Political Quotes

“it is with great honor, yet immense sadness that I stand today to pay tribute to a man--Rabbi Herbert Drooz--whose spirit, vision, and voice will live on for generations to come in my State of Delaware. As a respected religious leader and social activist for 30 years, he was a builder--literally and figuratively--who dreamed big and made big things happen. When I got back to Delaware from law school--I went out of State, we didn't have a law school in the State at the time, in 1968--Rabbi Drooz was one of the first civic activists that I came in contact with. He oversaw the building of a new synagogue for the reform congregation of Beth Emeth, that he led, which is now the largest synagogue in Delaware, along with the construction of the school on Lea Boulevard, not far from where I had gone to school in Wilmington, Delaware. These two buildings stand as not only monuments to his vision and his dedication to religious service, but they also had the very practical impact of enhancing the region and the neighborhood, and causing people to invest not only physically and financially, but psychologically in our city. He built a community esprit de corps as well--founding the Delaware Chapter of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, which recently was renamed the National Conference for Community and Justice, which is one of the most significant civic organizations and moral barometers in my State.”