[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 171 (Thursday, October 1, 2020)]
[House]
[Pages H5115-H5116]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                RECOGNIZING SERVICE OF CAROL BRICK-TURIN

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from 
Florida (Ms. Wasserman Schultz) for 5 minutes.
  Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ. Mr. Speaker, it is with great pleasure that I 
rise to recognize the remarkable career of Carol Brick-Turin.
  After 12 years, Ms. Brick-Turin is retiring as the executive director 
of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation's Jewish Community Relations 
Council.
  Carol originally moved to Washington, D.C., to join the U.S. 
Department of Agriculture, where she worked on public policy issues for 
more than a decade. A graduate of Cornell University with a bachelor of 
science degree in agricultural economics, she was recruited to join the 
Foreign Agricultural Service and served as a diplomat in Brussels, 
Belgium, in the U.S. Mission to the European Community.
  She was the first married female to serve as an agricultural attache 
in the history of the FAS.
  Carol attended the Foreign Service Institute, completed a study 
program taught by faculty of the Jewish Theological Seminary, and 
attended the University of Tel Aviv in 1973, both before and after the 
Yom Kippur War.
  Having raised her children as Zionists, she now has three 
grandchildren who were born in Jerusalem, in addition to her two 
granddaughters in Miami.
  As the JCRC's executive director, Carol has adroitly mobilized and 
energized Miami's Jewish community on many levels. She has led our 
citizen activists in building relationships with Members of Congress on 
both sides of the aisle, key to the success of the pro-Israel movement 
and the national agenda supported by the Jewish Council for Public 
Affairs.
  We have worked together to address a multitude of issues facing our 
community, from the surge of anti-Semitism and senseless gun violence 
plaguing our schools and places of worship to ensuring we maintain our 
strong U.S.-Israel relationship.

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  Carol's commitment to Miami's Jewish community and the State of 
Israel is exemplary, and I am proud to call her my very dear friend.
  I will miss her guidance and wisdom, but our loss is her husband, 
Alan, and her family's gain.
  I wish her a hearty mazel tov on her retirement, and I am grateful 
for her invaluable work and her dear friendship.

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