Five outstanding members of the Jewish community are included on the Advisory Committee of the Benjamin Franklin Fund of $250,000 to be raised in the near future, the income from which will be used to encourage religious tolerance at Villanova College, in Villanova, a suburb of Philadelphia.
Of the ten percent non-Catholic students at Villanova College, the majority are Jews. The five members of the Jewish community named to the Advisory Committee are: Albert M. Greenfield, Judge Joseph L. Kun, Morton E. Snellenberg, Judge Horace Stern and Julius S. Weyl.
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