SPECIAL THANKS To all my wonderful friends and relatives for all your gifts and cards durng my recent hospitalization. A special thank you to my wonderful hus- band Howard, my parents, in-laws and all my neighbors in Woodland Trails Sub. YOU ARE ALL THE GREATEST! LOVE, DEBBIE SILVERMAN NOTEBOOK I FALL FASHIONS HAVE ARRIVED Complaisant 855-6566 ORCHARD LAKE & 14 AT HUNTER'S SQUARE or less SPRING & SUMMER =_. SHOE SALE *All Sales Final, While Quantities Last *All Previous Sales Excluded / f it. I gf100,- dytkihig.aeat Orchard Place Center (Next to Gaynors) 30919 Orchard Lake Rd. Farmington Hills • 855-8355 44 FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1987 S 1. A Harvard Row Mall 21712 West 11 Mile Rd. Southfield • 352-8888 Journalism Continued from Preceding page viewer how he once sup- pressed a story on the escape of some Jews from the Soviet Union because disclosure would have closed the escape route. He killed the story, the only time, he said, that his Jewishness interfered with his journalistic instincts. But I am sure he would have done the same thing if it had been Ukrainians, not Jews. The Pollard spy case troubled Dan, as it did so many of us, but he finally came to terms with it, he told the inter- viewer, by concluding that you don't have to make the choice between being a Jew and being an American. Since Civil War days, Jews have been prominent in American journalism. Some of them were proudly Jewish. Herbert Bayard Swope, the great editor, was intimately associated with the JTA. Louis Lipsky, drama critic of a New York daily, was presi- dent of the Zionist Organiza- tion of America. Ben Hecht, the brilliant columnist of The Chicago Daily News in its heyday, raised funds for the underground Irgun Zvai Leumi. Some of the nation's leading journalists were Jewish by accident of birth only. Some, like the great Walter Lippmann and Arthur Krock of The New York Times, tried to dissociate themselves completely from all things Jewish. Not a few of today's Jewish media stars have never been able to come to terms with their Jewish- ness; they are so anxious not to be identified as Jews that they ignore all things Jewish and tend to prove their "ob- jectivity" by being hyper- critical of Israel. In the era when Dan Schorr and I were breaking into the craft, news of Jewish concern rarely appeared in the general press or, if it did, in brief, garbled form. Pogroms in Poland, discriminatory anti- Jewish legislation, even the birth of the Nazi movement, did not rate high as news. Those were parochial "Jewish news" items which belonged in the Jewish press. Hymie Schoenstein, the legendary Hearst editor, once told me he wanted to carry more Jewish news and asked whether JTA couldn't supply stories from Poland "like those in the Yiddish papers." He gave me a clip, a tear- jerking story about a bride abandoned at the chupah, to show what he wanted. That was about par for Jewish news in the general press. Today, what we used to call "Jewish news" is, by and large, general news and news from and about Israel com- petes for the front page of all our major newspapers and time on the six o'clock news. And the Jews have learned that as part of the world, they are not exempt from the ef- fects of the developments that make up the world news budget. In this shrinking world, there is hardly a development anywhere of any nature that does not impinge on the Jew as it does on his neighbors. The nuclear bomb has erased distinctions of race, religion and class; we are all equally threatened. The "Jewish jour- nalist" — the one who mans the Jewish press — therefore, in addition to being schooled in the special problems and concerns of the Jewish com- munity, must be as well- informed and understanding of world trends as "the Jew in journalism" working in the general media. ❑ immmil NEWS I"""•••• Israeli Tests Upset USSR Jerusalem (JTA) — Israeli officials reacted calmly to Soviet threats last week regarding Israel's reported testing of intermediate-range ballistic missiles that could be fitted with nuclear warheads. A report in the Geneva- based International Defense Review, which claimed Israel had successfully tested the Jericho 2 missile in a 500-mile range, prompted the Soviet threats. Radio Moscow, in a Hebrew-language broad- cast, said development of the Jericho 2 amounted to a pro- vocation against the Soviet Union. "Israel has thus turned itself into part of the nuclear confrontation between the powers," the broadcast said. The Soviets also warned that Israel would not enjoy a monopoly on deploying nuclear weapons in the area and would eventually pay the price for the development. The missiles could potential- ly reach Soviet targets in the Black Sea. Israeli leaders puzzled over the apparent duality of Soviet policy towards Israel, noting that the threats came at a time when Soviet-Israeli rela- tions seemed to be thawing out. An increase in Soviet Jewish emigration, the release of Jewish political prisoners and the visit of a Soviet consular delegation to Israel this month all pointed to a warming of relations.