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Non-Profit Organization U.S. Postage PAID Norwich, CT 06360 Permit #329 Serving The Jewish Communities of Eastern Connecticut & Western R.I. CHANGE SERVICE RETURN TO: 28 Channing St., New London, CT 06320 REQUESTED VOL. XLVII NO.14 PUBLISHED BI-WEEKLY JULY 23, 2021/14 AV 5781 NEXT DEADLINE JULY 30, 2021 16 PAGES HOW TO REACH US - PHONE 860-442-8062 • FAX 860-540-1475 • EMAIL [email protected] • BY MAIL: 28 CHANNING STREET, NEW LONDON, CT 06320 JFEC Annual Campaign Kickoff Annual Harold Juli Memorial & Ice Cream Social - It’s So Cool! Cantors’ Concert August 1 Come and enjoy a fun afternoon on You must register to attend. Congregation Beth El of Waterford/New 2007, after which the synagogue Sunday, August 8, 2021 from 4:30- The deadline to register is London is pleased to present its annual Harold Board of Directors voted to name D. Juli Memorial Cantor’s Concert on Sunday, the event in his memory; sadly, 6:30 PM at the Hygienic Art Park at Wed., Aug. 4. August 1, 2021, beginning at 7:00 PM via Zoom. he was to be the congregation’s 79 Bank Street, New London. Here’s how to register: This year will feature two crowd-pleasers, next president. 1. Online by going to the www. Hazzan Sanford Cohn and Cantor Michael Zoos- There is no charge to view the JFEC.com website. Go to man who will be accompanied by pianist Na- performance, but non-members event date on the calendar tasha Ulyanovsky. They will be performing a are asked to please contact the at the bottom of the home variety of music genres including Ladino, show synagogue at 860-442-0418 or page and click on JFEC An- tunes, Hebrew songs, North American pop by email [email protected] for nual Kick Off – Ice Cream Jewish composers, Yiddish songs, and Jewish the Zoom link; the event will be Social and follow the direc- songs of healing. It promises to be the musical recorded and added to the “Con- tions to register. You will event of the summer. gregation Beth El of New Lon- be given the choice to pay The concert was named for Dr. Harold Juli, don, CT” YouTube Channel. locally (at the door); or on who was an active member and leader of Con- Congregation Beth El is a the website using PayPal. diverse, egalitarian commu- There will be live music, yummy ice cream, and Online is the preferred way the board of directors for many years, includ- nity that celebrates our faith, schmoozing galore! to register. inggregation chair ofBeth the El.Ritual He servedCommittee as an and officer several on heritage, and culture within the We’ll groove to the music of local rock band 2. Email [email protected] us- search committees. He served for many years framework of Conservative Juda- Rock King Rowe-- made up of local musicians Chris ing subject line Ice Cream as the “Gabbi” at High Holy Day services. Har- ism. Our congregation welcomes Rock, Dan King, and Jonathan Rowe. Social and provide your old took tremendous pride and joy each Rosh persons of all ages, races, gen- Everyone will name and phone number Hashanah, when he was privileged to blow the der orientations and religious be entered into and how many people are traditional ram’s horn, the shofar. A professor streams and strives to enrich the the best ice cream attending in your fam- of anthropology at Connecticut College for 33 lives of those it touches through sundae contest ily. You may pay at the door years, Harold was also the associate dean of the worship, learning, fellowship, and be eligible to with cash or mail a check faculty from 1987 to 1990, before returning to celebration and tikun olam— win fun prizes. made payable to JFEC, to 28 full-time teaching. He passed away in February healing the world. The Ice Cream Channing St., New London, Social is $18 per CT 06320. In the memo line Response to Ben & Jerry’s person. Proceeds from this event will go to the Fed- of the check be sure to write eration’s Operation Cool Down program, where Ice Cream Social. we supply free air conditioners to individuals and Israeli settlements exit families in need of relief from the heat. By JTA Staff ny’s Jewish founders, Ben Cohen, Kosher supermarkets are rethinking their in- RISE TO THE CHALLENGE! ventory. Politicians are emptying their freezers. manage the brand but have often And the foreign minister of Israel is vowing to usedand Jerrytheir Greenfield,frozen treats no to longer push get involved in local US politics. social justice causes.) NSO hacking spyware Here are some of the reac- that quirky ice cream manufacturer Ben & Jer- tions to the company’s freezing must be stopped ry’sThe set reactionsoff July 19 were with all its part announcement of the firestorm that out of its business relations in By Zev Stub, Jerusalem Post it would no longer sell ice cream in “Occupied Israel. ing to silence