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FORUM moment Leads the Way The idea of sending MOMENT subscriptions to refuseniks is unique, intriguing, and positive social action. At my next Temple board meeting, I will pass to each member a...
...this would be an excellent example for MOMENT to follow, as well...
...The right of the Jews to exercise self-determination and have an independent state doesn't depend on the permission of the Palestinian Arabs, the radical Arab states, the UN or anybody else...
...Congratulations to you on the new look of MOMENT magazine...
...MOMENT truly sets the pace for being Jewish in America and in the world...
...It has continued to increase by another 50 percent during the first half of this year, as compared with the corresponding period in 1986...
...Possibly, you have the answer, suggested in the Notes and News department of the same issue ("What About Japanese Cars...
...Japan's trade with Israel has shown a substantial increase for more than a decade...
...Rabbi Jonathan F. Adland Temple Adath Israel Lexington, Kentucky If you would like to send an airmail subscription to a refusenik please send $49.80 ($18.00 MOMENT subscription, $31.80 airmail postage) to MOMENT, Soviet Subscriptions, 3000 Connecticut Ave...
...Your side howls for a Palestinian state on the West Bank for one reason only: to weaken Israel's defenses today and create a springboard for attempts to harass and ultimately overrun her tomorrow...
...Your publication of this article will help make the concerned readers of MOMENT aware of these issues...
...Koichi Haraguchi Counselor for Public Affairs Embassy of Japan Bookbinder for President Congratulations on your first issue (September 1987...
...Ed.] By the way, I am recruiting subscribers for you by encouraging somet-friends to read my last MOMENT...
...That is why nobody talked about a Palestinian state prior to the Six-Day War: it was redundant when Jordan already occupied the territory in question...
...It is also, no doubt about it, more of a scholarly journal than a folksy ethnic monthly...
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...Nevertheless, the suggested solutions lacked the strength of the rest of the article...
...It is crucial that American Jews become aware of the utterly uncompromising stance of even Israel's "moderate" opponents...
...For it mirrors the Arab policy of the past seventy years, which regarded any Jewish entity except a subservient community of dhimmi as totally unacceptable...
...It has been a venturesome and interesting periodical, and I am sure that under your leadership it will become an even more significant factor in the Jewish community...
...Maybe we could do more than talk, which doesn't seem to impress the Japanese...
...In my view, this article makes the magazine this time...
...Much is known among Japanese of the great scientists, philosophers, musicians, writers and artists of Jewish origin...
...Comments by other Japanese scholars and critics have also appeared in the daily newspapers and weekly and monthly magazines which are highly critical of Uno's, and works of similar ilk...
...But no more on Tante Edith, the apostate...
...It is my conviction that the Japanese will never be misled in their beliefs by such publications as Masami Uno's...
...The 1986 Associated Press stylebook advises that "wheelchair-bound" and any of its demeaning variations are no longer acceptable...
...referred to Leon Klinghoffer as being "wheelchair-bound...
...The Japanese understand boycotts, since the U.S...
...On the Jewish matter too, I would like to emphasize that the Japanese are getting the other side of the story...
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...Tou missed the column called "In a Moment...
...In addition to The Diary of Anne Frank, which Harris pointed out as widely circulated in Japan, more than in any other non-U.S...
...Watching Tante Edith Become Teresa, Blessed Martyr of the Church," September 1987) Esther B. Fmkelstem Laverock, Pennsylvania Should We Boycott Japanese Cars...
...Frieda L Levinsky La Jolla, California A Maximalist Response to Abourezk MOMENT did the right thing in printing the opinions of James Abourezk ("Through Different Eyes," October 1987...
...First of all, I would like to point out that there is considerable and widely shared respect and admiration in Japan for the Jewish people and their achievements...
...At my next Temple board meeting, I will pass to each member a copy of the subscription form and encourage them to set the example...
...Many articles have appeared recently in Jewish publications about Japanese anti-Semitism...
...So while the Palestinian Arabs understandably want that territory as well, it's no great tragedy if they have to express their national identity in the homeland they now have, which is Jordan: 80 percent of historic Palestine and a majority of Palestinian Arabs as residents of it...
...They don't like King Hussein's rule...
...Freedom of the press is a well respected institution in Japan as it is in the U.S., because we believe that in the free market of ideas, truth, justice and decency will ultimately prevail...
...There Dennis Prager notes that we're still driving Japanese cars and using other Japanese products...
...Morton Marcus Miami, Florida The Embassy of Japan Responds The troubling questions raised by " 'The Elders of Zion' in Tokyo" (October 1987) deserve comment...
...country, The Japanese and the Jews, by Isaiah Ben Dasan (believed to be a pseudonym of a Japanese writer, Shi-chihei Yamamoto), a sympathetic and scholarly portrayal of the Jewish people, has been widely read for over a decade...
...He is more capable than any of the candidates now in the arena, judging by his writing...
...The article by Jacob Neusner ("Creators of Worlds: Jewish Imagination and the Arts," October . 1987) on the need for a Jewish endowment for the arts is a strong demonstration of your commitment...
...Zalman Gaibel Chicago, Illinois A Jewish Endowment For the Arts— Who Underwrote the Study...
...New moment, Go For It The new format is interesting, complex and completely different from the MOMENT of the past twelve years...
