Kenneth Bialkin, a lawyer and national chairman of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, has been elected to a one-year term as chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, an umbrella group of 38 national Jewish secular and religious groups representing most of American Jewry.
Bialkin succeeds Julius Berman, president of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, who on June 30 completes his second one year term as head of the Presidents Conference.
The 54-year-old Bialkin is a senior partner in the New York law firm of Willkie, Farr and Gallagher and has been adjunct professor of law at the New York University Law School for 16 years. He is a board membr of the Municipal Assistance Corporation for the City of New York and first vice president of the New York County Lawyer’s Association.
Bialkin is a trustee at large of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York and vice chairman and a director of the Jerusalem Foundation established by Mayor Teddy Kollek of Jerusalem. A graduate of the University of Michigan and the Harvard Law School, Bialkin is a former editor of The Business Lawyer and served for five years as chairman of the Federal Regulation of Securities Committee of the American Bar Association.
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