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Pt«e « THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE April 28, 1978
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JTA: eyes and ears
of the Jewish people
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• Italian Food
• Italian Pastries
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• All pastries baked
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CHAMPAGNE BRUNCH
Complimentary glass of champagne
with Brunch (Sat.)
BAGELS & LOX (SAT. & SUN.)
SAVE $3.50
Pass good Monday through Thursday
until April 30, 1978
Located at Akers Mill Square
Across from Cumberland Mall
Next to Akers MIN Cinema
by Nat Kameny
It’* been called “The Jewish
AP.” But the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, recently observing its 60th
anniversary, is more than a news
wire service. JTA is the eyes and
ears of the Jewish people all over
the world. Sixty years of JTA
dispatches chronicle the “Jewish
angle" of contemporary history.
Founded in The Hague during
World War I by a young Viennese
journalist, Jacob Landau, the
Jewish Correspondence Bureau, as
it was then called, was organized to
report on the handling of Jewish
issues at the forthcoming peace
conference. In 1920, an office was
established in New York. In 1922,
JTA began an English language
newspaper in Jerusalem, The
Palestine Daily Bulletin, known
today as the Jerusalem Post.
From modest beginnings with a
non-paid voluntary staff, J IA is
now an international network of
bureaus providing Jewish news
and the Jewish component of
general news to more than 80
English—Jewish newspapers in
the United States and Canada and
to hundreds of counterparts in
some 50 other countries.
In addition, the agency services
religious schools, college
newspapers, Jewish chaplains in
the armed forces, Jewish
organizations and community
leadership.
News and feature Tories flow
into JTA’s New York head
quarters from bureaus in
Washington, London, Paris,
Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Johannes
burg, Buenos Aires, Lima and
Melbourne; from correspondents
and stringers in all parts of the
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Editor Murray Zuckoff, foreground, in the JTA newsroom.
world, including eastern Europe,
and from reports sent by such
Jewish agencies as the Anti-
Defamation League, the American
Jewish Committee and the
American Jewish Congress. They
are disseminated through JTA’s
Daily News Bulletin, Weekly News
Digest, News Dispatches, Features
and Community News Reporter.
JTA’s credibility and
professionalism is recognized by
the two giant world news
agencies—AP and Reuters—
which distribute its stories to the
general press. Leading news
papers including the New York
Times and the Manchester
Guardian, print JTA stories and
carry the JTA credit line.
The White House subscribes to
the service as do foreign embassies,
consulates and legations. United
Nations diplomats quote from
JTA and acknowledge that its
news is not available elsewhere.
The Soviet U.N. delegates
respond to JTA’s exclusive reports
on Soviet Jews with attacks,
second only in frequency and
ferocity, to their rantings against
the New York Times.
With a budget of over $700,000
in 1977, (he non-profit agency is
funded through direct contribu
tions under the requirements of
the Large City Budgeting
Conference ’ of the Council of
Jewish Federations and Welfare
Funds. It is run by a board
consisting of 49 Jewish leaders
representing communities in the
United States, Canada and
overseas. William M. Landau (no
relation to JTA’s founder, Jacob
Landau) is president; John
Kayston is executive vice
president; Robert H. Amow,
former president, is chairman of
the board.
Boris Smolar, now editor-in-
chief emeritus, was editor of JTA
from 1927 to the late 1960s. He
recalls the many milestones in
JTA’s service during that time, and
particularly its coverage of Jewish
news from Germany under the
Nazi regime. “In those tragic
years,” he says, “JTA was the only
link between German Jewry and
the outside world.”
The current editor, Murray
Zuckoff, has been with JTA since
1969. He is particularly proud of
the wider and more intensive
coverage being given the American
Jewish scene and of the number of
“scoops" scored by JTA since he
became editor, as well as in the
decades before. He also likes to
quote from the late i Professor
Albert Einstein's comment about
the Jewish Telegraphic Agency:
“...JTA fulfills a political mission
of greatest significance to the
whole of Jewry.... By its influence
upon the Jewish and non-Jewish
press, this enterprise makes it
impossible for Jewish rights to be
attacked anywhere without the
outside world learning about it...."
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