[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 55 (Thursday, May 1, 1997)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E813]
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                      HONORING RABBI MYRON FENSTER

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                         HON. GARY L. ACKERMAN

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                         Thursday, May 1, 1997

  Mr. ACKERMAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to join with my constituents 
and members of the Shelter Rock Jewish Center as they gather at this 
most renowned synagogue to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Rabbi 
Myron Fenster as the spiritual leader of the congregation.
  Rabbi Fenster was schooled at the Yeshiva of Flatbush, Yeshiva 
College and Talmudic Academy, and was ordained at the Jewish 
Theological Seminary of America. He enhanced his training with advanced 
studies at the University of Arizona and Columbia University's Graduate 
Department of Philosophy.
  Rabbi Fenster's calling has taken him well beyond the borders of the 
Shelter Rock Jewish Center into positions of responsibility that have 
ranged from local to international areas. He is past president of the 
New York Board of Rabbis, and a member of the faculty of the Jewish 
Theological Seminary of America. He is widely known for his educational 
and leadership skills, and has served as visiting rabbi of the Moriah 
Congregation in Haifa, Israel, and as president of Histadruth Ivrith of 
America.
  Rabbi Fenster is a past editor of Conservative Judaism, the quarterly 
publication of the Rabbinical Assembly of America. He has also chaired 
the Assembly's Social Justice program. He currently serves as 
cochairman of the Education Committee of the Long Island Holocaust 
Commission.
  Mr. Speaker, Rabbi Fenster's knowledge and wisdom is in great demand. 
He has been published in many magazines, periodicals and newspapers 
including Newsday, the Jerusalem Post, Hadassah Magazine and Midstream. 
In addition, he has visited Jewish communities throughout the world, in 
all of the major capitals of Europe and the former Soviet Union. In 
1993, he led a rabbinic delegation to the Jewish communities of 
Morocco.
  For the past 30 years, Rabbi Fenster and his wife Ricky have been a 
most potent force in organizing and uniting the Shelter Rock Jewish 
Center into a proactive synagogue that has effectively serviced its 
membership and has, most readily, enhanced, and enriched this great 
community.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues in the House of Representatives to 
rise and join with me in celebrating the 30th anniversary of Rabbi 
Myron and Ricky Fenster at the Shelter Rock Jewish Center.

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