Richard Korn, of New York, was elected president of the American Council for Judaism at the conclusion of the anti-Zionist organization’s three-day national convention here yesterday, and reiterated the Council’s insistence on its major theme, to the effect that “nationality and religion are separate and distinct.”
Mr. Korn, who reported that he has recently visited Israel, said he was “impressed with Israel’s remarkable people and development.” However, he said, Jews must reject “publicly and completely” what he said were Israel’s claims to be “the capital of all the world’s Jews.”
Mr. Korn succeeded Clarence L. Coleman, Jr., of Glencoe, III., who was elected as chairman of the Council’s board of directors. Lessing J. Rosenwald, of Jenkintown, Pa., one of the Council’s founders and its president from 1943 to 1955, was made honorary chairman of the board.
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