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1. NALEVY_110130_011.JPG: "Control of the seas means security Control of the seas means peace Control of the seas can mean victory The United States must control the sea if it is to protect our security." -- John F. Kennedy
2. NALEVY_110130_015.JPG: Sign on and Sail with me, The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave and the strong, and the free. Heed my call. Come to the sea. Come Sail with me. -- John Paul Jones
3. NALEVY_110130_019.JPG: Message to the American People... To the concept that through world-wide cooperation, man may eventually find the means for everlasting peace; that hates may wither, that prejudices may die, that wars be forgotten, that only amity and good-will prevail -- To the concept that by this coopera- tion we will improve our standards of living, eliminate the wastes of conflict and needless argument, and elevate the world-wide society to its highest level -- To the concept that this cooperation will bring to our earth the peace of mind and tranquility man has so long striven for, that it will bring to him the light to see perfect harmony -- To these ideals, The Class of Nineteen Sixty is dedicated.
4. NALEVY_110130_024.JPG: "No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth." -- Thomas Jefferson
5. NALEVY_110130_046.JPG: Award Medal: US Congress to Vice Admiral Hyman Rickover: Rickover was to receive numerous governmental awards and recognition during his lengthy career. For some, Rickover's ability to gain Congressional and White House support for nuclear weapons systems and ships made him controversial. Others define him as visionary.
6. NALEVY_110130_052.JPG: First Known Jewish Midshipman at the Naval Academy; Raphael J. Moses, Jr., Class of 1864 Raised in Georgia, Moses (1844-1909) resigned from the Academy to fight for the South. He was an acting midshipman in the Georgia Navy and the Provisional Navy. In action in major engagements, he twice ran the Northern blockade of the Atlantic. Moses was nominated for promotion to Master before being captured in December 1864. Exchanged early in 1865, he joined the Georgia Volunteers serving with Lee in Northern Virginia. He was paroled April 9, 1865. Admitted to the bar in 1866, Moses practiced law in Georgia before moving to New York City in 1872 where he specialized in insurance law and receiverships. In 1900, his focus turned almost exclusively to aerodynamics. In 1865, Moses married Georgiana Samuel. They had seven children -- the third, Lawrence, graduated from the Naval Academy (1890). Joining the Marine Corps, he retired as a colonel in 1926. Seven other members of the Moses family would attend the Naval Academy. All were in active service except one who was discharged owing to a physical disability.
7. NALEVY_110130_057.JPG: Notable Jews at the Naval Academy: Jews have been part of the United States Naval Academy from its earliest days, advancing its honor and reputation at students, as graduates, and as members of its faculty and staff. They have served, and led, in every war since the founding of the Academy. The first identifiable Jew at the Academy was Raphael Jacob Moses, Jr., who entered in 1860 but left to join the Confederate military. His son, Lawrence Henry Moses, graduated in 1890. Family members Stanford, William, Charles, and Edward Moses attended the Academy as well. Adolph Marix, USNA 1868, commanded the battleship Maine until a few weeks before it exploded in Havava Harbor in 1898, sparking the Spanish-American War. Marix was appointed [and] headed the commission that investigated the explosion. [From Wikipedia article on the Spanish-American War: The U.S. Navy's investigation, made public on March 28, concluded that the ship's powder magazines were ignited when an external explosion was set off under the ship's hull. This report poured fuel on popular indignation in the U.S., making the war inevitable.Spain's investigation came to the opposite conclusion: that the explosion originated within the ship. Other investigations in later years came to various contradictory conclusions, but had no bearing on the coming of the war. In 1974, Admiral Hyman George Rickover had his staff look at the documents and concluded there was an internal explosion. A study commissioned by National Geographic magazine in 1999, using AME computer modelling, stated that the explosion could have been caused by a mine, but no definitive evidence was found.] In 1907, Albert A. Michelson, USNA 1873, became the first American to win a Nobel Prize in science for measuring the speed of light while working as a faculty member at the Academy. His research later made possible Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. Hyman Rickover, USNA 1922, served longer than any other officer in the history of the United States Navy. Known as [the] "Father of the Nuclear Navy," Rickover's vision of the potential for nuclear energy to allow submarines and battleships to cruise for extended periods without refueling, helped make the United States a world military power. After active duty in the Pacific theater, Paul N. Shulman, USNA 1944, resigned his commission to help establish the state of Israel. In 1948, David Ben-Gurion, Prime Minister of the newly-declared nation, asked Shulman to command its small but effective Navy as Israel struggled for its very survival. Since World War II, more distinguished Jewish USNA graduates have served their nation than can be listed. Some of their stories are told in this case.
