Twenty-three Jewish cadets who were awarded commissions as second lieutenants at the graduating exercises of the U.S. Military Academy here received Bibles from the National Jewish Welfare Board at the baccalaureate services of the Jewish Chapel Squad. Rabbi Julius Mark of Temple Emanu-El, New York, delivered the baccalaureate sermon and Rabbi Marcus Kramer, Jewish chaplain at West Point, officiated.
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