WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–May 23, 2014. U.S. Senator Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) announced passage by the Senate of a bipartisan resolution (S. Res. 458) recognizing May as Jewish American Heritage Month and honoring Holocaust survivors for their contributions to the United States of America. The resolution, which was cosponsored by Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), and Senators Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.), Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio), commemorates the many contributions people of the Jewish faith have made to American society in the areas of the humanities, science, government, law, history, medicine, military service, philosophy, social justice, technology, and more.
