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THE SOUTHERN ISRAEUTE
Friday, July 28, 1972
ON NIXON'S MOSCOW TRIP
Los Angeles “Messenger”
Blasts JTA
LOS ANGELES (WUP) — In
a leading editorial entitled
“JTA Tactics,” the B’nai B’rith
Messenger — now in its 76th
year and whose editor is Joseph
Jonah Cummins—strongly crit
icized the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency (JTA) by charging it
with being "guilty of a gross
violation of decency that should
spell dismissal for everyone in
JTA connected with that out
rageous piece of conduct.”
The Messenger had reference
to the omission of the fact that
during the Nixon trip to Mos
cow two Jewish correspondents
in addition to the JTA reporter
were covering the historic
event.
Said the Messenger, among
other things:
“When President Nixon went
to Moscow for the noted sum
mit conference with the Russ
ian leaders, three Jewish news
people were invited to go along
to cover the summit trip. Mr.
Jimmy Wisch, president of the
American Jewish Press Associ
ation, Joe Polakoff, head of the
JTA Washington bureau, and
Trude Feldman, a correspond
ent for several independent
A VULGAR PICTURE
Jewish newspapers, were invit
ed and went.
“It seems to us unbeliev
able,” the June 30th editorial
stated, “that JTA failed to men
tion that Mr. Wisch and Miss
Feldman were amongst the
presidential press corps before
the group left the U.S., but
JTA and Mr. Polakoff never
once mentioned in any of
Polakoff’s dispatches from
Russia and Europe that Mr.
Wisch, representing the largest
association of Jewish newspap
ers in the world (including the
B’nai B’rith Messenger) was
present on that famous trip.
“It is interesting that the
Associated Press, CBS Radio,
the New York Times, the Mex
ican Press, the Japanese Press,
all took note that the American
Jewish Press Association was
participating in the Moscow
summit conference meetings.
But we must repeat it, not once
but a hundred times, that the
vulgarians at JTA failed to
mention that fact even once.
And the membership of the
American Jewish Press Associ
ation makes it possible for JTA
to exist.
“The secular media reported
that it was the AJP correspond
ent who got Dr. Henry Kiss
inger to state publicly that the
President would, and later did,
discuss Soviet Jewry with the
Kremlin leaders. The Jewish
Telegraphic Agency ignored it,”
the editorial declared. It was the
AJP correspondent who raised
that famous issue at the news
conference, “Why is there no
Jewish Press in Russia!? before
a joint meeting with the Russ-
ian-correspondents . . . The JTA
omitted the participation in
that meeting of the American
Jewish Press Association . .
Asked about this criticism, a
JTA spokesman stated this
week that to date no reply has
been made in rebuttal.
Savannah
News
Harvey S. Gray, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Larry Gray, was
named to the spring quarter
dean’s list at Georgia Tech.
Gray is majoring in industrial
technology and will graduate in
August.
State Rep. Alan S. Gaynor has
been elected chairman of the
Georgia Commission for the Na
tional Bicentennial Celebration.
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Meyer
Felser announce th birth of a
daughter, Carole Felice, on June
18.
Dr. Irving Victor and daugh
ter Jane have been vacationing
at Beech Mountein.
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Writer Calls
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Debasing
NEW YORK (WUP) — War
ner’s film production of Philip
Roth’s novel, “Portnoy’s Com
plaint,” which is now being
screened throughout the coun
try, debases the Jewish family
and is certain to be exploited
by bigots and anti-Semites as a
weapon against Jews in general.
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man, in producing this vulgar
film in the manner he has, has
rendered a disservice to Jewry,
for the magnification of sexual
perversion revolves around a
symbolic Jewish family.
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the Times says that while “the
novel often sounds like a hilari
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adaptation . . . really is a Jew
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poor one.”
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matic of the crazy times in
which we live and it is only
hoped that the ADL and other
Jewish bodies representing
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main silent but raise their
voices in protest against this
psychopathic film.
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