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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, Rabbi Morris I. Esformes received a Bachelor of
3 Arts in social sciences in 1970 from Roosevelt University; he
4 attended Hebrew Theological College in Skokie and received his
5 Rabbinic Ordination in 1970; he has continued his education at
6 Roosevelt University by taking courses in social work; and
 
7     WHEREAS, Rabbi Esformes is a Managing General Partner at 20
8 nursing homes in two states, Florida and Illinois, and at
9 Larkin Community Hospital in South Miami, Florida, at Woodland
10 Towers in Deland, Florida, and at Park Plaza in Chicago; and
 
11     WHEREAS, Rabbi Esformes served as the Executive Director of
12 Arie Crown Hebrew Day School from 1973 to 1976 and as
13 Administrator at Birchwood Pavilion Nursing Home in Chicago
14 from 1970 to 1973; and
 
15     WHEREAS, He served on the State of Illinois Commission on
16 Mental Health in 1978 and on the Illinois Council for Long Term
17 Care as Vice-President from 1977 to 1979; and
 
18     WHEREAS, Rabbi Esformes has been actively involved in his
19 community; he is a Past President of Arie Crown Hebrew Day
20 School, and a board member for Hebrew Theological College,
21 Telshe Yeshiva, the Wisconsin Institute of Torah Study,
22 Associated Talmud Torahs, and Hannah Sachs Girls School; he is
23 President Emeritus of Morris Namias Hebrew Academy in New
24 Jersey and the founder of the Chicago Community Kollel; he is
25 on the National Board of Ben Gurion University in Israel and
26 Torah Umsorah and the board of the Simon Wiesenthal Center for
27 Holocaust Studies; he is a member of the Social Welfare
28 Committee of the Jewish Federation Committee of Metropolitan
29 Chicago, Past Vice President of Congregation Adas Yeschurum,
30 and Past President of Cong. Adas Bnai Israel; and
 

 

 

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1     WHEREAS, Rabbi Esformes has been the recipient of numerous
2 honors, including the Yissacher Zevulun Award from Lakewood
3 Yeshiva in 1980, the Founder Award of Telshe Yeshiva in 1981,
4 and the Associated Talmud Torahs of Chicago Morris Esformes
5 Scholarship Foundation; he was honored by Chicago Community
6 Kollel, Post-Graduate School for Rabbis in 1982 and by Arie
7 Crown Hebrew Day School in 1983; he was honored by American
8 Friends of Ohr Somavach in 1985, by American Friends of Kerem
9 B'Yavneh in 1985, by Lakewood Yeshiva in 1990, by Yeshiva
10 Gedola Ateres Mordechai in 1989, by Central Yeshiva Beth Joseph
11 in 1988, by Neve Yerushalayim in 1994, and by Yeshivas Brisk in
12 1998; and
 
13     WHEREAS, On Wednesday, February 9, 2005, a reception is
14 being held to celebrate the establishment of The Rabbi Morris
15 I. Esformes Professorship; therefore, be it
 
16     RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
17 NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
18 we congratulate Rabbi Morris I. Esformes on the establishment
19 of a professorship in his honor at the University of Chicago;
20 and be it further
 
21     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
22 presented to Rabbi Esformes as an expression of our respect and
23 esteem.