Beginnings

I will spare you my thoughts political, which are as chilling as this winter's been. Perhaps they'll thaw with spring's arrival. I'll wait to see. And in the meantime, I'll use this space for...

...Chaim Potok is, of course, a familiar—and distinguished—name...
...More than most magazines, we depend on such means of introduction, since we simply cannot afford to flood the mails with our promotion literature...
...2. As also to note Chaim Potok's report from Yamit...
...Once Purim comes, Pesach's near at hand, with all its promise...
...I think of Secretary Weinberger (you didn't really think I'd not say anything political, did you...
...3. And lots more, as always...
...If you haven't yet seen The Big Book of Jewish Humor, by Bill Novak and Moshe Waldoks, do yourself a favor, and buy it...
...You can help...
...Weinberger's distressing activities are done...
...Depend on it...
...Well, Pesach is coming...
...It's available in most bookstores, and it's well worth owning...
...In just a few weeks, we're going to be starting some rather intense promotion activities, with the end in view of doubling moment's circulation...
...And just right for the Pu-rim season, for the month of Adar, a happy time...
...And be happy...
...Celebrating freedom, and defending it, in ways more sensible than his, and more certain...
...A surprisingly large percentage of our readers started with us as gift recipients...
...Yes, a happy time...
...There's an order form later in these pages, or just use our toll-free number—800-225-7626—to call and place your gift order...
...I don't always agree with Aaron, but I always find his articles enlightening, among the best-informed and most careful reporting on matters of concern to us...
...It's a delight to welcome him as a regular contributor...
...His analyses of current political issues have appeared in these pages with increasing frequency, and will henceforward appear regularly...
...Welcome, as well, therefore to Lori Lefkovitz, whose fiction I commend to your attention...
...And in the meantime, I'll use this space for gladder things...
...A terrific antidote to the daily newspapers...
...it really is...
...But not enough letters...
...C'mon out there...
...it's Adar...
...But one of moment's functions is to provide a setting for new and still unknown writers...
...peddling weapons around the world, imploring others to buy them, merchandising death in the name of this great nation, and then I remember that we will be celebrating freedom soon again, and forever, long after Mr...
...I've said it before, I know, but I am regularly impressed with the wisdom of those who planned our calendar, who insured that we'd have moments of ritual respite to relieve the unscheduled follies we are forced to witness...
...Israel's withdrawal from Yamit next month will be a difficult step for that beleaguered nation to take, and Potok sensitively tells why...
...Such as: 1. Aaron Rosenbaum has joined our masthead as a Contributing Editor...
...Wouldn't moment make a nice gift to bring to the seder you're attending...

Vol. 7 • March 1982 • No. 3


 
Developed by
Kanda Sofware
  Kanda Software, Inc.