Paul Emile Cardinal Leger was awarded the Brotherhood Award of Merit, citing him as a world leader in the ecumenical movement, at the 38th annual Fellowship Dinner of Temple Emanuel of Montreal. More than 500 men attended the event, representing government, labor, industry, military and consular groups in Montreal.
Paul Martin, Minister for External Affairs, told the dinner audience that Canada has close relations with Israel and that Canadian Jewry could “count on the sympathetic concern” of the Canadian Government for “any problems of Israel.”
Cardinal Leger said both the Christian and Jewish faiths had “practiced the doctrine of the Old and the New Testaments, which is the doctrine of love. Rabbi Harry Stern presented the Cardinal with a framed scroll and a Bible. Martin received a mounted Shofar.
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