journalists, attack Following publication of a report claiming to Palestinian Territory.” Israeli politicians go on the activists and crush dissent, placing prove that Herzliya-based NSO Group Technologies’ The Vermont-based company, founded by offensive countless lives in peril,” Amnesty In- Pegasus hacking spyware is being used to violate two Jews and long known for its left-leaning Reactions from Israel’s lead- ternational Secretary General Agnès human rights, human-rights groups and technology politics, had gone dark on social media for two ers were harsh. Despite the dis- Callamard said. leaders have called on the company to halt opera- months since the recent outbreak of violence in tinctions, Ben & Jerry’s made in NSO’s software can install itself tions. Israel and Gaza. The announcement broke that its statement between Israel and on a phone without a user’s knowl- The Pegasus Project, a collaboration of more than silence, simultaneously infuriating Israel advo- the “Occupied Palestinian Terri- edge and provide attackers access to 80 journalists from 17 media organizations in 10 cates who said the decision was an unfair attack tory,” Prime Minister Naftali Ben- countries set on exposing human-rights violations on Israel and disappointing pro-Palestinian ad- nett, a longtime supporter of the Among other things, Pegasus has committed using the spyware, on Sunday said it had vocates who said the company should have gone settlements, called the decision a beenall activities accused and of files playing on the a device.role in a list of 50,000 phone numbers belonging to jour- farther. “boycott of Israel” and said Ben the murder of Saudi dissident Jamal nalists, human-rights activists and others who were Israeli politicians, supermarkets in the US, and Jerry’s “decided to brand it- Khashoggi by agents of the Saudi potentially under surveillance by governments and various pundits and even Ben & Jerry’s current self as an anti-Israel ice cream.” government in 2018. Amnesty said other organizations using the Pegasus software. Israeli licensee went after the ice cream maker His predecessor, Benjamin Ne- it found evidence that the spyware The report “lays bare how NSO’s spyware is a and its corporate parent, the British multina- tanyahu, tweeted, “Now we Is- tional Unilever, for its statement. (The compa- weapon of choice for repressive governments seek- NSO CONT. ON PG 13 RESPONSE CONT. ON PG 12 2 THE JEWISH LEADER, JULY 23, 2021 Blind man’s brain learns to ‘see’ through his ears By Abigail Klein Leichman, Israel21c represented by adja- Israeli neuroscientists trained a 50-year-old man, blind from birth, cent neurons, whereas to recognize objects using a sensory substitution algorithm called those of radically differ- EyeMusic. ent pitches were repre- Developed by Prof. Amir Amedi, founding director of the Baruch sented by neurons that Ivcher Institute for Brain, Cognition & Technology at IDC Herzliya, Ey- were distant from one eMusic converts visual stimuli into “soundscapes” — sound units that another. convey information about geometric shapes. Functional magnetic resonance imaging of the man’s brain before that topographic maps and after he learned to recognize soundscapes revealed that neu- haveThis been is the shown first time to ral circuits in his brain had formed “topographic maps” previously emerge in an adult hu- thought incapable of forming after infancy. man brain. “The human brain is indeed more plastic during infancy, but it “Critical periods are maintains an enormous potential for reprogramming throughout a not permanent cut-off person’s life,” said Amedi, who did groundbreaking research into sen- points for developing sory substitution devices at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem be- new sensory abilities — fore joining IDC in 2019. rather, in a way, we can The latest study, reported in the journal NeuroImage, provides new give the brain a second evidence of the brain’s ability to change. It holds out promise that peo- chance at any point in IDC Prof. Amir Amedi with a simulation of a soundscape that conveys geo- ple can be trained to restore lost function, for example after a stroke. life,” Amedi said. Study co-author Shir Hofstetter from the Spinoza Centre for Neuro- metric information enabling the brain to “see” without vision. Photo courtesy imaging in Amsterdam, said that after the subject learned to interpret of Amir Amedi soundscapes, “his neural circuits were shown to be activated not only in the auditory cortices, but also in the occipital cortex, which receives visual stimuli in sighted people and is not expected to be activated in a congenitally blind individual.” TECHNOLOGY. TRADITION. TORAH. The scans revealed topographic maps tuned to pitch and time that Congregation Beth El is welcoming new members.