[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 4223]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




       RECOGNIZING THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE MIAMI HEBREW ACADEMY

  (Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize an 
extraordinary school in my south Florida community, the Miami Hebrew 
Academy. Founded in 1947 with just a handful of students, the Hebrew 
Academy was the first Jewish day school in the southeastern United 
States.
  Today, the Hebrew Academy has grown to over 600 students and serves 
with distinction the educational and religious needs of our Jewish 
families and students. In addition to a phenomenal general education, 
students of the Miami Hebrew Academy are taught the values of the 
Torah, the benefits of a strong American-Israeli partnership, and the 
importance of Holocaust education.
  I cannot thank the Hebrew Academy enough for its leadership in both 
the general and spiritual education of our south Florida community.

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