Let there be light

By Susan Freudenheim
Published on October 3, 2012

We take light for granted. But in the Torah’s opening chapter of Bereshit, it was God’s first gift. It seems fitting, then, that when a local synagogue committed itself to helping an impoverished village in rural Uganda, the first gift would be to turn on the lights — to give the gift of solar-powered electricity.

Harvesting solar power in Negev Desert

Published on September 27, 2012

Yosef Abramowitz is running out of time. With only minutes to go until he has to speak to a group of donors at the Jewish National Fund (JNF), Abramowitz looks like he just finished a workout. He’s wearing sneakers, shorts and a white T-shirt featuring an outline of David Ben-Gurion’s head superimposed on the picture of a sun.

Head in the clouds and feet in the desert, Yosef Abramowitz dreams of Israeli solar power

Published on August 2, 2012

Yosef Abramowitz is running out of time. With only minutes to go until he has to speak to a group of donors at the Jewish National Fund, Abramowitz looks like he just finished a workout. He's wearing sneakers, shorts and a white T-shirt featuring an outline of David Ben-Gurion's head superimposed on the picture of a sun.

Community Briefs: Greek and Jewish Concert, British Chief Rabbi Address Jews, Solar Power

Published on March 25, 2009

Linens and things II: A bright idea

By Mrs. Shoshana F
Published on March 24, 2008

Briefs: Espere la Luz in Mojave, Alonim campers step up to help, kids library returns

Published on August 2, 2007

Community briefs.

Class Notes - National Nachas for Shalhevet

By Julie G Fax
Published on March 9, 2006

Five brief pieces, on the following: Shalhevet School's recent winning streak, Camp Ramah's new solar panels, a five-day summer workshop that shows teachers how to use studying the holocaust to teach morality, an opportunity to serve abroad as part of the "Jewish Peace Corps," and a recent Prejudice Awareness Summit at the University of Judaism.