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June 15, 1999

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If one isn't careful, you can live like a lord, but die like a fool.
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China's New Hostages
By Angelo M. Codevilla

That Jonathan Pollard spied for Israel nobody doubts. He's admitted it, has acknowledged his crime and has begged forgiveness from any American official who'll listen. So, in wake of Chinagate, why, then, does the Clinton administration vehemently insist on imprisoning him for the rest of his life?

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By Dr. Wade F. Horn

Introducing the legal fiction of a male abortion will have the effect of increasing the reality of actual abortions. I can hear the conversations now. "If you don't get an abortion, then I will go to court and you'll never be able to get a dime out of me!"



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JWR welcomes Michelle Malkin to the JWR family. We are attempting to be the best there is, folks!

David Corn: George W. owes Bubba big time

Cal Thomas: Speaker Hastert wants reinforcements

Mort Zuckerman: America should take pride in honoring its responsibilities

Ben Wattenberg: Crime hawk turns

Sam Schulman: A bet on our kids' future

Mallard Fillmore

Dear JWR Readers
Ray Shamie, the mentsh

WORD HAS REACHED US that a truly American original has died.

Obituary writers will no doubt recall Ray Shamie as a failed politician. We at JWR, however, will forever remember him as a mentsh. And by our lights, a mentsh, is the only real type of winner there is.

What is truly sad, is that Shamie, who as a youth was destitute but after much toil and an amazing will to succeed against all odds, died a millionaire many times over, did not live a generation earlier. Had he, there is no doubt his real-life rags to riches story would have been turned into a Frank Capra film. Our own Jeff Jacoby wrote about Shamie in these pages last month and we highly recommend that you, dear reader, read or re-read the article. There is no need to wipe away any resulting tears.

We had the privilege of speaking with Shamie once. It was last December, during a critical period when JWR almost folded. We were attempting to survive and our readers, despite numerous requests, simply were not helping us do so. It was as if they simply did not care.

Anyway, word of our plight reached Shamie, who had never read JWR, but nonetheless sent in a hefty donation, totally catching us off-guard.

Though weakened with cancer and hardly able to speak, Shamie said he was motivated to help because we were making the best out of a bad situation; that we were giving it our all --- and he knew we'd succeed, even if we ourselves were not so sure.

Jacoby tells JWR that "in 18 years, I never once heard Ray Shamie raise his voice in anger or berate any person," even if they deserved it.

Like we said, Shamie was a mentsh.

May his memory be blessed --- and serve as an inspiration.

--- Binyamin L. Jolkovsky


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Torah Reading:
Korach:
Numbers 16:1-18:32


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Michael Ledeen: What Machiavelli (A Secret Jew?) Learned From Moses

Rabbi Barry Freundel: The Changing Face of Prayer (EXCELLENT!)

Tim Boxer visits with New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, Meryl Streep, Lesley Stahl, and others.

Jonathan Tobin: Small Stories With Important Conclusions

Matthew Dorf: If and when Hillary Clinton runs, she's going to need Jewish votes

Marlene Adler Marks: The Meaning of Loehmann's, RIP

Avi Shafran: A Remarkable Reform Manifesto

Eric Simon: 'The Ten Principles': Can We Take Another Step?

Allison Kaplan: 'Appropriate' dates

Elliot Gertel: Suddenly Susan's Death of a Rabbi

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