An Induction Luncheon was held here yesterday for Dr. Maurice J. Karpf, formerly President of the Faculty and Director of the Graduate School for Jewish Social Work in New York and a non-Zionist member of the Executive of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, who was recently elected executive head of the Los Angeles Jewish Community Council and the Federation of Jewish Welfare Organizations, inaugurating his assuming office in the community. Rabbi Edgar F. Magnin, Chairman of the Induction Committee presided. Federal Judge Harry A. Hollzer, President of the Council and David Tannenbaum, President of the Federation, invested Dr. Karpf with the necessary powers and authority for effective administration.
The main address of the luncheon was made by Dr. karpf who outlined some of the major community problems.
Scores of communications were received from outstanding leaders of national and overseas organizations and prominent Jews and non-Jews identified with civic, philanthropic, educational and academic activities throughout the country. They stressed Dr. karpf’s unusual preparation and experience, his scholarship, his fairness and objectivity, his comprehensive knowledge of Jewish and general community activities, and his deep interest in all phases of community life. Dr. karpf is well known in academic and social science circles especially among American sociologists. He is a former President of the American Association of Schools of Social Work, a post of honor now held by Dean Arlien Johnson of the University of Southern California. He has had many books, including one on Jewish community organization in the United States, published.
The Induction Luncheon which was held at the Wilshire Boulevard Temple was a joint session of the Council and Federation on the occasion of the annual meeting of the Los Angeles Jewish Community Council. Almost two hundred Jewish organizations in Los Angeles are members of the Council and have their representatives on its governing body. The Council administers the United Jewish Welfare Fund which collects and distributes funds for local, national and overseas purposes.
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