American Jewish Editors and Publishers Conclude Their Convention in Israel

The 30 editors and publishers of American English-Jewish newspapers, meeting in a Jerusalem hotel 150 yards from a Jordanian village, adopted today a resolution at their 25th annual convention assuring their support to the cause of justice for the embattled people of Israel during the present Middle East crisis.

The convention of the American Jewish Press Association, meeting here despite State Department warnings to American nationals to stay out of the Middle East, reelected Adolph Rosenberg of Atlanta, Ga., as president. The resolution stressed the solidarity of the delegates with kinsmen in Israel and said the people of Israel were being subjected to unnecessary suffering by the “sabre-rattling” by the neighboring Arab countries.

In another resolution, the editors and publishers sent greetings to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on its 50th anniversary observance next October. The convention elected three vice-presidents: Jimmy Wisch of Dallas, Conrad Isenberg of Worcester, Mass., and Milton Firestone of Kansas City.

The journalists laid a wreath at the tomb of Theodor Herzl and were then received by Kaddish Luz, Speaker of Parliament, who expressed confidence that the Jews of the United States would continue their partnership with Israel for better or worse. Philip Slomovitz of the Detroit Jewish News, replying for the delegates, said American Jews would work together with Israelis for victory in the cause of justice. Because of the situation, a number of leading Israel officials were forced to cancel planned meetings with the publishers.