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All Jewish Groups in U.S. Active on Israel’s Anniversary Committee

October 1, 1957
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Every facet of organized Jewish community life in the United States is represented in the group of leaders who have agreed to serve as vice-chairmen of the American Committee for Israel’s Tenth Anniversary Celebration which was formed here yesterday, it was announced today. These include:

Herbert R. Abeles, president, Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds; Dr. Theodore L. Adams, president, Synagogue Council of America; Dr. Philip S. Bernstein, chairman, American Zionist Committee for Public Affairs; Mrs. Moise S. Cahn, president, National Council of Jewish Women; Benjamin H. Chasin, national commander, Jewish War Veterans, U.S.A. ; Rabbi Aaron H. Blumenthal, president. Rabbinical Assembly of America; Dr. Maurice N. Eisendrath, president, Union of American Hebrew Congregations; Irving Engel, president, American Jewish Committee; Moses I. Feuerstein, president, Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America.

Also, Dr. Miriam Freund, president, Hadassah; Adolph Held, chairman, Jewish Labor Committee; Philip Klutznick, president, B’nai B’rith; Rabbi Irving Miller, chairman, American Zionist Council; Charles Rosengarten, president. United Synagogue of America; Rabbi Jacob Philip Rudin, acting president, Central Conference of American Rabbis; Rabbi Solomon J. Starfmann, president, Rabbinical Council of America; Rabbi Isaac Stoliman, president, Mizrachi Hapoel Hamizrachi; Mrs. Chaya Surchin, representing the Labor Zionists; David Ullman, chairman, National Community Relations Advisory Council.

Honorary vice chairmen of the Committee include Morris W. Berinstein, president of the UJA; Abraham Feinberg, president of the Israel Bond Organization; Mrs. Samuel W. Halprin, acting chairman of the Jewish Agency; Dr. Emanuel Neumann, president of the ZOA; Dr. Dewey D. Stone, chairman of the United Israel Appeal.

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