Letters
To the Editor: The fad for Roots is all very well and certainly should be a part of remembering the past. Jane Salodof's exploration of current Jewish home genealogical projects is fascinating but...
...MOMENT 3. Frequency of Issue: Monthly except January-February and July-August, when bi-monthly...
...There are various lessons to be drawn: the young should take a communicative interest in learning from parents and grandparents, and vice versa...
...And yes, we are witnessing the creation of a generation of Israelis to whom the vision of building a Jewish society in the context of a modern state is at best foreign...
...2) Mail Subscriptions-Average No Copies Each Issue During Preceding 12 Months, 16,631...
...Alex Haley's book and the subsequent TV show should not be mistaken for high historical research, nor are they the beginning or the end even of the trend as it has recently surfaced...
...But finally, I think, and I articulate this with reservations, I understand what he was trying to say...
...2) Returns from News Agents...
...06515, Richard Harman, 146 Central Park West, New York...
...Thanks for the most interesting and provocative magazine ever...
...E. Total Distribution: Average No Copies Each Issue During Preceding 12 Months, 20,231...
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...Our group plans a cooperative settlement, on the model of the moshav shitufi, based on three principles: 1. the mitz-vah of "yishuv Erets Yisrael;''' 2. education, living up to the best models of open, creative education which we have seen in America...
...Single Issue Nearest to Filing Date, 2,000...
...Single Issue Nearest to Filing Date, 16,104...
...Avishai is driven to suggest the burial of the Zionist vision, which should be the productive encounter of Am Yisrael with modernity, taking place on the fertile ground of Erets Yisrael...
...Barbara L. Cullen Newton Centre, Massachusetts Dear moment, You are the greatest...
...8. Known Bondholders, Mortgages, and Other Security Holders Owning or Holding 1 % or More of Total Amount of Bonds, Mortgages, or Other Securities: Continuity, Inc., 55 Chapel St., Newton, Mass...
...Yes, Israel is a reality, although an eminently malleable one, and as such has a status quo to be defended...
...Newton, Massachusetts 02160...
...Managing Editor: Carol Kur, 55 Chapel Street, Newton, Mass 02160...
...Average No...
...Copies During Preceding 12 Months...
...Single Issue Nearest to Filing Date, 22,440...
...4. Location of Known Office of Publication...
...We are a group of American graduate students, all olim of the present or of the near future...
...Editor: Leonard Fein, 55 Chapel Street, Newton, Mass 02160...
...Single Issue Nearest to Filing Date: 1,800...
...Studs Terkel's oral histories and Robert Coles' intensive psychohistorical interview projects are two of many related phenomena...
...Right now I am a very committed (not religious committed) Jew, who intends to stay that way...
...55 Chapel Street, Newton, Massachusetts 02160...
...Leonard Fein, 55 Chapel Street, Newton, Mass...
...Yes, fortunately and unfortunately, Israel is no longer the physical refuge for Jews...
...Our gratitude and thanks go out to Rabbi Gellman for creating such charming and compelling contemporaneous stories from our ancient heritage and to moment for publishing them, moment thus becomes a magazine for all seasons, for the entire family...
...Furthermore, our son doesn't stop with one reading of the current midrash...
...of Copies Each Issue During Preceding 12 Months, 23,370...
...Extent and Nature of Circulation A. Total No...
...3. Jewish pluralism, that a group of religious Israelis can affirm the legitimacy of a variety of interpretations of halachah, and bring that affirmation to the attention of the society at large...
...If I am correct in thinking that somewhere amidst all of the offensive, contradictory, and counterproductive rhetoric there is a thesis opposing Gush Emunim ideology, then I suppose that Mr...
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...MOMENT Magazine Associates (a partnership), 55 Chapel Street, Newton, Mass 02160, Harold Goldsmith, 1220 E Joppa Road, Towson, MD...
...6. Publisher...
...Avishai and I are in basic agreement...
...I certify that the statements made by me are correct and complete...
...Copies During Preceding 12 Months, 23,370...
