In A Moment
IN A MOMENT Usually, this space provides an introduction to the issue. This time, however, we will use it to introduce significant changes and, we believe, improvements in MOMENT. The most...
...magazine, is the author of six books, most recently, Among Friends (McGraw-Hill, 1986...
...But we need your help to get from the here-and-now to the there-and-then...
...and other periodicals...
...This emphasizes that we will continually introduce you to new voices—authoritative, seminal, and insightful on an extraordinary range of topics...
...So while we're adding to our deficit in the short term, we're building a more secure base in the long term...
...If so, encourage your rabbi to send us a sampling...
...Meet Our New Columnists Jacob Neusner is a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, Mew Jersey...
...In short, renew your subscription and give all your friends and relatives gift subscriptions...
...Press of America, 1988) and The Enchantments of Judaism: Rites of Transformation from Birth tfirougn Deatn (Basic Books, 1987...
...But we also want the intimacy that comes with regular contact...
...She is currently at work on a memoir about her struggle to reconcile feminism and Judaism...
...We want to become the first self-sustaining Jewish magazine in the history of our people...
...On the contrary, we wanted the widest range of subjects and viewpoints and the broadest range of experts and thinkers to cover the limitless topics of Jewish interest...
...We want to give our readers the chance to welcome regularly into their homes some of the most engaging Jewish commentators...
...The Reason For Anti-semitism (Touchstone, 1985...
...The changes reflect our confidence in—and hope for—the future...
...And do your rabbi's sermons make you sit up and take notice...
...And we will publish guest columnists from time to time...
...And you'll see still more color pictures...
...Other changes: The authors of our articles will be introduced in a separate section (see "Writers' Block...
...We have been pleased with this decision...
...From experience we know that once they get the "MOMENT habit," they'll renew on their own...
...When we succeeded to the helm more than two years ago, we knew we didn't want the customary "regular contributors to...
...In an age of quantification, we're adding MOMENT'S Book of Numbers—Jewish issues probed or summed up by a number...
...We didn't want our coverage of the Jewish scene to be filtered through the same minds all the time...
...If you would like to be a guest columnist, send us your column—800 to 1,000 words...
...Other innovations will be more subtle—we'll be adding more short items, information you can't find elsewhere...
...To understand—perhaps for the first time—Israel's gyrating economy, Pinhas Landau's masterful macro-analysis is where you should begin this issue...
...A New Translation (Yale University Press, 1987...
...You may not like all of them—you probably won't—but you will want to read them...
...Learn what's troubling the world's largest Jewish organization—Hadassah...
...They will stimulate and rile you, comfort you, anger you and make you laugh...
...He lectures on human rights and interreligious affairs, hosts a radio talk show in Southern California, and has written newspaper and magazine articles...
...Our columnists will appear in every other issue...
...In "As the Rabbi Said," we'll publish an array of challenging and provocative thoughts culled from the country's most dynamic rabbis...
...His most recent books include The Mishnah...
...They will deal with politics, history, family and Israel—and whatever else troubles or excites them...
...I'll admit I get some secret satisfaction from Henry Ford's apology—he was what my mother calls "a real unta-semit," with the accent on the last syllable...
...I've used up my allotted space, so I'll let you find your own way through this issue...
...We hope you will get to know them after a while in a personal way...
...We're going to tighten up our editing even more— "without a wasted word" is our motto...
...These changes, however, increase our deficit...
...If you want to read some superior writing, turn to Eva Hoffman's affecting autobiographical portrait of a Jewish girl growing up in post-war Poland, and then emigrating to Canada...
...I think you'll share my satisfaction when you read Leonard Dinnerstein's engrossing account...
...They will be women and men, religious and secular, from the left and right...
...We welcome jiourcontributions to this new feature...
...The most important innovation is the addition of regular columnists...
...These are exciting times at MOMENT...
...Since January 1985 Dennis Prager has been writing and publishing Ultimate Issues, his own quarterly journal on personal, political, and religious issues...
...Together with Joseph Telushkin, he wrote two books, The Nine Questions People Ask About Judaism [Touchstone, 1986) and Why the Jews...
...Letty Cottin Pogrebin, a founding editor of Ms...
...But we have another goal—to reach and engage more Jews—the young and old, the religious and non-religious, and the committed and not-so-committed...
...She lectures widely, contributes to textbooks and anthologies, and has published articles in The New York Times, Newsday, The Nation, as well as Ms...
...see review, January/ February 1989), The Ecology ot Religion (Abingdon, 1989), Struggle for the Jewish Mind: Debates and Disputes on Judaism Then and Now (Univ...
...He is writing a new book, Happiness Is A Serious Problem, to be published in 1991 by Random House...
Vol. 15 • February 1990 • No. 1
