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Saturday, November 10, 1984
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ANNOUNCING
Israef's 15th Hanukka commemorative- coins.
AN HIRDRIC
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ISRAEL'S 1984 HANUKKA
COMMEMORATIVE COINS
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Israel Government.Coins and Medals Corporation
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Please reserve the following 1984 Hanukka Commemorative coins:
Quant.
Coin
Metal
Diameter
2 Shekel Silver/8 50 37 mm
1. Shekel Silver/8 50 30 mm
Weight
28.8 g
14.4 g
Legal tender issued by the Bank of Israel
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Reservations must be postmarked by November 16, 1984 to assure confirmation
of your order. You will receive your order form and price to confirm your option.
Profits from the sale of these commemorative coins are earmarked for improve-
ment of Israel's landscapes.
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BY RABBI M. ROBERT SYME
Special to The Jewish News
The story of Noah and the
Flood, like ancient Gaul, can be
divided into three parts: events
before, during and after. Little
children, especially 5-year-olds,
are interested primarily in what
transpired immediately before the
flood. They envy Noah's children
who were so fortunate as to have
their own personal pets. They
make all kinds of suggestions as
to how the ark should be built;
where to put the television; what
furniture to place in the family
room.
Last year, I made the mistake of
telling this story to the 8-year-
olds. One boy raised his hand and
said: "Rabbi Syme, my father is a
builder. As I listened to your
story, I realized it is obviously not
true. With all the many animals
who needed housing — elephants,
giraffes, kangaroos — it had to be
a tremendous ark. How could
Noah and his small family build
an ark that size? Where did they
get the lumber? How clid;ihey in-
stall the plumbing?"
And then he asked this marvel-
ously mature qUestion: "Where
did Noah find a bank to finance
that ark?"
Through the ages, historians
and students of the Bible have
been trying to prove that the story
of Noah and the Flood is literally
true. Some scholars have gone so
far as to claim that they have
found the exact location where the
ark finally came to rest. Whether
their efforts will ever be vindi-
cated remains to be seen.
The fact is, however, that the
story of Noah is taking place in
our time. The floods of corruption
have reached torrential propor-
tions. Every day we read of people
in high places — policemen,
Rabbi M. Robert Syme is
spiritual leader of Temple Is-
rael in West Bloomfield.
Born in Winnepeg, Canada,
he received a Bachelor of Arts
degree at Wesley College in
Winnipeg in 1941 and was or-
dained as rabbi in New York at
Hebrew Union College-Jewish
Institute of Religion in 1945.
He received a Master of Arts
degree in education at Univer-
sity of Pittsburgh in 1960.
Rabbi Syme is past president
of the Family Service Society of
Metropolitan Detroit, trustee
of Credit Counseling Centers
Inc. of Michigan, a member of
the Alumni Board of Overseers
of Hebrew Union College.
He is former president of the
Central Conference of Ameri-
can Rabbis' Ohio Valley-Great
Lakes- Western Pennsylvania
Region and has a Doctor of Di-
vinity from Hebrew Union Col-
lege (1970.
He is a 33rd Degree Mason,
cabinet member of the Anti-
Defamation League and
member, Michigan Regional
Advisory Board of ADL, the
Rabbinical Advisory Council of
the United Jewish Appeal, Na-
tional Rabbinic Cabinet of
State of Israel Bonds, Board of
Directors, Michigan Chapter,
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politicians, judges — who have
betrayed the high calling of their
position, and permitted greed to
drown out goodness. The high rate
of divorce spews forth a mounting
rate of casualties, bearing the
wounds of disillusionment and
the scars of distrust. Words like
virtue, responsibility, trust have
been banished from the lexicon of
our vocabulary. Instead, we are
inundated with phrases like "You
owe it to yourself," "I couldn't care
Noah:
Genesis 6:9-11:32.
Isaiah 66:1-24.
less," "What's in it for me" — all
catering to human selfishness.
What can we do, how can we
stem the mounting tide of delin-
quency that threatens to wash
away those spiritual, moral and
ethical values that enabled our
people to survive while other
groups sank ino oblivion?
The answer is to be found in the
story of Noah. When Noah per-
ceived that the flood was at hand,
he took his family into the ark.
Similarly today, the united fam-
ily, secure in the home, is the
greatest bulwark against the
storms that threaten to engulf us.
True, as individuals, we some-
times feel helpless against the
proliferation of nuclear weapons
that, if not unchecked, will surely
destroy our world. Some of you
may have seen- Dan Rather's re-
port on television recently, por-
About Rabbi Syme .. .
You musL reserve by Vvember 16, 1,984.
In 1981 a unique Hanukkiya, or
Hanukka lamp, was presented to the
Yad Vashem Museum in Israel. It had
been fashioned from scrap metal in the
infamous Theresienstadt ghetto during
the second world war.
Israel's 15th Hanukka Commemora-
tive Coins offer homage to the victims of
Theresienstadt, to a heroic and tragic epi-
sode at the time of the Holocaust.
The coins are being issued in denom-
inations of one shekel and two shekel, and
are limited to one silver Proof 2-shekel
coin and two silver. B. U. 1-shekel coins to
each collector. Reservations postmarked
after November 16, 1984 cannot be ac-
cepted. So share this historic occasion by
placing your order today.
The ark of family life
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Rabbi Synte
American Friends of the He-
brew University and Board of
Directors of Orchestra Hall.
He is on the advisory board
of Comprehensive Psychiatric
Services and is active with
Jewish National Fund, the
Commission on Jewish Educa-
tion of the Union of American
Hebrew Congregations and the
National Commission on
Rabbinic-Congregational Re-
lations.
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