Some 300 guests joined last night in honoring Irving Spiegel, who has covered Jewish news for 25 years for The New York Times, at a dinner sponsored by B’nai B’rith. They heard an announcement of creation of an Irving Spiegel Scholarship Fund for college students and teenagers to attend summer institutes in Israel and the United States sponsored by the B’nai B’rith Youth Organization and the Hillel Foundations. The fund will provide mainly for travel expenses.
Dr. William A. Wexler, B’nai B’rith president, presented the veteran reporter with a silver dish bearing the inscription: “B’nai B’rith honors Irving Spiegel for 25 years of interpreting Jewish affairs to readers of The New York Times.” The guests included representatives of more than 30 Jewish organizations and newspaper associates of the guest of honor. Abraham Feinberg, president of the Israel Bond Organization, was dinner chairman.
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