Funeral services were held today for Matthew Rosenhaus, an honorary vice chairman of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith and vice president of the ADE Foundation, who died yesterday of the age of 68. A noted civic leader and philanthropist, he was president and chairman of the board of the J. B. Williams Company, Inc., vice chairman of the board and member of the executive committee of Nabisco, Inc., and chairman of the executive committee and a member of the board of Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.
Leading by example, he rallied friends and associates to support ADL, Israel and other humanitarian course with which he was associated. In addition to service in be half of the Jewish community, he was active in the cause of peace. He was an organizer of the Inter-Religious Peace Colloquium under the aegis of the Synagogue Council of America and was active in the Fund for Peace. He was a member of Temple Emanuel of Miami Beach and the Fifth Avenue Synagogue in New York.
A native of Bayonne, N. J., Rosenhaus attended Rutgers University. He was a member of the board of governors of the Rutgers Foundation, a trustee of Delbarton School in Morristown. N. J. and a trustee of Florida Memorial College in Miami, Fla.
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