Louis J. Borinstein of Indianapolis, was elected national chairman of the B’nai B’rith Wider Scope Commission at its organization meeting in Cincinnati. Dr. I. W. Rubinow, Cincinnati, was named national director and secretary.
The Wider Scope Commission was created by action of the Thirteenth Quinquennial convention of B’nai B’rith in Cincinnati last April. The Wider Scope Commission fosters and maintains the B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundations, Aleph Zadik Aleph Palestine House-biuilding Fund, B’nai B’rith Work in Mexico, and the Anti-Defamation League.
The Commission went on record as favoring the inclusion of B’nai B’rith Wider Scope campaigns in the general Welfare Fund campaigns for non-local Jewish needs in such communities as operate such funds and voted to urge B’nai B’rith leaders in all communities which have no such Welfare Funds in operation to use their influence in the creation of such joint efforts wherever feasible.
Other members of the Wider Scope Commission are: Alfred M. Cohen, Cincinnati, president of B’nai B’rith; Richard E. Gutstadt, San Francisco; Henry A. Alexander, Atlanta; Joseph Morse, Nashville; Nathan E. Goldstein, Springfield, Mass.; and Judge Joseph L. Kun, Philadelphia.
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