[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 107 (Wednesday, June 28, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H6400]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              TRIBUTE TO RABBI MENACHEM MENDEL SCHNEERSON

  (Mr. DEUTSCH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DEUTSCH. Mr. Speaker, I also join my colleagues in a very special 
opportunity to remind the world and this country and this Congress 
about the work of the Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, someone who in 
his lifetime probably influenced as many people as anyone else maybe in 
the history of the world in terms of good works and good deeds.
  I also thank the Chief Rabbi of Israel for being with us today and 
being part of a ceremony. Most Members, I think, are aware that today 
the gold medal that this Congress voted for the late Rebbe will be 
given at a ceremony at the White House, and there are activities 
throughout the day in terms of speeches in memory of the Rebbe.
  I can speak, in a sense from a personal perspective, from the 
community that I represent in south Florida. Before I move to that 
community, there was no presence of the Chabad movement. In the near 15 
years, there are six centers of learning, a school that has several 
hundred students. It is not just a community that, in a sense, the 
Rebbe taught to, but the entire community of the world in terms of 
education and really faith that we have the opportunity today in a 
special way to thank and to bless his memory.


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