Beginnings
I don't know whether the sense of . overload with which the new year came barreling in is a consequence of the calendar (the holidays came very early, in case you didn't notice) or of the news...
...And Congress, too, chose to come along...
...Our travel program, "moment Encounters," is off and running...
...A word of commendation to the Union of American Hebrew Congregations and to the New Jewish Agenda, and also to the American Jewish Congress...
...It strikes us as considerably more sensible, having acknowledged the problems of the old coalition, to try to do something about them than to walk off in a huff...
...They're both spectacular, moving, graceful...
...We're busy looking for office space, since the building we're in is scheduled to be torn down...
...sound investments...
...There are days when the world feels like a pin-ball machine with the tilt sign all lit up...
...As for presence, a word about our approach to magazine-building: We here believe that a good magazine is more than just the sum of its separate parts...
...There's a kind of integrity that connects those parts, and that gives a voice to the whole...
...So much for absence...
...Happy Columbus Day...
...The August 27 March for Peace, Jobs and Freedom in Washington aroused considerable controversy within the Jewish community...
...And here at moment, we're busy adding to the confusion...
...it's enough to feel it, as we do, and hope you will...
...The extraordinary diversity of Jewish life—of problems and of possibilities, of dilemmas and delights—is all here...
...I commend both to you, and assure you that 5744 will be a better year for your having read them...
...For fear that the organizers of the march might permit anti-Israel sentiments to be expressed, most Jewish organizations chose to stay away...
...This issue, I think, illustrates the point...
...We're moving energetically into more active promotion of our circulation...
...I don't know whether the sense of . overload with which the new year came barreling in is a consequence of the calendar (the holidays came very early, in case you didn't notice) or of the news (Begin, the Korean 747 tragedy, Lebanon, etc., etc...
...And so is the thread that connects a theatre in San Francisco to a port on the Mediterranean, a seminary in New York to a yeshiva in Jerusalem to a town in France, and all these to us...
...But the UAHC and Agenda decided—wisely, in our view—to participate, on the grounds that their participation would give them some bargaining power...
...As you turn through "^jpjr in hand, you'll note the absence of«ur newest columnist, Nadav Safran, who joined us in July-August and whose insights into matters Mideastern enlighten us all...
...Two points of calm amid the hecticity: Mark Helprin's A Winter's Tale, and Alice Walker's The Color Purple...
...It's not important to name the thread...
...I'm just back from Israel, trying to sort out the diverse impressions of a visit that was marked by the Begin resignation (purely coincidental...
...It did, and a careful agreement was drawn with the organizers that quite adequately insured a decent respect for Jewish sensibilities...
...Two very different books...
...And, of course, we're doing our editorial thing...
...Fear not: Safran's on vacation, and will return in our November issue...
Vol. 8 • October 1983 • No. 9
