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August 26, 2003
PLEASE READ JWR PUBLISHER'S OPEN-LETTER BELOW
Wealth is a pedigree to the man who lacks one.   —   Mishlei Chachamim

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.

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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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In gratitude and friendship,
Binyamin L. Jolkovsky,
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controversy!
Speaking Truth to Jewish Power
By Jonathan Tobin

Are magnates who question Israel's leaders above reproach?

reality check
When terror drives policy
By Cal Thomas

Anyone who believes that what Israel does or doesn't do has any effect on what the Palestinian side does or doesn't do is self-deluded. American policy is to get the terrorists before they get us. That policy ought to be the parallel track for Israel.

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It's Not as Tough at Home as You Think by Abraham J. Twerski, M.D Today's installment ... Change requires change (NEW SERIES!)

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One Big Happy
Mallard Fillmore
John Cole
Cox & Forkum
Ed Gamble
Bob Gorrell
John Deering
Gary Varvel
Mike Ramirez

(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.)

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Computer Answer Man by James Coates: PCAnywhere, broadband can work together; site continues to write into my Favorites subfolder located in the c:¼documents and settings¼user directory; recurring problem with editing and saving Word documents both when using my computer running Windows 98 and another computer running XP Home Edition

Stump the Wordsmiths: "Cheesy''; "hold a candle''

Justice officials fall short in targeting porn, conservatives say

Kids with big allowances going to pot

Men who can dance are in demand on cruise ships

Pregnancy, breast cancer link seen as safe

"A baby or your money back" in vitro programs expand as success rate grows

Victims struggle to repair damage from identity theft

Consumer Reports on JWR: Do you Wi-Fi?

Everyday Cheapskate: Readers' wisdom

Dr. Ed Blonz: Fresh, frozen or canned? why cheese is good for you

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Kathleen Parker: The Worm turns (on us) — and we dream of revenge

On media by Bill Steigerwald: Vanity Fair strives to be more than glamorous

Argus Hamilton's political zingers!

Tom Purcell: Attack of the 'virus twits'

Claude Lewis: Is it time for cameras in classrooms? (THOUGHT PROVOKING!)

Keith Olbermann: As the Western World churns

Suzanne Fields: What (men) do women want?

Richard Z. Chesnoff: The last thing we should even consider is pulling our forces out of Iraq

Michael Ledeen: Iraq's terrorists have friends in high places

Neil Cavuto: Friends and hypocrites (EXCELLENT!)

Dick Morris: Bias-mongers on rocks as viewers taste straight news

Paul Greenberg: The new Wesley Clark (and why I miss the old one)

David Limbaugh: A clashing of principles and jurisdictions

Linda Chavez: What Ah-nold must do to win

Bill O'Reilly: California lessons

George Will: A Victorian View of Iraq

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Find Jewish Learning in Your Area
Previously:

The Jewish Ethicist: Q: Should I tell an applicant why he was refused a job?

Cal Thomas : The war that never ends

Zev Chafets: The cynical manipulation of Hitler's legacy for political purposes

Jim Hoagland: Israel's Red Flag on Iran

Daniel Pipes: Terror symps exposed

Ask Wendy : Forcing child to be charitable; misplaced compassion?

Gary Rosenblatt: The day after the hudna

Dr. Debby Schwarz Hirschhorn: The lie that was a blessing

Rabbi Berel Wein: Mission men

Jonathan Tobin: Second-guessing Tom DeLay

Charles Krauthammer: State Department is joining the latest Palestinian propaganda ploy

Mortimer B. Zuckerman: Bush should learn from Clinton's errors

Zev Chafets: Sharon is ready to pound Palestinians the way Bush whipped Saddam

Jeff Jacoby: ‘Roadmap’? What ‘Roadmap’?

Rabbi Hillel Goldberg: Elijah the Prophet also had an amputated limb (MOVING!)

The Hon. Tom DeLay: BE NOT AFRAID!

Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. WISHFUL THINKING ABOUT ISLAMIST TERROR

Yossi Klein Halevi: About those 'settlements'

William J. Bennett: Moral Clarity and the Middle East

Martin Peretz: Pre-Occupation

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

Cal Thomas: Useful idiots in the Middle East

Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.: UNDESIRABLE INFLUENCE

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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