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groups, there was no agreement.
The executive board of B’nai B’rith
Women at a March 1985 meeting
heard a recommendation that B’nai
B’rith Women separate from B’nai
B’rith and that a delegate assembly
be called for June 1985 to determine
and re-evaluate the relationship be
tween the two organizations.
It was after the March meeting,
Davis says, that she followed her
pattern of going to the grass roots.
A series of town hall meetings was
scheduled across the country. It
took only a few meetings to deter
mine that there was a common
thread of concern. According to
Davis, the questions were: “Would
we be able to use the name of B’nai
B’rith Women? Would we have the
opportunity to support BBYO and
ADLand Hillel—all those programs
that were so very important to our
membership.” The message that
emerged was “we’re perhaps willing
to separate, but go back and try one
more time to see if B’nai B’rith
Women and B’nai B’rith men cannot
reach some kind of accommodation
whereby we would still be able to
live within the same family.” This
was the message that Davis passed
on to Jerry Kraft, president of B’nai
B rith I n ter national. Me agreed and
a high leveljoint planningcommittee
was formed.
Nobody said it would be easy,
but after six meetings, a preliminary
report was issued this past Decem
ber. The final report will be presented
to B’nai B’rith Women’s March
biennial convention in Las Vegas
and to B’nai B’rith International’s
biennial in August.
In a news release issued in Decem
ber, the essentials of the proposals
indicate a reconciliation in the
family, with B’nai B’rith Women
remaining an integral part of the
constitutional structure of B’nai
B’rith International. The committee
recommends establishment of a
joint executive council with equal
representation of men and women
to periodically review and coordi
nate programs and policy matters
of mutual concern.
The report recommends that in
the United States, B’nai B’rith
Women continues to be the sole
membership vehicle by which women
become members of B’nai B’rith.
However, new units for men and
women can be formed without
restriction, with women in units
continuing to be members of B’nai
B’rith Women. The committee also
recommends that women in units
be eligible for office in either B’nai
B’rith Women or in B’nai B’rith
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the first time, women would be
eligible to hold any office in B’nai
B’rith, including the presidency.
There is also a recommendation
that BBI and BBW initiate joint
programs and projects and that
members be encouraged to partici
pate in these joint activities.
Davis believes that the joint exec
utive council called for in the pro
posals (with the chairmanship rotat
ing between the president of BBW
and the president of BBI) is one of
the most important parts of the
proposal. She says, “That provides
a forum where we’ll have the oppor
tunity to really talk to each other so
that hopefully something like this
will not happen again.” She called it
“a first step for mutual understand
ing” but believes it is contingent
upon mutual respect and cooper
ation.
Nothing is certain yet, but Davis
is hopeful.
Still, when her term of office
expires next month (she cannot
succeed herself), she will know she’s
given it her best shot.
She knows, too, that she has
lived up to the pledge she made to
get around the country, and, as she
puts it, “through my visibility within
the total community of Jewish and
non-Jewish organizations, to en
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Women.”
Then, just before leaving, Beverly
Davis’s face softens as she talks
about her son, her daughter and
two grandchildren. And most par
ticularly she praises her husband:
“Len was always willing to back me
and I guess in his own way, he’s
very proud.”
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