Author Writes Of Ethiopia
Israelis Go "Green'
Innovative solar technology that may offer a "green" solution to the produc-
Children's book author Jane Kurtz, who grew up in
tion of hydrogen fuel has been successfully tested on a large scale at the
Ethiopia, will share her tale of The Storyteller's Beads in
Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.
conjunction with Shalom Street's outdoor exhibition,
The technology also promises to facilitate the storage and
"With Stone Shoes: An Ethiopian Jewish Journey."
transportation
of hydrogen. The chemical process behind the
Kurtz will read excerpts from her book at 10 a.m.
technology
was
originally developed at Weizmann and has been
Sunday, Aug. 14, at Shalom Street and at 2 p.m. the
scaled
up
in
collaboration
with European scientists.
same day in the Henry and Delia Meyers Library,
Results
of
the
experiments
will be reported this month at the
ie
both at the Jewish Community Center in West
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Solar
World
Congress
of
the International Solar Energy
Bloomfield.
Society
(ISES)
in
Orlando.
The award-winning author lived in Ethiopia with
Beads
Hydrogen, the most plentiful element in the universe, is an
her missionary parents and she draws on that expe-
attractive
candidate for becoming a pollution-free fuel of the future.
rience in her books. Set against civil war and
However,
nearly all hydrogen used today is produced by means of
e
famine in Ethiopia, The Storyteller's Beads deals
expensive
processes
that require combustion of polluting fossil fuels.
with hardship and finding friendship.
Moreover,
storing
and
transporting hydrogen is extremely difficult
After her readings, she will be on hand to
and
costly.
answer questions and sign copies of her book.
The new solar technology tackles these problems by creating an eas-
Kurtz's appearance is presented through the
ily storable intermediate energy source form from metal ore, such as
Jewish Community Voyages of Discovery pro-
zinc oxide. With the help of concentrated sunlight, the ore is heated to
gram and a gift from Judy and Irwin Elson.
about
1,200 degrees Celsius in a solar reactor in the presence of wood
"With Stone Shoes," an interactive exhibit about
charcoal.
The process splits the ore, releasing oxygen and creating
Ethiopian Jewish culture and the Jews' exodus from
gaseous
zinc,
which is then condensed to a powder.
Ethiopia to a new home in Israel, runs through Sept. 29.
Zinc
powder
can later be reacted with water, yielding hydrogen to be
The exhibit is suitable for children and adults and features hands-on activities and
used
as
fuel,
and
zinc oxide, which is recycled back to zinc in the solar
multi-media experiences that discuss their religious practices, food, music and arts.
plant.
In
recent
experiments,
the 300-kilowatt installation produced 45
Tickets for "With Stone Shoes" are $4 per person or $18 per family. For infor-
kilograms of zinc powder from zinc oxide in one hour, exceeding projected
mation, call (248) 432-5543.
— Keri Guten Cohen, goals .
The process generates no pollution, and the resultant zinc can be easily
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stored and transported and converted to hydrogen on demand.
"After many years of basic research, we are pleased to see the scientific
principles developed at the Institute validated by technological develop-
ment," said Professor Jacob Karni, head of the Center for Energy Research
at Weizmann.
The Jewish community of David-Horodok, in what is now is now in Belarus,
The concept of splitting metal ores with the help of sunlight has been
thrived for 500 years until the 17th of Av, Aug. 10, 1941, when the town's gen-
under development over several years at the Weizmann Institute's Canadian
tiles collected the 3,000 Jewish males, and with help of the Germans, machine-
Institute for the Energies and Applied Research, one of the most sophisti-
gunned and buried them.
cated solar research facilities in the world.
By Sept. 10, 1942, the 28th of Elul, the 1,100 remaining Jewish women and
children, were taken to the same location and killed.
The David-Horodoker Organization will hold it's ninth annual Yizkor service
at 7 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 21, at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills.
"The Jews in these small towns never got to the concentration camps because it
was early in the war," said Norma Gorosh, 78, of West Bloomfield. "There are so
many killing fields in all these small towns, and we're the only ones left to
remember these people."
"By highlighting such a morally vexing and endlessly debated chapter in
Gorosh, the organization's co-president with Roz Blanck of West Bloomfield
Israeli history — one that introduced the still controversial Israeli tactic
said 125 people attended last year, mostly grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
now known as targeted killings — Mr. Spielberg could jeopardize his
For information, contact Norma Gorosh, (248) 855-6955, or Susann
tremendous stature among Jews both in the United States and in Israel."
Kauffman, (248) 538-8866.
teileYS
David-Horodok Yizkor Service
Quotables
The David-Ilorodok
"Yarnell Class," 1926
— David Halbfingen
writing in the New York Times about Jewish director Steven Spielberg's com-
ing, untitled movie about the squad of Mossad hit men ordered to hunt down
Palestinian terrorists who murdered 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics
in Munich. Quoted in Ami Eden's Viewpoint appearing in the Forward.
OLtret 'cha Don't Know
The Guiness World Book of Records just certified the oldest living married
couple in the world, and they are Jewish. Do you know who they are?
— Goldfein
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