Beginnings
No senior Israeli is better known to American Jews—or knows them better—than Abba Eban. And none, of course, so ably combines wisdom and eloquence in his words, written as well as spoken....
...Its focus is not especially political...
...In February of this year, Dr...
...8-9 tells how...
...Think of them, instead, as moment-giving opportunities...
...Our interview with Dr...
...His views on Orthodoxy, on the Holocaust, on the implications of Jewish religious commitment, as well as on matters strictly political, are a significant contribution to Jewish debate in our time...
...thereafter, a regular column, prepared exclusively for moment and its readers...
...The letters which we print are only a fraction of those we received...
...So this is an especially good time to get your friends, neighbors, loved ones, colleagues, started with the moment habit...
...Jokobovits had spoken his mind in opposition to the conventional wisdom...
...Ashamnu (or mea culpa...
...Candidates, anybody...
...And note that we are planning a price increase sometime this summer...
...And another: Darrell D. Friedman, who is being watched in the 1980's, should be watched where he now is...
...Speaking of errors, we neglected, last month, to identify Susan C. Lilly, co-translator of Yitzhak Ben Ner's story, "Eighteen Months," as an artist who lives in Austin, Texas...
...It's May...
...In our next issue, a full-scale interview...
...Eban will appear regularly in our pages, commenting on a wide range of issues which concern us all...
...Immanuel Jakobovits, Chief Rabbi of England, became embroiled in an international political controversy when, during the course of an interview with Israeli journalists, he sharply criticized the policies of the Begin government...
...Our ad on pp...
...Indeed, he is one of the more prolific writers and speakers, and certainly among the most challenging, in Jewish life today...
...As a Contributing Editor to this magazine, Mr...
...Don't think of these as happy occasions...
...Accordingly, it is with great pride that we welcome Mr...
...Both the propriety and the substance of his remarks were widely challenged in England, in Israel, and in the United States...
...which is at the Council of Jewish Federations in New York, where he serves as Associate Executive Vice President...
...There are some good reasons for our list having turned out the way it did (many people who hope to have an impact on Jewish life in this country are drawn to New York, where much of the Jewish action is), but there are not enough good reasons...
...The list we presented was unbalanced, and we hope, in the not-too-distant future, to do a sequel...
...In our letters column this month, a number of readers criticize our selection of people included in March's "Some Jews to Watch in the 1980s...
...This was not the first time that Dr...
...Do it now, and they'll get our June issue, which promises to be a smash...
...Graduation time, soon Fathers' and Mothers' Day, confirmation, weddings, much more...
...Eban to moment's masthead— and pages...
...And good wishes from all of us for the diverse simchas upcoming...
...We are pleased to print both...
...Jokobovits, which appears later in these pages, was conducted in March...
...By and large, the critics are upset not by the people we included, but by those we excluded—most of all, by the dearth of people from the Midwest and the Sunbelt states...
...most of it deals with Anglo-Jewry, to which a more general introduction is provided by Ellen Frankel in a companion article...
Vol. 5 • May 1980 • No. 5
