    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 32, Number 17 (Monday, April 29, 1996)]
    [Pages 693-694]
    [Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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    Proclamation 6887--Jewish Heritage Week, 1996

    April 19, 1996

    By the President of the United States

    of America

    A Proclamation

        The Jewish experience in America has been a mutually rewarding one
    for this country and for the Jewish people. Jewish Americans have made
    great contributions in such fields as the arts and sciences, business,
    government, law and medicine, enriching America's heritage with the
    resonant tradition of an ancient people. And America, for its part, has
    been a land of opportunity for its Jewish citizens.
        In many ways, the Jewish experience is unique, freighted with the
    anguish of frequent persecution, but ennobled by an unyielding spirit
    that has always found a way to turn darkness into light. In the crucible
    of sorrow, the Jewish people have reaffirmed, time and again, the basic
    human values of faith, community, justice, and hope.
        On the tolerant soil of American democracy, the Jewish people have
    flourished. We will be forever grateful for the remarkable contributions
    of our Jewish citizens, and it is fitting that we set aside a week to
    give thanks for their inestimable gifts and to honor the traditions of
    their remarkable religion and heritage.
        Now, Therefore, I, William J. Clinton, President of the United
    States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the
    Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim April 21
    through April 28, 1996, as Jewish Heritage Week. I call upon the people
    of the United States to observe this week with appropriate programs,
    ceremonies, and activities.
        In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this nineteenth day
    of April, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and nine-

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    ty-six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two
    hundred and twentieth.
                                                William J. Clinton

    [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:21 a.m., April 22,
    1996]

    Note: This proclamation was published in the Federal Register on April
    23. This item was not received in time for publication in the
    appropriate issue.