Louis P. Rocker, president of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, in a New Year’s message today, described the past year as “in many respects, the most encouraging one in the past two decades.” He pointed out that Israel had demonstrated it was “heroically and successfully struggling with its multiple problems” and that the American Jewish community had shown “a profound awareness of its moral and financial responsibility to Israel while by no means neglecting its own vineyard.”
Mr. Rocker expressed pride in the fact that JTA during the past year had “played a prodigious role in linking the two greatest Jewish communities in the world today” and in presenting Jewish developments elsewhere in their full significance to the Jewish people throughout the world.
Mr. Rocker expressed appreciation to the communities, organizations and individuals which, by continued support of the JTA had enabled it to render significant service to the Jewish community. He declared, however, that increased support must be forthcoming if the JTA is to be able to perform on the most effective level as “the eyes and ears of the Jewish people.”
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