...Representatives of the Keidanren (Federation of Economic Organizations) and other organizations from Japan reciprocated by visiting Israel in November...
...Charles A. Salkin President Congregation Beth Sholom Dover, Delaware...
...October 1987...
...The range of the anti-Israel actions by the Japanese also was covered brilliantly...
...While this term may elicit the intended emotional response, it is not an appropriate description for an individual who simply requires a wheelchair for mobility...
...The short answer to the central question raised by the piece is this: the Japanese are not anti-Semites...
...Boycotts can be effective...
...Abraham Atik Executive Vice President National Foundation for Jewish Culture "Wheelchair-Bound" No Longer Acceptable Juliana Geran Pilon's article on the PLO in the September 1987 issue ("Should We Allow the PLO in the United States...
...In addition, I think it would be useful to supplement the article's comment on Japan-Israel bilateral and trade relations...
...A full-length book by Masahiro Miyazaki has taken apart Uno's arguments point by point...
...The largest company to ignore the Arab boycott of Israel was itself the subject of a Jewish boycott 50 years ago...
...Our dialogue accomplishes only this: it clarifies the unhappy fact that our conflict is one of those intractable problems that will ultimately be resolved only by some development that no one can now foresee...
...However, none possess the detail, nor describe the extent of the problem, as well as David Harris' " 'The Elders of Zion' in Tokyo— What Should We Do About Japanese Anti-Semitism...
...A non-governmental Israeli economic mission visited Japan in October to explore further possibilities to widen the scope of trade and investment cooperation with Japanese counterparts...
...Hyman Bookbinder's article, "What Presidential Candidates Should say to Jewish Voters," was brilliant...
...Permit me to suggest that the appropriate response for our side would have been a maximalist one along the following lines: Through historical accident, the quarrel between Jew and Arab has centered on only 20 percent of historic Palestine...
...I would like to make it very clear that our government strongly opposes anti-Semitism and any other racial or religious discrimination or prejudice...
...See "MOMENT Magazine Mailed to Refuseniks in the Spirit of Glasnost,"p...
...Since Toyota is the largest seller of Japanese cars in the U.S., we could start by boycotting Toyota...
...Today, it is one of the few companies to sell cars in Israel Possibly that old boycott ultimately resulted in Ford's being a friend of Israel today...
...Last year, the Japanese government sponsored a major event to introduce Japanese culture in Israel, and this year, launched a youth exchange program between the countries...
...What you call the West Bank used to be Judea and Samaria, and evidence of our past presence in that territory turns up with every shovelful of dirt one digs...
...Another interesting and well-written article was Jo Milgrom's "From Moriah to Sinai, From Abraham to Moses, From a Man to a People...
...I wish you much success as MOMENT continues to strive for the enlightenment and dignity of all Jews...
...I miss seeing a paragraph about the authors as in the past issues That is, in my view, a flaw...
...Speaking of the position of the Japanese government, then foreign minister Tadashi Kuranari responded to concerns expressed over this literature by a Diet member by saying the following on the floor of Japan's parliament on September 4: It is undesirable, in my view, that publications such as the ones you just pointed out, which are based on an extremely one-sided point of view, are in wide circulation...
...Your readers should be pleased to know that there is a national organization that is working in this area—with limited resources but with a record of achievement and unlimited dedication to achieving practical results...
...First Mazon, now subscriptions to Soviet Jews...
...and, if the subscriber list is expanding and a scholarly journal is what the people want, go for it...
...Of course, freedom of thought and speech must be guaranteed, but I must say that views, such as the one which attributes various problems, facing Japan to a world-wide Jewish conspiracy, are totally groundless and irresponsible...
...While I very well understand the misgivings expressed in David Harris' article, I would like to make it very' clear that the Japanese government and people are firmly opposed to any form of prejudice or discrimination, whether it be ethnic or religious, and that we are firm in our determination to persist in this opposition...
...boycotted [them by not] selling them scrap [metal] prior to World War II...
...It increased in 1986 by 50 percent over the previous year— both in imports and exports...
...It's an internal Arab quarrel between Bedouin and Palestinian Arabs that doesn't concern the Jews...
...For the Arabs already have 80 percent of it—what do you think the Kingdom of Jordan occupies...
...W., Suite 300, Washington, DC 20008...
...However, your refusal to forth-rightly do so demonstrates the futility of our making any concessions...
...So whether you concede Israel's right to exist in any form is unimportant...
...Such developments were fondly noted when Foreign Minister Kuranari met with Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres in New York this past September There is no question but that our overall bilateral relations are developing steadily, and that they will continue to do so with further efforts on both sides In this connection, I was most encouraged by the positive proposal made by Harris in the article, that more attention be paid to promoting greater understanding between the Japanese and the Jews...
...The editor asks how the reader would have answered Abou-rezk...
...They can exercise that self-determination they talk so much about and put in a government more to their liking...
...We think it is important that your readers know that the National Foundation for Jewish Culture is dedicated to precisely the purposes expressed in Neusner's article, and in fact, we commissioned and underwrote the study from which your story was adapted...
...We are particularly grateful for the serious attention MOMENT is giving to Jewish culture...
Vol. 12 • January 1988 • No. 10
