Rabbi Samuel Wohl, who has been active in American Jewish communal affairs for many years, will soon leave on a three-month trip to Latin American countries to study Jewish life there, it was announced here today. He intends to start on June 10.
Rabbi Wohl, who is a member of the Board of Governors of the Hebrew Union College and chairman of its planning committee, is the spiritual leader of the Isaac M. Wise Temple here. Since 1931 he has visited most of the European countries, including Russia, and participated in many international conferences. He was a delegate to several World Zionist Congresses and attended the sessions of the Jewish Agency. He has made several visits to Palestine and was intimately associated with the leadership of the Histadruth.
For ten years he has been National President of the League for Labor Palestine for the United States and Canada, and was formerly associate editor of the Jewish Frontier. He is also vice-chairman of the Commission on Public Affairs of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, a member of the Council of the World Union for Progressive Judaism, and deputy member of the administrative committee of the Jewish Agency. He is the Cincinnati delegate of the American Jewish Conference, a member of the administrative committee of the American Jewish Congress and president of the Cincinnati Division.
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