Funeral services were held today for Michael G. Tress, national president of Agudath Israel of America, who died last night in a New York hospital. He was 56 and had led the national Orthodox movement for two decades.
Orthodox delegations from ten cities attended the funeral services today at the Yeshiva Torah Vodkas, in Brooklyn.
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