The Southern Israelite. (Augusta, Ga.) 1925-1986, August 29, 1986, Image 1

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ip •• '.i-v ■■ **. *£& ? .V-: /< ./. •'•' Israelite The Weekly Newspaper For Southern Jewry Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, August 29,1986 Since 1925 No. 35 Special addition rn c in x t» m > T3 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. •< X • TO c: x x 0X0 •> o rr 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