The Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism presented awards to Wade Henderson, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, and to Rabbi Marc Schneier, co-founder and president of the Foundation for Ethnic Understating, at a ceremony held at the Israeli Embassy in Washington. Martin Luther King III was among those presenting the awards during a belated commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
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