The United Service Organizations for National Defense today announced acceptance of a co-chairmanship of its Clergy Advisory Board by Rabbi Edward L. Israel of Baltimore, president of the Synagogue Council of America.
Rabbi Israel appointed the following to serve with him. Rabbi Samuel Goldenson, Dr. Louis Finkelstein, and Rabbi Leo Jung, New York, Rabbis Louis L. Mann and Solomon Goldman, Chicago, Henry Berkowitz, Portland; Jacob Kohn, Los Angeles, H. Raphael Gold, Dalles, and J.B. Soloveitchik, of Boston.
Eighteen Jewish chaplains have been called to active duty by the War and Navy Departments, reflecting the increasing number of Jewish men who are entering the defense forces of the nation, Chairman David de Sola Pool of the Jewish Welfare Board’s Committee on Religious Activities announced today. In addition, Dr. Pool said, two rabbis have received their commissions in the Chaplains’ Corps and are now awaiting assignments, and the committee has endorsed fifteen other candidates for chaplaincies.
At the same time Louis Kraft, J.W.B. executive director, announced the Board has sent 19 additional field directors into communities adjacent to the major cantonments to care for the “off-post” recreational, religious and social needs of Jewish soldiers in conjunction with local JWB Army and Navy committees.
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