Funeral services were held here today for Rabbi Jehudah M. Cohen, Pacific regional director of the B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundations, who died Monday at the age of 58. Rabbi Cohen supervised Hillel activities for Jewish students on 25 campuses in eight western states and British Columbia. He served as director of the Hillel Foundation at the University of Michigan from 1940 to 1946 and at the University of California at Los Angeles from 1946 to 1959.
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