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OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL
American Friends Get
New National Leader
Story by Nina Boxer
Photos by Richard Lobell
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Claus Moser, a member of the board of governors of the London School
of Economics, has had an extraordinary career in public service in
the United Kingdom. He left Germany with his parents in 1936, bound
for America, but due to his father’s health they stopped in
London.
He’s been there ever since, forging a
distinguished life, including three years in the Royal Air Force,
not to mention chief statistician under three prime ministers.
Chancellor of the Open University of Israel,
Lord Moser came to New York to address the American Friends dinner
at the Ritz-Carlton Battery Park.
He deplored the rise of anti-Semitism in
Europe. “People who never expressed anti-Semitism now feel it’s
acceptable,” he said.
“I will not miss any opportunity, even in the
House of Lords, to share why I feel so passionately about this
threat.”
Elevated to the House of Lords two years ago,
he noted that 10 percent of the members are Jews.
Irving M. Rosenbaum, longtime national chairman
of the American Friends, passed the gavel to Irwin Hochberg of Rye
Brook, N.Y.
American Friends vice president A. Arthur
Sherman presented Women of Leadership and Vision Awards to Goldye
Comisky of Cheltenham, Pa.; Helen Goldstein, Bobi Klotz and Ruth
Hockley of New York, and Judge Miriam Waltzer of New Orleans.
Women of Leadership and Vision are
(l-r) Goldye Comisky,
Helen Goldstein,
Ruth Hockley, Bobi Klotz and
|Miriam Waltzer. |
Ingeborg Rennert, Bernice Sherman and Rita
Hochberg served as tribute committee chairs. Emcee was Ken
Abramowitz, managing director of the Carlyle Group.
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