Ten new rabbis will receive their degrees from the Jewish Theological Seminary at commencement exercises this afternoon (Sunday). The baccalaureate sermon was ### be preached Saturday morning in the synagogue of the seminary by Rabbi Benjamin A. Lichter of Congregation Bnai Israel, Pittsburgh.
The graduates are:
Mordecai H. Lewittes, Philop Listokin, A. Elihu Michelson and Philip Pinens, all of New York City; Morris Adler, St. Joseph, Mo.; Eli I. Bohnen, Toronto, Ont.; Morris A. Frank, Chattanooga, Tenn.; Irwin I. Hyman, Atlantic City, N. J.; Irving Perlman, Chicago, and H. Elihu Rickel, Cleveland, Ohio.
The degree of Doctor of Hebrew Literature, in course, will be conferred upon Rabbi S. Minkin of Brooklyn.
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Among those who will participate in the exercises are Profs. Louis Finkelstein and Mordecai M. Kaplan, Dr. Israel H. Levinthal, Rabbi Israel Goldfarb and Dr. Cyrus Adler, president of the seminary.
The following will be graduated by the Teachers Institute of the seminary:
Bachelor of Jewish Pedagogy— Pearl Becker, Hyman Katz, Shlomith Kessin, Alice M. Rothkowitz, Ezer Skolnick.
Professional Diploma—Chana Eisenberg, Ruth Rosenblum.
Academic Diploma—Fannie Kaganov, Frieda Levine, Frieda Labovitz, Rita Wender.
Israel Friedlaender Diploma— Ruth Pinsky.
Israel Friedlaender Certificate— Grace Hoscander, Minnie Payenson, Nathan Sheinhorn.
Music for the exercises will be Meyerbeer’s Coronation March and Mendelsohn’s March from “Athalia.”
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