October 2, 1974 ST LOUIS JEWISH LIGHT Page Seven AZA Dinner-Dance to Commemorate 50 Years of Brotherhood By CAROL LUNDGREN and BBG: the young adults pro- paid AZA executive. Philip Klutz- exhibits and concerts (cultural) A representative from each Light Associate Editor gram has since been integrated nick, who then received a $25-a- Harris emphasized, "One of the B'nai B'rith Lodge and B'nai When past and present into the adult B'nai B'rith. month salary, journeyed here, and basic objectives of BBYO is to B'rith Women Chapter form the members of Aleph Zadik Aleph AZA has come far since its mod- AZA No. 28 was off and running. stress the democratic small-group St. Louis B.B. Young Adult Com- est beginnings in Omaha to be the 'The first meeting was held in my process and the informal educa- mittee, chaired by Bonnie Solo- gather for a 50th anniversary largest Jewish youth organization parents' home. recalled Kranz- tional sharing and learning and mon (Mrs. Barry), and various St. dinner-dance, they not only in the world, and St. Louis AZA is berg. "and I retained my interest maturing and growth. These are Louisans also have volunteered will be celebrating 50 years of proud to be a part of that tradition. in AZA for many years, later serv- not merely recreational groups, their services over the years to the the organization's existence, maintained Blumenthal and Har- ing as an advisor. but they are groups that are ori- National B.B. Youth Commission: but 50 years of brotherly love, ris. Many other professional and ented towards strengthening Jew- Morley Gluskoter, Mrs. David The growth of AZA here has volunteer staff members followed ish identity and community con- Blumoff, Mrs. Sidney Goldberg, benevolence and harmony, for been linked closely with the Klutznick to help AZA, and later cern through cooperation between the late Judge A. B. Frey, Mrs. which the letters AZA stand. growth of various other commun- BBG and BBYO. get off the idealistic young people and knowl- Hvman Weisman and Mrs. Albert And at the event, planned for ity organizations, and it is signifi- ground: among them, Harri edgeable, commited and well- Markensen. listed. were Robert Friedman, Then Jules Dubinsky, Max Kleinbaum, Now Gertrude Carnofsky, Esther Tiet- elbaum. Felice Hoffman, Edna Cherrick, Anita Rosenberg, Don Feiner. Annette Mintz, Len Gra- vitz. Marty Tessler, Mike Win- throp, Neilson Goldman and Jack Madden. Harris himself joined the BBYO office in 1948, and today supervises all of District No. 2, which includes Colorado, Indiana, Kansas. Ken- tucky, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio and Wyoming. Both volunteers and staff have nurtured AZA along until present- ly, it encompasses a wide spec- trum of programs. A number of these activities take place at the Jewish Community Centers Asso- ciation, under a contractual agreement between the two groups. Aubrey Herman super- vises the program at the JCCA. and he is also the BBYO regional director, in an area including St. Louis, Kansas City, St. Joseph and Wichita. Still today, the chapters follow Bogen's Five-Fold and Full guide- lines and Herman listed a few ex- amples: participation in the Jerry Lewis telethon, 'Adopt a Grand- parent" program, group services at hospitals and children's institu- Sunday, Oct. 20, in the Starlight cant to mention, said Harris, that tions, letter-writing campaigns trained adult volunteers, as well Since its founding, an estimated Roof of the Chase-Park Plaza in 1927, the year AZA Chapter No. against Arab terrorism, Soviet as professional social group work- 10,000 persons and probably as Hotel, members will have the 28 was formed in St. Louis, the new Jewry rallies and the Jewish Fed- ers with a strong Jewish back- many ideas have gone into the opportunity to reminisce about the Young Men's Hebrew Association eration-Israel Emergency Fund ground. making of AZA and the B'nai good ol days in AZA, according to building on Union and Enright was Campaign (communal service) Continued Harris, BBYO has the B'rith Youth Organization, and no David Blumenthal, chairman of dedicated. gym hockey, softball, basketball distinction of being one of the first doubt, many more will pass the local AZA Golden Anniversary Said Blumenthal, it was the and bowling leagues (athletic) organizations to democratically through their ranks in the coming Committee. Helping bring back dedication of two volunteers, creative services in members involve both men and women, those memories will be the years. So if you want to join those Mickey Kranzberg and Alvin homes, institutes and AZA Sab- youth and adult community repre- featured guest of the event, David who have made their mark on AZA Wolff. that was responsible for the bath nights (religious); computer sentatives in one group. Coopera- Blumberg, president of the In- founding of AZA in St. Louis. To dance and parties (social), and tive youth and adult input into the at the golden anniversary event, ternational Order of B'nai B'rith help them in their task, the first workshops and attendance at art program is vital, he added. call David Blumenthal at 993-2271. and a St. Louis AZA No. 28 alumnus. The history of AZA on a national Nizer Book, New Evidence Spur Son to Reopen Rosenberg Case level actually began in 1923, said Blumenthal and Stanley Harris, By MARI EDLIN violation of the 1971 freedom of Klaus Fuchs of England, who introduced as evidence at the trial. Light Staff Writer information act. admitted giving information to the Two sketches, presented at the B'nai B'rith Youth Organization In the midst of Watergate Meeropol believes that the Russians, to Harry Gold, who trial, one of the atom bomb and the district director, in an interview material on the case in the FBI confessed to being a courier for other of a lens mold, were later with the Jewish Light. It was in this and the recent political chaos files will reveal the reasons why Fuchs. Greenglass was implicated found to be worthless year that 15 boys around the age of in the United States, which David Greenglass testified against as Gold's accomplice, and the reproductions. Dr. Phillip 16 adopted the name Aleph Zadik have provoked a climate of his brother-in-law Julius Rosenbergs and Martin Sobel Morrison, coholder of the patent Aleph for their group, which in distrust of the government, it Rosenberg. Meeropol thinks it is were charged as conspirators. on the Nagasaki bomb, described