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Four College Students Are Elected to Hillel Foundation’s National Commission

September 3, 1969
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Four Jewish college students were elected today as voting members with “full participation rights” of the National Council of the B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundation, the organization’s highest policy-making body. The four undergraduates were elected to one-year terms by 230 fellow students attending the 24th annual summer institute at Camp B’nai B’rith here.

They are: Daniel Friedman, 20, of Westport, Conn., a junior at Yale University’s Byron Kohl, 18, of Evanston, I11., a sophomore at Northwestern University; Phylis Levinthal, 19, of Long Beach, Calif,, a sophomore at Stamford, and Arnie Rachlis, 20, of Morristown, Pa., a senior at the University of Pennsylvania.

In other action at the concluding session of the eight-day institute, the group’s social action workshop proposed resolutions by the Hillel Foundation’s 224 campus units to speed the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Vietnam and to endorse the right of individuals to refuse to fight in Vietnam on grounds of pacifism or selective conscientious objection. Also proposed was the establishment of programs to combat Arab propaganda on American campuses.

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