JANUARY 30 • 2020 | 19

B’nai Moshe To Launch 
“Shabbat Experience”

Congregation B’
nai Moshe is embark-
ing on an innovative way to celebrate 
Shabbat with Shabbat Experience, 
beginning Saturday, Feb. 1. While 
traditional services are being chanted 
in the sanctuary, this group will meet 
at 10 a.m. in the Cantor Klein Chapel 
on the first and third Saturdays of 
each month for a more casual expe-
rience designed to increase spiritual 
satisfaction and build community. 
Attire is “come-as-you-are,
” wheth-
er that be a suit or jeans. The group 
will learn together and from one 
another. Each week will be focused on 
the meaning of a specific prayer and 
the personal significance that prayer 
evokes. The prayer will be read in 
Hebrew and translated, with a discus-
sion of the concepts in those words. 
Further discussions will delve into the 

language of the prayer — how does 
it reach individuals emotionally? Is it 
spiritually enriching? 
The group also will sing together, 
learn new songs and relearn old ones. 
Meditation also will be part of the 
service. 
At the Feb. 1 Shabbat Experience, 
the group will explore the morning 
blessing through a lens of mind-
fulness and gratitude, facilitated by 
Hannah Fine. Also, the structure of 
the service will be discussed, laying a 
foundation for further study, led by 
Marc Sussman. 
The next Shabbat Experience will 
be Feb. 15. The sessions are open to 
the community. For details, call (248) 
788-0600 or visit bnaimoshe.org. 

From Congregation B’
nai Moshe 

 
Science Magazine’s 
2019 People’s Choice 
Breakthrough of the Year 

Last September, Hebrew University of 
Jerusalem researchers Prof. Liran Carmel 
and Dr. David Gokhman captivated the 
science world with their reconstruction of 
a Denisovan, the mysterious human species 
that lived 100,000 years ago but disappeared. 
Now, Science magazine has named their discov-
ery the 2019 People’
s Choice for Breakthrough 
of the Year.
Carmel’
s and Gokhman’
s model relied on 
DNA from the barest of remains — just a 
pinky bone — and gave the world a glimpse of 
this nearly unknown ancestor of modern-day 
humans. 
After an initial round of competition that 
included more than 23,000 votes, Carmel — the 
only Israeli researcher to be nominated — made 
it to the final round and ultimately prevailed 
over three other finalists.