A.Z.A. and the War By Julius Bisno Executive Director Aleph Zadik Aleph B'nai B'rith Youth Organization Aleph Zadik Aleph, the B'nai B'rith Youthe Organization, is today recognized as the most active Jewish youth agency in America in the promotion of victory by virtue of its widely acclaimed civilian defense and war service program. Those members who are old enough to fight have set the example for other American youth by enlisting by the hundreds. Among the first war casualties were three AZA boys: Sherman Levine of Chicago's Rothschild chapter, who died at Pearl Harbor on December 7; Darrell Iskiwitch of St. Louis chap. 28, who was killed fighting with Maz Arthur in the defense of the Philippines on December 8; and Sergeant Pilot Herbert Wolf of Ottawa's Moses Bilsky chap. 166, who met a hero's death at Sidi Barani, Libya. As the giant war machine of the United Nations gained momentum, each month the names of additional boys were recorded: Sergeant Harold Glatt, also of Moses Bilsky chap. 166, lost in the Atlantic; Alexander Balinson of Hamilton's Boris D. Bogen chap. 127, killed at Malta; Isadore Lichter of Milwaukee chap. 39, dead at an Army Training center; Morton Heinish of Halifax, lost on a bombing raid over Brest, fate unknown; Sergeant Observer Lionel R. Silver of Herzl chap. 122, Windsor, Ont., reported missing following bombing operations over Germany and so the list continues.