[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 78 (Thursday, May 22, 2014)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E830]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       CELEBRATING LOU WEINTRAUB

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                             HON. AMI BERA

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                         Thursday, May 22, 2014

  Mr. BERA of California. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize Lou 
Weintraub. The oldest veteran in the Sacramento Jewish Community, Lou 
turned 100 earlier this year and will be honored at the Jewish Memorial 
Day Commemoration this weekend for his years of commitment to the 
Sacramento County community.
  Born to Polish immigrant parents in New York in 1914, Lou and his two 
siblings were children of the Depression. He attended City College of 
New York, and later the University of Pennsylvania. Soon after, he 
served as a clinical psychologist in the military for four years during 
World War II.
  A longtime executive with San Francisco's Jewish Community Federation 
before he retired, Lou has worked with and served on the board of many 
commissions and nonprofits in the Sacramento region, where he moved in 
1989 after meeting his wife.
  He continues to be very active, delivering food to the home-bound for 
Meals-A-La-Car and on the boards of both the Community Services 
Planning Council and the Friends of the Sacramento Public Library. He 
is currently the Vice-Chair of the Emergency Food and Shelter Board.
  Lou is also an active congregant of Mosaic Law Congregation, 
attending its Daily Minyan and Shabbat and holiday services. He is 
known to regularly hold court after the services where at lunch in the 
social hall he is surrounded by people of all ages taking in his 
wisdom.
  Lou's wife Roslyn summed him up best when she told the Sacramento Bee 
earlier this year, ``What I see about Lou is that he cares more about 
other people than himself. He's always caring about somebody else.''
  Thank you, Lou, for caring, and for your continued dedication to the 
Sacramento area community.

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