–Gerard Weinstock, chairman of the Board of Trustrees of the American Jewish Committee, died here last Thursday after a brief illness at the age of 61. He was chairman of the AJCommittee’s Task Force on the ’80s and a member of the organization’s Board of Governors. He had served previously as its national treasurer, chairman of its Committee on the Middle East, and president of its Westchester, N.Y. chapter.
Weinstock, who resided in Larchmont, N.Y., was a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School. A major interest in his life was the establishment of the Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies, and he served as national chairman of the program that created the Center a few years ago.
A leading force in the AJCommittee, and an ardent supporter of Israel, Weinstock participated in many overseas missions for the AJCommittee. In 1968, he was a member of a mission to Rumania, Yugoslavia, Austria and Germany that concluded in a meeting in London with the Anglo-Jewish Association and the Alliance Israelite Universelle.
In July 1967, he was a member of the AJCommittee Leadership Mission to Israel that surveyed the country’s immediate and long-range needs growing out of the Arab-Israel war. The year before, he was one of two AJCommittee leaders who represented the Committee at the dedication of the Israeli Knesset in Jerusalem.
Weinstock was a trustee of the Westchester County Jewish Community Services and a member of the National Jewish Welfare Board’s Armed Forces and Veterans Service Committee.
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