A department “to satisfy the spiritual needs of religious members” of the Histadrut, Israel’s Labor Federation, was established this week, a Histadrut spokesman disclosed today.
He said the new department will help build synagogues, provide sacred books and construct religious immersion facilities wherever required by groups of Histadrut members. A budget of 100,000 pounds has been allotted for the new department for the current year, he said.
Rabbi Yehuda Zvi Brondwein, 54-year-old Safed-born grandson of the Chassidic Rebbe of Strettin, Galicia, has been named head of the new department. Rabbi Brondwein, leader of the Strettin disciples in Tel Aviv, studied at the Yeshiva of the Rebbe of Satmar and worked as a construction laborer in Palestine in the thirties.
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