Louis Pincus was elected chairman of the Assembly of the reconstituted Jewish Agency today and Leon Dultzin was elected treasurer. Also elected was a 40-member Board of Governors, including 21 Americans, which will govern the Jewish Agency’s activities between meetings of the Assembly and possess full power to set policies. The American members, in alphabetical order, are: Albert Adelman; Victor Carter; Melvin Dubinsky, Rabbi Leon Feuer; Max Fisher; Edward Ginsberg; Prof. Ben Halpern; Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg; Mrs. Charlotte Jacobson; Morris Levinson; Joseph Meyerhoff; Rabbi Israel Miller; Dr. Emanuel Neumann; Rabbi Emanuel Rackman; Sam Rothberg; Robert Russel; Avraham Schenker; Louis Stern; Dewey D. Stone; Jack Weiler; and Paul Zuckerman.
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