File contains handwritten notes. Also includes background materials regarding Israel's national elections in 1977. Includes an article from the New York Times "To Solve the Palestinian Problem" by Shlomo Avineri, May 15, 1977. Also includes text of an address by Ambassador Chaim Herzog, Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations, "Yom Yerushalayim- A Decade of Unity" and text of an address by Aaron D. Rosenbaum Director of Research American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Both were presented at the American Zionist Federation National Board Meeting May 15, 1977. There are five issues of Near East Report ranging from May to August 1977.
File contains various typewritten notes including [Tourist Syndrome in Jerusalem]; [The Synagogue]; Response Regarding Jewish Funeral Practices; Funeral Plan Phase II; Notes re: Michael Shapiro Foundation; and Retreat House.
File contains sermons and sermonic resource materials. File includes: "For Whom the Siren Sounds" Sermon Outline for Yom Kippur 1974, Dr. Hillel E. Silverman, Rabbi, Sinai Temple, Los Angeles; sermon fragments; a typewritten sermon about Yitzchak Rabin; "The Holocaust in the Light of Contemporary Events" by Dr. Aba Gefen; "Many Challenges - One Destiny" by Avis Shulman; "The Significance of the Yom Kippur War" translated by Yehudah Amitai; "Meditation" by Melvyn H. Bloom; "Yom Kippur '74" by Irving Friedman; "Yom Kippur" by E.J. Steinhorn; "Yom Kippur- 1974" by Jonathan Weiss; "To Know" by Earl A. Jordan; "The Culture of Modern Israel" by Yitzchak Navon Former Secretary to Ben-Gurion Member of the Knesset; "Thoughts for the High Holy Days from the Annual Assembly of the Jewish Agency, July 1976: Dream Come True" by Moshe Rivlin Director General, Jewish Agency; "The Future of Israel" by Abba Eban Former Foreign Minister Member of the Knesset; "Jewish July Fourth" by Max A. Fisher Chairman, Board of Governors Jewish Agency; "We Are Not Doing Enough, We Must Do More!: by Frank R. Lautenberg General Chairman, U.J.A.; "The Lessons of Entebbe" by Irving Bernstein, Executive Vice Chairman United Jewish Appeal; "5738-1977--High Holy Days Pre-Israel Bond Sermon by Rabbi David H. Panitz; handwritten sermon by Rabbi Singer from Yom Kipper, 1976; "Reflections on Entebbe" from an address by Sol Goldstein, Chairman, Israel Bond Organization, 1976.
File contains handwritten notes for book reviews about two authors and their books. First is The Thirteenth Tribe by Arthur Koestler, published in 1976. An article, "Koestler and the Jews" by Harold Ticktin, published in Congress Monthly, January 1977 was included. The second is handwritten notes about Saul Bellow and his book To Jerusalem and Back, published in 1976.
File contains correspondence regarding B'nai Torah's free funeral service (cost was included in the membership) and Press Release regarding the establishment of an apartment in Israel for use of B'nai Torah congregants. Also includes "Bi-national Roots", a guest editorial by Rabbi Singer, Sentinel, September 2, 1976.
