Maurice Porter, who had been prominent in Jewish affairs for more than 30 years, died here recently at the age of 75. A leading Johannesburg attorney and businessman, he was the president of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies and a vice president of the South African Zionist Federation.
Born in Lithuania, Porter came to South Africa at an early age and had an outstanding educational career at Grey College in Port Elizabeth and what was then Rhodes University College in Grahamstown. Over the years he served in various leadership posts in the Board of Deputies; was a founding member of the South African Board of Jewish Education; was a former chairman and subsequently life president of Arcadia, the South African Jewish orphanage; and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency since 1973. Porter also acted on behalf of the Board of Deputies as a director at meetings of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
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