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In the first two decades of the 20th century B'nai B'rith launched three of today's major Jewish organizations: The [[Anti-Defamation League]] (ADL), [[Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life|Hillel]] and [[BBYO]] (originally B'nai B'rith Youth Organization). Later they would take on a life of their own with varying degrees of autonomy.
A growing concern in the 1920s was the preservation of Jewish values as immigration slowed and a native Jewish population of Eastern European ancestry came to maturity.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/cr_53.htm |title=Civic Report 53 | Measuring Immigrant Assimilation in the United States |publisher=Manhattan-institute.org |date=}}</ref> In 1923, Rabbi Benjamin Frankel of Illinois established an organization on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to provide both Reform and Orthodox Sabbath services, classes in Judaism and social events for Jewish college students. Two years later, he approached B'nai B'rith about adopting this new campus organization. B'nai B'rith sponsorship of the Hillel Foundations enabled it to extend throughout the United States, eventually become international and to grow into a network of more than 500 campus student organizations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hillel.org/NR/rdonlyres/C5146418-3638-435A-8BB9-24592F5500F9/0/hillel_history.pdf |title=Hillel History |publisher=www.hillel.org |date= |accessdate=2012-08-07}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hillel.org/about/news/2008/sep/hillel_history_18september2008.htm |title=A Brief History |publisher=Hillel.org |date=2008-09-18}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=From the Chancellor's Desk: |url=http://illinois.edu/ |title=University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |publisher=Illinois.edu |date=}}</ref>
At virtually the same time as [[Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life|Hillel]] was being established, Sam Beber of Omaha, Neb., presented a plan in 1924 to B'nai B'rith for a fraternity for Jewish men in high school. The new organization was called [[Aleph Zadik Aleph]] in imitation of the Greek-letter fraternities from which Jewish youth were excluded. In 1925, AZA became the junior auxiliary of B'nai B'rith.
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===Presidential Gold Medal===
The Presidential Gold Medal is awarded by B'nai B'rith every few years to honor the recipient's commitment to the Jewish people and the [[Israel|State of Israel]]. Recipients have included [[David Ben-Gurion]], [[John F. Kennedy]], [[George H. W. Bush]], [[Stephen Harper]] and [[Golda Meir]]. The Gold Medal has been given to former Austrian chancellor [[Franz Vranitzky]],<ref>[http://oe1.orf.at/inforadio/58058.html?filter=1 oe1.ORF.at / News<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070306061922/http://oe1.orf.at/inforadio/58058.html?filter=1 |date=2007-03-06 }}</ref><ref>[http://oe1.orf.at/inforadio/58060.html?filter=3 oe1.ORF.at / Bnai B´rith-Medaille für Altkanzler Vranitzky<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070306061822/http://oe1.orf.at/inforadio/58060.html?filter=3 |date=2007-03-06 }}</ref> [[Prime Minister of Australia|Australian Prime Minister]] [[John Howard]],<ref>[http://www.bnaibrith.org.au/newsletterPopup.asp?NewsletterID=70 B'nai B'rith Australia / NZ<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060819031400/http://www.bnaibrith.org.au/newsletterPopup.asp?NewsletterID=70 |date=August 19, 2006 }}</ref><ref>[http://bnaibrith.org/pubs/pr/05172006_johnhoward.cfm B'nai B'rith Award Ceremony Honors Australian Prime Minister John Howard<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060614052050/http://bnaibrith.org/pubs/pr/05172006_johnhoward.cfm |date=June 14, 2006 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.friendsfromasia.com/node/823 "PRIME Minister John Howard will be presented the prestigious B'nai B'rith international Preside..."], (cache)</ref> former [[Chancellor of Germany|German Chancellor]] [[Willy Brandt]] and former U.S. presidents [[Harry S. Truman]], [[Gerald R. Ford]] and [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]. In 1969 Edwin Palmer "EP" Hoyt, as Editor and Publisher of the Denver Post for 25 years, was given the B'nai B'rith Man of the Year award for his tireless humanitarian work against bigotry in defense of Jewish people.
===B'nai B'rith Book Award===
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