The World Conference of Jewish Organizations (COJO) has formally named Mrs. Charlotte Jacobson as its acting chairman, replacing the late Louis A. Pincus, it was announced today. At the same time, COJO officers meeting in special session here voted to name the newly-created COJO Foundation for Jewish Education in memory of Pincus, who died in Jerusalem on July 25 at the age of 61 shortly after being elected chairman of COJO.
The Foundation will operate on a basic budget of $600,000 annually, supplied by the government of Israel, World Zionist Organization and Joint Distribution Committee, supplemented by funds from the Jewish communities in various countries where it will work in cooperation with existing Jewish educational institutions. The newly-named Louis Pincus Foundation for Jewish Education will initiate teacher-training programs, produce new textbooks and establish a central Jewish pedagogic institute in Jerusalem.
The COJO officers meeting also decided to intensify the organization’s clearing-house and exchange-of-information services on issues of world Jewish concern that arise at meetings of international UN and other agencies. Analyses of these issues and reports on these meetings will be furnished to COJO constituent member organizations in the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, France, Argentina, Australia and Israel as well as to the international organizations in COJO–the World Jewish Congress, World Zionist Organization and B’nai B’rith. The American members of COJO are the American Jewish Congress and Jewish Labor Committee.
Yehuda Hellman, secretary-general of COJO, announced that a full meeting of the 14-member COJO presidium would be convened in Europe during the first week in Jan. to discuss progress in implementing decisions taken at the COJO plenum in Geneva last July.
Mrs. Jacobson, who will serve as COJO acting chairman, had been elected a member of the COJO presidium at the July meeting. She is a former president of Hadassah and is now chairman of the World Zionist Organization, American Section. She will retain that post.
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