JSFLYER

On Wednesday, September 12, 2001 at the Little Neck
Jewish Center at 49-10 Little Neck Parkway, the Jewish
Scouting Committee of Cub Scout Pack 178 of Great Neck
will hold its first membership recruiting drive.

Pack 178 has been chartered since 19xx serving the Great
Neck Community but for the first time our organization
will have a branch operating under the guidelines of both
the National Jewish Committee on Scouting and the
Theodore Roosevelt Council Jewish Scouting Committee
whose missions are to promote Cub Scouting among
Jewish youth, to supplement and assist Jewish
Institutions in providing a Jewish Education to Children
and to provide Scouting opportunities for Jewish Youth,
and to Promote Jewish values in Scouting by achieving a
strong and viable religious emblems program and to
provide financial assistance so that scouts with financial
need can attend local kinnus camp and national functions.

We have a full calendar of activities
planned through June of 2002
which include Scout Shabbats at
the Little Neck Jewish Center on
November 9th, Temple Emmanuel
on March 1, 2001 and a district
Scout Shabbat, on February 8th.
Awards ceremony for the
Maccabee and Aleph Emblems,
Weekend Shomer Shabbat Kinnus
at Pouch Lake in Staten Island,
Jewish Awards Cub Activity Day,
Ten Commandment Hike, Lag
B'Omer Picnic, 15th Annual Jewish
NE Regional Council Leadership
Seminar, Jewish Scouting for Food
Day and Jewish Awards Breakfast.
In addition to all the regular
activities planned by our PACK
such as Pinewood Derby, Regatta
Races, Space Derby, Go-Kart Day
etc.

We welcome all children between the Ages who are under 11 years old and have not completed 5th
Grade. If you would like to receive further information please contact either Elliott Gayer (Ass't
Cubmaster & Jewish Committee Co-Chair) at 516-482-8963 or Jonathan Lifschutz (Pack 178 Jewish
Committee Co-Chair) at 516-829-9111 or visit our web site at WWW.Pack178.Freeservers.Com and
click on the link to "Religious Scouting." We look forward to you and your child's participation in
Jewish Scouting. Our Pack discriminates against no one and all who desire to promote the
purposes of Scouting are welcomed to join.

In addition to being a game and lots of fun, Scouting also contains a code of honor - the Scout Oath or Promise by which a boy
affirms his duty to God and his country, his obligation to help other people, and his aim to keep himself physically, mentally, and
morally fit. Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting, once wrote: "Scouting aims to give the boy a practical idea of the
responsibilities of life before him, and endeavors to inculcate the practice of his religion in his everyday life and doings." The late
Rabbi Joshua Loth Liebman z"tl was an enthusiastic supporter of Scouting. In an address before the National Council
of the Boy Scouts of America in 1947 he said: "I know the meaning of Scouting because of what it has done in every
synagogue with which I have been connected since I was ordained as a rabbi, in every community of which I have been a
part, I think of the great blessings it confers upon American life and world life."