September 24, 2020 - Issue: Vol. 166, No. 166 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 2nd Session

[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E881]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                HONORING THE CAREER OF CAROL BRICK-TURIN

                                 ______
                                 

                     HON. DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ

                               of florida

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, September 24, 2020

  Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ. Madam Speaker, it is with great pleasure that 
I rise to recognize the remarkable career of Carol Brick-Turin. After 
12 years, Ms. Brick-Turin is retiring as the Executive Director of the 
Greater Miami Jewish Federation's Jewish Community Relations Council.
  Carol originally moved to Washington, D.C. to join the U.S. 
Department of Agriculture, where she worked on public policy issues for 
more than a decade. A graduate of Cornell University with a Bachelor of 
Science degree in agricultural economics, she was recruited to join the 
Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), and served as a diplomat in 
Brussels, Belgium in the U.S. Mission to the European Community. She 
was the first married female to serve as an Agricultural Attache in the 
history of FAS.
  Carol attended the Foreign Service Institute, completed a study 
program taught by faculty of the Jewish Theological Seminary and 
attended the University of Tel-Aviv in 1973--both before and after the 
Yom Kippur War. Having raised her children as Zionists, she now has 
three grandchildren who were born in Jerusalem, in addition to her two 
granddaughters in Miami.
  As the JCRC's Executive Director Carol has adroitly mobilized and 
engaged Miami's Jewish community on many levels. She has led our 
citizen activists in building relationships with Members of Congress on 
both sides of the aisle, key to the success of the pro-Israel movement 
and the national agenda supported by the Jewish Council for Public 
Affairs. We have worked together to address a multitude of issues 
facing our community--from the scourge of anti-Semitism and senseless 
gun violence plaguing our schools and places of worship to ensuring we 
maintain our strong U.S.-Israel relationship.
  Carol's commitment to Miami's Jewish community and the state of 
Israel is exemplary, and I am proud to call her my very good friend. I 
will miss her guidance and wisdom, but our loss is her husband Alan and 
her family's gain. I wish her a hearty Mazel Tov on her retirement and 
am grateful for her invaluable work.

                          ____________________