Friday, May 13, 1977 13

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Mementos of Moscow's Chief Rabbi
Find an Honored Place in Israel

By MOSHE RON

Emanuel is a retired ma-
chine engineer, his wife
Golda has the same profes-
sion and works in the Isra-
best factory in Naharyia.
They came to Israel six
years ago with their only
son, Jacob. Their apart-
ment now houses the con-
tents of the working room
of the late Chief Rabbi
Shleifer.
They put up bookcases
with mode than a thousand
books, some of them over
200 years old. On the
shelves are the old Bible of
the chief rabbi, his taut and
tefilin, his writings,
speeches and letters, which
he received from all parts
of the world. We can see a
rich collection of photos of
Rabbi Shleifer showing his
manifold rabbinical and so-
cial activities.
The room is exactly as it
had been in Moscow in the
apartment of the late rabbi,
which served as a place of
assembly for Moscow
Jewry. In the room each
year on the yortzeit of the
rabbi, a commenorative cer-
emony was held.
Emanuel had been the
secretary of the late chief
rabbi. but he also worked
as chief engineer in a firm
which employed more than
7.000 men. When he re-
ceived the exit visa for. he
and his family to emigrate
to Israel, he started to sort
out the material of the
chief rabbi. He paid the
Russian authorities 3,000 ru-
bels to allow him to take
out the chief rabbi's li-
brary, however he keeps si-
lent on how he managed to
take out the documents and
manuscripts.

The Jewish News Special
Israel Correspondent

TEL AVIV When Ema-
nuel and Golda Michlin ar-
rived in Israel from Mos-
cow, they brought with
them special luggage: doz-
ens of boxes and sacks.
weighing one ton, which in-
cluded chairs, tables, cup-
boards, books, documents
d letters in rabbinical
_ -Jbrew. All these items
came from the room of the
late Chief Rabbi of Mos-
cow, Shiomo Shleifer.
Golda Michlin is the
daughter of Rabbi Shleifer.
She and her husband settled
in Naharyia. "This is all
our fortune," Emanuel
Michlin told representatives
of the Israel press. "We did
not bring gold or silver
from Russia. We brought
manuscripts, books, photos
and furniture of Chief
Rabbi Shleifer, who died 20
years ago."

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Now Emanual is pre-
paring a commerative book
of the writings of Rabbi
Shleifer. The rabbi did re-
search on Jewish life
Russia and has left much
written material about this
subject.

Rabbi Shleifer established
Yeshivat Kol Yaacov in
Moscow in the Stalin era. It
was his chief achievement
in a time when Soviet au-
thorities fought vigorously
against any sign of Jewish
religious life. He obstina-
tely succeeded in getting a
permit for the yeshiva. In
its early stages it had 15
pupils from all over Russia.
Rabbi Shleifer and the late
Rabbi Lewin were the
heads of the yeshiva, how-
ever, a year after its open-
ing, Rabbi Shleifer died.

Bar-Ilan University in
Ramat Gan has taken a spe-
cial interest in the material
about Rabbi Shleifer and
will help publish ,a book
about his activity in Russia.

Israel to Probe
Money Violations

JERUSALEM (JTA)—
The Treasury is in-
vestigating possible foreign
currency violations by the
Tel Hai Fund, the fund-rais-
ing arm of Likud's Herut
faction.
The fund's attorney has
denounced the probe as an
election gimmick, but the
Tel Hai directors will be
called to the Treasury short-
ly to explain an alleged for-
eign currency transaction
involving a Swiss bank.
Under Israeli law, only
banks are pen-I-fitted to deal
in foreign currencies with-
out a special Treasury per-
mit. The Tel Hai Fund re-
ceived no permit. but 'alleg-
edly attempted to pay off a
creditor with two checks in.,
the total amount of $45,000
drawn on the UTO Bank in
Geneva.
The case came to light
when the creditor, Mrs.
Polly Molizabba, a citizen
of Iran, filed suit against
the Tel Hai Fund because
the checks bounced.
Mrs. Molizabba ,c-laimed
in her suit that she had
made a deal with the Tel
Hai Fund in 1974 to ex-
change IL 215,000 for dol-
lars. She said she loaned
that amount to the fund
which promised to repay it
in dollars or dollar equiva-
lent. When the loan came
due she was given checks
for $25,000 and $20,000
drawn on the Swiss bank
which turned out to be bad
checks.
Tel Hai claimed that Moli-
zabba loanee it only IL
90,000 which it said it re-
paid. It denied ever having
a bank account overseas.

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Frederic
Handel composed the
music "Haman and Mor-
decai' and "Judas Mac-
cabeus."

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