Rabbi Samuel Wohl, a leading Reform rabbi here for 40 years and a founder of the League for Labor Zionism, died today at the age of 77. Rabbi Wohl was born in Odessa and came to the U.S. as a young man. He was educated at the University of Cincinnati and was ordained by the Hebrew Union College.
In 1927 Rabbi Wohl became Rabbi of the Reading Road Temple here and continued in that pulpit after its merger with the Rabbi Isaac M.Wise Temple until his retirement five years ago. He was a former principal of the Bnai Yeshurun Religious School in Cleveland, a former associate editor of The Jewish Frontier, and a member of the Board of Governors of Hebrew Union College. Rabbi Wohl served at one time as a member of the Board of Directors of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
According to information reaching London from Prague, Czech authorities are planning an anti-Zionist museum as part of the present campaign against Zionism, Israel, Jewish Nazi victims. A delegation of the International Federation of Arab Trade Unions spent a week in Prague discussing “cooperation with Czechoslovak trade unionists.”
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