Mr. Speaker. I have the very great honor today of representing Rabbi Haim Asa. of Fullerton. CA. who gave the invocation. Rabbi Asa was born in Bulgaria and emigrated to Palestine in 1944. living there for 10 years. In 1954 he came to the United States to study agricultural economics at the University of Arizona. Soon thereafter. he decided to enter rabbinic studies and attended the Hebrew Union College Jewish Studies Institute. Rabbi Asa served for 3 years as director of the World Union for Progressive Judaism for South America in Ar. gentina. He is a past president of the Jewish Federal Council and a past president of the Fullerton Ministerial Association.
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