More than a thousand people including prominent leaders of the Jewish community on the Pacific Coast, attended the last rites of Dr. Boris D. Bogen, executive director of the Independent Order B’nai Brith and former director general of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, who died suddenly Saturday night at a family reunion at Arcadia City, California.
Exercises were held at B’nai Brith Hall, Los Angeles, and were in charge of David Tannenbaum, president of the local lodge, Richard E. Gustadt, secretary of District No. 4, I.O.B.B. and Rabbi Maxwell H. Dubin of Temple B’nai Brith.
Eulogies were delivered by Rabbi Herman Lissaner of Temple Emanu-El, Henry Monsky, chairman of the Wider Scope Committee, Lucius Solomons, vice-president of the Constitution Grand Lodge, and I. Irving Lipsitch, representing the local Federation of Jewish Welfare Organizations and the National Conference of Jewish Social Service.
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