sentences:  The paper has been owned by only two families since that time.In 1917 de Haas became national executive director of the newly organized Zionist Organization of America at the invitation of Louis D. Brandeis, who had just become president of the ZOA, and ownership of "The Jewish Advocate" passed to Alexander Brin, who, as a national reporter for the former "Boston Traveler" daily newspaper, had become well known through his coverage of the Leo Frank case in Atlanta, Georgia.A year later "The Advocate" played a leading role in supporting the appointment of Brandeis as the first Jewish justice on the Supreme Court of the United States, and nearly thirty years later in the establishment of Brandeis University.