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Jan. 11, 2004
PLEASE READ JWR PUBLISHER'S OPEN-LETTER BELOW
The Creator punishes, men take revenge.   —   Jewish saying

A HEARTFELT LETTER FROM JWR'S PUBLISHER

Dearest readers:

At the outset, I want to thank the thousands of you who have written from around the world to express your obviously heartfelt wishes. To say that I'm touched, would be an understatement. I'm only sorry that I cannot do so personally. It is not intended as a slight in any way.

Cliched or not, from the vantage point of a hospital window, the world does indeed look different. VERY different.

Unfortunately, I now know this first-hand.

Over five years ago, I launched JewishWorldReview.com and told one and all that I would "put my heart" into it — what has resulted may have been more literal than I had imagined.

On the afternoon of Sunday August 17, I was admitted to Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn. It's an institution that enjoys a reputation as having one of the finest cardiac centers in the nation. Without getting into the particulars, after a battery of tests, the problem was diagnosed and a remedy is being worked upon.

Why am I telling you this? For a simple reason: Because I think you care.

Though time and again I have been advised against publicizing this fact, I do not hide that JWR is a one-man-show. I think the quality of my webzine and, particularly, the quality of its readers — including White House staffers, senators, congressmen, syndicated talk show hosts, editorial page editors, Fortune 500 CEOs and just ordinary religious and patriotic Americans — says a lot about who we serve and what we stand for.

But the day to day stress in running JWR may, unfortunately, say a lot more.

In order to keep JWR running smoothly, I'm often up all hours of the day and night. And if this continues, I'm told, JWR will cease to exist, BECAUSE I WILL.

What we need now is to get sufficient funding for a staff and a technology upgrade. At this moment, every JWR page is designed by hand. We need to purchase and customize a database similar to "Story Server" in addition to hiring a staff.

That takes money. Something that about 95% of our readers don't yet appreciate.

I'm grateful — SINCERELY SO! — to the 5% of JWR readers who have expressed their kindness and gratitude in our appeal until now.

I've been advised to start charging a monthly or yearly fee to access this site. At first blush, this makes sense. The reality, though, is it will undermine JWR's mission.

Let me explain.

From its launching, JWR has been about ideas. I created this webzine as the go-to source defending and being an exponent of traditionalism, patriotism, and democracy. We've been around nearly from the beginning of the commercial Internet and JWR articles now show up HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of times in search engines. If we start charging, that status will end. So will the likely growth of this site. Simply put, folks will never sign-up and will never read us.

This appeal is NOT about making anybody feel guilty. I know we have many elderly readers and high school students who simply cannot afford pitching in. But I also know there are many folks here who are gaining from JWR and either don't fully appreciate the situation or don't care enough to support us. I pray this changes!

Some here are simply are embarrassed to send what they may consider a pittance, but to us is a lifeline. No expression of your gratitude — I REPEAT, NO EXPRESSION OF YOUR GRATITUDE — will be discounted or disregarded.

This note is getting long, so I will end.

Don't think the "other guy" will help — BECAUSE HE HASN'T AND WON'T. He will count on you.

I AM COUNTING ON YOU — as are all of our future readers who have yet to discover JWR.

JWR runs on an "honor system". If it is to survive, the 95% who regularly gain from it, but who have not pitched in, must begin to act honorably.

I apologize if this letter offends anybody. Perhaps if I waited a few days or weeks, the tone would be different. As a cherished reader, I just wanted to let you know what is amiss.

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In gratitude and friendship,
Binyamin L. Jolkovsky,
Editor in Chief


[ J E W I S H  L I V I N G ]

thought
What is important in prayer?
By Rabbi Hillel Goldberg

How is a sword a metaphor for prayer?


outlook
In defense of ‘separate but equal’
By Rabbi Berel Wein

The secret of survival



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It's Not as Tough at Home as You Think by Abraham J. Twerski, M.D Today's installment ... The world's not big enough

[ W O R T H  1 0 0 0  W O R D S  ]

One Big Happy
Mallard Fillmore


Lurie's World
Cox & Forkum
Jeff Koterba
Bob Gorrell
Gary Varvel
Wayne Stayskal
Jake Fuller (OUCH!)
Jonathan Brown
Steve Kelley
Chip Bok
Chuck Asay
Joe Heller
Doug Marlette

(Attention working columnists and editorial cartoonists: Think you have what it takes to be featured on JWR? Drop us a note by clicking here. Readers, please make suggestions, as well.)

