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Stanley M. Chesley has been elected the next president of the Jewish National Fund.
Chesley, of Cincinnati, Ohio, was elected at the organization’s board of trustees meeting Monday.
Ronald S. Lauder was selected to fill the newly created position of Chairman of the Board. Lauder was recently elected President of the World Jewish Congress after 10 years as JNF president.
They will be inaugurated at the organization’s annual national conference in New York next month.
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