Elul/Tishri 5776-5777 • October 2016
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60 and Better are Out & About in Put-in-Bay
By Nancy Jacobson Religious School students and community members have a rare chance to meet a “Lone Soldier” this month. Former Sgt. Nikoline Larsen will speak October 9 about her experience in the military. Larsen is 22 years old and was born in Denmark. Her mother was born in Israel and her father was born in Denmark. Her father volunteered on a kibbutz during his youth. Lone Soldier continued on page 16
Former Sgt. Nikoline Larsen
Jewish Toledo native honored by NASA
By Emily Gordon Marc Rayman has an extraordinary job. In fact, it’s out of this world. As a top rocket scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, the Toledo and Sylvania native uncovers and explores the mysteries of space. At a recent ceremony in the nation’s capital, he was honored with a trophy for the country’s greatest achievement in space or aviation. The annual Robert J. Collier Trophy was awarded to Rayman's Dawn mission, the only spacecraft in history to orbit two destinations beyond Earth. Under his guidance as chief engineer and mission director, Dawn has conducted “exceptionally successful” explorations of dwarf planet Ceres, the first dwarf planet discovered 129 years before its better known sibling, Pluto, and protoplanet Vesta. Prior to Dawn, they were the largest uncharted alien worlds in the inner solar system, and Dawn has revealed them in rich detail, Rayman said. The key to exploring them was ion propulsion, he said, which he first heard of in an episode of Star Trek. Rayman was instrumental in “turning that piece of science fiction into science fact,” he said.
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Children's Corner at the Jewish Art Festival
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Toledo Jewish Art Festival
Marc Rayman The ceremony was attended by several members of Congress, NASA leaders, and a number of luminaries in space and aviation. Previous recipients of the trophy, which was first awarded in 1911, include Orville Wright, Howard Hughes, Chuck Yeager, the crew of the Apollo 11 moon landing, and the Voyager mission team. Dawn has now surpassed all of its original objectives after an interHonored continued on page 16
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Former "Lone Soldier" will speak in Toledo