JTA President Announces the Election of 10 New Board Members

William Frost, president of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, announced the election of 10 new directors to the JTA Board.

They are: Charles Buerger (Baltimore), Dorothy Goren (Los Angeles), Milton Gralla (Fort Lee, NJ), Irving Halperin (Montreal), Lawrence Jackier (Detroit), Dov Judkowski (Tel Aviv), Nita Levy (Kansas City, Mo.), Phyllis Margolius (Washington), Phillip Ritzenberg (New York), and Phyllis Sutker (Chicago).

The announcement by Frost came at the annual meeting of the Board of JTA.

Buerger, a graduate of Carnegie-Mellon University, is publisher of The Baltimore Jewish Times and The Jewish News of Detroit. He is a member of the Boards of HIAS and the JNF and is chairman of the media division and the campaign cabinet of the Associated Jewish Charities and Welfare Fund of Greater Baltimore.

Goren is a vice president of the Jewish Federation Council and trustee of the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Los Angeles. She is a member of the Boards of HIAS, Council of Jewish Federations and the United Jewish Appeal.

Gralla is executive vice president of Gralla Publications, which publishes 19 national business magazines. He serves on the boards of the United Jewish Appeal and the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of Greater New York, The New York Jewish Week, and The Bergen Jewish News.

Halperin, a graduate of Dalhousie University and the McGill University Law School, is a Justice of the Superior Court of the Province of Quebec. He is a vice president of the Council of Jewish Federations, a delegate to the National Budgeting Conference of Canadian Jewry and a past president of Allied Jewish Community Services of Montreal.

Jackier, a graduate of the University of Michigan and the Yale Law School, is a partner in the law firm of Schlussel, Lifton, Simon, Rands, Kaufman, Galvin and Jackier of Southfield, Mich. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit, vice president of the Detroit Jewish Community Center, a trustee of the United Jewish Appeal, and a member of the Executive Committees of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry and the Holocaust Memorial Center.

Judkowski, a journalist, is editor-in-chief of Yedioth Achronoth, the largest circulation daily newspaper in Israel. Born in Warsaw, he emigrated to Israel in 1945 and studied philosophy, French culture and international relations at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Levy, a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and Rockhurst College, is vice president of marketing for Eagle Lithography of Kansas City. She is chairwoman of the Kansas City Jewish Federation Women’s Division Campaign and Vice President of the Federation. A past chairwoman of UJA Young Women’s Leadership Cabinet, Levy is currently a member of UJA’s Region 6 Cabinet, a member of the Board of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and is active in numerous local community activities.

Margolius, a graduate of the American University in psychology, is vice president for budget and planning of UJA-Federation of Greater Washington. She is a member of the steering committee of the Council of Jewish Federations, a delegate to the Large City Budgeting Conference, a member of the executive committee of AIPAC and is active in numerous Washington area civic and community groups.

Ritzenberg is publisher and editor of The New York Jewish Week. He was Fulbright scholar in graphic arts and journalism at the Free University of Berlin following his graduation from Western Reserve University. A veteran of more than 30 years of daily newspaper journalism, he was assistant managing editor of The New York Daily News, assistant city editor at The New York World Telegram and Sun and features editor at The World Journal Tribune.

Sutker holds a Master’s Degree in Social Service Administration from the University of Chicago. She is the immediate past national president of Na’amat USA (formerly Pioneer Women/Na’amat), a member of the Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency, and the Executive of the World Zionist Organization-American Section. She serves on the Boards of Directors of UJA, UIA, JNF, AIPAC, AZF and the National Committee for Labor Israel.