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hope you find these sources interesting to explore and share with others during
the holiday celebrations.
Why build (and dwell in) a sukkah?
In the book of Leviticus (23:42-43), we find both the commandment to dwell in
booths and the initial reason for doing so. Over the ages, many scholars have
pointed to additional meanings in the act of living in an impermanent home,
even for a brief period. In a 17th-century commentary called the Kli Yakar,
Rabbi Shlomo Ephraim ben Aaron Luntschitz suggests that the sukkah can remind
us of our own ephemerality, while Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, in a 20th-century
essay, points out a connection to the Tabernacle and the journey we’re all on.
It’s raining, it’s pouring.
What happens if you can’t sit in the sukkah due to weather and other pesky
outdoor problems? This question was first explored in the Mishnah (Sukkah 2:9),
where the rabbis use a colorful metaphor to clarify what rain in a sukkah might
indicate. But that’s not the only exemption! In a 13th-century commentary on the
Mishnah, French Rabbi Menachem Meiri reminds us that heat can make
sukkah-dwelling hard, too, and 21st-century halakhic scholar Rabbi Eliezer
Melamed addresses the problems of cold nights and the resultant sniffles in his
legal work, Peninei Halakhah.
Four species, many reasons.
One Sukkot ritual involves reciting a blessing over the act of shaking the four
species: lulav (closed palm fronds), etrog (citron fruit), hadas (myrtle
bough), and aravah (willow branch). Over the centuries, many have suggested
reasons for the practice. Vayikrah Rabbah, an early midrash on the book of
Leviticus, draws a connection to the human body, while another early text,
known as Midrash Tanchuma, sees them as a metaphor for the Jewish community.
Centuries later, the medieval scholar Rambam found a more rationalist meaning,
related to the transition from a nation of wanderers to a grounded people.
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Contributions to Medicine
Karl
Landsteiner, a Jew—Nobel Prize Honoree
A
blood transfusion is the medical process of transferring blood or its
components from a donor to a recipient to replace lost blood, treat anemia, or
provide essential blood products.…
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Jewish
Contributions to Medicine
Karl
Landsteiner, a Jew—Nobel Prize Honoree
A
blood transfusion is the medical process of transferring blood or its
components from a donor to a recipient to replace lost blood, treat anemia, or
provide essential blood products.
A
blood transfusion involves collecting blood from a donor and administering it
to a recipient through a vein. It is commonly used to replace blood lost due to
injury, surgery, or trauma, treat severe anemia, or provide specific blood
components such as red blood cells, plasma, platelets, or clotting factors when
the body cannot produce them adequately. Transfusions can also deliver
antibodies to help fight infections.
Blood
transfusions remain a life-saving intervention when performed under proper
medical protocols, with careful monitoring and adherence to safety standards.
In
1901,Karl Landsteiner, a Jew, carried out experiments using six samples of
blood, 5 from his colleagues that worked in the same building as he did, along
with his own blood. He cross-tested the sera (the clear liquid of blood without
the blood cells in it) and the red cells of the blood donors.
He
observed that the RBCs did not react with their own serum, but when exposing
the serum of one donor with another donor’s RBCs, he noticed that agglutination
(the clumping of RBCs) occurred. In this way, he developed the ABO blood group
system.
Later,
in 1940, Landsteiner and Alexander S. Wiener discovered another blood group —
the Rh system. ‘Rh’ stands for rhesus, after the rhesus macaque monkey whose
blood the team used in their experiments. For his earlier ABO discovery,
Landsteiner had already won the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
We are delighted to invite Arthur’s friends, family, colleagues, former
students, and everyone in the Mercer Bucks Jewish community to a special event
on November 1 - The Trenton Jewish Experience Homecoming Reunion!
We
will be celebrating two honorees: Arthur and Rabbi Yitzchak Goldenberg.
Arthur
has spent a lifetime bringing people together—as an educator, mediator, author,
community leader, and devoted servant of Jewish life. His career has taken him from
anti-poverty work in Trenton and leadership in N.J. State Government to decades
of teaching, volunteering, and mentoring.
For
decades, Arthur has been involved in Jewish education and service, including
serving as a religious school principal, teaching Talmud, and serving as a Baal
Tekiah in synagogues and extended-care facilities. He is currently President of
the Trenton-Princeton-Bucks Jewish Historical Society and serves on the Board
of Directors of the Greater Trenton Jewish Cemetery Project. Arthur served on
the Social Action Committee of the National Reform Movement and on the
Educational Committee of the National Conservative Movement. Arthur was the
Jewish representative on the Trenton Diocese's Committee on Ecumenism.
A
graduate of Rutgers University and the Wharton Graduate School of the
University of Pennsylvania, Arthur has taught generations of students at Kean
University and Rider University in subjects ranging from business, negotiation,
and mediation to history, government, ethics, and nonprofit fundraising.
His commitment to community extends well beyond the classroom. Arthur has also
shared his knowledge and ideas through more than 30 books, hundreds of
articles, and countless presentations. But beyond the titles, accomplishments,
and publications, Arthur’s greatest legacy may be the people he has
touched—students he has taught, colleagues he has worked alongside,
organizations he has supported, and friends and family whose lives he has
enriched.
Please click through this event link for information.
We
look forward to celebrating together!
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happy with Andrew E Finkle and
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Celebrate Arthur Finkle for a lifetime of Community Service. It's our
Trenton Jewish REUNION!
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Hi Arthur. Mazeltov! Looking forward to
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Congratulations and Mazel Tov Arthur Finkle! What a wonderful event! Looking forward to it
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Congratulations Arthur Finkle. My parents
if you remember them they owned Weinstein's Deli in Lawrence as my dad Frank J.
Genovay Jr. is still alive, but my mom Elizabeth Genovay passed away in 2017. I
also attended Carousel Club 
at the old JCC in
Ewing.
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Tx, Frank. I certainly had the pleasure of
knowing your family.
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