WASHINGTON (JTA) — Tom Lantos posthumously won the National Endowment for Democracy's Service Medal. The nonprofit group, which promotes democracy throughout the world, awarded the late U.S. congressman in June, but the State Department waited until last Friday to publish a speech made at the event by Under Secretary of State Paula Dobriansky. "As an original co-sponsor of the Global Anti-Semitism Review Act of 2004, Representative Lantos was a driving force behind the State Department's report on 'Contemporary Global Anti-Semitism' released earlier this year-a report we were proud to dedicate to his memory," Dobriansky said. "In that dedication, we wrote that Tom Lantos 'attested with uncommon eloquence to a truth based on an unspeakable experience: (that) promoting tolerance is essential to building a world of freedom and peace.'"