Leo Shapiro Newspaper Collection

              Former N.E. Rabbis Attended Bretton Woods Conference
  back to  New England  a I man, who was the first assistant, and
number of rabbis who at one time or I Rabbi Albert Goldman,
another held posts in this region. Rabbi Bergman, who was at Tem-
Among them were two rabbis j pie Isael from 1940 to 1942, is now
who served as assistants to the late | spiritual leader of the Touro Syna-
Rabbi Joshua Leth Liebman of Tem-, gogue in New Orleans, named for
pie Israel, Bostaon, Rabbi Leo Berg- i a great American patriot and phil-
BRETTON WOODS, N. H., June
29—The 60th anniversary convention of the Central Conference of
American Rabbis, which ended yesterday at the Mt. Washington Hotel,

anthropist who began his career in
Boston and by his contribution made
possible the completion of the*
Bunker Hill Monument in Chailes-
town.
Mrs. Bergman, the former Adelaide Hubbard of Brookline, plays
the cello in the New Orleans Symphony Orchestra.
Rabbi Goldman is now at Yon-
kers, N. Y. Also at the conference
was Rabbi Irving Mandel, presently
assistant rabbi of Temple Israel.
One of the principal addresses of
the convention was delivered by
Rabbi Harry Essrig of Grand Rapids,
Mich., who was Hillel director in
Cambridge from 1945 to 1947. He
gave a talk on "Jewish Religious
Liberalism in the World of Tomorrow."
Now in Johnstown, Penn., Rabbi;
H. Goren Perelmuter, who served
Temple Beth Israel in Waltham
from 1939 to 1941, upon learning the
correspondent was a Globe man,
had warm words for this paper.
stating it was his "favorite paper"
and still is whenever he gets to
Boston.
Other rabbis included Rabbi Abraham Ruderman of Beth Israel Center, St. Albans. Long Islands, N. Y.,
a native of Maiden and graduate of
Boston University College of Liberal
Arts in 1934; Rabbi Levi Olan of
Dallas, Tex., formerly of Worcester;
Rabbi Herschel Levin of Temple
Emanuel. Lawrence; Rabbi Abraham I. Jacobson, Temple Emanuel,
Haverhill; Rabbi Herman E. Snyder
of Springfield; and Rabbi Norman
M. Goldburg, formerly of Temple
Israel, Brockton.
Han Israel Visit
Rabbi Dudley Weinberg of Temple
Ohabei Shalom, Brookline, and
Rabbi Abraham J. Klausner, new
rabbi of Temple Israel, will soon
be on their'way to Israel for visits.
Rabbi Klausner, who will assume
his duties at Temple Israel Aug. 1,
will fly from New York to Lydda
on July 3, for a month in the Holy
Land. He is going at the invitation
of United States Ambassador James
G. McDonald at Tel Aviv, whom he
met while serving as Army chaplain
in Germany when the diplomat was
serving on ane of the Palestine commissions. It will be his second visit
to Israel. He was last there in 1946
and was prominently identified in
the rescue and restoration to health
of survivors of Nazi concentration
camp brutality. The rabbi especially
lookink forward to meeting many
of the children he helped to rescue
and who have settled in Israel.
Rabbi Klausner hopes to meet
with Prime Minister David Ben
Gurion, who traveled through Germany with him. He also expects
to meet with Dr. Zalman Grinberg,
present head of the Kupat Cholim,
Histradut (Labor organization) Hospital, who was the first president of 
the central committee of liberated
Jews of Germany. Dr. Grinberg organized St. Ottelien Hospital, at
the monastery in Bavaria, to which
the sick Jewish survivors of the
Dachau concentration camp were
brought, and supervised the Gaut-
ing Hospital in Germany.
Rabbi Klausner will study conditions, particularly from the point
of view of what Americans can do
to help sponsor the favorable
growth of the state.
Rabbi Dudley Weinberg is leaving
July 5 and is going under the auspices of the Jewish agency.