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idio Messages To Be
red, With Changes

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srael's Reform and Conservative movements have
reached a compromise with Israel Radio, paving
the way for the more-liberal streams of Judaism
to run commercials on public airwaves.
_ast week, Israel Radio refused to air a series of
amercials in which Reform and Conservative rab-
invited secular Israelis to learn about their move-
:its and come to their egalitarian services on the
;h Holidays.
srael Radio, which is under the auspices of the
el
I Broadcasting Authority; said that as a public
adcasting network its advertising regulations pro-
fited broadcasting any commercials that were "ide-
;ically controversial."
the Reform and Conservative movements peti-
ed the Supreme Court, which last Friday gave
Israel Broadcasting Authority two weeks to
1 lain why it would not run the ads.
['he main slogan of the campaign and the radio
ertisements is "there is more than one way to
ewish." A spokesman for the broadcasting
Liority said it considered the ad controversial
use Orthodox Jews believe there is only one
to be Jewish.
ccording to the compromise reached on Sunday,
Reform and Conservative movements will
ace the main slogan with "this is our way — you
have to choose."
though the movements still reject the radio's
sion not to run the original ads, they withdrew
r Supreme Court petition on Monday after the
o agreed to air the ads with the minor changes.
We had no problem making these small changes
use the main content remained in the ads," said
o bi Uri Regev, director of the Reform movement's
el Religious Action Center.
hey also agreed to delete another line in one of
commercials that said the movements provide a
ish experience even for secular Jews "who were
born with a prayer book in their hands." The
adcasting authority said the phrase may have
n cl ed religious Jews. E

"Expectations are the termites of relationships."
— Rabbi Dannel Schwartz of Temple Shir Shalom, explain-
ing that on Yom Kippur he will talk about forgiveness and
family — about not giving up on the people you love.

"There is no need for Jews to attach significance to
the number 2000. To do so would be to formally
recognize Christ. We can acknowledge his influ-
ence without attaching significance to that."
— Rabbi Shmuel Kaplan, Maryland region representative
of Chabad Lubavitch.

"The whole notion of good food was against the
Messianic or socialist way of thinking in the early days."
— Erez Komarovsky, Israeli baker and restaurateur, on
how the Jewish state turned itself from a "gastronomic
wasteland" into a gourmet paradise.

Rabbi
Dannel Schwartz

"Just because you drive a Mercedes doesn't mean
you abandon your poor mother."
— Zeid Aweidat, a member of the Golan Heights Druze community, on
why better economic times under Israeli occupation do not negate the desire
among his people for a return to Syrian sovereignty.

Yiddish Limericks

There once was a temptress named Klein
Who fed a young fella a line.
"Just 'cause it worked once,
Don't think me a dunce."
He answered, "A nar zol ich zine?!'

* Do you take me for a fool?

— Martha Jo Fleischmann

For me, Rosh HaShana is more a ...
t social event.
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