Secretary of Commerce Luther H. Hodges today was awarded the Seminary Medal at a special convocation here of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. The only other recipient of the award to date has been Israel’s Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion.
The award to Mr. Hodges cited the Cabinet member for exemplifying “the human potentiality to develop in the market place and in the councils of Government the ethical and moral principles of mankind.” More than 1,000 educators, scholars, public officials and business leaders attended the ceremonies, at which the award to Mr. Hodges was given by Dr. Louis Finkelstein, chancellor of the Seminary.
Later, at the third annual Seminary convocation dinner, six Jewish communal leaders were given the Seminary’s National Community Service Awards. That award is a bronze plaque conferred upon leaders whose “distinctive and continuing service to the community at large perpetuates the Jewish tradition of involvement in, and concern for, the well-being of all men.” The leaders honored with plaques were Samuel J. Halperin, of Miami Beach; Harry I. Hoffman, of Chicago; Bertram I. Loeb, Ottawa; Philip Leff, New York; Irving Maidman, Upper Nyack, N.Y.; and Louis Stein, Philadelphia.
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