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Philip Berniteln. executive vice praaldenl. Council of Jew Ml radaratkMU. wUI apeak at the TSUi Annlveraary meetlni of the Jewlih Federation of Omaha, Jan 7 at 7 30 p m in the Jewish Communlly Center The joM wiaual meeHnn will honor past prealdenta of (he JewWi Federation. JuUIn Urecnberg Young 1/eaderahlp Award recipientt. oulfioing of
fleers and board memberi. new FMeralloi) and Depart ment officers and board* t elccllon and InitaUatlon i Special rtwognlllon will t>e given to the irw Cxtmbtoed Faderattan Campaign laadsrihtp and the 50th Anniversary Women'i Dlvlikm Campilgn A buffet Hipper will tf served at 6 p m . and InvlUi (ions have been aeni to UM Jewish community In caieii where invllaiiunn art- nof r«" ((•ivp<1, a iioli'sh |i>l)> Korlj^-s Ji .' nif. ii'nlcr |iivii , ii(l'lrt«iM-s iinil It • UTS of !h*iH4' lir^' ri-M-r\alums A IlltC the ClAt U( (.1 |KT [MTMIII
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Scholarship to Honor rRabbi and Mrs. Kripice The lynaMugue i» ihr pri n L mary inatrumeni for Jewish ^^bMrvival in Amerira » mem ^^•tr of the Jewinh Theological Semmary'n Kwird o( Direc Ion. said here last week The nynagocue and Jewish education must become • hlghetl priority ' »ald Kab<>i Judah Nsdtch l)r \adirh. a paitl president of the Rabbinical Atsembly. qtoke lo ISO mrmbrrs and fuasta of Helh Kl SynaguKue last Sunday during a dinmr of Irtbute for Kabbi Myer S and Dorothy K Knpke The dinner culmmaltKl a drive under the chairmanship of Leonard t) (Mdstrin lo establish a tcholarahlp in honor of the Knpkes at the Sem inary 's RahiblnJcal School RaliM Nadlch said Ihe Sem Inary asrve* as the "central pawsr houw" providing energy In the (ora of rahbl* lo the gynaangues throughout the natkm
Laonard D OokkMn. ctaiman af a commlttae to astabllsh the RaM Myw 1 aatf Otndqp K. Kripks adMiarrii^ at d» Jtw lahThMloclcal Seminary oangratulates Rabbi and Mrs Kripke HpoB the auecaaalUl conipMlon of the effort during a dinner of tribute last Sunday at B«th El Syni He commented on the cur rent.trend In ilorles about Judaism lo reflect on the Jew lab paopia aa an "endangered
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man of the supper commitu assisted by Mrs Izadore rwltz iFrledai. Mrs Harok nil^l Franklin (Beverly). Mrs Ar-" Ihur Kpstein (Audrey and Mrs Max Greenfield (.Sarah I. Mrs Jack Kiulen (Betty i itj tiiA\rmAH til the I>('<-firatinfI Mrs. hi andj Mrs HowardKenyon (LindaI. 'Mr Bern"-'-"*'" '-"nexs rulive vici ( th ( liMMI'll ll( i.
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Israeli Bus Bombed; Local Girl Injured Ronna Conper, daughter of Judge and Mm Samuel Cuop er, was one of Z2 persons in )ured, twi> wnouxly when a bomb expli)de<l on a cmwriett suburban buh >'i II'MIV.III tii lasl Sun(la\ Mr Kriiel III leani ni' rtKiis her mother told the Jew ish I'resh Mrs (wiper said Honna K •ipemling a year in Israel lak ing Talmiidic Studies to learn more about her background w a Jew The l»ytariBlil grad uate of Caslral High ScAoul plans to go on to a medical ca reer Mrs Cooper said her da ugh ter called after Ibe acci<l<'nl In assure her parents thai she was not seriously injured I Kuess we ran call this an early Manukkah present," Mrs Cooper said of her daughter's safely Miss Cooper told her paren Is that the entire back of Ihr bus was blown off She escap ed serKHJS injury because she was sealed in the Irtint of th«bus The bombing, which oc curred al S p m local time, was the second serious terror 1st outrage perpetrated on a Mo 12 bus which travels a lonf; route from East Jerusalem to Ihe predominantly Orthodox
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and pnor to that director of j field servic-e and aswKiate dJ-j rector sirwe 1M3 Before Joining Ihe Council Mr Bernstein was assistan director of the Cleveland Je\« ish Community Federal KH and executive secretary of I Cleveland Jewish Communit| Counnlilim Will Memberships and offices"! held includ*' chairman, So-J cial Issues and Policies Korn hoard of directors. Nationa Assembly for Social Polic and Development. Inr (for merly NSWA' member. Ad visory ( ommill«'«- lor Wlllian K Wiener Kducalional Cen ler, Federatmn of Jewi.sh Phli lanthropH's of N V memtxrj H<iard of Ov«Tseers. SCIMKII I Advanced .Social Studies Mrandeis University
