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At the 32nd National Convention of the Labor Zionist Alliance, held in Los Angeles, March 31st through April 3rd, 2000, Jeffry Mallow was elected National President of LZA. Jeffry has a distinguished history of activity and leadership in LZA, locally and nationally.

Jeffry served as the Keynote Speaker at the 1966 LZA National Convention and Convention Chair of the 1998 Convention. Jeffry chaired the Task Force responsible for the preparation of the new Ideological Statement approved at the Los Angeles convention.

Jeffry Mallow is a contributor to and Editorial Board Member of the Jewish Frontier. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Forward Association, which publishes the Forward newspapers in English, Yiddish and Russian. Jeffry has long been a strong advocate of Yiddish language, literature and culture, and serves as Honorary Chair and board member of the Chicago YIVO Society, affiliate of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.

In addition to his many communal activities, Jeffry leads a very active professional and academic life as Professor and Chairperson of Department of Physics at Loyola University.

Along with Jeffry, the convention elected a core of new national leadership reflecting a broad geographic representation, and drawn from those in their forties and fifties together with veteran leaders. Samuel Norich (New Jersey) was elected Administrative Vice-President. Other Vice-Presidents elected or re-elected were Judy Silberg Loebl (Detroit), Norman Naimark (Detroit), Milton Rosen (Brooklyn), Louis Senenseib (Los Angeles), and lrving Wishnia (Brooklyn). Also elected were Anne Goldman (New York) as Treasurer, and Leon Goldwater (Chicago), as Secretary.