as JUST a member, but you are so much more than that.
Nicole: You are a B‘nai Brith Girl and our organization can only succeed with our influence,
Lauren: our passion,
Nicole: and our drive.
Lauren: It‘s up to us to make our four years everything that we want it to be.
Nicole: By choosing the path that fits each of us the best, only then are we able to leave
behind our footprints and give someone else the chance to find their way.
Lauren: Think of BBG as a Choose Your Own Adventure Book.
Nicole: Each of us has been given the opportunity to make the most of our four years… to
choose our own path.
Lauren: What you get out of BBG depends on what you put into it.
Nicole: Going back to our skit in the beginning, we want you to create your own journey.
Lauren: The footprints in the snow are left behind for you as a guide, but in order to venture
through the snow to a different location, sometimes you have to risk getting your boots and
jeans a little wet.
Nicole and Lauren: And by looking around this room tonight, we can assure you that it‘s
worth it
Jordan: Where do you want this organization to take you? Please take out the footprints part of
your BBG and write where you want BBG to take you.
(Play Go the Distance from Hercules)
Jordan: Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers.
Sam: The round pegs in the square holes.
Allie: The one who sees things differently.
Michele: They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo.
Jordan: You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, about the only thing
you can't do is ignore them.
Sam: Because they change things.
Allie: They push the human race forward.
Michelle: And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because people who
are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do. - Apple
My Sister B'nai B'rith Girls,
This year I challenge you to be crazy. I challenge you to think differently. I challenge you
to be real. I challenge you to stop caring about what other people think and to embrace the
person that you are. I challenge you to scream out ideas that you have even when you think
that others will shut them down. I challenge you to never give up - through lost elections,
broken hearts, and struggling chapters. I challenge you to be as crazy as you want to be,
because being crazy means that you're nothing like anyone else.
My Sisters, this year we will be the crazy ones. Because we will believe, deep down, that
we can change the world. We will believe that we can change our Order, that we can change
our regions, and that we can change our chapters. We will believe that we can be ourselves
even when we are scared to be too different, because we will know that making a difference
only comes easily when we are being exactly who we truly are.
BBGs, I have to be honest - I am the crazy one. I see things differently. People think I'm
weird sometimes, and I am perfectly ok with that. I hate being ignored. I refuse to stand still.
I yearn to make a difference, I proud to call myself a B'nai B'rith Girl. I will dedicate every
waking moment of this year to our Order, because I believe in the members that are a part of
it. I am your International N'siah, I am crazy.
Are you ready to be crazy too?
Respectfully Submitted With Undying Love for Every
B'nai B'rith Girl, for our Order, for Being Crazy,
Shauna Ann Ruda
61st International N'siah
(From the spot of the circle where they are standing…)
Jordan: Hands. Most do not realize their power or feel the impact of a single touch. A
hand can be used to inspire, help, comfort, or motivate. In this organization, a hand can be a
very powerful and vital tool.
Sam: Hands inspire. “Shabbat at CLTC is incredible. The singing, the dancing, and the
traditions, are like nothing you can explain. There is a spirit in the atmosphere that I have
never found anywhere else. On my first Shabbat at CLTC, the 64 of us gathered around with
Kallah West. Their emotion, their spirit and the songs they sang were inspirational. They
each sang with all of their heart, pronouncing each Hebrew syllable, singing it at the top of
their lungs! They gave each song a beat and a rhythm. They had each of us reaching with
our hands. They were standing on their chairs, dancing around the dining hall, putting their
all into celebrating this one special day of the week. Together they chanted —Na na, na na na
na na, na na na na na, na na na na na. He nay matov he nay ma tovu manayim. Shevet achim
achim gam Yachad.“ As each CLTCer stood anxious and confused, Emily Hyatt, the 59
thInternational N‘siah grabbed my hand. As she touched my hand, it was as if a little bit of her
love and dedication for this organization rubbed off on me, just enough to inspire me to join in
on the joyous celebration of the Sabbath. Hands have the power to inspire.”Danielle, CLTC 7 2004
Allie: Hands help. There are many people in this community who do not share the same
opportunities that all of us do. Whether it‘s community service, a bottle drive, or even just
giving money to I$F, all members directly or indirectly help others by the use of hands. When
visiting the Ann Arbor chapter this year for their 6-fold function, the community service
project was to make Rosh Hashanah baskets for members of a nursing home. Not only was
the project simple and easy, it most likely made some person feel amazing by knowing that
someone else cared and hopefully helped them get through the day. Hands have the power to
help.
Michelle: Hands comfort. This idea is one that never disappears, but only grows as each BBG
experiences it first hand. A hand is so important in the reality that you can touch someone
with it. No, not just like giving them a high five, but really touching them spiritually. Close
your eyes. Remember a time when you needed to be comforted. Did someone give you a hand
to make it better, did they blow you a kiss, or did they give you a hug to make the pain go
away? In any case, a hand has been there for you. Hands have the power to comfort.
Allie: Hands motivate. It is sometimes hard for someone when faced with difficult
problems and many tasks to keep on going with a positive attitude. With this in mind, it is
very easy in this organization to become stressed and reach a point where you just want to
give up. However, every time when you feel like there is no one to turn to, you find someone
who is always willing to lend a hand. There was a time in the process of planning a program, that I needed a little motivation. I was met with many who offered to help and do
anything that they could. Their willingness and dedication to this organization motivated me