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The Southern Israelite
Vol. XU
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Estah ,: ’ <%%< .
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1966
Ford Plans Truck
Assembly in Israel
DETROIT (JTA)— Ford Mo
tor Company announced it was
negotiating to authorize truck
and tractor assembly by one of
Israel’s leading automotive deal
ers. The company said that if an
agreement was reached, Pales
tine Automobile Corporation
Ltd. would build United States
and British Ford products in an
assembly plant to be in opera
tion in 12 months.
Ford has given a letter of in
tent to Dr. Saul Lipschitz, a di
rector of Palestine Automobile
Corporation, confirming the
plans, subject to completion of
financial arrangements. The as
sembly agreement will be limit
ed initially to commercial ve
hicles and tractors. Palestine
Automobile Corporation now
imports a variety of completed
American, English and German
Ford vehicles for sale through
outlets in 11 Israeli cities.
The agreement will follow the
pattern established by Ford in
several other developing nations
where automotive markets have
evolved from the import stage
to permit local assembly of ve
hicles in relatively small vol
ume. The parts are shipped
from major United States, Brit
ish and German Ford manufac
turing centers for assembly in
plants owned by Ford dealers
and operating under Ford qual
ity control standards.
Similar Ford dealer assembly
operations are in effect in Mo
rocco, Pakistan, Turkey, Thai
land and the Philippines. The
Israeli firm has been a Ford dis
tributor for 30 years.
President Greets
AJPA Members
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Presi
dent Johnson welcomed at the
White House last week a dele
gation of more than 30 mem
bers of the American Jewish
Press Association. The editors
and publishers were in Wash
ington for the organization’s
five-day annual convention. The
convention was part of the ob
servance of American Jewish
Press Week.
In an off-the-record address,
the President indicated, during
the half-hour visit, the impor
tance he attached to matters of
Jewish interest and concern.
Touching on a variety of sub
jects of world conditions in gen
eral, he talked especially about
the Middle East. In welcoming
the publishers and editors, he
commended the dedication of
the Jewish press to humanitar
ian causes.
A participant, on the initia
tive of the Pressident, was Am
bassador Arthur H. Goldberg,
chief American delegate to the
United Nations. President John
son commended the work of Mr.
Goldberg, noting how the sons
of Jewish immigrants could rise
to great heights in the United
States,
The delegation was led by
Morris Janoff, association pres
ident and publisher of the Jew-
ish-Standard of Jersey City,
N. J.
Vice-President Hubert Hum
phrey told the delegation that
Communist China was trying to
foment an Arab “national lib
eration war” against Israel and
seeking to infiltrate the mideast.
Speaking at a reception tender
ed by the B’nai B’rith, the Vice-
President said that China was
trying to generate tensions in
the Middle East that were not
unrelated to United States prob
lems in Viet Nam. He said that
the attempts by “militant forces
in southeast Asia,” specifically
Red China and North Viet Nam,
to expand tensions in the direc
tion of the Middle East were
“serious.”
Citing the Palestine Organi-
The Southern Israelite's Editor and Publisher Adolph Ros
enberg left New York Wednesday evening for his first visit
to Israel—and by the time this edition Is distributed he will
have landed—softly he hopes—and will be exploring Tel
Aviv and environs. The publisher of this paper has repri
manded the editor over the blythe pre-trip column on page 7
of this Issue and admonished him to be more serious in fu
ture reports.
Notable Washington Parley
Newsmen Adopt
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HHH, Harman
zation of Ahmed Shukairy, he
revealed for the first time that,
during a recent visit to India,
he urged India to accept Israeli
technical aid. India rejected
such aid. He said the reason the
United States provided tanks
and jet bombers to Israel was
because aggressive forces were
present in the Middle East and
that “free people must be able
to defend themselves.”
He lauded the role of Amer
ican Jewish publishers and
urged they continue their efforts
to educate the Jewish commun
ity to face threats from totali
tarianism. He was introduced
by Rabbi Jay Kaufman, execu
tive director of B’nai B’rith. Mr.
Janoff thanked the Vice-Presi
dent for his comments.
The importnace of the Eng
lish-Jewish press to the Amer
ican Jewish community was
emphasized in a statement is
sued by Philip Slomovitz, chair-
chairman of the American Jew
ish Press Wek. He pointed out
that “many communities which
are without newspapers, and do
not utilize the services offered
them by the Jewish press, will
live in a vacuum.” The only ef
fective Jewish press in the world
today, outside of Israel, is the
English-Jewish press, he stress
ed.
