Dr. Louis I. Mann, rabbi of the Chicago Sinai Congregation and professor at the University of Chicago, has been invited by Secretary of the Interior Wilbur to become a member of the White House Conference on Child Health Protection.
Rabbi Mann has for many years been interested in child welfare, being honorary vice-president of the Big Brothers and Big Sisters Movement, advisory member of the council of the American Birth Control League and member of the advisory council of the Eugenics Commission of the United States.
Rabbi Mann was born in Louisville, Ky., in 1890, was graduated from the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati and received the degree of doctor of philosophy from Yale University. He was rabbi in New Haven, Conn. From 1914 to 1923 and lecturer on comparative ethics at Yale from 1920 to 1923 and has been the rabbi of Chicago Sinai Congregation since 1923. He is the associate editor of “Unity” and a contributor to the Dictionary of American Biography.
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