The executive board of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, at its annual meeting at the Ritz-Carlton yesterday approved the organization of a national association of Jewish youth under the auspices of the U.A.H.C. It empowered its board of managers to call a youth convention to be held jointly with the 36th council of the Union in Cincinnati next January.
The executive board also set up a national committee on public information on Jews and Judaism to bring about widespread distribution among non-Jews of popular studies in Jerusalem. The board adopted a budget of $202,821 for the coming year. It approved the proposed federation of Reform synagogues in Greater New York with a recommendation for further study of details.
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