Beginnings
In last month's Alef, I indicated that in this issue I'd have something to say about the Report of the Commission of Inquiry, then just off press. As it turned out, my own article later in these...
...Which wishes you a happy Spring...
...Their gallery is around the comer on Newbury Street, and is worth a stop when you're next in Boston...
...Most often, we'll grant it...
...The down side of modern technology: C'mon, now, it's not nice you should make copies of moment articles— much less reprint them—without asking permission...
...Also, there's a thing called the copyright law, and it prohibits copying without specific permission...
...That focus tended to obscure the Commission's very interesting and very thoughtful consideration of the matter of indirect responsibility as a general question, independent of the specific actors...
...We wish the new President well, and look forward at an appropriate time to an updated interview...
...Very many of our covers have come to us through their generous cooperation, always extended with grace and wisdom...
...But we kind of like to know where our material is being used, and for what...
...Readers who'd like to know more about Israel's new President, Chaim Herzog, may want to dig out of their files our issue of September 1978, where moment interviewed Mr...
...Each in her own way describes an element of the extraordinarily variegated past of American Jewry—as, for that matter, Peter Rozovsky chronicles an element of that present, hardly less variegated...
...As it turned out, my own article later in these pages makes only passing reference to the Report...
...Der Moment was one of the two leading Yiddish dailies of pre-war Warsaw, and then, of course, a victim of the Holocaust...
...Ay, America...
...This issue includes excerpts from two unusual and engrossing memoirs, one by Barbara Probst Solomon, the other by Kim Chernin...
...Among other things, you'll find there Bill Aran's photographs, which you know from these pages, on display...
...By now, the few have become dozens, as far as we can tell from the ads, and there's one, at least, that advertises as a kosher computer camp...
...Please...
...Why not, we thought, extend the custom of naming our offspring after deceased ancestors: Hence, moment...
...Herzog, then retiring as Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations...
...Since the Report, for all the publicity it has generated, has not been widely read, we decided that it would be a service to our readers to reprint a part of it...
...Wanna know how variegated...
...Choosing a section was relatively easy: Most of the fuss about the report dealt with its discussion of the personal responsibility of the various prominent Israeli leaders...
...Yet I suspect that many, many years from now, long after the tragic event and the leaders implicated in it are remembered dimly, if at all, the Report's section on indirect responsibility will be read by all students of Jewish history and ethics...
...Last year, you may recall, a few summer camps around the country announced that they were offering full programs in computers...
...It's nice to have them as neighbors, and a blessing to count them as friends...
...Looking at them in the aggregate, we realize the debt we—and our readers— owe to Bernie and Sue Pucker, of Boston's Pucker/Safrai Gallery...
...Recently, we had the covers of every issue of moment framed, and they now decorate our office walls...
...Now and again, as our circulation rolls increase, it's worth recalling, for the benefit of our new readers, the origins of our name...
Vol. 8 • April 1983 • No. 4
