Beginnings
We're still sorting out the sundry problems associated with our absorption of the subscribers of Jewish Living magazine. There are days when we feel like a minnow that has swallowed a whale, and is...
...But it is terribly difficult to avoid the conclusion that the fact that their victims (there is no question that they did the shooting, only whether the shooting qualified as murder) were "outside agitators" tipped the scales in their favor...
...I hope you'll agree...
...The recent decision by Labor to adopt the so-called "Jordainian solution" as its platform has made this possible, and the intensive negotiations which Mr...
...In the better-known, the American delegation to the Helsinki review conference is fighting an auspicious battle on behalf of human rights...
...And this year and/or next, happy Chanukah...
...We're delighted to be reaching so many more people, and we are still more delighted at the enthusiastic reaction to moment so many of our new readers have shared with us...
...Specifically, it is insisting that the full range of Soviet violations of the Helsinki agreement be amply discussed at the conference...
...Early reports hint that Willie Brandt and Bruno Kreisky may have been persuaded by the Israel Labor Party delegation—Shimon Peres and Shlomo Hillel in particular—to issue a call to th...
...Yes, today is November 17, the day when the jury considering the matter of six men accused of murder in Greensboro, North Carolina, a case described in considerable detail in our last issue by Mark Pinsky, declared the accused innocent...
...And it will demonstrate, quite clearly, that an imaginative and progressive statement of Israeli principle is productive...
...Peres in particular has been pursuing for many months now may have translated the possibility into reality...
...Our magazine is typically mailed on the last Friday of the month preceding the cover month...
...Today—November 17—a friend in New York called to report that his copy had just arrived...
...It will place the onus for progress where it properly belongs, on the Arab parties to the conflict...
...When we miss, it's by a couple of days at most...
...I bother to say this not to evoke your sympathy...
...Our next issue is January/February—into the mails in mid-January...
...Jordanians and the Palestinians to join the peace process...
...The USPS (United States Postal Service) is a more enduring problem, I fear...
...The jury considered the matter for seven days, and our fear is that its verdict amounts to a license to kill—so long as your target is unpopular...
...Happy birthday to us, and to all of you who have been with us since the beginning...
...If so, the event will be of major importance, however the Arab parties choose to respond...
...As we write, two major events are unfolding in Madrid...
...One element of the "problem," however, involves old-time moment readers who were also subscribers to Jewish Living...
...Phew...
...Typically, the one will be in the husband's name and the other in the wife's, or there will be some other difference that will not pair the two subscriptions...
...If you've still got a long way to go on both subscriptions, or for some other reason want to clear the problem up, drop a note to our circulation department with the information from both mailing labels, and they'll handle it expeditiously...
...A number of our friends (and readers) are delegates to Madrid, and we hope to share their experiences with our readers once the meetings are over...
...Thus, for example, the November issue was dropped in the mail on November 3. The magazine is mailed from the Boston area...
...about it...
...We have discussed this matter with the postal people, but I am not confident that our service will improve—especially with this issue, which must compete with the heavy volume of holiday mail...
...It will mark at least an interruption, and perhaps even a halt, to the steady erosion of West European support for Israel's cause...
...Most of the overlap has been cleared, and is no longer a problem, for us or for you...
...There are days when we feel like a minnow that has swallowed a whale, and is suffering from a bad case of indigestion...
...At the same time, the Socialist International is meeting...
...We are hundreds of miles away from the courtroom, and the presumption of innocence which is the due of anyone accused of a crime in this country applies to these six, members of the KKK and the American Nazi Party, not less than to the noblest of their fellows...
...And oh, yes: This is Volume 6, Number 1. Fifty issues later, we're still not able to be blas...
...If that's your situation, and if one of the subscriptions will soon expire, the simplest thing to do is to find a worthy soul onto whom to pass your second copy, and let it go...
...If we arrive after Chanukah has departed, please accept our best wishes for the holiday retroactively—or, if you prefer, and just to be safe, in advance of next Chanukah...
...But some of you out there are receiving two copies of moment, because the computer did not recognize that your moment subscription and your JL subscription were to the same person...
...That and the March issue are shaping up into two of my all-time favorites...
...I shudder to think when our California subscribers will be receiving their copies...
Vol. 6 • December 1980 • No. 1
