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Martin Agronsky to speak
atJNF Herzl Award dinner
Martin Agronsky, journalist
and broadcaster, will be the guest
speaker at the annual Jewish Na
tional Fund Dinner, Tuesday,
April 15, at the Westin Peachtree
Plaza Hotel.
The dinner will honor two At
lanta journalists, Atlanta Journal
Editorial Page Editor Durwood
McAlister and Vida Goldgar, edi
tor and publisher of The Southern
Israelite.
The two will receive the Theodor
Herzl Award for their contribu
tions to the people of Atlanta and
their support of the state of Israel.
Agronsky, who currently mod
erates Agronsky & Company on
public television, has worked for
all three commercial networks as
well as PBS and has won every
major award presented by the
Martin Agronsky
broadcast industry.
He began his career as a reporter
for the Palestine Post in Jerusalem
in 1936 after graduating from Rut
gers University.
He worked for the Paris bureau
of the International News Service
The Temple to hold
119th annual meeting
A musical presentation, “A
Musical Tale of Two Cultures,”
with singer and songwriter Rabbi
Lewis Littman, will be the featured
entertainment at The Temple’s
l I9th Annual Meeting, on Sun
day. April I 3.
The evening begins at 6:30 p.m.
with a family-style, covered dish
dinner and will include the election
of The Temple’s officers and trus
tees, tours of the new Youth Li
brary, and musical entertainment
with Rabbi Littman. Rabbi Litt
man, the UAHC’s Southeast re
gional director, will trace the his
tory of both Jewish and American
culture through the beauty, charm,
and popularity of folk music. He
has traveled with his show across
the United States and has received
rave review's.
A special addition to this year’s
will mark the beginning of The
Temple’s 120th Anniversary celebra
tion. Incorporated on April l,
1867, The Hebrew Benevolent Con
gregation (The Temple) is Atlan
ta’s oldest synagogue. The year
long 120th celebration will conclude
during the “Gala Week” of April
27-May 3, 19X7.
The Temple’s 119th Annual
Meeting is being co-chaired by
Susan and Skip Butler and con
gregational programs committee
co-chairpersons, Lee Kout and
Barbara Abend.
Officers to be elected are: Ed
ward Greenblatt, president; Jackie
Montag, first vice president; Dou
glas J. Hertz, second vice presi
dent; Mark Murovitz, secretary;
Larry Hecht, treasurer.
Fur further information, con
tact Temple program director,
Peter Benjamin, 873-1731.
Annual Meeting is that this event
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in 1.939 and in 1940 became the
Balkan correspondent for NBC.
For the next two years, he was
NBC’s correspondent in Turkey
and with the British Army and
RAF in the Middle East and Greece.
After Pearl Harbor, he was NBC’s
war correspondent in Singapore
and Java and was with Gen. Dou
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After the war, he became ABC’s
network Washington correspond
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promising campaign to report quick
ly and accurately on the activities
of Sen. Joseph McCarthy. His re
porting on McCarthy, despite pres
sure, won him the George Peabody
Award for distinguished reporting.
He covered the nine-month trial
of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem
which won him the Alfred I. Du
Pont Award for distinguished re
porting and commentary. He also
won the National Headliner Award.
Other assignments at NBC in
cluded a month aboard the nu
clear-powered submarine “George
Washington” to film a documen
tary which won the Venice Film
Festival Documentary Award in
1963. He covered the Kennedy/
Krushchev meeting in Vienna and
the nuclear test ban treaty in
Moscow.
He later moderated “Face The
Nation” on CBS and produced
“Gideon’s Trumpet,” a dramatiza
tion of the Supreme Court’s land
mark decision providing free legal
care to defendants unable to afford
counsel.
The reception is at 6:30 p.m.
with dinner at 7:30.
For more information about the
JNF dinner, call 633-1 132.
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