Beginnings
It's almost over, and good riddance, I say; I shan't miss the summer of '81. The baseball strike, the air traffic controllers' strike, the dazzling defeat of the House Democrats and the gathering...
...Reagan's genial demeanor...
...And then, the real source of pride, the translation—for the first time, so far as I am aware—of a piece of Janusz Korczak's major children's book...
...The baseball strike, the air traffic controllers' strike, the dazzling defeat of the House Democrats and the gathering momentum of Ronald Reagan's velvet bulldozer, Israeli bombs and ballots, and, of course, the Mediterranean fruit fly...
...Favorite" and "Holocaust" don't sit well together, I know...
...Altogether, too much going on...
...If we wonder where all the American anger has gone, there is no need to search for anger in the Holy Land...
...So, too, Mr...
...Speaking of apples, a new year approaches, and three of our articles this month offer enriching perspectives on our annual season of renewal...
...If, as some scholars have suggested, we are living in the "postmodern era," we're really in trouble, for the controversy regarding who is a Jew suggests that we have yet to resolve the tensions arising out of Judaism's confrontation with modernity...
...Massive social change is under way, yet the body politic is soothed by Mr...
...Arthur Waskow examines it from the outside in, placing it in the context of the cycle of Jewish holidays...
...Re Reagan, my favorite observation comes from one of our favorite subscribers, Congressman Barney Frank...
...The truly astonishing part of the Reagan story (so far, anyway) is that no one seems very angry at the President...
...system overload...
...Among the matters about which Israelis are these days contending there is the curious issue of "Who is a Jew...
...Reagan's "kitchen cabinet" and director of the International Communications Agency, defending the lavish life-style of many of the President chief aides: "During the Depression, when people were selling apples and factories were still and guys were jumping out of windows because they lost everything, people would go to the movies...
...May all this help enrich the season, and may the season help enrich the year...
...I am happy that we can here call attention to one aspect of the luminous life that preceded that day...
...Korczak's name remains unfamiliar to most American Jews...
...those who do know of him most often know only of his last day...
...And Edda Servi Machlin, in a piece excerpted from her forthcoming book, tells us something of the attendant folkways of one now-vanished Jewish community, as also of its foodways...
...Remarking on the impact of the budget cuts on the lives of the American people, Frank suggests that the Reagan team evidently thinks that life begins at conception—and ends at birth...
...Remarks which in other administrations would have ired the nation now pass unnoticed...
...Is there a Nordic fruit fly...
...may we all be inscribed for a year of health, of joy, of growth, and, we fervently pray, of peace...
...I know I shouldn't do this, but I can't resist: My own favorite in this issue is the section on the Holocaust...
...Wick argued, economically squeezed Americans today enjoy the vicarious thrill they derive from watching the luxurious ways of the Reagan administration...
...Example...
...Our contribution to clarifying the issue, if not the answer, takes the form of three conversations with leading figures in the American Jewish religious community—Rabbis Alexander Schindler, Gerson Cohen, arid Levi Horowitz...
...Rabbi Harold Schiilweis examines Rbsh Hashanah from the inside out, deriving its meaning from its texts...
...Take the comments the other day of Charles Z. Wick, a member of Mr...
...They loved those glamour pictures showing people driving beautiful cars and women in beautiful gowns, showing that people were living the glamorous good life...
...No comment...
...Yet Samuel Pisar's article is so full of wisdom, and Yossi Klein's so full of beauty, that I think the juxtaposition warranted...
Vol. 6 • September 1981 • No. 8