B'nai B'rith Award Dr Ranald W Roskcns (ccotsrl. prssUeot. University of Nebraaka, recdves the 27th B'nal B'rith Amerlcanlsn Cltatkia troa Ed Rosen durlnc the Dw 14 luncheon at the Hittoa Hotal. Atrlglill8JaaephSaatalk,iiiailaro(oar«monlas Mr Roasolaa trvatst o( Henry MoMky liOdl*
Hanukkah and Christmas Lights Converse Edllor'sNoto The foUowIng Hanukkah sermon U a conversatloa betvMien •M HanAkab Ught and Ihe Chrlstmai UgM Wrttim by a rabbi, the lanpaa appeared In an Eaa( German Jewlak puMIca tloa Pcmlaalpn 4or Uw Jewlab PTM lo rapiMlili die article was flMaMed Iv Eugm Ooikmb, director of the Jewlah oaoimu^ lUty In Ulptlg. who Is Uie brother o( Miriam Groaman, of Omaha. Mrs. Groaaman translated the lertnon Into BncIWi (ronilhe original German Sermon by Dr Georfe Wilder, former Rabbi of Magdeburg CMrtaaa Ll#t - In the world ahlne untold lighu to tell a hundred of mlUlon peoples that Ihe Mvlor Is bom lliiiiia> U#t Quiet and damwe bum the Hanukkah U|0iU What Is the feeling o( Ihe Hamikftali U|M k»kti« at the ChrtsUaaa U^t U Iha Mi taakui Inm Ihe quM place to ihoaa wMck MfM keU Iht worMT Or do ttiejr pay no atleaUm becatae ihe itna|e llgiU do not mean anything to them? Or do they say: "Newir caaliMn be too much light in the worki and there is roon anou^i lor aU ktnda e( llghu^ " Is II poaslbie Ihe little Hanukkak U^ H happy to lee the big llghU^ Let ua hear what the Hanukkah l.ifhl and the Chrtilmai
Ughl ha ve to say to each other First speaks the big lights "Today the light of the world was bom 1,000 years ago we started to i^ve light to the dark They tried to drown the light in blood but we were stronger and today we shine over the whole world In palace* and cottagas our message Is that God was bom that love and peace came to the Earth But wiul have you got to say^ The Hanukkah Light answered "We only shine for a few mil lion Jews and do nol have much to tell Once kmg, long before your God woke up people In a faroff Land wfto only had one God whom they served In love like Father Abraham Then God called dn Moeas and gave him two stone Plates which had writ ten only 10 sentences. For these Plales Solomon built a Temple lo rest them and lit an eternal light to tell all Here Is the place to pray lo the only God, the God of love, the God of the Ten Com maadmenta * Heathen came and daatroyed the Temple and the eternal llghl Seventy yean later we had bull! a iiew Temple and again wc 111 the eternal light - but again the Temple was destroyed The heathens and their Gods were the rulers If we Jews had parMMd there awiM be no Hanukkah Light, but your It^il wouM not be here either
Your savior was bom of Jewish people and a Jew 11 the Jews had been destroyed there would have been no House of David and the one that called himself the King of the Jews would never have been bom Along came Judah Maccabee and drove away the enemy On the n of KIsleo our Temple was holy again and again we 111 the eternal light We had so little pure oil but it burnt for eight days That Is why every year we light our Hanukkah Light for eight days " The big light answered "It Is trtie from your light came our light But yours is only a small circle and we shine for half the human race " The Hanukkah Ught said "We realize what you did for the people You got the heathens away from their many Gods and brought them to the only one God, our Jewish God, the God of Abraham. Isaac and Jacob To the heathens you brought the two Tablets and the Ten Commandments, the Jewish only law To the heathens you brought David's Psalms, which are sung In your houses of God Your Bible is our Bible, which we use thousanda of years Yolirs and our most holy prayer Is the Shema and Ihe Ten Commandments Our dally prayers and yours are in (Continuedon Page 41