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OMAIIA, NEB., FBI., NOV. 19, 1971
Beth El Dinner Omaha—On Sunday, November 21, Beth El Synagogue will honor Rabbi and Mrs. Myer S. Krjpke with'-a dinner to celebrate their quarter century of service to the Synagogue and to Omaha. Rabbi Myer "S. Kripke and Ids wifCj. Dorothy, came to Omaha in 1946 from the pulpit
Dorothy K. Kripke of Congregation Beth El, New London, Connecticut. A native : of-Toledo, Ohio, Rabbi Kripke was graduated from New York : University in 1933 with a B.A. ; magna cum laude, with honors . in English. He was affiliated . with Phi Beta Kappa and Eta Sigma Phi. He received his ' M. A. degree in Philosophy from Columbia University in - 1937 and Master of Hebrew Li; terature, Jewish Theological , Seminary, in the same year. "He.was ordained as Rabbi by > the Jewish Theological Sem••' Jnary of America in 1937. f , -Among Rabbi Kripke's many , community activities, ho has 1 been an instructor in Bible at 1 the, University of Cfmaha, and ', was twice winner of George - Washington medals, Freedoms "Foundation. Rabbi K r i p k e
serves on the Boards of the National ^€onfcirence of Christians and Jews, the Douglas County Chapter of the American Red Cross and the Planned Parenthood Federation of Nebraska: He was Co-chairman of the Nebraska Conference on Religion and. Race, 1964, and in 1989 he was a member of the Mayor's Study Commission, of Human Relations Board. In 1971, Rabbi kripke received an Honorary Doctor of Divinity Degree from the Jewish Theological Seminary. Dorothy Kripke received her education in New York, she holds a B.A. degree fron* Hunter College, Bachelor of Hebrew Letters, Jewish Theological Seminary and her Master's degree from Columbia Univer= sity. Mrs. Kripke taught high school English iff New York prior to coming to Omaha. Though regretfully slowed by illness, Mrs. Kripke's activities have included', being the Na-. tional Vice-President of the National Women's^ League of the United Synagogue of America, speaker, consultant and script . writer. She is most, widely known for her eight published books which have reached into every American Jewish Community,-and very many in Israel and in English and Frenchspeaking communities around the world. Rabbi end Mrs. Kripke" have three children,-Saul and Madeline, who will be coming to Omaha from New York to attend the dinner, and Netta who is presently studying'in-Israel. The' dinner to honor Rabbi and Mrs.' Kripke, wilL begin at G p.m. with a social hour in the Social Hall of the Synagogue.. Mrs. Sheldon Lincoln and H. Lee Gendler are chairmen for the evening. Serving with them ^are Mrs. H. Lee Gendter, Mr. and Mrs. Barton . G r e e n b e r g, • Mr. and Mrs^ '• George Kagan, Mr., and .Mrs. \ Daniel Katzmari and Mrs. Nor- \ man'Fred,-.• Catering will be by Circle \ Coordinators, Mrs. J. Milton i Margolin, Mrs. Abe Marcus,
State Soviet Washington (JTA)—The State Department . this week condemned the Nov. 9 overflight of the Sinai peninsula by two Soviet MIG-23s as a clear violation of the cease-fire. Observers here described this as the "most unequivocal" and "strongest" statement by ihe Department In. recent months on cease-fire violations. _< A Department spokesman told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that the overflight was "Jn clear violation ot the cease-lire," adding: „ "Wo have'repeatedly said that any violationi of of.tbe .the fie; does JiQt help, reach .a, ifuMetfl Jill',.-!?
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Omaha — Nehafna Lifschitz, the leading Jewish singer in-the Soviet Union before she left Russia two years, ago, will present a concert at the Israel Bond Banquet, Sunday, Dec. 12. The 6 p.)n. dinner will be held at Beth Israel Synagogue. E. Robert Newman, chairman of the 1971 Israel Bond Campaign in Omaha, said that the ne&s of Miss Lifschitz's appearance in Omaha is evoking keen interest in the Jewish community. The R u s s i a n songstress, now an Israeli citizen, offers a repertoire of Yiddish and Russian folk songs that excites waves of nostalgia when she is called upon to perform. Miss Lifschitz has been described as "the voice of silent Soviet Jewry." In 1969, an unprecedented decision by the Soviet authorities, granted h e r permission to join her family in, Israel. C r i ti c s have acclaimed her throaty, melodious voice and her involvement with the songs she sings and what they represent. Admission to the dinner and
Nehama Lifschitz concert is predicated i n the prior purchase of a minimum of $500 in Israel Bonds during the. 1971 campaign. Cost of the dinner, will be $G per person. Further information and reservations are available from the Israel Bond Office, 920 City' National Bank Building, Omaha Nebraska. Phone 341-1177.
