Rabbi Jacob P. Rudin of Great Neck, N.Y. was elected president of the Synagogue Council of America, central coordinating agency for the national rabbinic and synagogal organizations of Orthodox, Conservative and Reform Jewry.
Also elected to national office at the annual meeting of the Council were: Rabbi Solomon J. Sharfman, a past president of the Rabbinical Council of America, first vice-president, and Rabbi Irving Lehrman of Miami Beach, second vice-president. Elected as national secretary of the organization was Congressman Herbert Tenzer of Lawrence, N.Y., as corresponding secretary, Robert L. Adler of Chicago, and as treasurer, Meyer H. Robinson of Cedarhurst, N.Y.
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