Seventy-two graduates of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America were given certificates and degrees at the 62nd annual commencement exercises here of the Seminary, Eight honorary degrees were awarded. At a meeting of the Seminary’s Board of Overseers’ held in connection with the commencement, Sen. Herbert H. Lehman was re-elected chairman of the board.
The honorary degrees were awarded to Horace Stern, Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, who received an honorary Doctorate in Letters; and Rabbis Herman Hailperin, Abraham Heller, Benjamin A. Lichter, Joseph Miller, Arthur Neulander, Morris Schussheim and Morris Silverman, who received degrees of Doctor of Divinity.
Twenty-nine of the Seminary graduates were ordained “rabbi, teacher and preacher. ” Among the new rabbis is Abraham David Feffer, a Polish Jew who survived in the Nazi concentration camps. He was saved by advancing American forces and subsequently served as an interpreter with the Army. He came to the United States ten years ago. Rabbi Feffer will shortly enter an Army chaplain’s school and will serve as a chaplain with the Army “to repay a debt for my life.”
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