B’nai B’rith’s ninth Hillel Foundation will be formally installed Sunday afternoon at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, it was announced here. Senator Alfred M. Cohen, international president of B’nai B’rith, will be guest of honor and principal speaker.
Senator Cohen will formally present the Hillel Foundation to the university. The speech of acceptance will be made by Dr. George Denny, president of the university.
Isaac Abendana taught Hebrew at Oxford in the late seventeenth century.
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