many ways emulated the fratern- Besides the Rosenbergs, the the first sketch as a "uselessly ities of the time, with their rituals is not surprising that Robert partially because of conflicts between the two men over others served reduced prison crude caricature.' Greenglass' and the camaraderie which came Meeropol, son of Julius and business: more importantly, sentences. boss said that the second sketch with belonging. Ethel Rosenberg, should work however, he believes it was due to In his speech, Meeropol pointed did not show anything that could But in 1924, taken as AZA's toward reopening the government coercion and the be effectively used. founding date, a 22-year-old Creighton Law School graduate Rosenberg Case. The promise of governmental Passport photos, claimed to be protection for him and his wife, taken by Greenglass on the Sam Beber, concerned with the Rosenbergs were sent to the Ruth suggestion of Rosenberg, should number of young men drifting electric chair in 1953 on a Robert is presently on leave the former have to flee the country away from Judaism and aiming to charge of "conspiracy to from teaching anthropology at with his family, were the wrong establish a junior B'nai B'rith, or- commit espionage.' Western New England College in size and pose for passport ganized the group nationally. Its Springfield, Mass. His traveling pictures. Supreme Advisory Council was expenses are being financed by the Various pieces of evidence con- formed. and an organizational NCRRC. cerned Harry Gold. A cut Jell-O meeting was held in Omaha, the In addition to the case against box top was presumably used as a city whose group was granted the the government, in June 1973, the code for the meeting of Gold and first charter and dubbed Mother Meeropols filed a $3 million Greenglass in Albuquerque, N.M. Chapter of Aleph Zadik Aleph for lawsuit against Louis Nizer. As the two men met to exchange Young Men. author of The Implosion information, Gold produced his The prospect of AZA caught on Conspiracy. They charged him half of the top, previously cut by immediately, and within two with copyright infringement, (the Rosenberg, and matched it with a months. chapters had been formed copyright of their parents piece in the possession of in Kansas City Lincoln, Neb.. and published prison letters which Greenglass. Des Moines, and it was just one they own) defamation of Meeropol noted that the original year later that it was recognized character and invasion of top was never produced at the by B'nai B'rith. privacy. Emanuel Bloch, attorney for trial 'The evidence only indicated Two of the early leaders who Robert noted a reference to Julius Rosenberg, accompanies that Greenglass could cut the top, also helped get AZA on its feet himself, during his recent speech the Rosenberg children (from left) he added sarcastically. were Philip M. Klutznick, who fol- at Graham Chapel, Washington Michael, 10, and Robert, 6, after At the meeting, Gold also was lowed Beber in heading AZA, and University, and at the Jewish visiting their parents at "Death accused of saying, "I come from Dr. Boris D. Bogen, who developed Community Centers Association, Julius,' another part of the code to the Five-Fold and Full program, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg make Row." (Implosion Conspiracy Photos) which still forms the basis of their way toward prison. in the book on page 23, whereby he indicate that Gold was part of the (Implosion Conspiracy Photo) is called a neurotic child, shunted out each piece of evidence that he conspiracy. Before the trial, Gold AZA chapters: religious, social. aside for political activity by his feels was unfairly used against his told the FBI that he remembered athletic, cultural and communal Robert and his brother Michael parents. He emphasized that his parents in the government's the name as being, "Benny." It service activities. have been touring the country, parents were not convicted of child prosecution. was the FBI that suggested The organization was so suc- speaking on behalf of the National neglect but for conspiracy. At the According to him, one of the "Julius;" at which point, Gold cessful that a women's counter- Committee to Re-Open the end of the book, both sons are most objectionable parts of the agreed. Gold also claimed that he part, B'nai B'rith Girls, was Rosenberg Case (NCRRC). Their described as "beautiful American entire trial was that all the had never met the Rosenbergs. formed in Seattle in 1926 "It's in- main objectives are: to vindicate citizens, suggesting that they evidence came from teresting to note, said Harris, their parents; bring the 1951 coconspirators. About a hundred In another trial, before the repudiated their parents. "that AZA had its beginning in the Justice Dept. prosecutors, Irving The Rosenberg Case was nuclear scientists were on the list Rosenbergs' it was disclosed that Midwest and BBG on the West H. Saypol and Roy Cohn, to trial triggered by the 1949 explosion of to testify, but only one did. Gold created stories about his life, Coast, not in the East. Young and eventually see them "behind the atom bomb by the Russians, at The first item presented by that he lived in a world of fantasy. adults groups were also founded bars for suborning perjury a time presumed to be too soon for Meeropol was a console table. At the time of the Rosenbergs B'nai B'rith Young Men and B'nai violation of civil rights and their development of it, according charged by the government as trial, Gold was under a 30-year B'rith Young Women, and in 1944, obstruction of justice, and gain to the U.S. government. Then- being a gift from the Russians that sentence for espionage, and he B.B. formed a Youth Commission access to all the FBI files in the contained a hollowed-out section served as a witness for the President Harry S Truman sought with jurisdiction over all four pro- case to determine the truth about to find the spies that apparently used for microfilming. The prosecution. grams, which were growing rapid- the Rosenbergs' conviction. (The leaked the secret of the atom Rosenbergs testified that they had Gold's registration card at a ly. Today. a B'nai B'rith Youth Or- Meeropols charge that the FBI's bomb. purchased the table for $21 at hotel in Albuquerque, supposedly ganization is comprised of AZA refusal to open the files is a The conspiracy line ran from Macy's. The table was never (See MEEROPOL, Page 15)