Burial services for Rabbi Zvi Hirsh Cohen, dean of the Canadian rabbinate and president of the Montreal Council of Orthodox Rabbis who died on Friday at the age of 90, took place here yesterday. A native of Lithuania, Rabbi Cohen dame to Canada in 1889 and was one of the first organizers of the Canadian Jewish Congress. He opened the first session of the C.J.C. in 1919 with a benediction.
Rabbi Cohen also played a leading role in the organization of what is now the United Talmud Torahs of Montreal. In World War I he formed the Central War Relief Committee, which aided many war victims both in Europe and Palestine. In the early 1920’s he instituted this city’s Kashruth-control system. He also founded and presided over the Jewish Arbitration Court here for many years.
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