Alfred M. Cohen, president of the Independent Order B’nai Brith, sailed yesterday on the Leviathan for a trip of several months in Europe in the interests of the Order. Mr. Cohen will first visit London, where he will install the officers of the I. O. B. B. District Lodge of Great Britain and Ireland. A meeting of the District Grand Lodge will be held in London on June 19, and in the evening the annual dinner of the first lodge of England will be held. Mr. Cohen will be the principal speaker at both meetings. Rabbi Louis Mann of Chicago accompanied Mr. Cohen.
The I. O. B. B. is the only American Jewish fraternal organization that has branches in Europe and Asia.
Rabbi Leo Jung of the Jewish Center. New York, will sail on June 22nd on the President Harding for a two months visit to Europe. He will participate in the exercises of the laying of the cornerstone for the first Orthodox Jewish Girl Teacher’s Training College in Poland and will also make a tour of inspection of Jewish schools in Central and Eastern Europe.
Ground breaking for the new Jewish Community Center of Yonkers, N. Y., will take place on Sunday, June 26.
Kurt Peiser, Superintendent of the United Jewish Social Agencies of Cincinnati. was elected President of the Board of Trustees of the Helen S. Trounstine Foundation.
The Helen S. Trounstine Foundation costitutes the Research Division of the Community Chest and Council of Social Agencies.
A monument will be unveiled at noon today at the grave of Meyer London, former Socialist Congressman, at Mount Carmel Cemetery, Brooklyn. Mr. London died on June 6, 1926, from injuries received when an automobile knocked him down.
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