8. NALEVY_110130_059.JPG: Adolph Marix (1848-1919) USNA Class of 1868 USN 1868-1909 Adolph Marix, the Naval Academy's first Jewish graduate, was the Navy's first Jewish officer to attain the rank of admiral. Marix was a child when he came to America from Saxony (Germany). His father served President Lincoln as translator of European papers. Knowing the family, Lincoln appointed Adolph to the Naval Academy, Class of 1868. Marix's career included sea duty and tours to the Office of the Judge-Advocate-General and with the Hydrographic Office. The work with the Judge-Advocate would serve well in 1898. In 1895, he was assigned to the USS Maine as executive officer, and then transferred to the USS Scorpion in Dec. 1897. On February 15, 1898, just weeks later, the Maine exploded in Havana Harbor, sinking quickly, killing three quarters of the crew. Marix was Judge-Advocate-General and the recorder for the board investigating the explosion.
9. NALEVY_110130_070.JPG: Engraving of a Flogging Aboard Ship, AA von Schmidt Uriah P. Levy was one of a minority of naval officers who opposed flogging aboard naval ships. Levy called for symbolic punishments, such as public humiliations, in place of violent discipline. Notice that the sailors witnessing the flogging in this picture cannot bear to look. In 1850, Congress abolished flogging aboard Navy vessels.
10. NALEVY_110130_076.JPG: Captain Uriah P. Levy, circa 1857 This photograph of Levy was taken around the time that Levy was fighting for reinstatement at the Naval Board of Inquiry in 1857. Although he was age 65, the Board unanimously concluded that Levy was "morally, mentally, physically and professionally fit for Naval Service." From Cabin Boy to Commodore: In 1802, Uriah Levy ran away from his Philadelphia home to serve as cabin boy on a merchant vessel. According to legend, he returned at age twelve to study for his bar mitzvah (confirmation), after which he returned to sea. At age 19, he became captain of his own merchant vessel. An ardent patriot, Levy joined the Navy during the War of 1812 and began a career that spanned half a century, the longest ever served in the Navy by an American Jew. He became sailing master of the USS Argus in 1812 and was taken prisoner by [the] British while aboard the USS Betsy in 1813. Levy languished in prison for sixteen months, after which he continued his naval career. Fiercely proud of his Judaism, Levy faced six naval courts-martial, most for conflicts with fellow officers over anti-Semitic insults. Three times, a President of the United States overturned his conviction. In 1816, he fought a duel and, reluctantly, killed his opponent, who insisted on shooting until one of them was dead. Levy advocated for the abolishment of flogging as discipline for misconduct by sailors. His reasoning eventually convinced Congress to outlaw the practice. In 1853, he published a manual of rules and regulations for men of war. Congress involuntarily retired Levy and two hundred other officers in 1855. The Navy reinstated him in 1857 and designated him flag officer of the Mediterranean Fleet until 1860. When the Civil War began, Levy served in Washington, DC. Uriah Levy died in 1862 with the rank of commodore, the highest rank a Jew had ever obtained in the United States Navy. Preserving Jeffersonian Ideals: Uriah P. Levy is probably best known for acquiring and restoring Thomas Jefferson's beloved home, Monticello, in Virginia. Levy idolized Jefferson for championing religious liberty. After Jefferson's death in 1826, Monticello went to ruin. Levy purchased it in 1834 and began restoring its buildings, lands, and furnishings. Levy summered at Monticello and invited the public to explore Jefferson's homestead. He brought his mother, Rachel Machado Phillips Levy, to live there, and she is buried on the grounds. On his death in 1862, Levy bequeathed Monticello to "the People of the United States" for the "sole purpose" of teaching farming to the orphan sons of US Navy warrant officers. In the midst of the Civil War, Congress declined his gift. Uriah's nephew, Jefferson Monroe Levy, then acquired the property and continued his uncle's restoration work. He sold the estate to a non-profit foundation in 1923, and it became a national monument. Uriah P. Levy's legacy is honored in several ways. His tombstone in Beth Olom Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY, is marked with the