Dr. Mortimer Epstein, active member of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and treasurer of the United Synagogue, collapsed and died here during a reception following the induction of M. Swift, new rabbi of a London synagogue. He was 66. A few minutes earlier he had replied to a toast.
Dr. Epstein, a scholar and authority on education, was for some time a director of the “Jewish Chronicle,” to which he contributed for many years under a nom depute.
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