The 12th biennial convention of the National Federation of Temple Brotherhoods, which will continue for four days, opened here today to review the problems of Jewish religious life in the United States. Associate Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson was honored for his work as prosecutor in the Nuremberg war crimes trials at Washington Hebrew Congregation.
Jesse Cohen, of New York, president of the Federation, presented Justice Jackson with a scroll praising his “invaluable and devoted services to the nation. “Following the presentation religious services were held in the synagogue during which Dr. Maurice Eisendrath, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, delivered the principal sermon.
Rabbi Leo Baeck, president of the World Union for Progressive Judaism, who also addressed the meeting, declared that Judaism “is growing in vigor in the United States and, just as the U.S. is the leader in world affairs, American Jewry must be the salvation of world Judaism.” Other speakers today included Charles P. Kramer of New York, past president of the Federation, Jacob Aronson, chairman of the Board of the U.A.H.C. and Rabbi Alvin I. Fine, assistant to the President of Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati.
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