More than 500 Jewish communal leaders, representing 60 religious, welfare, social and civic organizations in this city, attended a “community salute” dinner last night tendered in honor of Morris J. Janoff, editor-publisher of the Jewish Standard, Ideal English-Jewish newspaper, and president of the English-Jewish Publishers Association. President Lyndon Johnson sent a message of greetings to Mr. Janoff which was read at the dinner.
Principal speaker at the affair was Philip Slomovitz, editor-publisher of the Detroit Jewish News. He called upon American Jewish communities to expand their news coverage in order to assure the contacts that are vitally needed to keep Jews well informed about their people everywhere. He emphasized the role being played by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency as a link between Jewish communities, declaring that “without the J.T.A we would be totally lost in a jungle of non-information on Jewish life.”
“Only when proper status is given to the English-Jewish press, providing for a reaching out of the newspapers into every nook and corner of this great land, will we be able to hope for a truly well-informed Jewish constituency that will thereby be in a genuine and wholesome position to claim Jewish identity and survival,” Mr. Slomovitz stressed. Other speakers included Mayor Thomas J, Whelan of New Jersey, Police Captain Herman Donchin, and Meyer Pesin, Corporation Counsel of Jersey City.
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