39 • VIDEO TRANSFER.' PURIM CELEBRATION by Phillip Goren Purim Purim we celebrate today. We read the MegIllah though It sounds like a play. We sing and dance with all'our Mends; 'We swing our gregars and make a lot of noise; We clasp with our hands and stamp with our feet; We are Joyful and glad That we ore Jewish. Mordecai, the mon of justice. That was his aim In life. Homan, the wicked man, was the opposite When Esther became the queen A new life for the Jewish people began So raise your glasses with a rchoim up high With gifts and good wishes up to the sky. What happend then Can happen again. It did. TRANSFER YOUR 8 MM, SUPER-8, 16 MM, OR SLIDE FILMS ONTO VIDEO TAPE, BETA, OR VHS FORMAT SAVE 10% L°W VIM THIS PRICB AD. FROM OUR ALREADY beach at Eilat — may be very effective in persuading tourists to savor the pleasures the Jewish State offers but it is not the way to convince most Jews of Israel's vital role in their lives. The new agency is not the first attempt to control the flow of news from Palestine and dominate the new columns of the world Jewish press. Early in the 1930s, the Jewish Agency Executive started its own news agency and spent a few millions on the venture. The Palcor (Palestine Corre- spondence) Agency never made a deep penetration of the Jewish press and was almost a total failure with the general press. Its only accomplishment was to weaken the Jewish Telegraphic Agency which had valuable out- lets in the general press through its contracts with the Associated Press, Reuters and Agence ' France-Presse, and thus reduce the effictiveness of a major voice. One of the first acts of the Is- rael government after the War of Independence was to suspend the Palcor operation. Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett quickly perceived the anomalous posi- tion of competing with,the news agencies and foreign correspon- dents while simultaneously try- ing frantically to secure their goodwill and sympathy for the infant state. There are legitimate news functions that every govern- ment, including the Israeli, should perform. These are, fun- damentally, to provide all possi- ble access to news sources, to ensure freedom to transmit and publish without censorship of any kind except the minimum required for security reasons, and to provide facilities to transmit news from the country speedily and inexpensively. The late Gershon Agron, editor of the Jerusalem Post, and Israel's first de facto Minis- ter of Information, recognized this and in 1949, using the JTA radio' network, supplied Israeli embassies and conslutates throughout the Western world with a daily synopsis of Israeli newspaper editorials and arti- cles. This service also provided the texts of official com- muniques that might not other- wise be available to the press abroad. The Israeli offices, in turn, distributed these sum- maries 'to the press just as the British and German information services do to this day. A service like that from Jerusalem today would be useful ' and free of the propaganda stigma that attaches to an "offi- cial" news agency. A full, honest and free flow of information from Israel, warts and all, is the best propaganda the Jewish State can have. A regular columnist for The Jewish News, Victor Bienstock is a former editor and general manager of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. „.. . . . OFFER EXPIRES APRIL 12, 1 9B6 BEL-CREST PHOTO 6898 ORCHARD LAKE RD. WEST BLOOMFIELD PLAZA 851-5840 UNIQUE! •••••••••••••••••••• • • • • • JOAN'S JEWELS inside Fancy This GIFTS DEVELOP PERSONALITIES OF THEIR OWN WHEN HAND-DECORATED •BY THE ARTISTS AT • SEE OUR FABULOUS COLLECTION * OF COSTUME JEWELRY FOR SPRING AND SUMMER FASHION. 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