Rabbi Maurice B. Pekarsky, a member of this year’s graduating class at the Jewish Institute of Religion, has been named Director of the B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundation at Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. He succeeds Rabbi I. B. Hoffman. Rabbi Pekarsky relinquished a Guggenheim Fellowship in order to accept his new post.
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