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May 30, 2004
PLEASE READ JWR PUBLISHER'S OPEN-LETTER BELOW
You can forget a blow, but not a word.   —   Jewish saying

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thought
In quest of spirituality
By Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski

A short but profound meditation on human potential — and pathways in realizing it

controversy!
The same old song
By Jonathan Tobin

As war news turns sour, critics point their fingers at who else — the Jews

reality check
Cold feet and cold beers
By Zev Chafets

No war is worth supporting if it can't be supported in cold blood. Revenge, honor, glory and other such hot-blooded impulses aren't good enough reasons to go to war, or to sustain one.

[ D A I L Y  I N S P I R A T I O N ]

"Kindness: Changing people's lives for the better" by internationally renowned author and lecturer Rabbi Zelig Pliskin Today's installment ... "Being taken advantage of"

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.

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Consumer Reports on JWR: Getting health coverage if you're not healthy

[ I N S I G H T ]

Kathleen Parker: Dying of Political Correctness

Argus Hamilton's political zingers!

The Lowdown by Lloyd Grove "Sly Fox" outwits New York Times review; talk to the animals; Can't this man be stopped?; more

Lloyd Garver: Fly the nice skies

The Medicine Men: Back to the Future: Patient Pays Directly for Medical Care

Russell Friedman & John W. James : What a Difference a Day Makes

Tom Purcell: If Osama were to speak to the grads

Leonard Pitts, Jr: Renewed appreciation for the Greatest Generation

Neil Cavuto: Why do we tolerate awful people?

Suzanne Fields: Celebration and sadness on the Mall


GORE NABBED OUTSIDE WHITE HOUSE WITH MEGAPHONE
Calls On 2,000 government functionaries to resign
  —  Andy Borowitz

Wesley Pruden: Staying in love by staying apart

Jack Kelly: ‘Thank you for your nomination for president. I'll get back to you on that’

Larry Elder: Bashing President Bush takes over as our No. 1 national pastime

Debra J. Saunders: Running on fumes

Carl P. Leubsdorf: Ironically, Prez relied on seasoned advisers for gravitas — and now he's being made the scapegoat for their screw-ups

Jonah Goldberg: Patriotism and populism in journalism

Dick Morris: Al Qaeda's presidential campaign

David Limbaugh: Homosexual Marriage: A Slippery Slope?

Linda Chavez: Hollywood will learn that Moore means le$$

George Will:Mr. Madison's War

Bob Tyrrell: Rev. Al eats up City Hall

Anne Coulter: Tit for Tet

Cal Thomas: Addressing the Iraq panic attack

Charles Krauthammer: Parenthesis to history

Thomas Sowell: Animal rites



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Rabbi Yonason Goldson: Shavuos: The eternal vow

Jay D. Homnick: Desert (brain)storm

Dennis Prager: The greatest sin

Martin Peretz: Lonely crowd

Alan Dershowitz: Does oppression cause homicide bombings?

Stefan Kanfer: On the Fritz

The Jewish Ethicist: Does favoring local labor discriminate against the truly needy?

Ask Wendy: Wife letting herself go; kid wants to ban dad from bar mitzvah; visiting mom has nerves rattled

Michael Freund: Who does Powell think he's kidding?

Bob Alper: To die for

Daniel Pipes: Threat to the West is European import with Islamic accent

Dennis Prager: The news media and Nick Berg

Jay D. Homnick: To be a Jew: What the murderers of Nick Berg and Daniel Pearl knew

Daniel Pipes: The human comedy of the coming Muslim Europe

Dennis Prager: Shame on the news media, too

Jeff Jacoby: Abandoning Gaza will not end terrorism

Yossi Klein Halevi: Kabbalah goes Hollywood

Charles Krauthammer: The Real Mideast 'Poison'

Michael Feldberg: The Making of a Jewish Citizen

Mark Steyn: Why the Palestinians are in such a state

Jonathan Mark: Satmar's Sisters of Mercy

Melanie Phillips: The hard lessons of terror (BRILLIANT!)

Rick Jervis: Your institution doesn't deserve government protection, you're religious!

Michael Graham: THEY HATE ME! THEY REALLY HATE ME!

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Rabbi Y. Y. Rubinstein: Big Worries (MUST READ!)

Dennis Prager: What does 'Judeo-Christian' mean?

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Ken Garfield: Keeping kosher the Krispy Kreme way

Michael Freund: A CALL TO PSALMS

Jonathan Rosenblum: Mikey's song (INSPIRING!)

Omer Bartov: Did Hitlerism die with Hitler? (MUST READ!)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Five Towns Radio

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

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