A resolution expressing “deep concern ofer the repeated attempts of the Ford Administration to blame Israel for the breakdown of the shuttle diplomacy between the Arab nations and Israel” was adopted here last week at the closing session of the three-day 33rd annual convention of the American Jewish Press Association.
The resolution also put the association on record as adopting the position stated in a letter to President Ford by 76 Senators urging full and continued backing of the State of Israel.
Robert A. Cohen, editor of the St. Louis Jewish Light, was re-elected president by the association of editors and publishers of 54 Jewish newspapers.
In another resolution, the delegates expressed “dismay and outrage at the long-established and continued position of the International Red Cross in its non-recognition of the Mogen Dovid Adom and urges the International Red Cross to review and reserve that position.”
BICENTENNIAL NOTED
Recognition and participation by the American Jewish community and the Jewish press in the American Bicentennial observance to promote full recognition “of the contributions of Haym Solomon and other Jewish patriots and of American Jews to the birth of our nation” was urged in another resolution.
The editors and publishers praised Sen, Henry M. Jackson (D. Wash) and Rep. Charles Vanik (D. Ohio) for their efforts on behalf of Soviet Jewry and urged other Congressmen to follow their example. Another resolution denounced the Syrian government for its persecution of Syrian Jewry and for “its policy of keeping all visiting newsmen from visiting the Jewish prisoners of the government.”
The editors and publishers expressed condolences to Eliezer Whartman, the Israeli journalist, on the death of his son, Lt. Moshe Whartman, who was killed last Monday in a clash during a search mission in Lebanon.
50TH ANNIVERSARY
The association honored two newspapers that celebrated their 50th anniversary this year. The Hebrew Watchman of Memphis, Tennessee, and the Southern Israelite of Atlanta, Georgia.
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