Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein, president of the Synagogue Council of America, has announced the appointment of Rabbi Alexander S. Rosenberg of Yonkers, N.Y., as liaison officer between American military government headquarters in Germany and Jewish religious authorities in that country.
The Council had been requested by Secretary of War Robert Paterson to name a representative of the Jewish faith to work along with Catholic and Protestant representatives on the religious problems facing the German people.
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