The management of WTAF-TV cancelled a telecast of “Les Crane Reports on Jews for Jesus,” which had been scheduled for broadcast last night after widespread protests by Jewish individuals and organizations. Similar protests in New York led to a cancellation of a scheduled showing of the program there over WPIX-TV on March 29.
The program was produced by Beth Shar Shalom, an affiliate of the American Board of Missions to the Jews. Its cancellation here was urged by Allen Rothenberg, executive director of the Philadelphia chapter of the National Jewish Commission on Law and Public Affairs (COLPA) who told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that the planned telecast had been brought to his attention by members of Inter-City Yavneh, an organization of chapters of the Orthodox Jewish students group on five area college campuses.
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