inscription, "Father of the law for the abolition of the barbarous practice of corporal punishment in the Navy of the United States." In 1943, the Navy commissioned a destroyer the USS Levy in his memory. In 1959, the United States Naval Station in Norfolk, VA was named the Commodore Levy Chapel. At Monticello, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation installed a plaque in 1985 that reads in part, :"At two crucial periods in the history of Monticello, the preservation efforts and stewardship of Uriah P. Levy and Jefferson M. Levy successfully maintained the property for future generations." Today you stand in a building that is Levy's finest memorial. Uriah P. Levy From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Uriah Phillips Levy (April 22, 1792 – March 26, 1862) was the first Jewish Commodore of the United States Navy, a veteran of the War of 1812 and a major philanthropist. At the time, Commodore was the highest rank obtainable in the U.S. Navy and would be roughly equivalent to the modern-day rank of Admiral. During his tenure, he ended the Navy's practice of flogging, and prevailed against the antisemitic bigotry he faced among his fellow naval officers. In 1834 Levy purchased and began the restoration of Thomas Jefferson's estate, Monticello, near Charlottesville, Virginia. His donation of it to the United States Congress in 1862 was rejected due to the wartime crisis. In 1879 his nephew Jefferson Monroe Levy bought out other heirs and contracted for renewed restoration and preservation of the property. Their work and private money preserved it for the American people. In 1923 Monticello was purchased by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation and adapted as a house museum. Uriah Levy commissioned a bronze statue of Jefferson in France in 1834 and donated it to Congress. Now in the Capitol Rotunda, it is the only privately commissioned artwork in the Capitol. Commodore Levy Chapel, the Jewish Chapel at Naval Station Norfolk, Norfolk, Virginia, and the Commodore Uriah P. Levy Center and Jewish Chapel at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland are named in his honor. Also, he was the namesake of a Cannon class destroyer escort, the Levy (DE-162).
11. NALEVY_110130_091.JPG: Photograph of Monticello, circa 1865 This oldest known photograph of Monticello shows its deterioration after having been occupied by Confederate troops during the Civil War. Jefferson Monroe Levy, Uriah's nephew, acquired the property after a legal battle with other potential heirs and began the process of restoring the property to the excellent condition we find it in today.
12. NALEVY_110130_097.JPG: Jewish Women in the Navy: Throughout our nation's history, women have played a role in supporting, and then serving in, the United States Navy. Jewish women had performed their fair share of this duty. Nursing was the first role that women were assigned, and at first religion played a key role. During the Civil War, Catholic nuns boarded hospital ships to tend to wounded men. The Navy recruited professional nurses to serve at the Norfolk Naval Station during the Spanish-American War (1898). In 1908, the Navy Nurse Corps became an official unit. The urgent need for "manpower" in World War I convinced Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to enrole female yeomen in the Naval Reserves to fill non-combat roles. These women held the rank of Yoeman [sic] (F), and were commonly known as "Yoemanettes." More than 12,000 women, including a number of young Jewish women, volunteered as administrators, fingerprint experts, camouflage designers, medical researchers and intelligence experts. The Yoemanettes became a precedent for the World War II Waves, or Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service. From 1942 to 1944, thousands of WAVE recruits attended boot camp at the Bronx campus of Hunter College in New York City, completing a six to eight week course. They were not allowed to serve at sea or command men, but the WAVES performed admirably at more than 500 stateside naval shore installations. Significant numbers of Jewish women volunteered to do their part in the fight against Nazism in Europe and North Africa and against Japanese aggression in the Pacific. In 1982, the first Jewish female midshipman graduated from the Naval Academy, and many other Jewish women have now graduated and gone on to distinguished careers.
