Joseph W. Spector of this city was elected grand master of the Independent Order of Brith Sholom at the thirty-third annual convention of the Order which was concluded here today. Mr. Spector was formerly first deputy grand master.
The Order went on record today as being in favor of continuing undiminished the boycott against Germany and extolling the work in this direction done by the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League headed by Samuel Untermyer.
The two-day convention was concluded this evening with a banquet at the Lord Baltimore Hotel at which Rabbi Edward L. Israel, president of the Baltimore branch of the American Jewish Congress and rabbi of Har Sinai Congregation, was the principal speaker.
Forty delegates from Washington, seventy-five from Norfolk and 120 from Baltimore attended the convention, at which Jewish progress in Palestine was the main theme of discussion.
Other officers elected besides Mr. Spector are: Nathan B. Kress, first deputy grand master; Samuel G. Lipman, second deputy; Milton Lienson, third deputy; Joseph Marcus, fourth deputy Simon Grossman, grand secretary; Morris Shuger, general grand treasurer; Ellis Finkelstein, endowment treasurer, and Gilbert L. Friedel, grand counselor.
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