...We, in the company of other similar groups whom we have met both in Israel and in the U.S., dream and plan for making our aliyah a vehicle for helping to build Israeli society...
...He stacks the issues in front of him and peruses them over and over...
...1,500...
...10023, Dorot, Inc., 55 Chapel St , Newton, Mass...
...Single Issue Nearest to Filing Date, 18,104...
...Single Issue Nearest to Filing Date, 14,304...
...Amy Eilberg New York, New York To the Editor: Ever since our nine-year-old son discovered Marc Gellman's midrashim he has become an avid fan of moment and eagerly awaits each forthcoming issue...
...Average No...
...D. Free Distribution by Mail, Carrier, or other Means: Average No...
...I will graduate high school in 1979, will graduate college in 1983, and sometime after that hope to become a feature writer...
...Single Issue Nearest to Filing Date, 4,136...
...I hope that these efforts will widen and deepen, and not be left in the closet with the disarrayed photo albums and the wreckage of old table-hockey games...
...Soooo . . . please consider this an official job application for late 1983 (1987 if you'll demand a graduate degree...
...21204, Irene Slater, 2 Hammond Pond Parkway, Chestnut Hill, MA 02167, Nathan Mil-ikowsky, 2150 Chapel St., New Haven, Conn 06515, Daniel Mihkowsky, 2150 Chapel St , New Haven, Conn...
...Copies During Preceding 12 Months, 1,000, Single Issue Nearest to Filing Date, 200 G Total...
...If there are lessons to be learned from Jewish history, one of them must be that we cannot be "am kechol hagoyim," a nation like all the others, no matter how hard we try...
...Laurie Simon Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT AND CIRCULATION (Act of August 12, 1970: Section 3685, Title 39, United States Code) 1. Date of Filing: September 30, 1977 2. Title of Publication...
...7 Owner...
...5. Location of the Headquarters or General Business Offices of the Publisher 55 Chapel Street...
...This fact alone might not seem remarkable, but coupled with his previous lack of initiative in reading for pleasure and his disinclination toward matters Jewish, his about-face is heartening...
...For in the process of criticizing it, Mr...
...Jane Salodof's exploration of current Jewish home genealogical projects is fascinating but I think it fails to go deeply enough into the subject...
...But, let us not bury our idealism or our solid, down-to-earth, history-making experiments in building because life is not easy...
...of Copies Printed: Average No...
...Avishai's literary style that I had to read his article, "To Praise Zionism . . . and to Bury It," (October 1977) four times before composing this reply...
...However, I encountered so much distasteful material along the way that I must respond...
...I speak not for myself alone, but as the representative of a special group of people...
...Leonard Fein, Publisher...
...C Total Paid Circulation: Average No Copies Each Issue During Preceding 12 months, 18,731...
...As a graduate student in history, I am happy that it has happened, but sad that such a thing was needed...
...Stephen Birnbaum Los Angeles, California To the Editor: It is no compliment to the broad strokes of Mr...
...Let me examine a single assertion, that "the only activist 'Zionists' of our day turn out to be a group of right-wing fundamentalists whose passion masks their own slipshod understanding of what Zionism once was and what it has achieved...
...21204, Leonard Winglass, 1220 E. Joppa Road, Towson, MD...
...The pursuit of history is a crucial and sometimes personal enterprise, and only a prolonged period of disrespect for intellectual activity could have brought us to the point where Roots studies seem so inspiring...
...F Copies Not Distributed' (1) Office Use, Left-Over, Unaccounted, Spoiled After Printing, Average No...
...Copies Each Issue During Preceding 12 months, 2,139...
...Single Issue Nearest to Filing Date, 22,440 B. Paid Circulation (I) Sales Through Dealers and Carriers, Street Vendors and Counter Sales: Average No Copies Each Issue During Preceding 12 Months: 2,100...
...Perhaps Gush Emunim is even more powerful and more dangerous than I once feared...
...Yes, the term "Zionism" has been overused and misused in the Diaspora, to mean everything from philanthropy to protest to vicarious Judaism...
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Vol. 3 • December 1977 • No. 2
