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Prestigious Blackstone Award
I Presented to Abe Herman
Abe Herman, one of the
nation’s top legal experts on
communications and libel
law, was presented the
Tarrant County Bar Asso-
ciaton’s highest honor, their
Blackstone Award, at Shady
Oaks Country Club Tuesday
night.
Herman, who recently had
been hospitalized, received
the award because he was
considered by his peers to
have followed in the tradi-
tions combining integrity
and courage which were
exemplifed by the noted
18th century jurist and
scholar for whom the award
was named.
Herman recalls selling
newspapers at the age of
five on downtown Fort
Worth streets following the
death of his father an
immigrant from Russia.
By the time he was 10 he
was operating a candy stand
by himself at the old
Majestic theatre on Com-
merce Street.
Soon he graduated to
Gilbert’s Department Store,
while attending Junior High
School. He cleaned the store
and sold clothing when not
busy with the janitorial
duties.
Undaunted, Herman
entered the University of
Texas in 1922 where he
distinguished himself. He
earned his law degree from
the University of Texas Law
School in 1927.
He worked as an associate
attorney for the firm of
Phillips and Brown. When
the late Jesse Brown,
partner in the firm and
former county judge and
district attorney, was asked
to join Sidney Samuels,
attorney for the late Amon
Carter, Brown said he would
if he could bring Herman
into the firm.
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the Service to Journalism
Award from Sigma Delta
Chi, professional journalism
fraternity.
Herman, a former presi-
dent of the Fort Worth
Jewish Federation, has serv-
ed as a director of the Texas
College of Osteopathic Med-
icine (advisory), St. Joseph
Hospital, and Harris Hospit-
al (associate). He was
formerly president of Fort
Worth Children’s Hospital
and is a former director of
This began Herman’s long
association with the Star-
Telegram and started him
on a legal communications
career which made him
nationally known. He has
written extensively on com-
munications and libel law.
His expertise was pro-
found. In 1940 he was one of
a legal trio who represented
the American Newspapers
Publishers Association when
the Federal government
tried to divest radio from
newspaper ownership.
In his long libel defense of
the Star-Telegram covering
nearly half a century he lost
only one suit.
In the months of negotia-
tions when the Star-Tele-
gram was sold by Carter
Publications to Capital
Cities Communications Inc.
and WBAP-Am-FM-TV was
sold to Lin Broadcasting
Corp., Herman was the chief
Orthodox
Continued from page 1
In the issue of Tradition,
21 leaders of American
Orthodoxy commented on
the basic challenges facing
Orthodoxy, its relation to
rightwing Orthodoxy, and
its greatest achievements
and failures.
There is widespread agree-
ment that Conservative and
Reform Judaism will not
disappear soon and several
of the participants shared
Rabbi Angel’s view that any
such disappearance would
be bad for all Jews.
Rabbi Robert Hirt, dean
of the communal services
division of Yeshiva Univer
sity, asserted that “the use
of code words and public
denigration of non-Orthodox
movements lead us to a
heightened polarization
which discourages open,
searching, non-Orthodox
Jews from identifying with
Orthodox institutions.”
He said Orthodox leaders
“would do better to project
educational and lifestyle
strengths rather than broad-
cast triumphalist broad-
sides.”
neuj
citizen
First National Bank of Fort
Worth and served as vice-
chairman of the Tarrant
County Chapter of the
National Conference of
Christians and Jews.
He and his wife, the
former Sarah Forman, of
Vernon, were married in
1933. The Hermans reside at
3308 Tanglewood Trail.
They have two children,
Morton, president of Con-
gregation Ahavath Sholom,
who is an attorney in the
same firm as his father:
Brown, Herman, Scott,
Dean and Miles, and Donald
who is in the food business.
There was widespread
agreement among the par-
ticipants that the network of
Hebrew day schools in the
United States and Canada is
Orthodoxy’s main achieve-
ment. One of the failures
listed is the low pay scales in
many of those schools which
makes it hard to attract
talented teachers.
Sir Immanuel Jakobovitz,
chief rabbi of the British
Commonwealth, said “Orth-
odoxy’s greatest failures are
to be found in its fragmen-
tation and consequent impo-
tence as a cohesive force to
match and overtake the
communal effectiveness of
the non-Orthodox.”
The participants cited an
erosion of spirituality and a
decline of rabbinic leader-
ship as among other failures
of Orthodox Judaism.
Israel Consul
David Zohar
At First Mon.
The Honorable David Zo-
har, Israeli Consul, will be
guest speaker at the First
Monday Luncheon meeting
this Monday, April 5, noon,
at Colonial Cafeteria, 1700
Rogers Rd.
Zohar, a career Israeli
Diplomat, will speak on the
Egyptian Israeli Peace
Agreement.
The meeting, open only to
members of the Jewish
Federation, is sponsored by
the Jewish Federation of
Fort Worth and Tarrant
County. Jeff Hochster is
chairman of the First Mon-
day Luncheon Series. There
is no solicitation of funds
whatsoever, emphasized
Hochster, who added that
Federation members are
asked to only buy their lunch
or coffee.
Jewish Owned Firms
On Neo-Nazi Hit List
BY DAVID KANTOR
BONN [JTA] - Security
measures were tightened
around Jewish institutions
throughout West Germany
following the circulation of a
neo-Nazi “hit-list” naming
112 Jewish personalities or
Jewish-owned businesses as
possible targets for terrorist
acts. Most of the targets —
95 — are located in Austria
and the rest in West
Germany.
The list reportedly has
appeared in Vienna, Munich
and Hanau. The Interior
Ministry in Bonn first
learned of it from the
Munich-based Pressedienst
Demokratische Initiative. A
Ministry spokesman said the
authorities had no informa-
tion of their own but were
taking the matter seriously.
According to the Ministry,
the list was originally
appended to an edition of the
Austrian Observer, a neo-
Nazi newspaper owned by
the National Socialist Party
of Austria. It contained five
addresses in Frankfurt and
other cities and in West
Berlin.
Interior Minister Gerhard
Baum was said to be
concerned that West Ger-
man neo-Nazis trained by
the Palestine Liberation
Organization in Lebanon,
would take the list as an
invjtation to start a new
wave of violence. Baum
warned in the Bundestag
several weeks ago that the
PLO was escalating its
activities in West Germany
in cooperation with local
terrorist groups.
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Dr. and Mrs. Gerry
Hoffman announce the birth
of their second daughter,
Elizabeth, on February 28 at
Harris Hospital. She was
welcomed home by her
sister, Emily, age three.
Sharing grandparent hon-
ors are Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Hoffman and Mr. and Mrs.
William Roddy of Waco.
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