“The English-Jewish newspa
per is the guardian over the
public welfare of our people,”
Mr. Slomovitz stated. "It is the
historian of Jewry. It is the
chronicle of our time and it may
well be considered the Third
Volume to the Biblical Book of
Chronicles—the Divrey Ha-Ya-
min. Our newspapers are the
sentinels that watch over our
freedoms, the defenders of our
basic American ideals and of
our sacred Jewish traditions.
Without this watch-dog over
Jewry’s destinies, the great
movements, which operate in
behalf of the down-trodden, the
support of Israel, would not be
able effectively to reach out to
the communities which supply
the funds for creative efforts
and for redemption.”
Editors and publishers of Jew
ish newspapers throughout the
nation met in Washington last
week for their annual convention
with these highlights:
1. Adoption of a uniform spell
ing for transliteration of Hebrew
terms to avoid confusion among
the Jewish and non-Jewish pub
lic.
2. An evaluation in depth of
Jewish Telegraphic Agency serv
ices to newspapers and com
munities.
3. A thirty-minute-long audi
ence with President Lyndon B.
Johnson who briefed the Jewish
editors on the issues of the day.
4. A reception for Congressmen
and Senators from cities and
states of the editors, tendered in
honor of the newsmen and Na
tional Jewish Press Week by
B’nai B’rith, with Vice President
Hubert Humphrey and Senator
Jacob Javits as special guests.
5. An official invitation from
the State of Israel to hold the
1967 convention of the American
Press Association in Israel, re
layed by Ambassador Avraham
Harman at a reception honoring
the newsmen at the Israel Em
bassy.
6. Election of Adolph Rosen
berg of Atlanta to the Associa
tion’s presidency.
7. Acceptance of the Las Vegas
Israelite as a member of the As
sociation.
8. Address on the Jewish Press
by Philip Slomovitz, Jewish
News, Detroit, at Friday evening
services at Adas Israel Syna
gogue.
Approval of the study on prop
er transliteration of names of
holidays and other terms which
appear frequently in the columns
of the newspaper climaxes a 16-
year-long study on the subject,
under the chairmanship of Leo
Frisch, editor of the American
Jewish World, Minneapolis-St.
Paul, one of the deans of the
Jewish journalism field. Working
closely with him has been Mr.
Slomovitz, another long-timer in
Jewish journalism, who headed
the Association for its first five
years.
Both of these men have been
in contact with various Hebrai
cists and sources of Hebrew
scholarship in order to achieve
some resolution of a problem
which has plagued editors for
several decades.
Chairman Frisch noted that the
conclusion of the study repres
ents a compromise with quite dif
ferent viewpoints in order to
resolve the petty confusions
which have resulted through the
great variations in transliteration
preferences. The new version,
which will be publically an
nounced, is a modernized Sephar
dic treatment, in the main.
The suggested spelling will be
printed by the Association and
distributed to organizations and
businesses with the recommenda
tion that they be considered and
used.
Association members, conven
ing in record numbers, were led
by President Morris Janoff, ed
itor and publisher of the Jewish
Standard in Jersey City to the
White House for the session with
President Johnson. Arrangements
had been made with the White
House staff by Joe Weisberg,
former Association president and
editor of the Jewish Advocate in
TSFs Kosenberg Chosen
President of Jewish Newsmen
Rosenberg
Adolph Rosenberg, The Sou
thern Israelite’s editor and pub
lisher, is the new president of
the American Jewish Press As
sociation.
Chosen with himl
at last week’s]
convent ion of |
the weekly Jew
ish newspaper)
editors and pub- [
lishers in Wash- |
ington were:
Vice presidents]
—■ A1 Golomb, |
Jewish Chron-1
ide, Pittsburgh;
Jimmy Wisch,
Texas Jewish Post, Dallas-Ft.
Worth; Conrad Isenberg, Jewish
Civic Leader, Worchester, Mass.
Honorary vice president— Leo
Frisch, American Jewish World,
Mineapolis-St. Paul.
Secretary: Martin Korik, Jew
ish Record, Atlantic City.
Treasurer, Milton Firestone,
Jewish Chronicle, Kansas City,
Mo.
