Simple and impressive ceremonies marked the installation of Rabbi Samuel Perlman as the new spiritual leader of the Brith Sholom Community Center of Bethlehem here. Five hundred persons attended.
The program included an address of welcome by A. Glasser, president of the Center; Rabbi Joshua Trachtenberg, of Easton and Rabbi Harry Caplan, of Allentown.
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