Joseph Herbach of Philadelphia, secretary of District 3 of B’nai B’rith, will lead the national drive to raise the membership of that organization to 75,000 before the seventy-fifth birthday on October 19 of Senator Alfred M. Cohen of Cincinnati, international president of the order.
Herbach was chosen chairman at the first tri-council conference held here by 300 delegates from the New Jersey, Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania Councils and the Wilmington Lodge. Present membership in America is 50,000.
A resolution was adopted which will be engrossed and sent to United States Senator William H. King of Utah, in appreciation of “raising his voice in the true American spirit, for the cause of human brotherhood and justice and against every oppression of the Jews everywhere.
“We express our profound appreciation for his untiring and unselfish devotion and pray that he may be spared for many more years,” the resolution stated.
Common Pleas Judge Joseph L. Kun of Philadelphia, Dr. Isador Rosenthal of Lancaster, Pa., and Isador Sobel of Erie, Pa., County Bar Association president there, comprised the committee drawing up the resolution on behalf of District 3, which includes Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and West Virginia.
Joseph W. Salus presided at the Sunday sessions at the Hotel Breakers. Frank R. S. Caplan led the Saturday night conference as district president. Speakers included Dr. B. S. Pollak of Secaucus, N. J., who will go to Europe Aug. 14 as United States representative to the International Tuberculosis Conference; Murray Levine, Abram Orlow, Calvin Leichtman, Abraham Berkowitz and Charles Kraemer.
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