Admiral Lewis L. Strauss, until recently a member of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, is among ten American leaders who will receive honorary degrees this week-end at the 66th commencement exercises of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. The degree of Doctor of Hebrew Letters will be conferred upon Admiral Strauss.
The following will also receive Doctorates of Hebrew Letters: Dr. Harvie Branscomb, Chancellor of Vanderbilt University; Hayim Greenberg, member of the Jewish Agency executive; Rabbi Bernard J. Bamberger, president of the Synagogue Council of America; Dr. Abraham Cronbach, retiring College-Institute faculty member and pioneer in the field of Jewish social studies; and Rabbi Ferdinand M. Isserman of Temple Israel, St. Louis.
The men who will receive degrees of Doctor of Divinity are: Dr. Mordecai M. Kaplan, director of the Society for the Advancement of Judaism; Rabbi Beryl D. Cohon, of Temple Sinai, Brookline, Massachusetts; and Rabbi Benjamin Friedman of Temple Society of Concord, Syracuse, New York. Harry Zwi Shuster, head of the Cleveland Hebrew High School, will be made a Master of Hebrew Letters.
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