13. NALEVY_110130_099.JPG: Commodore Uriah P. Levy
14. NALEVY_110130_121.JPG: The Dreyfus Affair: Exhibition Presented By The Admiral James B. Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership with Support from Lorraine and Martin Beitler -- Dreyfus affair From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Dreyfus affair (French: l'affaire Dreyfus) was a political scandal that divided France in the 1890s and the early 1900s. It involved the conviction for treason in November 1894 of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a young French artillery officer of Alsatian Jewish descent. Sentenced to life imprisonment for allegedly having communicated French military secrets to the German Embassy in Paris, Dreyfus was sent to the penal colony at Devil's Island in French Guiana and placed in solitary confinement. Two years later, in 1896, evidence came to light identifying a French Army major named Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy as the real culprit. However, high-ranking military officials suppressed this new evidence and Esterhazy was unanimously acquitted after the second day of his trial in military court. Instead of being exonerated, Alfred Dreyfus was further accused by the Army on the basis of false documents fabricated by a French counter-intelligence officer, Hubert-Joseph Henry, seeking to re-confirm Dreyfus's conviction. These fabrications were uncritically accepted by Henry's superiors. Word of the military court's framing of Alfred Dreyfus and of an attendant cover-up began to spread largely due to J'accuse, a vehement public open letter in a Paris newspaper by writer �mile Zola, in January 1898. The case had to be re-opened and Alfred Dreyfus was brought back from Guiana in 1899 to be tried again. The intense political and judicial scandal that ensued divided French society between those who supported Dreyfus (the Dreyfusards), such as Anatole France, Henri Poincar� and Georges Cl�menceau, and those who condemned him (the anti-Dreyfusards), such as Edouard Drumont (the director and publisher of the antisemitic newspaper La Libre Parole) and Hubert-Joseph Henry. Eventually, all the accusations against Alfred Dreyfus were demonstrated to be baseless. Dreyfus was exonerated and reinstated as a major in the French Army in 1906. He later served during the whole of World War I, ending his service with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.
15. NALEVY_110130_124.JPG: The Service Record of Alfred Dreyfus, Major, French Army. The service record follows Dreyfus' military record from his days in the Ecol Polytechnique, the most famous of French Schools, to his promotion to Lieutenant on October 1, 1882 to Captain in 1889 and to his conviction of treason on December 22, 1894. The "Record" goes on to show that the conviction was canceled in 1899 and that the military court accepted his return to active duty as Captain. The military courts acknowledged that an error had been made. Dreyfus was promoted to Major. The last entry was July 20, 1906.
16. NALEVY_110130_143.JPG: French Helmet: This helmet was typical of the style used by both law enforcement and the military in the late 1800s.
17. NALEVY_110130_150.JPG: The trap set for Dreyfus: "The Graphic". September 14, 1894 Dreyfus was ordered to take dictation from the Major Du Paty de Clam, and was immediately arrested for high treason by the waiting Chief of Police.
18. NALEVY_110130_152.JPG: The Dreyfus Affair was, and continues to be, a subject of international proportion. In 2006, on the 100th anniversary of Dreyfus' exoneration, Israel honored him with issuance of this stamp.
19. NALEVY_110130_165.JPG: Pince Nez: Style of glasses worn by Alfred Dreyfus in both civilian and military attire.
20. NALEVY_110130_170.JPG: The Dreyfus Affair: Intrigue... Injustice... Intolerance
21. NALEVY_110130_173.JPG: The Dreyfus Affair / France 1894-1906: A one-hundred-year-old event with contemporary relevance; how the media manipulated public opinion into hostility and hysteria, how the military scapegoated and convicted an innocent man and how courageous individuals pursued justice to exonerate and free him. France in the 1890s: A Climate of Anti-Semitism: The French Revolution (1789) conferred rights of citizenship on Jews, enabling them to enter the nation's social and professional life. Although currents of anti-Semitism were present in Europe, particularly in French society and politics, they became more openly aggressive and better organized in the last quarter of the 19th century. Depicting Jews as exaggerated stereotypes was a common practice.
22. NALEVY_110130_176.JPG: The Evidence: Espionage Discovered: In September 1894, the French Army intercepted a letter addressed to Colonel von Schwartzkoppen, the German military attache in Paris, promising secrets about new field artillery for national defense. Immediately, the Army launched an investigation.
