Samuel Rabinovich and I. Irving Lipsitch, late Jewish social workers, were eulogized tonight at a memorial meeting in the trustees’ room the Federation Building.
The speakers’ list included Harry L. Glucksman, Mortimer Brenner, Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, Miss Celia Antopolsky, David M. Bressler, Elizabeth Dutcher and Morris D. Waldman. Dr. Samuel C. Kohs presided.
Mr. Rabinovich, who was executive director of the United Jewish Aid Societies of Brooklyn for 23 years, died Jan. 23. Mr. Lipsitch, who was executive director of the Federation of Jewish Welfare Organizations of Los Angeles, died Dec. 28.
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