2024-2025
OUR MOVEMENT'S CORE LEADERSHIP
The Grand Board of the Aleph Zadik Aleph and the International Board of the B’nai B’rith Girls lead, manage, and support the
Movement’s teen leadership and membership via the International Leadership Network (ILN). The ILN is the core of the Movement's leadership
around the world—it builds, shapes, and leverages the power of AZA & BBG and Jewish teens worldwide.
Learn about the different areas of the ILN and explore current opportunities that exist below. New opportunities to serve on the ILN will pop up on the Lead Hub throughout the year. The largest wave of opportunities open in June. See who is currently serving on the ILN leadership team for this school year.
Opportunities for teens to work together to plan events, mobilize the Movement, or work toward a shared goal on a project.
★ Appointed or Selected
Exclusive leadership experiences focused on building new skills and gaining content expertise.
★ Appointed or Selected
Clubs are groups focused on building community around a topic, hobby, shared identity, or passion. They are open to all members. On average, clubs meet once a month.
★ Open to All
Groups of teens with similar responsibilities in their communities.
★ Elected
Groups of teens unite in-person or virtually for travel, education, and Ambassadors exchanges.
★ Selected
If there’s something you’re interested in doing that you don’t see on here, let us know. We love hearing new ideas and finding ways for you to use BBYO as a platform for good. We believe that every member can add unique value to enhance our Order and the global Jewish community. We need your help to make that happen.
Explore All OpportunitiesThe Grand Board of the Aleph Zadik Aleph and the International Board of the B’nai B’rith Girls lead the Movement’s 61 countries forward while supporting more than 740 chapters to be the strongest homes they can be for Jewish teens worldwide.
This core group of leaders, supported by their Captains, Chairs, and Committee members, will lead the Movement's priorities this year in a meaningful way. Diving into projects from Explore Israel, #givingBBYODay, AZAA and BBGG, Global Shabbat, Stand Up, Global Democracy and Voting, BBYO OnDemand, and more, this stellar team will provide guidance for the Movement on all of our important causes.
Alephs and BBYO professionals working to advance BBYO's engagement, recruitment, hosting, and program strategies to reach, inspire, and involve more Alephs across the Order.
The BBYO Pride Committee, led by the Pride Committee Chairs, is a team of LGBTQ+ teens leaders and allies will work to build tools and resources to facilitate inclusion, celebration, and education for chapters and leaders to use. All teens are welcome to join.
This team of leader teens are starting a new or rebuilding a chapter in their community this year. They will spend the year developing expertise in building new chapters and bringing long-lasting chapter excellence to their communities.
The Dialogue Across Differences Fellows are building practical communication skills for engaging in dialogue across differences. This fellowship will develop the tools teens need to engage in challenging conversations in topics such as Israel/Palestine, political tensions, ethical and religious views, and interpersonal difference. They will bring back to their communities important skills, trainings, and resources.
Gamechanger Innovation Grants are a crucial tool to help us create exciting and innovative chapter programs and grow our chapters. The Gamechanger Granting Committee is working to delegate funds, coach chapters to meet (and surpass!) their goals, and meet weekly to raise the bar for chapter program excellence across the Movement. This committee is managed by our International Gizborim. Learn more about the Gizborim Network and Gamechanger Grants.
The Global Israel Fellowship a unique, fully funded opportunity that provides a constructive space for young teen leaders from around the world to learn about, grapple with, explore, and engage with Israel.
A global event at IC’s scale takes a worldwide team of excellent leaders. Each year, Alephs and B’nai B’rith Girls apply for hundreds of roles to leverage their talents to build an unprecedented experience that outdoes itself every year. We have immense gratitude for the team who works tirelessly to pull this event off.
The Leven Global Leadership Academy (LGLA) prepares an elite cohort of Jewish teens from around the world with marketable leadership skills and experiences that are transferable throughout their lives. Learn more about the Global Leadership Academy here.
Maimonides Moot Court Competition (MMCC) is a program for high school students to grapple with modern ethical challenges through a prism of Jewish legal tradition - and these teens will bring the BBYO competition team to victory this year!
The MTZ Ambassadors Fellowship is a unique program run in partnership between BBYO and Maccabi Tzair Israel. Each year, only twenty Israeli Maccabi Tzair teens are selected to serve as ambassadors. Ambassadors explore and strengthen their Israeli-Jewish identities, gain leadership skills and bring our Movements closer together. They lead Movement initiatives in their chapters, and connect our global movement to Israel by creating strong and meaningful peer-to-peer relationships.
The Press Corps captures stories from around the Movement to provide ongoing updates for The Shofar: The International Newsletter of AZA & BBG, helps build BBYO’s brand, and celebrates initiatives, campaigns, and events from around the Order. You may see members from this team running around at events taking photos, posting on social media, filming videos, and documenting our experiences in any way possible.
This committee, led by our Program Bank Team Leads, will collect, evaluate, format, and publish ongoing submissions from chapters around the world to build our BBYO Program Bank. This group of teens and staff will meet weekly to design strategies to promote the Program Bank, review and share new programs, and steward excellent programming throughout the Movement.
The Rise UP Cohort is working to establish Rise UP as a Movement priority by building programming resources, launching the Rise UP website, and continuing to combat anti-Semitism. The Task Force will work with professionals in the Jewish community to lift the voices of Jewish teens and speak out against anti-Semitism.
