Four new members were unanimously elected to the Administrative Committee of the Zionist Organization of America, at a meeting held Wednesday night. The new elections were made to fill vacancies caused by the recent resignations.
The new members are Herman Bernstein, author and playwright; Jacob H. Cohen, chairman of the advisory board of the World Exchange Bank and president of the Provident Finance Corporation of Brooklyn, active in Zionist and Jewish welfare work; Jonah J. Goldstein, prominent New York attorney, vice chairman of the United Jewish Campaign of New York and chairman of the Jewish Education Association campaign committee; and Herman G. Robbins, New York attorney, for many years a member of the Executive Committee of the Z.O.
At the time of the election of the new members of the Administrative Committee, the Finance Committee of the Zionist Organization was reorganized and new members elected. Isidore D. Morrison, attorney and financier, was elevated to the Chairmanship of the Finance Committee. Jacob H. Cohen, new member of the Administrative Committee, was made a member of the Finance Committee. Morris Weinberg, Vice-President of the Municipal Bank of Brooklyn, and Treasurer of the Brownsville Savings Bank, was also elected a member of the Finance Committee. Mr. Weinberg is also Trustee of the Bellevue and Allied Hospital, Vice-President of Hias, and a Director of the Brooklyn Federation of Charities.
The other members of the Finance Committee are Morris Rothenberg, Phillip Wattenberg, Louis Topkis, A. L. Liebovitz, Harry Fierst and Isaac Meister.
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