A memorial anniversary service for Dr. Cyrus Adler, former president of the Jewish Theological Seminary, who died on April 7, 1940, was held at the seminary yesterday.
“The five years have not produced a leader capable of serving us as he did,” Dr. Louis Finkelstein, president of the seminary, declared. “This anniversary of Dr. Adler death finds the Jewish people bereaved as never before. If in the midst of our deep sorrow at the loss of one-fourth of our people in the innumerable Lublins of Europe and the destruction of hundreds of our sanctuaries we recall our loss in the death of one man, it is ; because his death at its particular time made the general distress more difficult to bear and our problems more difficult to solve.”
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