The American Council for Judaism, which this year lost its executive director and executive vice president, has hired a new executive director. He is Stuart Gottlieb of Lawrenceville, N.J., who previously served as assistant director of inter-religious affairs of the American Jewish Committee and was that organization’s assistant area director for Pennsylvania and Delaware. Mr. Gottlieb also served for a brief period as executive director of the Mizrachi Women’s Organization of America.
The Council, an anti-Zionist organization, has been torn by internal dissension over a number of key policy and program issues. Last May, Dr. Norton Mezvinsky, executive director for 14 months, quit amidst charges among others that the Council was “bigoted” against Negroes and that Rabbi Elmer Berger, its longtime executive vice president, had “freely given speech writing assistance to Arab representatives at the United Nations, notably George Tomeh of Syria.” Those charges were subsequently denied by the Council. A few months later Rabbi Berger also resigned because of ideological differences between him and the present lay leadership, a well-informed source said.
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