The Correspondence series (1.8 linear feet, 1979-1999) consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence and is arranged in three subseries: General, Individual, and Topical. Belin attached his responses to the incoming letter and filed them either in chronological order or according to organization, individual, or topic. Correspondence that Belin filed by organization is found in the Organizations series. There are significant, unexplained, gaps in the chronology of all the correspondence files, suggesting that some correspondence has been lost. All typescripts that Belin included in the correspondence files have been removed to the Manuscripts, Typescripts, and Notes series along with the accompanying letters.
Individual correspondents in this series are individuals who are not affiliated with organizations represented in the Organizations series. Of interest are Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League and Sol Linowitz, statesman and ambassador to the Organization for American States. ("Abraham Foxman," Marquis Who's Who on the Web. Viewed through the University of Michigan Library Electronic Resources, July 19, 2005. "Sol Myron Linowitz," Marquis Who's Who on the Web. Viewed through the University of Michigan Library Electronic Resources, July 19, 2005.)
Belin also filed some correspondence by subject, especially when the topic was controversial or required action. This series includes letters about homosexuality and Jewish law, Jewish demographics, rabbinical education concerning outreach, and rabbinical positions on intermarriage and patrilinear descent. There are also the letters he sent to Israeli leaders Shimon Perez and Yitzhak Rabin urging the broadening of the Law of Return through the Equal Rights for All Jews (ERAJ) legislation. The files also include the correspondence between Belin and other influential American Jews concerning the letters he sent to Perez and Rabin. Other sets of correspondence concern the rise of Neo-Nazis and his interest in strengthening a Jewish Republican political block.
