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THE IODTII1N I1IAILITI
Friday, July 20, 1956
The Southern Israelite
Published Weekly by Southern Newspaper Enterprises, 390 Courtland
St. N. E., Atlanta 3, Georgia, TR. 6-8249, TR. 6-8240. Entered as
■econd class matter at the post office, Atlanta, Georgia under the Act
of March S, 1879. Yearly subscription five dollars. The Southern
Israelite invites literary contributions and correspondence but is not
to be considered as sharing the views expressed by writers. DEAD
LINE is 12:30 P. M., TUESDAY, but material received earlier will have
a much better chance of publication.
Behind the JTA Dispatches
by Louis P. Rocker
President, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.
For many years, The Southern Israelite has been
bringing to its readership news assembled from
near and far comers of the globe by the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency. It is a pleasure therefore to
provide this interpretation of JTA by its presi
dent. —THE EDITOR
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Geffen of
Atlanta have returned from a va
cation in Florida.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Strasburger
of Atlanta are vacationing at the
Bynum House in Clayton, Georg
ia.
Mrs. Irvin R. Karesh has re
turned from Texas where she
visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Sam Joseph. While there she at
tended a family wedding.
Friends of Mrs. Jennie Taitz
will be glad to learn she is re
cuperating at home, 1176 St.
Louis Place, after a recent ill
ness.
Mrs. William Witkin and Israel
D. Lahman of Washington, D. C.
are in Atlanta visiting. They
came here to attend the funeral
services for their father, Benja
min Lahman, which was held on
July 18.
Dr. Rose A. Lahman of Atlanta
has just returned from a three
weeks’ tour of Mexico.
Dr. and Mrs. Bernard L. Kahn
of Atlanta announce the birth of
a son, Joel Sheldon, on July 3.
Mrs. Kahn is the former Joan
^eiss of Fairview, N. J.
Spector- Asher
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Spector of
Atlanta announce the engagement
of their daughter, Della Jane
Spector, to Eugene Samuel Ash
er, son of Mr. and Mrs. Baron
Asher of Atlanta.
Miss Spector attended the Uni
versity of Georgia and is now
employed as a laboratory tech
nician at Crawford Long Hos
pital.
Mr. Asher was graduated from
the University of Georgia School
of Journalism in 1950. He served
two years in the United States
Marine Corps, and saw action in
Korea, and is now engaged in
the motel business at Daytona
Beach.
An early fall wedding is plan
ned.
Calendar
AAlJ
•ROSH HASHONA
Sept. 6, Thursday
(First Day)
*YOM KIPPUK
Sept. 15, Saturday
•HANNUKAH
Nov. 29, Thursday
•Holidays begin, Previous Evening
Member
American Association
of English-Jewish
Newspapers
Votes
Lt. and Mrs. Charles Kraselsky
announce the birth of a son Bruce
David on June 11. Lt. Krasel
sky is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Kraselsky of Dothan.
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Schreiber
of Dothan announce the birth of
a son on June 23. Maternal
grandparent is Mrs. Ethel Schrei
ber.
Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Pazol of
Atlanta announce the arrival of
a daughter Elissa Diane on June
20. Mrs. Pazol is the former
Jackie Harrison, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Harrison. Pater
nal grandparent is Louis Pazol.
Shearith Israel
Selects Aug. 5 for
Annual Fish Fry
Shearith Israel Congregation’s
Annual Fish Fry will take place
at 12:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 5, on
the grounds of the Educational
Building at 1140 University Dr.,
N. E.
Edward Krick, chairman of the
affair, announces that full por
tions of “delicious fish, with all
the trimmings, will be served un
til 3:30 p. m., and that souvenirs
will be given all children attend
ing. Tickets are priced at $1.00
and may be ordered in advance
from Louis Geffen, ticket chair
man or picked up at the office
of the Synagogue on University
Drive."
The Synagogue’s new spiritual
leader, Rabbi Sydney K. Moss-
man, his wife and children, will
be present at the fish fry, as will
the new Hebrew School teach
ers, Dr. and Mrs. Lewin Awig-
dor.
The women’s committee for
the affair consists of Mesdames
Max Feldman, Abe Auerbach, Re
becca Kramer, Leon Mayson, Sol
Lipsius, Robert Zimmerman, Joe
Zimmerman, Henry Sobelson, J.
Tuck, Turetsky, Ida Goncher and
Nathan Minsk.
Headed by the Chairman, Krick,
members of the men’s committee
are Hyman Auerbach, Benny
Auerbach, David Rotter, Jerry
Fields, Julius Kornblum, Louis
Geffen, Dr. H. Zimmerman, Sid
ney Gulden, Moe Horowitz, Sol
Tenenbaum, George Alterman,
Ben Zimmerman, William Mel-
nick, Harris Silverman, Lou
Mays, Jack Maziar, Joe Tuck,
Stanley Tinter and Irving Lib-
owsky.
News, according to Webster, is
information not previously
known. A news dispatch is a set
of facts and information on a
given development, rapidly tran
smitted from its point of origin.
The world, however, has changed
greatly since the days when de
velopments were clear-cut and
their meaning rapdily seen. Today,
it is not so much the bare fact
that makes the news but the
relation of that fact to those
that preceded it, parallel it and
will follow it. It is no longer
enough to report a fact - that
does not tell the story. The fact
must be placed in perspective.
