Alexander Kahn, manager of the Jewish Daily Forward, member of the Jewish Agency for Palestine and vice-chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee, is being honored on his sixtieth birthday, Saturday. Numerous Jewish and labor organizations which were planning dinners in his honor were asked by Kahn to refrain from doing so at a time when millions of Jews in Poland and other Nazi-held territories were starving. Kahn is the Chairman of the JDC’s Committee on Poland and Eastern Europe and is also active in the National Labor Committee for Palestine. He was one of the organizers of the People’s Relief Committee and had been nominated by the Socialist Party as candidate for New York State Supreme Court Justice.
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