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This is called "expanding one's
mind." It is also called "procras-
tinating."
I read recently that one copy of
the New York Times alone offers
more information about the world
than a person in the early Mid-
dle Ages would have accu-
mulated in his entire
lifetime. By that
score, I see
enough on the
Web to account
for the popula-
tion of whole
countries. It
does not make
me one whit
wiser. So far,
the Internet is
not scoring high
on the usefulness
quotient, and God
knows the world
doesn't need another way to
waste time.
And yet ... sometimes I find re-
ally useful stuff. There is a
tremendous amount of Jewish
learning already posted on the
Internet, and it is growing each
day. Granted, the same material
is available in a book, but it is
scattered. The Internet is vast,
but it all filters through one's
screen at home.
Then there is e-mail You write
a letter, push a button and the
letter is sent. You can send it next
door or to Katmandu with the
same button. No stamps, no en-
velopes, no chain of hands
through which your letter must
wend its uncertain way.
E-mail is not perfect: It can
get lost, and others can crack
some computer code and read it
at times (if you want to know
how this is done, I would explain
it, but it requires knowledge of
technical terminology like "cy-
berspace" and "techno-eaves-
dropping" so you had best leave

the scientific side of it to we
pros).
Nonetheless, it is miraculous.
I keep in touch with friends and
colleagues with whom I would
otherwise have no contact.
I write family members quick
notes, things that pop into my
head — ephemera too
fleeting for the mails
and not worth the
four or five sepa-
rate phone calls to
let everyone know.
But with e-mail,
you can send out
the same letter to
as many people as
you want — again,
by pushing that
magical button.
This is technically
not part of the Internet,
but it is part of the same
stouncling technology. I
wake up in the morning to find
strangers writing me questions,
offering suggestions, comment-
ing on my books or articles, and
I am stunned by the vigor of this
new human tool.
Psychologists have been say-
ing for years that adolescents
spend time on the phone because
it offers intimacy without risk.
You can be close and still far
away.
This is even more true of com-
puters. The information they of-
fer is marvelous, and the
possibilities for contact unprece-
dented.. But the admonition of the
Kotzker Rebbe stills rings in my
head. Once he shouted at his stu-
dents "Masks! Where are your
faces?" On the World Wide Web,
masks are too easy. What hap-
pens when each of us is comfort-
ably ensconced in a room, typing
out messages to everyone else,
never being forced into the messy,
wondrous maelstrom of genuine
contact?

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Dec. 31 is scheduled to be her
last day at the JCC.
'The agency has been consid-
ering and reconsidering its fiTt2T1-
cial position and trying to
understand how much adminis-
trative time is necessary to move
the JCC forward," said David
Sorkin, the executive director of
the Center. "We determined we
needed to remove a certain
amount of administrative hours
from our agency and utilize that
money for other activities such as
maintenance and direct services."
Mr. Sorkin said no other staff
has been let go at this point. How-
ever, the JCC is in the midst of a
hiring freeze.
The JCC has a budgeted deficit
of $350,000 for 1996, said Mr.

Sorkin. "While the deficit is stay-
ing the same, status quo is not
good," he added. "We're putting
too many hours into administra-
tion."
Mr. Sorkin said that JCC pres-
ident Harry M. Eisenberg and the
executive committee joined him
in making the decision to let Ms.
Kleinfeldt go.
The remaining Center admin-
istration — Mr. Sorkin, a pro-
gramming director, a chief
financial officer and the director
of the Jimmy Prentis Morris
building — will fill the gap left by
Ms. Kleinfeldt's departure.
Ms. Kleinfeldt was surprised
by the Center's decision to elimi-
nate her position and has no im-
mediate career plans. She and her

