Former Senator Herbert H. Lehman and six other prominent Jewish leaders were presented last night with the Louis Marshall Memorial Medal, of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, for their “continuing effort to further the spiritual, cultural and ethical well-being of the Jewish community.”
The medals were presented by Peter I. Feinberg at a dinner at which Chief Justice Earl Warren, as guest of honor, delivered an address on ethics and the law. Honored with Senator Lehman were former Federal Judge Simon H. Rifkind; Sol Eisenberg of Detroit; Louis Stein of Philadelphia; Benjamin H. Swig of San Francisco; Myron Weinstein of Chicago and Joseph S. Wohl of Cedarhurst, N.Y.
In another address, Dr. Bernard Mandelbaum, provost of the Seminary, called for the development of “a world conscience to match the world reach of the space age.”
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