Rabbi Benjamin M. Kahn, director of the Hillel Foundation at Pennsylvania State University and a lecturer in Hebrew there has been appointed a national director of the B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundations, it was announced here today.
Rabbi Kahn, who was ordained in 1938 at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, succeeds Dr. Judah Shapiro. He will direct the Hillel activities at the B’nai B’rith national headquarters in Washington, D. C.
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