IN A MOMENT
IN A MOMENT Freedom of the press is wonderful— provided you own a press. They're very expensive these days. Unfortunately, there's a big difference between having your say in a daily newspaper, on...
...p. 42...
...Was it all planned...
...Was anti-Semitism behind the excessive sentence...
...p. 20...
...The Post's influence on the man and woman in the rechov, as well as on governments and opinion-makers around the world, is enormous...
...Charles Hoffman focuses on some of the obstacles ("Are Soviet Jews Hungry for their Heritage...
...A different perspective is seen by Judith Colp and Charlotte Anker ("A Dissenting View," p. 45), who report greater interest on the part of Soviet Jews in their past...
...To learn how to get help, see the box on p. 53...
...Either way, it's delightful reading and the pictures tell a story of their own...
...p. 36) Because she feels so deeply about the need to face the problem of child sexual abuse in the Jewish community, Sharon Lowen-stein is writing in her own name for the first time...
...Can a meaningful Jewish culture be reconstituted in the Soviet Union...
...These questions and an account of how it happened are explored in Jay Bushinsky's engrossing story ("The Jerusalem Post: Transformation or Disintegration...
...Inevitably, millions of Jews will remain behind...
...Media Focus should help meet that need...
...Unfortunately, there's a big difference between having your say in a daily newspaper, on the one hand, and making a speech in Liberty Park outside of Jerusalem's Old City walls, on the other...
...None of us can keep up with all that's said by, about and of interest to Jews in hundreds of magazines and newspapers around the world...
...Anne Pollard has been released to a half-way house...
...If you have suggestions for this new department, please send them to us...
...These are some of the lessons the editors—now former editors—and staff—many also now former staff—of The Jerusalem Post are learning to their sorrow...
...Should we be bothered...
...Of course the story of the year is the large numbers of Jews who are being permitted to leave the Soviet Union...
...Free Pollard: A Cause for American Jews...
...Is this influence for sale to the highest bidder...
...But are these the Jews who will emigrate, leaving behind a Jewish cultural desert once again...
...Should—or can—American Jews do anything to correct this injustice...
...Her story ("Confronting Sexual Abuse in Jewish Families," p. 48) may well help others...
...Yehuda Levy, who ran a travel agency before becoming president and publisher of the Post, may have a great future before him in journalism, but he'll never earn a living in the diplomatic corps...
...Her husband Jonathan remains in jail, serving a life sentence...
...Whatever subtleties inevitably complicate the relationship between publisher and editor, Levy's heavy-footed performance had all the delicacy of an African elephant in a pas de deux...
...government's effort to have the judge impose a heavy sentence on Pollard...
...they own over 200 of them...
...In a companion piece ("Rabbis Can Help by Speaking Out," p. 49), Rabbi Irving "Yitz" Greenberg calls on fellow rabbis to speak up...
...On the lighter side, Martha N. Mendelsohn, a regular at Grossinger's Passover festivities for 15 years, evokes the flavor of the Borscht Belt ("Grossinger's On My Mind," p. 26...
...Wolf Blitzer, whose book about the Pollard case did much to bring it to public attention, explores these issues and confesses that he himself was used in the U.S...
...Besides adding three more columnists who will appear regularly in every other issue, we are introducing another new department, Media Focus, to report on articles and opinions of special interest from the secular press...
...He who pays the piper (or the printer) calls the tune," says the old adage—and the new owners of The Jerusalem Post didn't like the left-leaning song they had been hearing...
...We know that the group that put Levy in power grossly overpaid for the Post and they're experts at evaluating newspapers...
...Her memories of the heyday of Grossinger's will warm your heart or make you glad we've grown up...
...Yet we all like to be informed...
...She herself went through it, and she also went through the long process of recovery...
...The Pollard case continues to bother us...
...But there's another equally important aspect of glasnost...
Vol. 15 • April 1990 • No. 2
