Rabbi Jerome Lipnick of Bethesda. Md., who had served as director of education for the B’nai B’rith Youth Organization (BBYO) until his retirement last year, died Monday after a long illness. He was 59. Lipnick had been ill since September, 1959 when he suffered a stroke.
A native of Baltimore, he attended public schools there and was graduated from Johns Hopkins University. He received his rabbinic training and ordination at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York City which awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1970. Lipnick served as spiritual leader of Temple Beth El in Utica. N.Y. for 15 years and then in Conservative pulpits in Minneapolis and Jacksonville. He joined BBYO in 1969. In 1965-66 he represented the World Council of Synagogues in Jerusalem.
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