Full Text of SR0415 93rd General Assembly
SR0415 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, During the month of May 2004, Temple Judea Mizpah | 3 |
| Skokie's original Reform Jewish Congregation will celebrate 50 | 4 |
| years of worship, providing a faith community, life-long | 5 |
| education, social justice, and commitment to the neighborhoods | 6 |
| and communities of its members, the State of Illinois, and the | 7 |
| Federal Government; and
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| WHEREAS, Temple Judea Mizpah has served Skokie since the | 9 |
| first service on March 4, 1954, and adopted the name Temple | 10 |
| Judea in May of 1954; and
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| WHEREAS, Temple Judea Mizpah's original Rabbi, Karl | 12 |
| Weiner, provided inspiration, leadership, education, a strong | 13 |
| sense of social justice, and compassion that radiated | 14 |
| throughout the congregation, the community, and Illinois; and
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| WHEREAS, Temple Judea Mizpah received the land it currently | 16 |
| occupies at Conrad and Niles Center Road as a gift from | 17 |
| congregants on July 23, 1954; and
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| WHEREAS, Temple Judea Mizpah initiated the first religious | 19 |
| school classes in September, 1954; and
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| WHEREAS, Temple Judea Mizpah conducted the first Reform | 21 |
| Jewish High Holy Day Services in Niles Township on September 27 | 22 |
| and 28, 1954; and
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| WHEREAS, On October 17, 1954, Temple Judea Mizpah broke | 24 |
| ground for the construction of the temple building at 8610 | 25 |
| Niles Center Road; and
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| WHEREAS, Temple Judea Mizpah congregants marched in Selma, | 27 |
| Alabama, protested the Democratic National Convention during | 28 |
| the Vietnam War, stood up to the Neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan in |
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| Skokie, provided settlement services to new Russian | 2 |
| immigrants, adopted Vietnamese Boat families, fed the poor and | 3 |
| hungry at the Good News Soup Kitchen, planted trees in Israel, | 4 |
| and presented challenging adult and youth education through | 5 |
| such venues as the religious school and the Karl Weiner | 6 |
| Memorial Scholar in Residence program; and
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| WHEREAS, Temple Judea merged with Temple Mizpah, the | 8 |
| original Reform Jewish Congregation in the Rogers Park area of | 9 |
| Chicago in the summer of 1977 to become one of the most | 10 |
| significant North Shore congregations in the metropolitan
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| Chicago area; and
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| WHEREAS, Temple Judea Mizpah provides educational | 13 |
| programs, community leadership, a strong faith community, a | 14 |
| commitment to social justice, leadership in bringing the | 15 |
| diverse citizens of Skokie and the North Shore together, and | 16 |
| dedicated service to its congregants via Rabbi Audrey Korotkin; | 17 |
| therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-THIRD GENERAL | 19 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we designate the week | 20 |
| of May 1, 2004, through May 8, 2004, as Celebration of Temple | 21 |
| Judea Mizpah's Golden Jubilee 50th Anniversary Week in the | 22 |
| State of Illinois; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 24 |
| presented to Temple Judea Mizpah as an expression of our | 25 |
| congratulations on the occasion of its Golden Jubilee 50th | 26 |
| Anniversary.
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