Bernard G. Richards, American Jewish writer and Executive Secretary of the American Jewish Congress, was the recipient of many congratulations on the occasion of his fiftieth birthday recently. On this occasion he was the guest of honor at a dinner given by Dr. Joseph Tannenbaum.
Mr. Richards, who is the author of the “Discourses of Keidansky” and “More Discourses of Keidansky,” has contributed widely to many Jewish and English publications. One of the organizers and secretary of the New York Kehillah during the period 1908 to 1913, he was among those who took a leading part in the American Jewish Congress movement. He has been secretary of this organization since 1915. During his visit to Europe in 1919 he was elected secretary of the Committee of Jewish Delegations in Paris.
Mr. Richards was a member of the delegation including Judge Julian W. Mack. Dr. Stephen S. Wise and Louis Marshall, which appeared before President Wilson to present a memorandum on the subject of Jewish disabilities in Eastern Europe and the Jewish claims to Palestine.
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