About 375 delegates from various parts of the country are expected to attend the thirteenth annual convention of the Mizrachi Youth of America which opens today at the Yeshiva College auditorium, 186th Street and Amsterdam Avenue.
Rabbi Saul Silber, president of the Chicago Hebrew Theological Seminary, will be the principal speaker. Other speakers will be: Isidore Epstein, president of the Mizrachi Youth; Rabbi Joseph Lookstein, Rabbi Israel Goldstein, president of the Jewish National Fund, and Dr. Bernard Revel, president of Yeshiva College.
Sunday morning the sessions will resume after the Sabbath with greetings from organizations and individuals. Rabbi Seymour M. Zambrowsky, executive director, and Benjamin Hillson, treasurer, will report. Resolutions will be adopted at the closing session Sunday evening.
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