Eight Jewish students are among those elected to the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. Those honored are Hirsch J. Free of Brooklyn, Abraham Grossman of Beverly, Mass., Leo L. Hurwitz of Brooklyn, Saul Silverman of Cleveland, Arnold Kowarsky of Brooklyn, Joseph Marcus of Brooklyn and David Weiss of Malden, Mass.
Benjamin Jacobson, former president and trustee of Temple Ansche Chesed, died Friday.
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