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Nov. 17, 2003
PLEASE READ JWR PUBLISHER'S OPEN-LETTER BELOW
The righteous, of any faith, will be rewarded in the World to Come.
  —   Talmud

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.

To give electronically, please click HERE.

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


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tales of the world wild web
Battle of the Liebermans
By Binyamin L. Jolkovsky

It's not every day that a parochial school teacher receives e-mail from a presidential candidate's brother-in-law attempting to do damage control. Then again, it's not every day that both the politician and his critic not only share the same names, but their wives do as well.

first person
What type of world will my children live in?
By Jeff Dunetz

Call me an alarmist but I am scared! Every time I open a newspaper or turn on the TV is becoming increasingly clear to me that we may be facing the early stages of one of those "They tried to kill us" periods.

But there are real solutions that, sadly, few are trying.

[ D A I L Y  I N S P I R A T I O N ]

It's Not as Tough at Home as You Think by Abraham J. Twerski, M.D Today's installment ... Little People. Big emotions (NEW SERIES; TRY IT, YOU'LL LOVE IT!)

[ W O R T H  1 0 0 0  W O R D S  ]

One Big Happy
Mallard Fillmore

Cox & Forkum
Doug Marlette
Ed Gamble
Joe Heller
Steve Kelley
Gary Varvel
J.D. Crowe
Michael 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: Special tweak may be needed to change logon; printing e-mail gets him booted offline; network wizard won't let him do so

Dr. Robert A. Wascher's health report: Leech therapy; mattress firmness & low-back pain; update on lycopene & prostate cancer

$1 million deal for JFK buffs waiting on eBay

Experts explore why we can't stop obsessing over JFK

Dennis Miller back to talking politics

Dr. Peter Gott: Cardiac disorder can lead to near-fainting; doc makes a pass at 77 year-old

Everyday Cheapskate: Tips for a safer turkey

Bruce Williams on JWR: Real estate and legal recognition; more

[ I N S I G H T ]

Jeff Jacoby: The timeless meaning of marriage

Diane Katz: Little known commission lobbies for Internet tax using tax dollars (NOT SATIRE!)

The Lowdown by Lloyd Grove: When networks attack!; leaky Fawcett; forget the Paris Hilton video!; more

Neil Cavuto: Cordially speaking, I hate you!

Joanne Jacobs: School Principals Gone Wild; School vs. Bloggers; A Is For Absent

Jonathan Rauch: Smallpox Is Bush's Worst Failure ... But He Can Fix the Problem

Debra J. Saunders: Poster women for peace?

Richard Z. Chesnoff: PARIS DIARIST: French fried: From its economy to its cinema and cafés, France is losing that certain je ne sais quoi

Mark Goldblatt: Moore to America: Dude, Where's My Brain?

John Leo: American culture war takes a surprising jog to the right

Suzanne Fields: The battle of the blondes

Argus Hamilton's political zingers!


SCHWARZENEGGER POSTPONES INAUGURATION TO FINE-TUNE SPECIAL EFFECTS
Bustamante robot malfunctions
  —  Andy Borowitz

Zev Chafets: Give Iraq a strongman (THOUGHT PROVOKING!)

Jack Kelly: We are doing the right thing, but we are not doing it fast enough

Wesley Pruden: The Pundit Primary has a winner

Mona Charen: Jessica Lynch, Col. West: What's wrong with this picture?

George Will: Irony And Steel

Bill O'Reilly: The great divide

Thomas Sowell: Free-lunch medicine, Part III



Find Jewish Learning in Your Area
Previously:

Rabbi Hillel Goldberg: Making sense of a father's ultimate test

Victor J. Wishna: Exhibiting courage

Jonathan Tobin: When Some Money Talks, Don't Listen

Ask Wendy: Invite obnoxious commie grandparents to bar mitzvah?; struggling student who is musician or the opposite?

Jackie Mason & Raoul Felder: What's a nice Jewish boy doing in a place like this?

Libby Lazewnik: Covering for his twin

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

Wesley Pruden: Our Saudi friends get a lesson

Melanie Phillips: The chosen person

Rabbi Avi Shafran: Pro-choice Judaism

Jonah Goldberg: Israel isn't peaceful

Susan Lerner: Kosher foods gaining weight

Afshin Molavi & Karim Sadjadpour: Is Iran rethinking its position on Israel?

Diana West: Stop insulting Judaism and Christianity, Mr. President

Fred Tasker: U.S. film producers rewrite the script for Israeli wines

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

Mark Steyn: Muslim paranoia: Enemies made us impotent!

Jordan Max: The Prime Minister of Malaysia was right!

Daniel Pipes: Deadly denial

Jeff Jacoby: Bigotry and the Muslim world

Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.: Know thy enemy

Cal Thomas: Muzzling the wrong dog

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

Rabbi Avi Shafran: A truly historic lawsuit

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

Mark Steyn: Palestinian death cult

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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