The American Jewish Press Association Conference

Jul 5, 2026 by

By Susan Rosenbluth – Her novel Blurred Vision is available from Red Adept Publishers and Amazon

The Jewish Link (June 11, 2026) The Jewish Link caught up with longtime Jewish writer and editor of The Jewish Voice And Opinion, Susie Rosenbluth, who shared her feelings about the conference.

“As it has for over 80 years, this past American Jewish Press Association conference proved once again that a Jewish journalist is not simply a Jew who happens to be a journalist—or a journalist who just happens to be Jewish. Rather, the association’s members are media professionals whose work is geared to and about the Jewish community as well as individual Jews.

“Using that definition, I think it’s fair to say we Jewish journalists are the luckiest participants in our profession. Most journalists have to hunt high and low for the all-important opening lines of every article they write. If they don’t grab their audience in the first sentence or two, their readers move on to something else. Jewish journalists, however, know that as long as we’re writing about Jews, our Jewish readers are with us. If something happens—good or bad—to Jews anywhere in the world, we want to know about it. A Jewish triumph in California makes us smile in New Jersey; a Jewish tragedy in Europe leaves us in tears here.

“At the conference, some participants endeavored to make us believe that Jewish anti-Zionists, Jews who support the far-left anti-Israel political crowd, or even those who just think Israel deserves more criticism than any other country, should be afforded the same respect and regard as those who instinctively know—in our hearts and our kishkes—that Israel’s success as a Jewish state embodies all our dreams and fervor for ourselves and our children.

“During the panel discussions, it was instructive to watch the more Jewishly observant members of the AJPA. We paid attention because we realized no segment of the Jewish community can be ignored. However, rather than regard the anti-Zionists as interesting byproducts of the current age, we viewed them as our challenge, those whom we must reach with the only weapons at our disposal—our words—to help them see traditional Jewish values as the best hope for our communal future.”

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