President Johnson has named Rabbi Jacob Philip Rudin of Great Neck, N.Y., president of the Synagogue Council of America, to a 20-man commission that will observe the campaign and elections in South Vietnam, it was announced today. The Synagogue Council is the central coordinating agency for the national rabbinical and synagogal organizations of Conservative. Orthodox and Reform Jewry in the United States.
The group, which includes governors, mayors, businessmen and civic and labor leaders, will leave Monday and return September 6, three days after the South Vietnamese election of a President and Vice-President.
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