[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 14 (Tuesday, January 24, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S1473]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


         COMMENDING THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER BRIDGEPORT

 Mr. LIEBERMAN. Mr. President, I rise today to honor the Jewish 
Federation of Greater Bridgeport for their extraordinary efforts to 
provide for the Jewish population in the State of Connecticut.
  For nearly 55 years, the Jewish Federation of Greater Bridgeport has 
served and represented Jews in need in its service cities and towns of 
Bridgeport, Easton, Fairfield, Monroe, Stratford, and Trumbull by 
providing health, social, and educational opportunities to their 
citizens through agencies such as the Greater Bridgeport Jewish 
Community Center, the Jewish Home for the Elderly, Jewish Family 
Service, and Hillel Academy and Merkaz Community Hebrew High School.
  The Jewish Federation of Greater Bridgeport, through the continuing 
national work of the United Jewish Appeal, has aided both with social 
and humanitarian services countless hundreds of thousands of Jews in 
Israel and in 40 countries the world over.
  The tide of peace in 1994 has rolled in and washed over the nations 
and peoples of the Middle East as never before, witnessed by the 
signing of a treaty ensuring peaceful cohabitation in the region 
between the people of Jordan and Israel, limited self-rule of the 
Palestine Liberation Organization in Jericho and the Gaza Strip, and 
the final emigration of Jews from Syria while talks continue between 
those two nations toward a comprehensive peace.
  The annual combined super Sunday telethon campaign of the Jewish 
Federation of Greater Bridgeport, and the United Jewish Appeal will 
take place on Sunday, February 5, 1995, in order to raise vitally 
needed funds to continue providing these worthwhile services here at 
home, in Israel, and around the world.




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