The Jewish Telegraphic Agency’s summer intern program has begun its 12th year, it was announced today by Martin Fox, president of the JTA. Special grants by JTA Board members have made possible continuation of the program which provides on-the-job training for young people interested in Jewish journalism. Fox said.
This year’s intern is Judith Kohn, a former assistant to the press attache at the Israel Consulate General in New York. Kohn, 24, received a B.A. degree in history and Hebrew studies from the State University of New York at Binghamton. She completed a year of her undergraduate work at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
A graduate student of Arabic studies at New York University, she hopes to spend next year in Cairo perfecting her language skills and reporting for Jewish publications in the United States.
Kohn said she applied for the internship with the JTA because “having monitored the American news media for two years from the Press Office at the Israeli Consulate, I am now looking to apply my academic interest in Mideast politics and my personal interest in Jewish community life and in Israel, to the field of Journalism itself.”
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