Full Text of SR0369 095th General Assembly
SR0369 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | 3 |
| learn of the death of Rabbi William Z. Novick, who passed away | 4 |
| on August 19, 2007; and
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| WHEREAS, Rabbi Novick served as the director of the Midwest | 6 |
| Region of the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of | 7 |
| Science for forty years, working to create a relationship | 8 |
| between Chicago and the Institute; and
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| WHEREAS, Rabbi Novick served the Lynbrook Jewish | 10 |
| Congregation of Long Island early in his career, and together | 11 |
| with congregant Herbert Tenzer formed Rescue Children, helping | 12 |
| 3,000 orphaned survivors of the Holocaust find new lives in | 13 |
| Israel; and
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| WHEREAS, Rabbi Novick later formed the Committee for the | 15 |
| Forgotten Million, assisting impoverished and endangered North | 16 |
| African Jews on their journey to Israel; and
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| WHEREAS, Prior to joining the Weizmann Institute, Rabbi | 18 |
| Novick directed the Chicago office of the Jewish National Fund | 19 |
| for fourteen years; and
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| WHEREAS, Rabbi William Z. Novick was the devoted husband of |
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| Eda Bess Novick (nee Krivitsky); the loving father of David J. | 2 |
| Novick, Judith (Albert) Milstein, and Daniel (Rosalie) Novick; | 3 |
| the cherished grandfather of Stuart (Sarah) Milstein, Elana | 4 |
| (Shami) Minkove, Ari (Ilana) Milstein, Tzvi (Adina) Novick, | 5 |
| Rachel, Jennifer, Heather, and Ariella Novick; fond | 6 |
| great-grandfather of Joseph, Abby, Joshua, Jonah, Tani, Eitan, | 7 |
| Ian, and Leba; and the fond brother of Lillian Levine; | 8 |
| therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL | 10 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 11 |
| his family and friends and the many people whose lives he | 12 |
| changed, the passing of Rabbi William Z. Novick; and be it | 13 |
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 15 |
| presented to the family of William Z. Novick as a symbol of our | 16 |
| sincere sympathy.
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