The American Jewish Press Association at its 41st annual meeting here, elected Jerome Lippman, publisher and editor-in-chief of the Long Island Jewish World as president succeeding Albert Bloom, executive editor of the Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle.
Vice presidents elected were: Marc Klein, editor, Philadelphia Jewish Exponent; Vida Goldgar, editor and publisher, Southern Israelite, Atlanta; and Philip Scheier, editor, Jewish Transcript, Seattle. Re-elected treasurer was Morris Maline, editor, Jewish Press, Omaha; elected recording secretary is Larry Hankin of the Intermountain Jewish News, Denver; and elected corresponding secretary is Dan Brin, of the Southwest Jewish Heritage, California.
Elected to the executive committee were: Bloom; Robert Cohn, editor, St. Louis Jewish Light; Miriam Goldberg, publisher, Intermountain Jewish News, Denver; Frank Wundohl, publisher’s representative of JWB Circle, New York; Geoffrey Fisher, editor, Jewish Bulletin, San Francisco; Richard Waloff, business director, Jewish Exponent; Dorothy Rubin, editor and publisher, Broward Jewish Journal, Fla.; and Robert Rapaport, publisher, Palm Beach Jewish World.
Arie Zimuky, senior political editor of Yediot Aharonot, Jerusalem, was elected liaison officer by AJPA to the World Federation of Jewish Journalists and an honorary member of AJPA’s executive committee.
The meeting paused in its deliberations for a moment of silence and the reading of the 23rd Psalm in memory of Milton Firestone, late editor and publisher of the Kansas City Jewish Chronicle who died several weeks ago.
At tonight’s session the Simon Rockower memorial plaques were presented to winners of the first journalism competition recognizing outstanding journalistic achievements by AJPA members.
Among other notable leaders participating in the sessions were Nathan Perlmutter, national director of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith; Yehudah Hellman, executive director of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations; Yehiel Yetiv, representative of the Israel Foreign Ministry who was one of the negotiators of the Israel-Lebanon agreement; and Thomas Dine, executive director of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Michael Gale, Presidential aide on Jewish affairs, attended some of the AJPA sessions.
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