J.t.a. President Re-affirms Pledge of Continued Service to Jewry

Louis P. Rocker, president of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, in his New Year’s message, re-affirmed to day the determination of the JTA to serve as the “eyes and ears” of Jews everywhere in the world. He stressed the progress made by the JTA during the past year in extending every effort to cover, impartially and without fear, every aspect of Jewish activity in the context of an increasingly complex world.

“In the year to come,” Mr. Rocker said, “the Jewish Telegraphic Agency will continue to give that kind of extensive coverage to developments in all parts of the world, The tense situation created for Israel by the Arab intransigence, the all-out efforts to rescue threatened North African Jewry, the progress of an American Jewish community in its fourth century of existence in a free land, all these important developments and the human triumphs and tragedies which accompany them will be the day-by-day concern of world Jewry’s “nerve center”–the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. To this high task we re-dedicate ourselves on the eve of 5716.”