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August 15, 2004

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Remember that happiness is a way of travel — not a destination.
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short tales
Of Baltimore Bills
and Denver Dollars

By Rabbi Paysach J. Krohn

Inspiration can come from the most unlikely sources. A true must-read that you must-read til the end


only in the middle east!
Sucker's Bet
By Jonathan Tobin

Like Americans and slots, Israelis will pay a high price for Galilee 'Hippodrome'


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"Growing Each Day" by internationally renowned author and lecturer Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski, M.D. (BRAND NEW SERIES!)



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.

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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!

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This note is getting long, so I will end.

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Tech Maven by Mark Kellner: One to buy, one to skip

Lori Borgman: Youth cancel out (checkbook) balancing act

Scientists examine relationship between caloric restriction, life span

Dr. Peter Gott: Causes of fatty liver; huge ovary

Everyday Cheapskate: Readers' wisdom





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Kathleen Parker: Kerry's quagmire

Argus Hamilton's political zingers!

Greg Crosby: Art — Shoved Down Your Throat

Jane R. Eisner: Olympics should be about competition, not feel-goodism

Collin Levey: Getting to the root of the stem-cell debate

Jill "J.R." Labbe: The gun-law sky is falling?

Michael Medved: Secular fanatics are the true fundamentalists


CLINTON CLAIMS BUSH PLAGIARIZED '98 SPEECH
Will overlook royalty payments
  —  ScrappleFace

James Lileks: Another Swing Vote: the Sufferers of Sudden Bush Hatred Fatigue Syndrome

Tony Snow: Swift Boats, Continued

Myriam Marquez: A step back from cliff of mediocrity: Goss puts America first

MUGGER: This Gun's for Hire

Wesley Pruden: Stiffing your friends for your enemies

Marianne M. Jennings: A Decent people

Dick Morris: The partisan peril

Roger Simon: This Gun's for Hire

Anne Coulter: Brothers band together against Kerry

George Will: Soothing our suspicions

Cal Thomas: If at first you don't succeed...

Charles Krauthammer: This Is Reform? McCain-Feingold Accentuates the Negative



Find Jewish Learning in Your Area
Previously:

Edward I. Koch: I've been branded a ‘turncoat’

Neal M. Sher: Pursuing Terror's Financiers: Time to Get Serious About The Saudi Connection

The Jewish Ethicist: Q. Should corporations contribute money to charity?

Rachel Ehrenfeld: Ashcroft slow to prosecute Muslim charities who fund terror groups

Bret Stephens: When breaking a taboo means guaranteed self-destruction

Peter A. Brown: Public interest vs. minority rights

Zev Chafets: Why not say it bluntly? Islam is an aggressive, violent political ideology

Bob Alper: Shmoozin' with shamayim (Heaven)

Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski: You are what you eat — or should be

Julia Gorin: Multi-culturalizing anti-Semitism: The ADL's fanaticism for fitting in

Suzanne Fields: Flip-flopping for the Jews

Rabbi Avi Shafran: History on the heart

Ask Wendy: Non-intrusive=bad friend?; best friend's daughter is not for my son; bris-less grandsons

Jackie Mason & Raoul Felder: Islam is a religion of WHAT? II: A response to our critics

Daniel Pipes: A slick Islamist heads to jail

David Grimes: New book teaches you how to beat the ?%^ out of a suspected terrorist

Aharon Granot: His role for life

Kaukab J. Smith: Dems becoming the party of Muslims?

Steven Stalinsky: Arab Guide to the 2004 Election

Dennis Prager: Explaining the Arab-Israeli conflict through numbers

Zev Chafets: The intifadeh is over — just listen

Nate Bloom: Jewz in the Newz

Dennis Prager: Presbyterian Church defames Christianity

Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.: Just say 'NO'

Daniel Pipes: Palestinian anarchy

Herbert London: Why the world hates Israel

Richard Z. Chesnoff: Return the 'Palestinians' back to where they originated?

Charles Krauthammer: U. N. will go to any length to condemn Israel, including enabling murder

Rabbi Aryeh Spero: French Indifference to Evil Escalates

Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson: These Arabs fear being branded traitors — and you know what that can mean! — because they find the security fence beneficial

Yossi Klein Halevi: The pattern of Palestinian rejectionism

Jackie Mason & Raoul Felder: Islam is a religion of WHAT?

Lisa Haddock: New book looks at life and love in a Jerusalem few see

Dr. Ergun Mehmet Caner: Moore's 'hate-riotism'

Walter Williams: Will the West survive?

Dennis Prager: So, we're hated

Charles Krauthammer: Israel's Intifada Victory

Jeff Jacoby: Mutilations and Muslim law

Greg Crosby: How we will lose the Islamo-Fascist War

Dennis Prager: The greatest sin

Alan Dershowitz: Does oppression cause homicide bombings?

Dennis Prager: Shame on the news media, too

Yossi Klein Halevi: Kabbalah goes Hollywood

Charles Krauthammer: The Real Mideast 'Poison'

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!

Dennis Prager: People are beautiful, the world stinks

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

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

Evan Osnos: At Arab bastion of ‘enlightenment’student politicians campaign on which party has killed more Israelis

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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