[ L I F E S T Y L E S ]

Can YOU stump the wordsmiths?: Confused about the word "hearsay"; "Burgle"; "waiting in line" or "waiting on line"?

Average Americans are stars of Grand Central recording studio

Bruce Williams on JWR: Bankruptcy: chapter and verse; how auto deals get away with it; more

Everyday Cheapskate: Readers' wisdom

[ I N S I G H T ]

Laura Ingraham: Jumping conservatives at the border

Argus Hamilton's political zingers!

Tom Purcell: Decisions, decisions (FANTASTIC!)

Greg Crosby: Road Thoughts, Part III

On media by Bill Steigerwald: Howard Dean week?

The Medicine Men: A new plastic phobia?

Dan Abrams: When the truth hurts, lawyers try to close proceedings


AL GORE INSPIRED LOTTERY LOSER LADY TO COME CLEAN
The story behind the story
  —  ScrappleFace

Roger Simon: Dick and Jane

Jeff Jacoby: Fleeing free trade

David Limbaugh: Bush Immigration Plan a Bad Idea

Kathleen Parker: Bush plan is empty pinata

Suzanne Fields: Filling the prescription for anger

Jonah Goldberg: Tackling the immigration mess

Mona Charen: Gaffing all the way

Charles Krauthammer: Why We Are Safer

Cal Thomas: Lord of the gridiron: The return of the King



Find Jewish Learning in Your Area
Previously:

Jonathan Tobin: ‘Move On’ Over the Edge

J.R. Labbe: Link between Syria and Spider-Man and Wal-Mart?

Rafael Medoff: A Jewish boxer who fought for his people

Jeff Dunetz: The Davinsky Code

Ask Wendy: Putting up with abusive wife; father's request: son not attend his funeral; when to bill a buddy

Jonathan Tobin: Jacques and James

Howard Shapiro: The knish at center stage

Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo: Joseph: The Tragedy of Being Truly righteous

Rabbi Hillel Goldberg: What is a ‘significant encounter’?

Kathleen Parker: Moral men learn it's lonely at the top

The Jewish Ethicist: Q: Should public servants go to work for the very businesses they policed?

Harry Langsam: When faith burned bright in the face of evil

Joseph Aaron: Saddam, the Divine's messenger

Elliot B. Gertel: ‘Joan of Arcadia’: The latest TV show to cheapen — and abuse — religion

Lou Marano: 'Blessing of a Broken Heart' (INSPIRING!)

Steven Plaut: Saddam's JFK Moment

Libby Lazewnik: Front Page News

Jeff Jacoby: Lieberman vs. Lieberman on religion

Evan Gahr: Queer allies: The little-noticed alliance between gay marriage opponents and alleged terrorist sympathizers (HALL OF SHAME!)

Rod Dreher: What the Alliance for Marriage heads and board members either don't know or don't want you to know

Evan Gahr: One less fellow traveler. ‘God Squad’ rabbi bolts queer Alliance. Is ‘Lieberman's rabbi’ next?

Evan Gahr: UNHOLY WAR: Prominent Christian leaders now denouncing Alliance For Marriage's queer partner

Larry Elder: What you need to know about the 'religion of peace'

Larry Elder: What you need to know about the 'religion of peace', Part II

Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson: Culture of death? Palestinian girl's murder highlights growing number of ‘honor killings’ (SICKENING!)

Cal Thomas: The ‘Arab Street's’ concept of freedom

Mortimer B. Zuckerman: Graffiti On History's Walls (MUST-READ!)

Mark Steyn: Muslim paranoia: Enemies made us impotent!

Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.: Know thy enemy

Anonymous, as told to Chaim Walder: Ringed-in by a mistake

Rabbi Shimon Finkelman: The sage and his ‘special’ friend (INSPIRING!!)

Fiamma Nirenstein: How I became an ‘unconscious fascist’ (MUST-READ!)

Cal Thomas: Useful idiots in the Middle East

Binyamin L. Jolkovsky: WAKE UP CALL! (WARNING! Not for the apathetic or squeamish)

Cal Thomas: The Threat Among Us

Jennifer Seigel: Why has a new kosher cookbook sold over 24,000 copies in a week?

Michael Freund: Bush's Choice: Powell or the Prophets? (IMPORTANT!)

Five Towns Radio

Bill Bennett, Jack Kemp, and Jeane Kirkpatrick: Twenty Facts about Israel and the Middle East (IMPORTANT!)

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