A World Jewish Congress House, forming a permanent link between Israel and Diaspora Jewry, is shortly to be built in Israel, it was announced today by Samuel Bronfman of Canada, chairman of the North American division of the World Jewish Congress. Mr. Bronfman also announced the appointment of Dr. Moses Cyrus Weiler as chairman of the administrative committee of the House of Jewish Communities, as the WJC building will be known.
Mr. Bronfman, who is himself chairman of the entire project, said that the new center will be an institute for the development of studies of Jewish communities the world over. It will house seminars, assemblies and lectures on the various Jewish communities throughout the globe. Dr. Weiler, a prominent South African rabbi who founded the movement of Progressive Judaism in the Union, now lives in Israel. He is at present on a world tour of Jewish communities in connection with the completion of plans for the House of Jewish Communities.
In welcoming Dr. Weiler as chairman of the administrative committee, Mr. Bronfman said that his wide knowledge of Jewish life “and his intellectual background and experience will greatly assist in the realization of the plans to make the Beth Hatfuzot an important span of the bridges to be built connecting Jewish communities throughout the world not only with each other but with the State of Israel.” Rabbi Weiler is currently visiting Jewish communities in Latin America, and will later tour Europe.
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