Rep Marge Roukema on Rabbi Milton Weinberg Congregation Beth Haverim, Mahwah NJ November 19, 1993

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Mr. Speaker, it is my sincere pleasure to welcome to the House as our guest Chaplain today, Rabbi Milton Weinberg, of Congregation Beth Haverim of Mahwah, NJ. Rabbi Weinberg has played a very personal and vital role in the community life of Bergen County. Equally important, he has been counselor and friend to his congregation. A native of New Jersey, Milton Weinberg was born and educated in Camden. Rabbi Weinberg was graduated from the City College of New York in 1960. He also attended Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York, graduating in 1965 with rabbinic ordination and with a master of arts and a master of arts in Hebrew literature. Rabbi Weinberg has served as the rabbi for Beth Am Temple in Pearl River, NY, and Temple Beth El in Closter, NJ. In 1974 he became the first rabbi of Congregation Beth Haverim of Mahwah, NJ, where he continues to serve. Among his many community activities he has been especially active on behalf of Soviet Jewry. He continues to be an active Biblical scholar, is secretary of the International Organization of Masoretic Studies, and has received an honorary doctor of divinity from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 1990. His proudest achievement in his long and dedicated but public life is his family and his wife Laurie of more than 40 years. Milton and Laurie Weinberg reside just across the border in Monsey, NY, where they are represented by the gentleman from New York [Mr. Gilman]. The Weinbergs have four children: Ariel, Rebecca, David and Hillel. Hillel, who resides in the Washington area with his wife Debra, currently works for Senator Durenberger in the other body. Rabbi and Mrs. Weinberg are also the proud grandparents of three. This close knit family has been an inspiration to all who know them, an example of the bedrock of family values in which all Americans should take pride. Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me in welcoming Rabbi Milton Weinberg as our guest chaplain today.