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Also, until 2001, B'nai Brith sponsored the B'nai B'rith Youth Organization (BBYO), which is now BBYO, Inc. BBYO is the oldest Jewish youth group (for high schoolers), and is parent organization to the Aleph Zadik Aleph (AZA), a fraternity, and B'nai B'rith Girls (BBG), a sorority.
The Canadian section of B'nai Brith was founded in 1875 and is the country's oldest Jewish service organization. In recent years it has competed with the Canadian Jewish Congress as "the voice" of Canada's Jewish community and is considered to be the more outspokenly conservative body of the two, particularly in its publication Jewish Tribune which is more openly right-wing than the more moderate Canadian Jewish News published by the CJC. B'nai Brith Canada (BBC) is also considered to be closer to the Likud in its view of Israel and Zionism than CJC which is officially non-partisan when it comes to Israeli politics. In Canadian politics, though both groups are officially non-partisan, several former senior officials in the CJC, such as former President Irwin Cotler have run as candidates for the Liberal Party of Canada while Frank Dimant , executive director of B'nai Brith considered running as a candidate of the right wing Canadian Alliance in the 2000 Canadian election.