THE JOY OF JEWISH CULTURE
Jewish cultural experience is what the
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Birmingham Temple is all about. Robert Goren
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' nothing would upset the
U.S. more than the percep-
i that he was making
tion
overtures to Iraq.
Thus, despite his
L 7, longstanding personal an-
tipathy for the Iraqi leader,
President Assad in recent
months has been assidu-
ii, ously taking small, but
-, significant steps, toward
,- warming up relations.
He restored postal services
between Damascus and
Baghdad, stopped the
rmit;-ne media attacks on
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Tilissein and or-
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dered
carry Iraqi
televis
asts. More im-
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report that secret
,
, : s nave been held about
0 1,...,;ening an oil pipeline,
3 during the Iran-Iraq
Pi,
0 that had been used to
V Iraqi oil exports to a
,s-r.),(iinal at Banias, Syria's
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.,-__ert of torpedoing the
, : , - e process, there was
the Bush administra-
can do in response.
lysts believe that Presi-
Assad, a shrewd tacti-
f , is bidding not only to
..,ie Washington to attend
.. lis needs at the negotia-
- -, table but also to ap-
,.f 7 ase him with aid, probably
•ia. Saudi Arabia.
in regard to Israel, the
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Syrian leader has con-
I spicuously failed to ac-
I knowledge the political revo-
lution that swept away the
hard-right Likud govern-
,— ment of Yitzhak Shamir and
opened the door to the more
compromising Israeli ad-
`7 ministration led by Yitzhak
) Rabin.
Nor has he budged from
his longstanding insistence
that a precondition to
negotiations is a complete,
unqualified Israeli
withdrawal from the Golan
I Heights, a position rejected
by even the most dovish
elements in the new Labor
,- government.
Historically, Syria has
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been the last of the Arab
states to sign cease-fire and
1 ' armistice agreements with
Israel and it was expected to
put up the toughest
i'D resistance in the current
peace process. But a chilling
new factor has now entered
the equation.
The cause for concern
centers on revelations that
Syria recently test-fired two
-, of its advanced Scud-C sur-
face-to-surface missiles ac-
quired from North Korea.
The missiles are capable of
being armed with non-
conventional warheads and
are considered to be far more
accurate than the primitive
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and his grandson Robbie look forward to Shabbat
Story Hour with Rabbi Wine. It's fun to be with
people you love while learning Jewish history.
Our children develop ethical values as they:
• Experience children's High Holiday services
• Decorate the Sukka
• Light Hanuka candles
• Donate trees on Tu B'Shevat
• Boo Haman on Purim
• Celebrate Jewish learning on Shavuot
Give your children a meaningful way to be Jewish
in a contemporary world.
Attend an evening with
Rabbi Sherwin T. Wine
7:30 p.m.
Aug. 26, Sept. 2, & Sept. 9
You are invited to our
OPEN HOUSE
Sunday, Aug. 30
10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
VaNite""'
Temple School registration Sept. 20,
10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Children's High Holiday services — Open to the public
Rosh Hashana — Sept. 28, 2:30 p.m.
Yom Kippur — Oct. 7, 2:30 p.m.
Non-member Temple School
rates available
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