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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Senate of the State of Illinois |
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| learned with great sadness of the death of Rabbi Albert Milton |
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| Kanter on Saturday, July 23, 2005; and
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| WHEREAS, He was born on the West Side in 1929 and grew up |
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| during the Great Depression as the son of a tailor; he was in |
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| the first graduating class at Ida Crown Jewish Academy and |
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| earned a bachelor's degree in psychology at Roosevelt |
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| University; and
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| WHEREAS, Rabbi Kanter was ordained as a rabbi with a |
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| bachelor's degree in Hebrew literature at Hebrew Theological |
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| College in Skokie in 1955; he received a master's degree from |
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| the University of Chicago in 1956 and a doctorate there in 1969 |
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| in the combined academic fields of religion and personality |
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| theory; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1973, he became a practitioner of psychotherapy |
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| and went into practice full-time in 1980 with offices on North |
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| Michigan Avenue and in Skokie; he maintained a full patient |
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| load well into his 70s; in sermons, books, and as a |
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| psychotherapist, he used his skill as a gifted orator to |
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| inspire, enlighten, and heal; he was the founding rabbi of |
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| Skokie Valley Agudath Jacob Synagogue and a past president of |
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| the Chicago Board of Rabbis; and
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| WHEREAS, Started in 1955, the Skokie Valley Agudath Jacob |
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| Synagogue grew into a modern facility on East Prairie Road in |
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| Skokie with more than 1,500 members; he wrote a prayer book |
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| called "The Second Soul", another on psychotheology, and he |
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| translated biblical commentaries; he also wrote newspaper |
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| editorials, scholarly articles, and was at work on a novel |
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| titled "A Tale of Two Souls"; and
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