Julius Berman, president of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America (UOJCA), has been elected chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, an umbrella group of 34 national Jewish secular and religious groups.
Berman, 46, a New York lawyer, succeeds Howard M. Squadron, president of the American Jewish Congress, who on June 30 completes his second one-year term as head of the Presidents Conference.
Berman, who has been a national officer of the UOJCA since 1966, is currently in his fourth year as its president. He is the former president of the National Jewish Commission on Law and Public Affairs (COLPA), a member of the American Board of Overseers of Bar-llan University, secretary of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and a member of the executive committees of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York, National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council, Synagogue Council of America and New York Jewish Community Relations Council.
A board member of the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, Berman is chairman of the board of Camps Mogen Avraham, Heller, Sternberg, Inc., which serve some 1,500 Orthodox boys and girls through summer programs.
Berman, a resident of Forest Hills. N.Y., is a graduate of Yeshiya University and the Law School of New York University. He was ordained as a rabbi in 1959 at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. Born in Poland, he was raised in Hartford, Conn.
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