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Fifty-year anniversary
for Arlazaroff Branch

To celebrate the 50th anniver-
sary of the Arlazaroff-Avrunin-
Weitzman Branch of the Labor
Zionist Alliance, the Israel His-
tadrut Campaign of Metropolitan
Detroit and the Labor Zionist Al-
liance will honor the group with a
luncheon at 12:30 p.m. Sunday at
the Labor Zionist Institute Meet-
ing Room, 25900 Greenfield Road,
Oak Park.
In 1934, Arlazaroff Branch or-
ganized as part of the Jewish Na-
tional Workers Alliance, the
Labor Zionist fraternal order, and
took the name of labor Zionist
leader Chaim Arlazaroff.
The early goals were to take an
interest in all community affairs
and to encourage all Jews in the
cause of a rebuilt Zion.
The founders of the Arlazaroff
Branch included Morris Schaver,
Harry Schumer, Isaac Liebson,
Max Lieberman, Harry and Adele
Mondry, David Sislin, William
Hordes, Joshua Joyrich, Nathan
Linden, Ben Rosenthal, Sam

Greenberg, Julius Singer, Leo
Gold, Morritz Schubiner, Alex
Nichamin, Louis Levine, Norman
Cottler and many others.
Other the years, the branch has
been active in Zionist activities,
cultural programs, war chests and
the Allied Jewish Campaign.
The guest speaker at Sunday's
tribute luncheon will be David
Freilich, the representative for
public affairs of the Gold Meir
Asociation for Labor Education.
Dr. Freilich, who earned his
Ph.D. degree in international re-
lations at Columbia University,
made aliyah to Israel in 1969. He
served as captain in the Israeli
Defense Forces and in 1983 was
part of the Israeli mission to the
United Nations Disarmament
Commission.
Isadore Brown is president of
Arlazaroff-Avrunin- Weitzman
Branch. For reservations for Sun-
day's event, call the Labor Zionist
Alliance, 967-4720.

NEWS

Europe papers in archive

New York (JTA) — The Or-
thodox Jewish Archives, an in-
stitution founded by Agudath Is-
rael of America, has recently
added to its collections the per-
sonal papers of two Orthodox fig-
ures who played significant roles
in the fortunes of European Jewry
in the years leading up to, and
including, World War II, it was
announced in New York by
Agudath Israel.
One set of the new materials in-
cludes written exchanges of Rabbi
Azriel (Ezra) Munk of Berlin,
associated with the Rabbinischer
Landesrat, the supreme rabbini-
cal council of the Agudath Israel
in Germany. The other consists of
a part of the 1944 correspondence
of Dr. Yaakov Griffel, an activist
working in Turkey with Agudath
Israel and other Orthodox agen-
cies toward the rescue of Jews
from the fires of the Holocaust.
Both of these collections, con-
taining original documents, are
now available to scholars and re-
searchers for the first time,
Agudath Israel reported.
The archives has also obtained
a microfilm copy of a substantial
portion of the published editions
of Dos Vort, a major Orthodox
weekly issued in Vilna from 1925
to 1939, serving the community of
the world-famous leader and
"posek," Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grod-
zinski. The acquisition is part of
an effort to gather all such records
of pre-war religious life in a cen-
tral Orthodox archival resource.
According to Agudath Israel di-
rector Rabbi Moshe Kolodny, re-
searchers will find an abundance
of material in the newly acquired
records that will "shed light on
the realities" of Orthodox Jewish
life in Germany, Lithuania and
Poland before the war.
The Rabbi Munk papers for in-
stance, deal with problems in
areas such as kashrut and
shechitah, Shabbat observance

for public school students,
women's issues, "blue laws," all
yeshiva curricula.
Reflective of the concerns af-
fecting Orthodox Jews in Ger-
many of the time are rabbinic re-
sponsa in the documents, dealing
with questions of nationality — Is
the Jewish people a "folk" or a
"nation"? — cultural tensions —
Can interest in opera be recon-
ciled with the prohibition of "kol
isha"'?
The Dos Vort microfilm, which
covers some 60 percent of the is-
sues of the periodical, opens up
new perspectives on the life of the
Torah community in Lithuania
and Poland. Included, for in-
stance, is a piece on the dedication
ceremonies of the building of the
yeshiva of Kletzk, complete with a
description of its young rosh
yeshiva, Rav Aharon Kotler, who
later was the foremost Torah
leader in America.
An unusual angle on the in-
fancy of Torah institutions in the
United States, from the viewpoint
of Eastern European writers, is
projected in articles on the de-
velopment of Mesivta Torah Vod-
aath and Yeshiva Rabbi Yitzchok
Elchonon, and on the fortunes of
the Maitzhiter Illui in America.
The archives is headquartered
at 5 Beekman St. in New York,
and arranges photographic ex-
hibitions periodically at other lo-
cations.

Israeli friend

London (ZINS) — English
Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher has been elected
president of the Conservative
Party's England-Israel Friend-
ship League. She brushed aside
Arab protests, but said she would
not change Britain's Middle East
policies.

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