23. NALEVY_110130_179.JPG: The Frame-Up: Dreyfus Accused: A scapegoat, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, an Alsatian Jew and the first Jewish Officer on the French general staff, was accused of being a German espionage agent after a trap was set for him at the Ministry of War. Dreyfus was asked to take dictation with wording similar to the intercepted letter and was immediately arrested for treason and imprisoned. The intercepted letter (the "Bordereau") was submitted to a handwriting expert who expressed doubt that Dreyfus wrote it. Three other "experts," collaborating with the Ministry of war, insisted that he did.
24. NALEVY_110130_182.JPG: Victimization: Dreyfus on Trial: Despite questionable and forged evidence, the Army pursued a closed-door military trial. Neither Dreyfus nor his attorneys were shown the evidence brought against him. The court-martial unanimously found him guilty and sentenced him to deportation and solitary life imprisonment.
25. NALEVY_110130_185.JPG: Hysteria: Condemned by the Media: Before, during and after Dreyfus was put on trial, newspapers and journals (the only means of mass communication at that time) conducted a vicious campaign of character assassination mercilessly pursuing these themes: hatred of the Jew, fear of treason, and love of the homeland and the army.
26. NALEVY_110130_188.JPG: Punishment: Degradation, Deportation, Imprisonment on Devil's Island: Before deportation and life imprisonment, Dreyfus was publicly humiliated by military degradation in the main courtyard of the Ecole Militaire in Paris before his peers and a huge angry crowd. He was incarcerated in solitary confinement on Devil's Island, the infamous penal colony located in French Guinea along the northeast coast of South America.
27. NALEVY_110130_191.JPG: The Cover-Up: Lies, Forgeries & Deceptions in the High Command: Lieutenant-Colonel George Picquart, the new head of Army Intelligence, began to uncover a pattern of deception. He discovered a letter from German military attache von Schwartzkoppen to French Army Major Ferdinand Esterhazy, and became convinced that Esterhazy was the real traitor. Picquart, the "whistle-blower," became a problem for his superiors. Major Henry, the Army's designated forger of earlier incriminating evidence, continued to tamper with documents in order to build the case against Picquart.
28. NALEVY_110130_194.JPG: The Deception Unraveled: To protect Esterhazy, the Army conducted a sham court-martial and acquitted him within minutes. The generals who fabricated false accusations began to scramble; they silenced and imprisoned Picquart. In November 1899, prior to leaving Paris for reassignment, German military attache von Schwartzkoppen said publicly, "I have never known Dreyfus."
29. NALEVY_110130_197.JPG: A House Divided: Dreyfusards and Anti-Dreyfusards: French media, intellectuals, politicians and ordinary citizens fell into two opposing camps -- those who believed in Dreyfus' innocence and those who believed in his guilt. In November 1897, in an open letter appearing in Le Temps, Senate Vice President August Scheurer-Kestner declared that Dreyfus was innocent. Soon after, renowned author Emile Zola's first article supporting Dreyfus appeared, but the General Staff, the anti-Semites and their supportive media continued to grind out condemnation and caricatures of Dreyfus and those who believed in him.
30. NALEVY_110130_200.JPG: Justice Demanded: "J'Accuse": Against the flagrant abuse of military authority and the inflammatory anti-Semitic press, Emile Zola became the leading voice in demands for justice, willing to sacrifice his life, work and family. Zola's famous J'Accuse publicly indicted, by name, generals, officers, handwriting experts and members of the court-martial for their deceptions and legal violations. In accusing French officials of circumventing justice, J'Accuse stands as a heroic public act that has become one of history's most significant documents of social conscience.
31. NALEVY_110130_203.JPG: Injustice Perpetrated: Zola Condemned: J'Accuse provoked two lawsuits, one by the handwriting "experts" for libel and one by the Minister of War for misrepresenting the actions of the court-martial in acquitting Esterhazy. The libel case brought a guilty verdict, a fine and a suspended sentence. Zola was also found guilty in the case brought by the Minister of War, fined and sentenced to the maximum penalty of a year in prison. To remain active in the fight to exonerate Dreyfus, Zola sought refuge in England.