An event affects different peo
ple in many ways. Ordinarily,
two people will not see a thing
in exactly the same way. News
is written by men and women
having their own individual or
group interests or orientations,
their own prejudices and predi
lections. A completely ‘objective’
news report is rare, indeed. It is
difficult to find a completely
objective reporter.
Sources of the news are not
always honest and disinterested.
The greatest threat to truth and
understanding is the effort to dis
tort news at the source, to sup
press or twist the facts in order
to influence public opinion. To
day, when much of the news
of particular concern to the Jewish
people emanates from the chan
cellories of the world, this in
terference with the facts at the
source of the news can prevent
us from obtaining a true picture
of the situation and thus compel
us to make decisions and take
action on faulty premises.
If this danger is recognized, it
can be offset. But this involves
an understanding by the Jewish
leadership of the fundamental
problems involved in the collec
tion of news and support by them
of a news - gathering and dis
tributing instrument that will act
from the viewpoint of the ele
mental interest of the communi
ty.
Why A Jewish News Agency?
In the nearly four decades in
which the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency has mirrored Jewish life,
the pattern of Jewish news has
changed in keeping with the
shifting design of world news,
ever in the direction of increas
ing complexity. Before Adolf
Hitler came to power in Germany
and the Nazis unleased their tre
mendous worldwide propaganda
war against the Jews, the Jew
ish news pattern was simple.
There were no two sides to a
pogrom or to anti-Jewish leg
islation. The news reports might
be challenged on the grounds of
accuracy, but if the facts were
clearly established and proven,
there was no area for dispute
in public opinion.
In those days, the chief role
of JTA was to dig out the news
of these events wherever they
occurred and expose them to the
full light of world opinion. JTA
was a potent force because it dis
charged important functions. It
was a watchdog, it informed the
Jewish people speedily on de
velopments they had to know
and it served to activate world
opinion.
Today, few news developments
are in black-and-white and so
relatively simple. An honest and
dispassionate reporter can tell a
story one way while a second
reporter, reciting the same facts,
but from a different viewpoint,
may take a diametrically differ
ent slant. A general news corres
pondent may report as an un
questioned ‘fact’ something de
liberately leaked out from a For
eign Ministry while a reporter
handling news from the Jewish
viewpoint and from the angle of
the effect of a development on
the Jewish position, might be
more inclined to question the
factuality of the information.
Today’s newsman must give
not only the straight facts but
their background and an intel
ligent analysis of their meaning
and significance. In dealing with
the complex developments of to
day, the reporter of events con
cerning the Jewish people must
have an authoritative under
standing of his field and must
report these developments from
the Jewish point of view.
The reader concerned with
Jewish affairs must have a news
source that covers world events
from the Jewish viewpoint and
from the angle of their impact
on the Jewish wellbeing. Today,
as it has been for nearly forty
years, it is the primary function
of JTA to serve as this news
source. Its role is to establish the
basic facts, to place them in re
lationship to the unfolding pat
tern of the news, to explain them
in the light of Jewish interest
and to indicate their significance
to the Jewish community and to
the world at large. The purposes
and objectives of JTA remain
unaltered. But the nature of the
task has become far more com
plex.
Bridge and Interpreter
Because the Jewish community
nowhere thinks and acts like a
single political entity, because it
embraces all political viewpoints,
contains elements of all econom
ic, cultural and social interests,
its* news service must be free
from partisanship both within
the community and on the gen
eral scene. To be accepted by the
community and by the world press
as a trustworthy news source, the
agency must function in both the
communal and the general news
areas as the instrument of the
entire community.
Given full community backing,
JTA can vastly increase the ef
fectiveness of its service to the
Jewish people not only by broad
ening its scope as a traditional
bridge betwen the world’s Jew
ish communities but also by serv
ing as an interpreter of the Jew
ish position to the non-Jewish
press throughout the world.
Operations Report
During the past year, JTA’s ac
tivities were centered mainly on
three developments - the new
threat to Israel’s existence re
sulting from the Communist -
Egyptian arms agreement, mount
ing pressure on the Jews of North
Africa and indications that the
Communist authorities might be
planning to lower the bars be
tween the Jewish communities in
their land and the Jews of the
free world. JTA coverage of
these developments was general
ly commended.
To present this news quickly,
JTA has built an elaborate world
wide network. A high-speed ra
dio printer circuit informs South
African Jewry, 8,000 miles away,
of the latest Jewish news. Fac
simile delivers JTA news - in
Yiddish - to the Jewish press.
Thus, technical ingenuity is team
ed with professional skill in de
votion to the interests of the Jew
ish people to make JTA a unique
instrument of the community.
As a Public Service,
we will print the
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Volunteers Needed for Religious Teaching
This is the time of year when congregational officials are
tearing their hair to fill out the faculty for the forthcoming
season for their educational classes.
With growing numbers of pupils scheduled to enroll, many
congregations face the prospect of double sessions unless more
teachers are secured to augment the professional staff.
Adults with experience in teaching are especially sought
and even those without experience who are willing to under
go training in advance or in-service.
The situation is really an emergency and calls for volun
teers, to check with the educational directors of their congre
gations and make themselves available if needed. They should
give consideration too to teaching at other than congregations
with which they are affiliated.
Time required to teach a class once a week is not great,
but rewards and satisfactions are tremendous — both for the
individuals and community. Act immediately.