A resolution in memory of former Supreme Court Justice David Leventritt, who died last Friday, was adopted by the Board of Trustees of Emanu-El Congregation, of which Mr. Louis Marshall is the President.
“A year ago it was our great privilege to rejoice with our beloved and honored associate, David Leventritt, on his attainment of the crown of four-score years of usefulness and distinction,” the resolution stated. “Today we meet to record our sorrow upon the termination of his earthly pilgrimage. His has been an active, busy life, devoted in large part to public service and to the elevation of the standards of the profession in which he shone refulgently, both at the bar and upon the judgment seat.
“For seventy years he lived in this community as a model of ecellence. During all that time he was identified with our congregation, in whose endeavors for the advancement of Judaism and the development of its inner content he participated energetically and where, for a generation, he strove as trustee and as Vice President to uphold the moral precepts and the high traditions of our faith. The religious education of our youth was regarded by him of prime importance, and he labored earnestly with all his strength to attract to properly equipped schools children who otherwise would have been deprived of the moral training which he looked upon as essential to true manhood and womanhood.
“He has left the impress of his fine personality upon this community which he loved and which will long remember him with esteem and veneration. The sympathy of the congregation is extended to his bereaved family.”
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