A number of leading Jewish communal workers and philanthropists attended President Hoover’s conference on welfare and relief mobilization yesterday.
Felix M. Warburg, noted Jewish philanthropist, attended the sessions.
Louis E. Kirstein, president of the Associated Jewish Charities of Boston, was the only Jewish speaker at the sessions.
Others who attended the conference were:
Walter N. Rothschild, vice-president of the Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities; Frank L. Weil, Simon Gottschall and Harry L. Glucksman, representing the Jewish Welfare Board; David Heyman, H. L. Lurie and George Rabinoff, president, director and associate director respectively of the New York Bureau of Jewish Social Research ; Solomon Lowenstein, director of the New York Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies; Jacob Billikopf, Executive Director of the Philadelphia Federation of Jewish Charities; Julius Goldman, Director of the New Orleans City Community Chest ; Ben Selekman, director of the Boston Associated Jewish Charities ; Maurice Bisgyer, Executive Director of the Washington Jewish Community Center and Moses Winkelstein, President of the Syracuse Community Chest and Council.
Funeral services will be held Sunday morning at ten o’clock for Nathan D. Stern, prominent Jewish corporation lawyer, who died suddenly from a heart attack at the age of fifty-six. Rabbi Stephen S. Wise will officiate. Interment will take place at Mount Pleasant Cemetery.
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