[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 64 (Friday, May 20, 1994)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
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                           RABBI NORMAN PATZ

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                            HON. HERB KLEIN

                             of new jersey

                    in the house of representatives

                          Friday, May 20, 1994

  Mr. KLEIN. Mr. Speaker, I am very proud to join Temple Sholom of West 
Essex, Cedar Grove, NJ, in expressing my congratulations to Rabbi 
Norman Patz for his 25th year at the temple, in addition to celebrating 
the temple's 40th anniversary.
  Rabbi Patz arrived at Temple Sholom of West Essex in 1969. In 
addition to his work at the temple, he is currently the chairman of the 
Israel Committee of the Central Conference of American Rabbis. He 
served as past chairman of National UJA's rabbinic cabinet. Also, he 
was chairman of the MetroWest Community Relations Committee from 1985 
to 1988, a member of the federation's board of trustees, and a chair of 
the Holocaust Remembrance Council of MetroWest.
  In addition to these activities, Rabbi Patz was the past president of 
the New Jersey Association of Reform Rabbis and the Metropolitan New 
Jersey Conference on Soviet Jewry. Moreover, he was a member of the 
Board of Rabbinic Overseers of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish 
Institute of Religion from 1981 to 1988.
  Rabbi Patz has received awards for his work. In 1980, he was the 
recipient of the Rabbinic Leadership Award of the Jewish Community 
Federation of Metropolitan New Jersey. Also, he and his wife, Naomi, 
received the Masada Award by the State of Israel Bond Organization. He 
was given an honorary doctor of divinity degree by HUC-JIR in 1990 as 
well.
  I applaud Rabbi Patz' hard work for the community, and it is with 
great pleasure that I wish him a wonderful anniversary at Temple Sholom 
of West Essex.

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