The B’nai B’rith International Council will hold its two-day annual meeting in Paris next week to review activities of the fraternal organization in 39 countries, it was announced here today.
Speakers will include Maurice Couve de Murville, French Foreign Minister, and Arthur Lourie, Israel Ambassador to Britain. American and Canadian delegates and members of a B’nai B’rith European survey mission will leave for Paris at the end of this week.
At the end of the Paris meeting, the American delegates and survey mission members will separate into four groups to tour B’nai B’rith installations and visit Jewish communities in Europe. A fifth group will go to Israel as the first “Flying Institute of Judaism” of the B’nai B’rith Adult Jewish Education department.
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