The formal opening of the B’nai Brith Hillel Foundation at the University of West Virginia was held February 10th at Morgantown.
Rabbi Samuel H. Baron of Uniontown, Pa., who is directing activities at the Foundation, presided at a reception which marked the opening. The deans of men and women at the University, the University Chaplain and many of the faculty attended the reception. Ministers of the various denominations were present and greeted the new Foundation. A report of the opening was received at the headquarters of the I.O.B.B. here.
The B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundation at Cornell University will be opened shortly with the dedication of the new Temple in Ithaca. Rabbi Isidore B. Hoffman has been chosen first director of the Hillel Foundation at Cornell University. There are 600 Jewish students at Cornell.
The loan fund of the California Hillel Foundation was again subscribed this year, and is an unqualified success, according to Stanley Breyer, chairman of the committee. The purpose of the fund is to make short loans to Jewish students in temporary need of money.
Reports of membership campaigns in various districts were received by the Order’s Headquarters here. District No. 2, comprising Ohio, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, New Mexico, Wyoming and Colorado is now in the midst of a membership campaign.
Alfred M. Cohen, president of the I.O.B.B., will attend the tournament of the A Z. A. which is to be held in Memphis, Tenn., February 21-24. He will be the principal speaker at the closing banquet.
On February 22, a special conference of representatives of District No. 7, comprising Alabama. Arkansas, Missisippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas. Western Florida and Louisiana, will be held in Memphis. The campaign for funds will be launched in District No. 7 shortly.
Negotiations are in process for establishing new lodges in Havana, Cub, Honolulu and Salvador, the headquarters here announced.
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