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1953 1954 1954
Rabbis Michel Kossowsky and Joseph Bronner Mizrachi helps to found Yeshivat Kerem The first volume of Or HaMizrach,
establish Yeshiva College of Johannesburg, B'Yavneh, the first yeshiva gevoha the Mizrachi movement's
the first Torah school in South Africa whose students also serve in the IDF Torah journal, is published

M ally Schatz, an active member of HaPoel HaMizrachi

- Religious Zionists of Chicago (RZC}, served as an
RZC Council Delegate and was among the organiz-
ers of Camp Moshava. A gifted writer, Molly edited
RZC's Sabbath Voice - Kol Shabbat newsletter (still distributed MEDINAT YISRAEL
weekly, now via email), never faltering in her efforts to produce By MOLLY SCHATZ
a quality bulletin each week.
Together with her husband Louis, who worked with tremen-
dous zeal as co-Chairman of RZC's Overseas Relief Committee,
the Schatzes were deeply devoted to strengthening Religious
Zionism in .America.
In 1953 they moved to California, continuing their work for
Mizrachi, locally and nationally.
In the Rosh Hashanah 5709 (1948) issue of HaShofar, the annual
magazine of HaPoel HaMi'zrachi-Religious Zionists of Chicago,
Molly Schatz authored this heartfelt poem, which eloquently
captured the awe-inspiring emotions of the day, a few years
after the trauma of the Holocaust and only a few months after
the establishment of the State of Israel. ■

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gathered in Nation d deep appreciation
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dedicated achievements an

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Date.: July/ /956