Funeral services were held here yesterday for Dr. Martin Greenfield, who recently won a long battle when the Postal Services approved his proposal for a stamp honoring the Tour Synagogue. Greenfield, who was 57, was taken to the hospital in a coma a few hours before he was to have been a guest of honor at a ceremony on Dec. 11 in Washington at the unveiling of a rendering of the Tour Synagogue stamp.
The commemorative stamp, to be issued in 1982, honors the synagogue at Newport, R.I., the oldest synagogue in the United States. It was founded in 1958 and visited by President George Washington, leading to his famous letter declaring that the United States government “give to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.”
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