[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 181 (Thursday, November 15, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S7043]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    REMEMBERING DR. JERRY RABINOWITZ

  Mr. CASEY. Mr. President, I wish to pay tribute to Dr. Jerry 
Rabinowitz. Jerry was 1 of the 11 people who was violently killed at 
the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood.
  General George Patton once said, ``It is foolish and wrong to mourn 
the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.'' 
Today we thank God for the life of Dr. Jerry Rabinowitz. When gunfire 
erupted, Dr. Rabinowitz was in a different location, but ran toward the 
gunfire, knowing there would be people who needed his care. That 
altruistic impulse cost Dr. Rabinowitz his life, but anyone who knew 
Dr. Rabinowitz has said he would have done nothing less.
  A family physician, Dr. Rabinowitz was guided by a moral compass that 
never faltered and an inner light that never went out. He embraced AIDS 
patients in the early years of the epidemic when other doctors shunned 
them. He made house calls to check in on patients; he believed in 
treating the whole person. He did not just care for individuals, but 
for entire families. Three and four generations of families became 
patients of Dr. Rabinowitz. He also served as president of Dor Hadash, 
one of the congregations that met at the Tree of Life synagogue.
  Dr. Rabinowitz's life ended tragically and far too soon, but the 
world is a better place for the years Dr. Rabinowitz was in it. His 
light lives on in all the patients he cared for and all the people he 
touched, and today we do indeed thank God for the life of Dr. Jerry 
Rabinowitz.

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