32. NALEVY_110130_205.JPG: The Plot Exposed: Four years after Dreyfus was incarcerated on Devil's Island, the truth emerged that an innocent Dreyfus had been framed by the Army for espionage committed by the treacherous Esterhazy. In 1894, Esterhazy had offered his services to the German military attache in Paris, promising to deliver French military mobilization plans. Colonel Henry confessed to the Minster of War that he had forged documents to build evidence against Dreyfus and to discredit Picquart. Henry was imprisoned and found the next morning with his throat cut -- a presumed suicide. The Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Appeal overturned Dreyfus' 1894 conviction and ordered a new court-martial.
33. NALEVY_110130_208.JPG: The Second Trial: Dreyfus Guilty Again: A second court-martial was ordered. Dreyfus was brought back in the middle of the night to escape the "lynch mob" waiting on shore and was spirited under heavy guard to a prison in Rennes. He was again found guilty, but with "extenuating circumstances," and sentenced to ten years in prison. The French Army refused to admit its diabolical deception.
34. NALEVY_110130_211.JPG: Exonerated by the Media: After a worldwide outcry of indignation and threat of an international boycott, the media again played a key role in changing public and political attitudes, this time leading towards the proclamation of Dreyfus' innocence. Support for Dreyfus came from all over the world. Esterhazy, now in exile in England, confessed publicly, "Yes, it was I who wrote the Bordereau."
35. NALEVY_110130_214.JPG: The Triumph of Truth: Honor Regained: Despite the second guilty verdict by a military tribunal, the national consensus in France had shifted in favor of Dreyfus. Ten days after the second court-martial in Rennes, a seriously ill Dreyfus was offered a pardon by French President Emile Loubet and accepted it with the proviso that he would continue to establish his complete innocence. In 1906, twelve years after the initial condemnation, the Supreme Court of Appeal declared the verdict of Rennes null and void, exonerating Dreyfus. Dreyfus was reinstated into the Army, promoted to Squadron Leader and appointed Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur at the Ecole Militaire where he had been degraded in 1894. To the cries of "Long Live Dreyfus," he replied, "Long live France, " a dramatic demonstration of his unswerving loyalty and love of his country. The Dreyfus case remains a metaphor for good and evil. Institutions, obsessed with self-interest, can easily become corrupt; the media's power to persuade is immense; society eagerly seeks scapegoats to blame for its problems; individuals have an obligation to exhibit moral courage to change the tide of injustice. These lessons of the historic Dreyfus case are contemporary imperatives.
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Wikipedia Description: Naval Academy Jewish Chapel
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The Commodore Uriah P. Levy Center and Jewish Chapel is the Jewish chapel at the United States Naval Academy, in Annapolis, Maryland. The center is named in honor of Commodore Uriah P. Levy (1792-1862), the first Jewish commodore in the United States Navy, who is famous for refusing to flog his sailors. The Levy Center is adjacent to Mitscher Hall and contains a 410-seat synagogue, a fellowship hall, a Character Learning Center, classrooms, and offices for the Brigade’s social director, the academic board, and the Academy’s Honor Board.

Before the chapel was built, Jewish midshipmen attended Congregation Knesset Israel in downtown Annapolis.

History:

The groundbreaking ceremony was held on November 2, 2003. The builder was the Whiting-Turner Contracting Company.

The building was dedicated in September 2005.

The Levy Center cost $8 million to design, build and furnish. Approximately $1.8 million was paid for with military construction funds. The remaining amount was paid for by private donations raised by the Friend of the Jewish Chapel, a campaign headed by Jewish alumni of the academy and others. It was given to the Academy upon completion.

Architecture:

The 35,000-square-foot (3,300 m2) building was designed by Maryland architect Joseph Boggs. The entrance pavilion is modeled on Thomas Jefferson's home at Monticello, which was purchased and restored by Levy following Jefferson's death. The chapel includes a nearly 45-foot-high wall that is a replica of the Western Wall in Jerusalem. The wall is made of Jerusalem stone. The roof of the building is constructed of copper. The architecture of the exterior is consistent with nearby Bancroft Hall.

The chapel was awarded the Maryland AIA Honor Awards 2006, Public Building of the Year; Institutional.
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