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18 ADAR II 5774 • MARCH 20, 2014 • VOLUME XXXVIII, NUMBER 6 • PERIODICALS POSTAGE PAID, SYRACUSE, NY

Federation seeking survivors and names for “Book of Remembrance”

By Judith Stander Survivors The Yom Hashoah Planning Committee of the Jewish Federation of Central New York is planning the community

Yom Hashoah Memorial Observance, which will be held on Sunday, April 27, at 3 pm, at Temple Adath Yeshurun, this year’s host congregation. This year’s program will mark the 75th

Rabbi Bob Alper comedy night rescheduled

Rabbi Bob Alper

Expressing appreciation for the community’s understanding, the Jewish Federation of Central New York canceled a Campaign thank you event scheduled for March 12 because of inclement weather. The comedy night with Rabbi Bob Alper has been rescheduled for Wednesday, April 9, at Temple Concord, 910 Madison St. Alper will perform at 7 pm, after a 6 pm kosher wine tasting. Due to the sponsorship of Berkshire Bank Foundation, there will be no charge for admission. Free parking will be available in the Temple Concord lot, 910 Madison St.; at the 1200 East Genesee St. medical office building; in the parking lot of Grace Church, 819 Madison St.; and in the parking lot at 404-406 University Ave.

anniversary of the last Kindertransport, an operation that helped hundreds of children escape from Europe to safety just as World War II began. In addition, the Safe Haven Project in nearby Oswego will recognize its 70th anniversary and will be a part of this year’s event. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum defines a survivor as a person who was displaced, persecuted and/or discriminated against by the racial, religious, ethnic and political policies of the Nazis and their allies. In addition to former inmates of concentration camps and ghettos, this includes, among others, refugees and people in hiding. Local survivors who may not yet have participated in Yom Hashoah events in Central New York, especially anyone who was rescued by the Kindertransport, is of special interest to Federation staff so that they can be recognized at the program as a survivor. When the Safe Haven program at Fort

Ontario in Oswego was in operation, local community members provided help in a variety of ways to these European refugees. Anyone who was active with the refugees should contact Judith Stander at 445-0161, ext. 114, or jstander@jewishfederationcny.org for more information. Federation Book of Remembrance The Jewish Federation of Central New York maintains a leather-bound “Book of Remembrance” in its archives, which contains the names of many individuals and families lost during the Holocaust. Each year at the annual community Yom Hashoah memorial observance, the names are read aloud to help ensure that they are always remembered. To submit names of family members lost in the Holocaust for inclusion in the Federation’s Book of Remembrance, contact Judith Stander at 445-0161, ext. 114, or jstander@jewishfederationcny.org.

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Breakthrough Israeli brain-mapping technology was showcased at AIPAC conference

is complicated, said Gadot. “The human brain is a highly complex See “Brain” on page 7

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brain-related disorders, including developmental problems (autism and ADHD, for example), neurological disorders (brain injuries, epilepsy), mental problems and neurodegenerative disorders. But understanding these diseases and disorders can be highly complicated – because the brain

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President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with ElMindA founder Ben-Gurion University Prof. Amir Geva (far left) and ElMindA CEO Ronen Gadot, during Obama’s visit to Israel in March 2013. (Photo by Kobi Gideon)

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By Maayan Jaffe JNS.org It was one year ago February that President Barack Obama announced plans for a landmark effort to better understand the workings of the brain. It was seven years before then that a now-burgeoning company in Herzliya, Israel, began developing the ground-breaking brain mapping and imaging technology that will play a role in achieving the president’s goal by helping detect and manage a host of brain-related disorders and conditions. ElMindA’s Brain Network Activation (BNA) takes cognitive-electrophysiology to a new frontier, unparalleled by any other test. The breakthrough technology was exhibited at the 2014 AIPAC Policy Conference early in March 2-4. ElMindA was selected to exhibit its technology over hundreds of other Israeli companies. Ronen Gadot, CEO of ElMindA, explained in an interview with JNS.org that the seeds for the company were planted 35 years ago, with the preliminary research done by Ben-Gurion University Professor Amir Geva, a graduate of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. He said the BNA technology is based on non-invasive recordings of multi-channel electrocephalography (EEG) event-related potentials (ERPs), and a comprehensive multi-dimensional analysis of such recordings. The BNA algorithms use innovative sets of signal processing, pattern recognition, clustering and machine-learning techniques to seek and map activated neural pathways in task-related data points

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The 2014 Campaign is underway! To make your pledge, contact Marianne at 445-2040 ext. 102 or mbazydlo@jewishfederationCNY.org.

C A N D L E L I G H T I N G A N D P A R AS H A March 21..................6:59 pm.............................................................Parasha-Shemini March 28..................7:07 pm.................................................................Parasha-Tazria April 4.......................7:15 pm.............................................................Parasha-Metzora

INSIDE THIS ISSUE “20s and 30s” event

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Kosher supermarkets

The JCC will host the second Mandy Patinkin will perform in Some stores in the Winn-Dixie “20s and 30s” breakfast event Syracuse; the JCC teen spring mu- supermarket chain in the South on March 30. sic show; and a klezmer concert. focus on kosher foods. Story on page 3 Stories on page 5 Story on page 7

PLUS Calendar Highlights................10 B’nai Mitzvah............................10 Mazel Tov...................................10 Obituaries.................................. 11


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