Executive Board—Phil Slomo
vitz, Jewish News, Detroit; Joe
Weisberg, Jewish Advocate, Bos
ton, Fred Schochet, Floridian, Mi
ami; Jack Fishbein, Sentinel, Chi
cago; Morris Janoff, Standard,
Jersey City; Joseph J. Commins,
B’nai B’rith Messenger, Los An
geles; Mrs. Lee Neusner, Jewish
Ledger, Hartford, Conn.; Milton
Pinsky, Ohio Jewish Chronicle,
Columbus.
Mr. Rosenberg, a former mem
ber of the Atlanta Journal and
Constitution reportorial staff, has
been prominent with the Jewish
weekly newspaper group for the
past 16 years.
A native of Albany, Ga., he
entered the field of journalism
with his high school newspaper
forty-one years ago. As a senior,
he represented the paper at the
second convention of the Georgia
Scholastic Press Association and
was chosen its second president.
He later studied journalism at
the University of Georgia which
he represented in Rhodes Scholar
competition.
He has also worked with the
Albany (Ga.) Herald, Albany
Journal, United States Daily
News in Washington and the
Carroll County Free Press, Car
rollton, Ga.
He became associated with The
Southern Israelite in 1940 and has
been on the staff since, with the
exception of about four years
service in World War II.
Active in numerous Atlanta,
regional and national Jewish or
ganizations, he has been promin
ent in the broader community
through the Jaycees, Atlanta His
torical Society, Atlanta Press
Club and Sigma Delta Chi, pro
fessional journalism society.
In 1965, when the American
Jewish Press Association conven
tion was held in Atlanta to spot
light The Israelite’s fortieth an
niversary, Mr. Rosenberg was
presented one of its rare “disting
uished service” awards by the At
lanta Jewish Community Coun
cil.
Boston, and by Milton Friedman,
JTA’s Washington correspondent
Private conversations between
the President and private groups
are through tradition • off-the-rec
ord. The session was held in the
Cabinet Room of the White House
and Mr. Johnson quipped with
newsmen whom he invited to be
seated around the historical Cab
inet table, about sitting in the
“vice president’s chair, the Sec
retary of the Treasurer’s chair,”
etc.
President Johnson was accom
panied into the room by United
Nations Ambassador Arthur
Goldberg.
The Association business and
luncheon meetings were held in
the B’nai B’rith Headquarters
building in a conference room
where hang the portraits of
Henry Monsky, Philip Klutznick,
Label Katz and other presidents
of this national organization.
B’nai B’rith itself hosted the
reception honoring the newsmen,
their congressmen and senators.
Georgia’s Congressman Charles
Weltner was among the notable
guests, chatting with TSI editor
about the political scene in Geor
gia. Several of the past presidents
of District Five, B’nai B’rith, and
their wives, who live in the
Washington area, were present.
Among the Washington represen
tatives of national Jewish organ
izations present were Hadaasah’s
Mrs. Ralphael Tourover; and I.
L. Kenen of the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee.
B’nai B’rith’s executive secre
tary, Rabbi Jay Kaufman, emceed
a short program, presenting Sen
ator Jacob Javits and Vice Pres
ident Humphrey, the latter for a
talk. The Vice President lauded
the Jewish community for its long
record in the fight for freedom,
human dignity and civil rights.
He also spoke about the interna
tional picture.
At the reception at the Israel
Embassy, Ambassador Harman
formally issued the invitation of
his government to the Association
to hold its 1967 convention in the
Jewish State. He reviewed the
great progress his country has
made in several areas, notably
economic and agricultural and
scientific. He noted too the great
strides made in the sociological
arena with so many new citizens
arriving in so brief a time from
such divergent backgrounds.
The Association has taken the
matter of the 1967 convention
site under advisement and Mr.
Rosenberg whose administration
will be charged with the decision,
told the Ambassador that as soon
as details about the proposed trip
can be evaluated a final action
will be taken.
Joseph Hochstein, senior editor
for the Neuhouse publications, re
ported in the session devoted to
problems of the Jewish Telegra
phic Agency about the survey he
is making of this news gathering
agency. One of his suggestions
was that a nation-wide body of
individuals be created to assist
the JTA in its staggering finan
cial burdens.
Boris Smolar and Victor Bien-
stock spoke on the seminar panel
for JTA for which they are vet
eran writers and managers. Sev
eral of the newsmen presented
their views about extention of
JTA facilities.
A special memorial was held
during the convention for Thomas
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