Rabbi Rudolph I. Coffee of Oakland was reelected president of the Jewish Committee for Personal Service in State Institutions at the annual meeting of the group here. Judge-Isaac Pacht of Los Angeles, was elected vice-president; Samuel Fox, of San Diego, second vice-president; Alfred Mayer, San Francisco, third vice-president; Rabbi Norman Goldburg, Sacramento, secretary, and Lloyd Dinkelspiel, San Francisco, treasurer.
Among the speakers were Dr. Jacob Billikopf, who praised the work of the organization; Dr. H. H. Shuder, head of educational work in San Quentin prison; Father Thomas O’Dwyer, head of the Los Angeles Catholic Charities, Mrs. Max C. Sloss and I. Irving Lipsitch.
Figures were presented showing that only two and a half percent of the inmates of the California state prisons are Jewish, while the Jews constitute four percent of the population of the state.
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