1,(MM) Soviet Jews Sign P etition to .-'Emigrate Rabbi Mycr'S. Krlpko Mrs. David Potash and Mrs. Joseph Sperling) assisted by their circles. Reservations will be accepted by 'Mrs. Barton Greenberg to the capacity of the social hall. ."•* •
300 More Jews Leave Poland Copenhagen (JTA) — Three hundred- exit visas'were recently given to Polish Jews who have already left that country to settle elsewhere—and this in spite of an official order published by, the Polish government after the big Jewish exodus of 1969 directing cmigra-. tion officers not to authorize further Jewish exit visas. .. Arne Christensen, chairman of the "Danish Refugees-Help Committee," revealed that only 100 Jews came to Denmark and an additional 200 Polish Jews went: elsewhere: 28 to Israel, some 40 to Germany ^ where most of them had reparations payments waiting and pending, and the rest to the United States, Australia and Canada.
UNITED NATIONS (JTA)—The.largest single appeal by Soviet Jews seeking migration to Israel—a petition signedJ>y mqre than 1,000 Jews of more than 20 cities, was presented" Nov. 10 to the president of the' General Assembly, Ambassador Adam Malik of Indonesia, by Israeli Ambassador ,Yosef Tekoah. It was the second Soviet Jewry petition to be" transmitted to Malik during the Assembly's current 26th session. ,.,^The appeal declared that "The question of-the free emigration of the Jews becomes more acute with every passing day." It , continued: "Here in the USSR, where there is no Jewish culture and national life, where there are no Jewish schools and JewisTi theaters, where there is no-possibility to study the Jewish languages and the history of the Jewish people, where every day there is an unprecedented diminishing of the percentage of Jews who know their own language, in this country, we, as Jews, have no future." The appeal added: "Our desire to live in a Jewish State and " to be equals' among equals, sure of our future and the future of our generations, Is indestructible. We want and we will live under the Star of David, which personifies our proud Jewishness and . our unbreakable ties with the past, the present and the future of the Jewish people." r
Identification' Seen as Major Jewish Problem
Kiamesha Lake, N..Y. (JTA) —In his first public remarks chief executive officer of. the' Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Dr. GersonD. Cohen contended that the Jewish problem in the United States was not one of "searching for identity," but one of "identification." Addressing the biannual convention of the United Synagogue of America, Dr. Cohen said. "We are often told that what faces us is a crisis of identity. I submit.that this is a gross error frought with the and are the world's fastest and highest danger of misdirecting our enflying combat aircraft, traversed the Sinai on ergies toward chimerical proba roughly north-south course in less than three lems. Identity is not our probminutes at an altitude of 70,000 feet. They were lem or the problem of most able to photograph Israeli positions in both-the Jews. The problem is one of Sinai and Israeli proper/Israeli jets sent up to identification.' intercept them were unable to make' contact. The overflights, were believed to have had ^JThe 47-year-old e d u c a t o r , a two-fold purpose'r reconnaissance and intimi- who next June 30 will succeed dation of Israel. Jewish leaders voiced alarm . Dr. Louis I. Finkelstein "as at ,the overflight and urgedd the State Departchief executive officer of the ment to "seize" the'opportunity to'bring Israel Seminary 'and'president 6f*Jfar v .«>-flnH(EffviJtfe^ettf«i'*ulknrectlrtei'otlationsiibwi- r-' " ' ' -1"1'1 "l-"^J-^'J
purpose and of commitment, Most Jews-know they are Jews, but are puzzled and confused over the implications of the name. If our p a r e n t s and grandparents-, therefore, were in* quest of freedom and a new Judaista, the task facing us will be to mold the new Jew-^ a Jew who understands whero he has come from, where he must go and how he will be s judged." . Dr. Cohen told the 2,000 Con; servative delegates that Con; servative Judaism is "singularly well-equipped for the task of building the new Jew," bep cause it is "committed to tra«, difion, to the people of Israel;' to the land of Israel, to the State of Israel and to the Torah < of Israel." Dr. Cohen addeq that "NOJ flewish community in history has ever been great except,by producing its own scholars and also its own native-model Jew." History, ho,, qbietyed, '.'will judge us by':; r Jew we pro-