Nearly five hundred representatives of fifteen B’nai B’rith lodges heard Alfred M. Cohen, international president, call upon American Jewry to support the order as the best weapon against anti-Semitism, at the quarterly meeting of the Western Pennsylvania Council of B’nai B’rith Lodges held here last night.
Indicating how B’nai B’rith’s Anti-Defamation League fights the same sort of incipient movements now in power in Germany, Cohen said that “eternal vigilance is the price not only of liberty but safety.” The League combats enemies from without, the B’nai B’rith president stated, and the “Hillel Foundations and the A.Z.A., junior order of B’nai B’rith, “fights the enemy from within—the indifference of Jews to his own heritage.”
Other addresses were delivered by Mayor George Thompson of Butler; Max Baron, president of the Butler lodge; Frank Kaplan of Pittsburgh, president of B’nai B’rith District Three; I. M. Jaffe, president of the Western Pennsylvania Council of B’nai B’rith Lodges and Samuel N. Cohen of Butler who acted as toastmaster.
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