Full Text of HR0665 95th General Assembly
HR0665 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 |
| Representatives are pleased to congratulate Rabbi Kenneth | 4 |
| Cohen on the occasion of his 10th year as spiritual leader of | 5 |
| the Northwest Suburban Jewish Congregation; and
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| WHEREAS, Rabbi Kenneth Cohen is a native of Brooklyn, New | 7 |
| York and was raised and educated in the Farmingdale/North | 8 |
| Massapequa area of Long Island in New York; he is a Phi Beta | 9 |
| Kappa graduate of Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, where | 10 |
| he received honors in religion; he studied for 2 years at the | 11 |
| Hebrew University in Jerusalem; he received his master's degree | 12 |
| in religion from Temple University in Philadelphia, | 13 |
| Pennsylvania and was ordained as a rabbi at the | 14 |
| Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in 1975; and he was | 15 |
| awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from the Jewish | 16 |
| Theological Seminary in 2001; and
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| WHEREAS, Rabbi Kenneth Cohen served as rabbi of | 18 |
| Congregation Beth Shalom in Wilmington, Delaware for 14 years, | 19 |
| where he began his active involvement in interfaith relations, | 20 |
| establishing a dialogue between his congregation and the Roman | 21 |
| Catholic parish St. Joseph's on the Brandywine; he was also a | 22 |
| member of the National Conference of Christians and Jews; he | 23 |
| continued his ecumenical endeavors while serving as rabbi of |
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| the Ohev Sholom congregation of York, Pennsylvania for 8 years; | 2 |
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| WHEREAS, Since taking the position of spiritual leader of | 4 |
| the Northwest Suburban Jewish Congregation in 1997, Rabbi | 5 |
| Kenneth Cohen has acted as the Rabbinical Assembly's liaison to | 6 |
| the Joint Conversion to Judaism class, and has served as the | 7 |
| Assembly's President of the Chicago region; he has served on | 8 |
| the board of the Midwest Region USCJ; he has served as a member | 9 |
| of the planning committee for the annual interfaith clergy | 10 |
| retreat; he has served on the Executive Committee of the | 11 |
| Chicago Board of Rabbis, and served as its treasurer from 2003 | 12 |
| to 2004; he also teaches Judaism to students at St. Gregory the | 13 |
| Great High School in Chicago as a hobby; and
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| WHEREAS, Rabbi Kenneth Cohen is married to Hedvah | 15 |
| Campeas-Cohen, and is the proud father of 3 sons, Jonathan, | 16 |
| Gabriel, and Michael; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 18 |
| NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 19 |
| congratulate Rabbi Kenneth Cohen on the occasion of his 10th | 20 |
| year as spiritual leader of the Northwest Suburban Jewish | 21 |
| Congregation and wish him continued success and happiness in | 22 |
| the future; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 2 |
| presented to Rabbi Kenneth Cohen as a symbol of our esteem and | 3 |
| respect.
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