Full Text of HR0085 94th General Assembly
HR0085 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, Rabbi Morris I. Esformes received a Bachelor of | 3 |
| Arts in social sciences in 1970 from Roosevelt University; he | 4 |
| attended Hebrew Theological College in Skokie and received his | 5 |
| Rabbinic Ordination in 1970; he has continued his education at | 6 |
| Roosevelt University by taking courses in social work; and
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| WHEREAS, Rabbi Esformes is a Managing General Partner at 20 | 8 |
| nursing homes in two states, Florida and Illinois, and at | 9 |
| Larkin Community Hospital in South Miami, Florida, at Woodland | 10 |
| Towers in Deland, Florida, and at Park Plaza in Chicago; and
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| WHEREAS, Rabbi Esformes served as the Executive Director of | 12 |
| Arie Crown Hebrew Day School from 1973 to 1976 and as | 13 |
| Administrator at Birchwood Pavilion Nursing Home in Chicago | 14 |
| from 1970 to 1973; and
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| WHEREAS, He served on the State of Illinois Commission on | 16 |
| Mental Health in 1978 and on the Illinois Council for Long Term | 17 |
| Care as Vice-President from 1977 to 1979; and
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| WHEREAS, Rabbi Esformes has been actively involved in his | 19 |
| community; he is a Past President of Arie Crown Hebrew Day | 20 |
| School, and a board member for Hebrew Theological College, | 21 |
| Telshe Yeshiva, the Wisconsin Institute of Torah Study, | 22 |
| Associated Talmud Torahs, and Hannah Sachs Girls School; he is | 23 |
| President Emeritus of Morris Namias Hebrew Academy in New | 24 |
| Jersey and the founder of the Chicago Community Kollel; he is | 25 |
| on the National Board of Ben Gurion University in Israel and | 26 |
| Torah Umsorah and the board of the Simon Wiesenthal Center for | 27 |
| Holocaust Studies; he is a member of the Social Welfare | 28 |
| Committee of the Jewish Federation Committee of Metropolitan | 29 |
| Chicago, Past Vice President of Congregation Adas Yeschurum, | 30 |
| and Past President of Cong. Adas Bnai Israel; and
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| WHEREAS, Rabbi Esformes has been the recipient of numerous | 2 |
| honors, including the Yissacher Zevulun Award from Lakewood | 3 |
| Yeshiva in 1980, the Founder Award of Telshe Yeshiva in 1981, | 4 |
| and the Associated Talmud Torahs of Chicago Morris Esformes | 5 |
| Scholarship Foundation; he was honored by Chicago Community | 6 |
| Kollel, Post-Graduate School for Rabbis in 1982 and by Arie | 7 |
| Crown Hebrew Day School in 1983; he was honored by American | 8 |
| Friends of Ohr Somavach in 1985, by American Friends of Kerem | 9 |
| B'Yavneh in 1985, by Lakewood Yeshiva in 1990, by Yeshiva | 10 |
| Gedola Ateres Mordechai in 1989, by Central Yeshiva Beth Joseph | 11 |
| in 1988, by Neve Yerushalayim in 1994, and by Yeshivas Brisk in | 12 |
| 1998; and
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| WHEREAS, On Wednesday, February 9, 2005, a reception is | 14 |
| being held to celebrate the establishment of The Rabbi Morris | 15 |
| I. Esformes Professorship; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 17 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 18 |
| we congratulate Rabbi Morris I. Esformes on the establishment | 19 |
| of a professorship in his honor at the University of Chicago; | 20 |
| and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 22 |
| presented to Rabbi Esformes as an expression of our respect and | 23 |
| esteem.
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