Bill Text: NJ AR65 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Declares each 27th day of Nisan shall be observed in General Assembly as Yom Hashoah-Day of Remembrance.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-03-04 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly State Government Committee [AR65 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2010-AR65-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman NANCY F. MUNOZ
District 21 (Essex, Morris, Somerset and Union)
SYNOPSIS
Declares each 27th day of Nisan shall be observed in General Assembly as Yom Hashoah - Day of Remembrance.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Assembly Resolution declaring that each 27th day of Nisan shall be observed in the General Assembly as Yom Hashoah - Day of Remembrance.
Whereas, In 1991, the Legislature adopted and the Governor approved Joint Resolution No. 5, designating the day in each year which corresponds to the 27th day of the month Nisan in the Hebrew calendar as "Holocaust Remembrance Day," and urging all citizens of this State and public and private organizations to recognize the day by appropriate observances; and
Whereas, Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Yom Hashoah in Hebrew, is a day to mourn and commemorate the six million Jews who died in concentration and slave labor camps under Nazi persecution; and
Whereas, The Nazis' attempted destruction of all European Jews, a deliberate project of genocide fueled by mass hysteria, represents one of the most horrifying crimes ever committed against humanity; and
Whereas, In time, the survivors of the Holocaust and the generation which witnessed these events will pass away; and
Whereas, Reports of a revival of anti-Semitism suggest that, even within the lifetime of the last of those survivors and witnesses, the horrors of the Holocaust are being forgotten; and
Whereas, Present and future generations must be made aware of the atrocities committed against innocent people in the name of a bigoted and perverse ideology, and dedicate themselves to upholding the principles of human rights and democratic ideals so that these crimes against humanity will never be repeated; and
Whereas, It is fitting that this House make special provision for its continuing observation of Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yom Hashoah in Hebrew, in memory of the suffering and martyrdom of Jews during that tragic time in hope that free peoples will ever be on guard against states and nations whose creed is hatred and whose code is violence; now, therefore,
Be It Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. It is hereby declared that the day in each year which corresponds to the 27th day of the month of Nisan in the Hebrew calendar, or such other day as designated by the Governor under the provisions of Joint Resolution No. 5 of 1991, shall be observed in the General Assembly of the State of New Jersey as Yom Hashoah - Day of Remembrance.
STATEMENT
This resolution declares that the day in each year which corresponds to the 27th day of the month of Nisan in the Hebrew calendar, or such other day as designated by the Governor under the provisions of Joint Resolution No. 5 of 1991, shall be observed in the General Assembly of the State of New Jersey as Yom Hashoah - Day of Remembrance.
