Rabbi Joel S. Geffen of Beth El Temple has been elected to the presidency of the Hudson Valley Zionist Region. Other officers named at the annual convention here were Shepard Z. Baum, Albany; Joseph Goodman, Troy, and Rabbi Maurice J. Bloom, Newburg, vice-presidents; Nathan Sahr, Schenectady, treasurer; Abraham C. Goldstein, Troy, corresponding secretary, and Rabbi Henry Segal, Albany, recording secretary.
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