Nine telegrams from rabbis of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis (UOR). New York, 3-8 July 1943. English.
The telegrams, which are all related to the Tehran Children affair, voice the protest of the rabbis against the Jewish Agency in Eretz Israel, who arranged for the absorption of the children in secular educational institutions and frameworks. The rabbis demand that the children be transferred to the care of the chief rabbi R. Yitzchak Eizik HaLevi Herzog. The telegrams are signed (in print) by nine rabbis of the UOR, including R. Yaakov Kamenetsky, R. Mordechai Pinchas Teitz, R. Reuven Epstein, R. Yosef Feldman, R. Aryeh Leib Kaplan and others.
[9] telegrams, printed on Western Union and Postal Telegraph telegram forms. Approx. 21X15 cm. Good condition. Stains and minor wear. Minor creases and tears. Inscriptions and ink stamps. Small marginal open tear to one telegram (not affecting text).

Seven telegrams addressed to the Union of Orthodox Rabbis (UOR), from various public figures and organizations working on behalf of She'erit Hapletah. 1945-1946.
• Lengthy telegram (9 pages) from HIJEFS (aid organization for Jewish refugees in foreign countries). Montreux, Switzerland, 5th October 1945. German.
The telegram pertains to the decree against Orthodox communities in Slovakia, and contains a request from R. Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandl that the UOR in America sent a telegram on this topic to Edvard Beneš, president of Czechoslovakia (the text of the telegram to be sent to the president is provided in this telegram, along with the directive of R. Weissmandl to send it as is).
• Lengthy telegram (3 pages) from the chief rabbi of Israel, R. Yitzchak Eizik HaLevi Herzog, to R. Yisrael HaLevi Rosenberg, president of the UOR, regarding the religious needs of Torah-observant Holocaust refugees in Sweden. Jerusalem, 2nd October 1946. English.
• Telegrams from R. Meir Ashkenazi (rabbi of the Shanghai Jewish community) and from the Vaad Hacashrut Bney Yeshiboth in Shanghai with urgent requests for shechitah knives. Shanghai, November 1945. English.
• Telegram from the London Beit Din, requesting confirmation of information about a man who perished in the Holocaust, in order to release his agunah. London, 17th April 1946.
• Telegram from the Central Committee of the Liberated Jews in the U.S. Zone of Germany - invitation to a She'erit Hapletah conference taking place in the Munich city hall on 20th January 1946.
• Telegram presumably sent by a representative of the UOR in the DP camps in German, with a brief report on the refugees' difficult situation. Nuremberg, December 1945.
Enclosed: • Telegram from Gedaliah Bublick, to Emanuel Celler, member of the United States House of Representatives, containing a request that the chief rabbis of Israel, R. Yitzchak Eizik HaLevi Herzog and R. Ben Tzion Uziel addressed to the UOR, that they move heaven and earth to get the United States to intervene on behalf of European Jewry. 2nd October 1943. • "Substitute telegram" in support of She'erit Hapletah aid organization.
[7] telegrams, on Western Union and R.C.A. telegram forms. Up to 21X18 cm. Good condition. Stains and minor wear. Creases and tears. Margins of one telegram trimmed. Inscriptions and ink stamps.

Court ruling (3 large pages), Heter Me'a Rabbanim - signed by 115 rabbis, permitting Rebbe Mordechai Rokeach to remarry, after his first wife disappeared during the Holocaust. Jerusalem, Iyar 22, 1946.
The court ruling begins with the account of the disappearance of Rebbetzin Batsheva Rokeach, who travelled in 1941 with her daughter to Kobryn. In the summer of 1942, the eradication of the Jews of Kobryn was already publicized, and according to information which reached the organization of Kobryn Immigrants - of the thousands of Jews living in Kobryn before the Holocaust, only a few survived.
The signatories are headed by the dayanim of the Beit Din of Chassidim in Jerusalem: R. Yerucham Fischel Bernstein, R. Naftali Tzvi Schmerler and R. Yisrael Yitzchak HaLevi Reisman, followed by dozens more signatures (on both sides of the page) - from rabbis, rebbes, and young Torah scholars of Jerusalem, including: R. Yosef Meir Kahane (Rebbe of Spinka); R. Chanoch Dov Padwa (later rabbi of the Union of Orthodox communities in London); R. Avraham Yitzchak Kohn (later Rebbe of Toldot Aharon); R. Avraham Chaim Roth (later Rebbe of Shomrei Emunim); R. Shalom Safrin (Rebbe of Komarna) and others.
R. Mordechai Rokeach, Rebbe of Biłgoraj (1901-1949), son of Rebbe Yissachar Dov of Belz. During the Holocaust, he managed to flee to Hungary together with his brother the Belzer rebbe and from there to Eretz Israel, where they together rebuilt the Belz Chassidut. In 1946, upon receiving word that his wife and children were murdered in the Holocaust, he tried to obtain a Heter Me'a Rabbanim. He remarried Rebbetzin Miriam (Glick, from the city of Satmar) and passed away shortly thereafter. His only son from that marriage, the present Belzer Rebbe, was born in Shevat 1948.
3 pages. 32.5 cm. [2] typewritten pages, and one and a half pages with the handwritten signatures of 115 rabbis and rebbes. Good-fair condition. Water damage.