Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum of Elmhurst, N. Y. spiritual and civic leader, has been named director of the American Jewish Committee’s Inter-religious Affairs Department, Dr. John Slawson, executive vice-president, announced here today.
Rabbi Tanenbaum has been executive director of the Synagogue Council of America for the past seven years. The Synagogue Council is the national coordinating Agency of the Orthodox, Conservative and Reform rabbinic and congregational bodies of Judaism in the United States.
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