The Advisory Committee of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and the Jewish Daily Bulletin held its first dinner-meeting at the Harmonie Club last Sunday night. Judge Horace Stern, of Philadelphia, who presided, explained that the committee would consist of persons interested in the work of these two organizations who would spread to the public their worth and accomplishment.
“The Jewish Telegraphic Agency is a valuable and vital institution,” said Judge Stern. “It acts for Jewry in bringing the non-Jewish public in contact with Jewish news. The Agency is similar in position to the aviator in the army. The aviator serves as the eye of the army, the eye that looks and reports what it sees. The Agency is that eye, which views accurately what is happening in the Jewish world and transmits what it sees by a network of correspondents. It is a real factor in the prevention of anti-Jewish activity.”
“I feel very keenly the great need for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and the service it performs,” said Frank L. Weil. “When the Jew becomes stabilized, persecution is not far off. In this country two out of the nine Justices of the United States Supreme Court and four out of the forty-eight governors are Jews.
“The dissemination of world-wide Jewish news is essential to prepare ourselves for our problems. There is work to be carried on in all corners of the world. We must know our problems and be prepared to meet them. It is that news which the Agency and the Bulletin report which aids us as Jews.”
“The escape from Judaism is impossible,” stated Rabbi Mordecai M. Kaplan. “There is an inevitability about the Jewish existence. We are tied to our people throughout the world. It is important that the Jewish Telegraphic Agency act with us in fighting in common the pestilence of anti-Semitism. The Agency is an indispensable part of our life, not merely as Jews, but as human beings.”
Congratulating Mr. Jacob Landau on the success of the first issue of the Sunday edition of the Jewish Daily Bulletin, Rabbi Kaplan said: “It is of inestimable educational and cultural value in enabling the Jewish consciousness to function.”
“We do need a newspaper printed in English which will represent the Jew and reach the young generation,” declared Simon Bergman. “As a means of uniting Jewry in the United States it is absolutely essential in helping to fight the battle of Judaism.”
Morris R. Cohen, professor of philosophy at City College, commenting on the fact that the Jews are scattered throughout the world, said that the Jewish Telegraphic Agency was an important instrument in giving the Jews a sense of unity.
“There is a great necessity for a newspaper to represent the Jews,” declared Dr. Emanuel Libman, pledging his support to the Jewish Daily Bulletin. Referring to the occasion of the fifteenth anniversary of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Dr. Libman said that the astounding statements made then, complimenting the work of the Agency, constituted a most unusual tribute to its accomplishment.
Dr. Nathan Ratnoff, chairman of the American Physicians Committee of the Hebrew University, stated that there was a definite need for a newspaper in English which would devote itself to Jewish news. Commenting on the work of the Agency Dr. Ratnoff said: “It is an important factor in Jewish life and a valuable instrument of defense for the Jews.”
Morris Waldman, secretary of the American Jewish Committee, described the Jewish Daily Bulletin an “exceedingly useful newspaper “It is, for those interested in Jewish communal work, an indispensa### instrument.”
“The Jewish Telegraphic Agency is not only important as a n### service,” continued Mr. Wald### “but as a distinct protection to ### Jews in Eastern Europe whose ###ernments recognize in the Agency strong instrument of defense fo# Jewish people.”
Among those present at the n###ing were: Jacob Landau, Louis ###berger, Arnold K. Isreeli, Laur# A. Steinhardt, Theodore Bad### Bernard Semel, Jacob Marga### Maurice Falk, Abraham I. ### Harry L. Glucksman, Mrs. Guggenheimer, Joseph Willen, ### E. Norman, Julius Weiss, D### Podell, Robert Stein, Max ###chewitz, Mr. and Mrs. Ha###peter and I. Zlowe.
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