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Friday, September 16, 1955
Laurels Appoints Cantor
To Lead in Holiday Services
Cantor Benjamin Zevin has
been engaged by Laurels Coun-
try Club to officiate at High
Holy Day services conducted at
the Sackett Lake , N. Y. resort,
it was announced by Joe Novack,
Laurels owner.
Laurels will hold Rosh Hash-
anah services, beginning today,
and Yom Kippur services, begin-
ning Sept. 25, Novack said.
Guests will enjoy Laurels exten-
sive outdoor program, including
a championship golf course, dur-
ing their stay.
Historic Shekel Still Dominates
As Symbol of Jewish Identification
NEW YORK, N.Y.—For 35 cen-
turies, the Shekel has been the
link which held_ the thread of
Jewish history unbroken and firm.
First used by the ancient Israel-
ites as a standard of weight and
value, down through the centur-
ies it far out-stripped its intrinsic
value as the central coin of one
of the earliest recorded monetary
systems,
It became instead the very
symbol of Jewish survival, Jewish
identification, t h e instrument
through which the Jew assumes
his share of responsibility for the
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Life, thou art but an Illusion
In the dank miasma of Exist-
ence!
A shadowy harlequin
Upon the stage of puppetry,
A mere naught, gigantic, deary.
Art thou here by design,
Or is thy being fortuitious?
Ah, for the solution of this
riddle—
An enigma never ending,
An enigma nowheres tending:
Life thou art but an illusion!
Too proud winners often lose
in the end.—Aesop.
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A Happy New Year
Holiday Best Wishes
Mr. &Mrs.
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For A Happy New Year
Isenberg, Newman
and Company
Were it not for this self-imposed
tax, the Mishnah might never
have been written, and the people
itself perhaps ultimately assimil-
ated. Such was the obligation a
people placed upon itself to pre-
serve its national spirt and ident-
ity.
In the modern times, the First
World Zionist Congress in Basle
adopted the Shekel as the symbol
of identification with the great
goal of Zionism.
Today the Shekel of the First
War of the Jews, showing the
cup patterned after the vessel
used in the Holy Temple of
Solomon, is reproduced on one
of the first issues of postage
stamps of the new Israel.
The token of affiliation with
the World Zionist Organization,
the Shekel buys membership in
the Zionist Movement. But more,
the Shekel, acquired through the
organization of his choice, gives
the individul Jew a voice in the
future of Israel.
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Further evidence of its in-
delible imprint on Jewish life
is in the six laws governing
its use recorded in the Fourth
Tractate of Moed, in the Second
Division of the Mishnah and
the Talmud. They strongly re-
semble the complicated instruc-
tions found today on our own
Bureau of Internal Revenue
tax forms!
And not only was it a tax, but
a census device as well. These
Shekolim were used to count the
individual contributor in the na-
tional census, the first historical
attempt to determine the popula-
tion of a country with any degree
of accuracy.
Its first Diaspora use is re-
counted in the Books of Ezra and
Nehemiah when the Jews, exiled
in Babylonia, continued to assess
themselves to help build the
Second Temple. Later the annual
half-Shekel assessment was con-
tinued at home and in exile, to.
support the sanctuary of the na-
tion and the cultural and relig-
ious institutions of the Yishuv.
Its extraordinary persistence in
the minds and hearts of the peo-
ple is people is revealed after
Judea succumbed to the Roman
legions. When the conquerors
decreed the Shekel proceeds were
to go into the Imperial Treasury
as "Fiscus Judaicus," the Jews
taxed themselves an equivalent
amount so as not to deprive the
Yishuv's academies and students
of the means to preserve the cul-
ture of the Jewish nation.
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future of his people.
Moses himself introduced a
half-Shekel levy on every Jew
over 20 to defray the expense of
building the tabernacle. This
"Shekel of the Sanctuary" was
the embodiment of the traditional
Jewish spirit of equality, before
the Lord.
"The rich shall not give more,
and the poor shall not give less
than the half-Shekel when they
make the offering of the Lord,"
the law admonishes in Exodust:
30:12.
'Havel Havalim, Hakol Havel'
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24th Congress Meeting
Next year in Jerusalem, the
24th World Zionist Congress will
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ces of the U.S. Central Shekel
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Election Board, which repre-
sents t h e following national
bodies with a combined enroll-
ment of close to three quarters of
a million Jews:
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A Happy
and Prosperous
NEW YEAR
to all our
many friends
Robinson
furniture company
Downtown — Washington Boulevard near Grand River
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Northland — Greenfield Road Entrance "E"
EL. 6-2300
Achdut-Avodah-Poale Zion,
Hadassah, Hapoel Hamizrachi„
Hashomer Hatzair, Mizrachi Or-
ganization of America, Peale
Zion, United Zionists Revision-
ists, Zionist Organization of
America, Bnai Zion, Farband-
Labor Zionist Order, Hapoel
Hamizrachi Women, Mizrachi
Women, Pioneer Women.
The Board, with headquarters
at 342 Madison Avenue, New
York, is headed by Charles Ress,
of Mt. Vernon, N.Y., chairman.
Other officers include: Jullien
Benjamin, Jacob Katzman, Rabbi
Henry H. Rubins, David Epstein
and Claire J. Okonowitz.
All who acquire the symbolic
Shekel are entitled to participate
in the election of delegates to the
Congress, and at the same time
demonstrate the organized
strength of Zionism as a force for
Israel and Jewish life in this
country.
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