Israel S. Chipkin, associate director of the New York Jewish Education Committee, was elected president of the National Conference of Jewish Social Welfare at the closing session of its annual meeting yesterday. He succeeds Dr. Maurice Taylor, Pittsburgh.
Other officers elected are Louis Kraft, New York, and Joseph E. Beck, Philadelphia, vice-presidents; Harold Silver, Detroit, treasurer, and Marcel Kovarsky, New York, secretary.
Resolutions were adopted expressing admiration for philenthropist and social workers continuing to serve Jewish communities in Nazi-dominated areas “in the face of seemingly insuperable difficulties” and voicing “earnest hope that the Holy Land be spared the horrors of violence and war.”
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