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Israelite
The Weekly Newspaper For Southern Jewry
Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, August 29,1986
Since 1925
No. 35
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The Southern Israelite has new publishers
The Southern Israelite was
acquired this week by a Kansas
City corporation, which also owns
The Kansas City Jewish Chronicle,
as well as other publications. Vida
Goldgar, who has owned The
Southern Israelite since 1979, will
stay on as editor.
Sun Publications Inc., the new
publishers, is owned and operated
by the Rose family, who live in
Kansas City. Stan Rose, 68, is
chairman of the board and pub
lisher. Steve Rose, 38, his son, is
president and co-publisher.
“We are extremely excited about
the opportunity to continue a great
tradition in Jewish journalism, as
Atlanta has had since 1925,” said
Stan Rose. “Vida Goldgar is a vital
part of that link, and she will con
tinue to speak for The Southern
Israelite, both through the news
and editorial columns, and through
her involvement in Atlanta’s Jew
ish community.”
The administrative and market
ing aspects of the newspaper will
Stan Rose
be handled by The Southern Israe
lite’s new general manager, Jeff
Rubin, according to Steve Rose.
Rubin, 35, has had broad expe
rience with newspapers in Virginia
and Washington, D.C. He is a
native of New Jersey.
“The Roses are great people who
care a tremendous amount about
Steve Rose
Jewish journalism and becoming a
part of the Atlanta community,”
said Ms. Goldgar. “Their resour
ces, along with a support system
developed over many years in the
community newspaper field, will
make it possible for The Southern
Israelite to keep pace with the
growth of our Jewish community,
Vida Goldgar
providing greater local coverage
and other improvements in the
operation. However, they feel
strongly that the news and editor
ial departments be run by Atlan
tans.”
Sun Publications was founded
!^'50 by Stan Rose and his wife,
iey. Steve Rose became presi
dent of the company in 1978. The “t>
publish The Sun Newspapers, ai
award-winning group of twice Go
weekly newspapers serving subui ^
ban Johnson County; The Colleg x
Boulevard News, a weekly tabloi ^
serving the Overland Park subui
ban office population; and Th
Kansas City Jewish Chronicle. Th~
Chronicle, which was founded in
1920, was acquired by Sun Publi
cations in 1983, after the death of
Milton Firestone, who had been
co-owner of The Chronicle with
Stan Rose.
Ms. Goldgar purchased The
Southern Israelite in 1979 from
Jack Geldbart, who had acquired
it in 1977 after the death of Adolph
Rosenberg. The publication, which
originated in 1925 in Augusta under
the direction of Rabbi H. Cerf
Strauss, was moved to Atlanta by
Herman Dessauer, joined in 1929
by M. Stephen Schiffer, who later
became sole owner and publisher.
Rosenberg, editor since 1939, be
came the publisher in 1951.
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Peres travels to Cameroon to renew ties
by Yaacov Ben Yosef
Special to TSI
JERUSALEM—In a new tri
umph for Israel’s African diplo
macy, Prime Minister Shimon Peres
has traveled to Cameroon this week
to renew diplomatic relations with
that West African state.
The announcement that Israel and
Cameroon had re-established ties
came Tuesday, strengthening Is
rael’s diplomatic position in Africa.
The Air Force Boeing 707 which
brought the prime minister’s party
on the nine-hour flight to the coas
tal city of Douala, Sunday even
ing, also carried a 17-member med
ical team and equipment to help in
Friday’s disaster which may have
killed 2,000 people when poison
ous gases spewed out of a volcano
in northern Cameroon.
Nearly all of the African states
which had relations with Israel
broke them at the time of the 1973
Yom Kippur War. Cameroon became
the fourth African state to renew
diplomatic relations with Israel.
The other three are the Ivory Coast,
Liberia and Zaire.
In renewing relations with
Cameroon, the most prosperous
and stable country in black Africa,
Israel was hoping that other Afri
can countries would jump on board
the diplomatic bandwagon.
One Israeli newspaper reported
Tuesday, however, that Peres had
been rebuffed in his attempt to
stop in Kenya on the way home
where he hoped for an announce
ment of the renewal of ties between
Nairobi and Jerusalem.
Israel’s ties with South Africa
have hampered its efforts to renew
relations with black African states.
Accordingly, Peres suggested dur
ing the plane journey to Cameroon
that Israel was reassessing its ties
with Pretoria.
Peres said Israel would accept
any decision on sanctions against
the South African government but
would not take the lead in formu
lating policy. “I don’t feel it is for
us to make world policy toward
South Africa,” he said. “We have
other problems. We have an agenda
loaded with problems like no other
nation.”
Peres held three sessions with
Cameroon President Paul Biya
Monday after the prime minister
received a warm welcome at Ya
ounde, the capital. Israeli security
men were clearly nervous as the
Israeli leader waded into the crowd,
shaking hands and holding babies
in his arms.
Meanwhile, Israel had other good
news this week as Natan (Anatoly)
Shcharansky’s family arrived in
Israel from Moscow Monday.
“I am happy, happy, happy to be
at last with all my children,” Ida
Milgrom, the tiny, white-haired
77-year-old mother of Natan and
Leonid, said, sitting between her
two sons and holding their hands,
at Ben-Gurion Airport.
Natan had gone to Vienna to
meet his family and then escorted
them to Israel. Upon seeing his
mother, he hugged her and said,
“This is a very exciting moment. But
it is not simply wonderful. It is
an important lesson that no quiet
diplomacy, even at the highest lev
els, can help if it isn’t accompanied
by a strong public campaign to
convince the Soviet Union to let
our people go.”
Natan had not seen his mother
for 20 months. He had not seen his
brother Leonid, 39, since April
Three of the classical music
world’s most consistently popular
attractions will combine their tal
ents in a blockbuster concert at the
Fox Theatre at 8 p.m. Wednesday,
Sept. 3.
The Israel Philharmonic Orches
tra, along with its distinguished
music director and conductor, Zubin
Mehta, and special guest soloist
Claudio Arrau, will be in Atlanta
as part of a 17-city U.S. tour cele
brating the orchestra’s 50th anni
versary.
A special group of seats has been
reserved for the American Friends
of the Israel Philharmonic, to bene
fit the Orchestra’s Endowment
Fund. These tickets cost $125 and
allow patrons to attend a reception
for the performers in the Fox’s
Egyptian Ballroom. To reserve
1980. Leonid’s wife Raya and their
two children, Aleksander, 14, and
Boris, 1 ’/$, also arrived in Israel on
the flight.
Meanwhile, the excitement gen
erated by last week’s meeting in
Helsinki between Israeli and Soviet
officials has abated after the Rus
sians declared that they would not
agree to an Israeli delegation visit
ing Moscow as a follow-up to Hel
sinki. The Israelis had insisted on
such a visit to Moscow in return
Zubin Mehta
benefit tickets, call 262-5006.
Regular tickets are on sale now
at the Fox box office and all SEATS
for a Soviet request to send a dele
gation to Israel.
“For the moment,” said one Is
raeli official, “there is nothing—
until the Russians change their
minds about letting our delegation
visit Moscow."
The Israelis and Soviets held a
90-minute session on Aug. 18, the
first publicly acknowledged meet
ing between the two countries since
Russia broke off relations at the
time of the 1967 Six-Day War.
Claudio Arrau
outlets including metro-area Tur-
See Mehta, page 20.
Israel Orchestra, Mehta, Arrau
to perform in concert at The Fox