Rabbi Maurice N. Eisendrath, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, received yesterday the first Spiritual Freedom-Citation from the Chapel of the Four Chaplains here. The Rev. Daniel A. Poling, chaplain of the Chapel, paid tribute to Rabbi Eisendrath for his “pioneering efforts in bringing about closer ties among Protestants, Catholics and Jews through program of interfaith cooperation.”
The Chapel is a memorial to four Army chaplains–two Protestants, a Roman Catholic and a Jew–who lost their lives with 674 others when the torpedoed troopship Dorchester went down off the coast of Greenland, February 3, 1943. The four chaplains, all lieutenants, gave their life-preservers to enlisted men and calmly stood is prayer as the ship went under.
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