The announcement today by Governor Morgan Larson that he will add 23 persons to the committee of 77 previously announced as the state committee for the Washington bi-centennial celebration, is taken in Jewish circles here to mean that the failure to include Jews in the original committee will be remedied. Most of the 23 additional members will be Jews.
The governor’s announcement came just as a state-wide Jewish protest was getting under way. When the list of 77 persons prominent in the business, professional and civic life of the state was made public Friday Jewish leaders discovered that not one Jew was included. When this was called to the attention of Judge Joseph Siegler, head of the state committee of the American Jewish Congress, Charles H. Roemer, president of the state B’nai Brith council, and Rabbi Reuben Kaufman, president of the New Jersey Rabbinical Association, immediately called on the governor to rectify the omission.
The absence of Jews on the original committee was first noted by the Newark correspondent of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency who took the matter up with the Jewish leaders of the state.
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