The local Hadassah chapter is commemorating its twenty-third birthday with a party on Thursday at the Hotel Schenley. Mrs. Maurice L. Lyon is general chairman of the event.
Simon Friedberg, 92, former president of Beth Jacob Congregation and local leader in Jewish philanthropic and religious organizations, is dead here.
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