The first issue of “Career News,” a bi-monthly newspaper of current occupational information for young Jewish people was published here this week by the B’nai B’rith Vocational Service Bureau. The paper, which will carry data on training and employment opportunities in war industries and on the new job outlook for women, is edited by Max F. Baer, director of the Bureau.
Irving Levitas, national educational director of Aleph Zadik Aleph, B’nai B’rith youth organization, and Rabbi Max D. Eichorn, director of the B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundation at Florida College for Women, resigned this week to join the United States Army. Both B’nai B’rith officials enlisted, Levitas as a buck private, and Eichorn as a chaplain in the U.S. Army Chaplains Corp. Milton Mehl, Ft. Worth, Texas, member of the Supreme Advisory Council of AZA, and Bernard Cohen, Baltimore, District director of AZA, have also left their AZA posts to go into the Army.
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