American-jewish Press Can Play Vital Role in Interpreting Jewish Ethnic Values

The American Jewish Press Association, holding its 29th annual convention, expressed support for the continued development of an independent and high quality level Jewish press on American college campuses and called on the Jewish community to support this effort. Rabbi Levi Olan, Rabbi Emeritus of Temple Emanu-El in this city, told the editors and publishers representing 36 weekly and bi-weekly Jewish newspapers in the United States and Canada that the Jewish press can play a “vital role” in interpreting “Jewish ethnic values in the pluralistic American society of the future which will replace the melting pot ideal of the past.” Delegates also discussed ways and means of improving the scope and quality of the American Jewish press and reaffirmed the AJPA’s opposition to any further curtailment of second class mailing privileges for newspapers or other economic pressures by government on the press. Resolutions adopted by the convention included expression of solidarity with and concern for Jews in the Soviet Union and Arab nations, and for Jewish journalists in countries which impose censorship on the press; and commended the American Zionist Federation for helping to bring about greater unity in the Zionist movement. Jimmy Wisch, editor and publisher of the Texas Jewish Post of Dallas-Fort Worth, was reelected to a third term as president of the AJPA. Delegates congratulated the Texas Jewish Post on its 25th birthday.