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Linda Sarsour Is a Friend to Jews Linda Sarsour is a friend to Jews BYRABBI BARAT ELLMANRABBI ELLEN LIPPMANN NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Sunday, May 7, 2017, 5:00 AM Linda Sarsour, a Palestinian-American activist, is invited to speak at graduation this year by the School of Public Health of the City University of New York. This has provoked a vicious smear campaign, led by state Assemblyman Dov Hikind, intended to bully the school into withdrawing the invitation. It’s the latest piece of a dishonest decade-long attempt to associate Sarsour with Islamic fundamentalism, anti-Semitism and hate. We are rabbis in Brooklyn who have worked with Sarsour for more than a decade and, even if at times we do not entirely agree with her, we stand with her as friends and allies to support her and refute the false claims against her. False claim one: Sarsour sees “the Jews” as “her enemies” — that’s the way Hikind put it in an Op-Ed in these pages. Our experience with Sarsour argues the contrary. She has been building relationships between Muslims and Jews in Brooklyn since 2006. The Jewish Week reported in 2007 that, as acting director of the Arab-American Association of New York, Sarsour developed a relationship with the Bay Ridge Jewish Center and engaged in coalition-building activities with the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York. She has participated in multiple workshops and panels on interfaith dialogue. She is a longstanding partner of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, an organization on whose rabbinic council we sit and about which she said, “I love this organization from the deepest of my heart.” And as emcee at the 2017 May Day rally in Foley Square, Sarsour affirmed her commitment to supporting the rights of immigrants, workers, black people, Muslims, Buddhists, Sikhs and Jews. Yes, Sarsour is an ardent critic of Zionism — which should come as no surprise for a Palestinian-American with relatives in Palestine. But she has been clear that it is right-wing Zionism — Zionism that dismisses Palestinian claims to a national identity or for statehood — that she vehemently opposes. Still, note Sarsour’s statement in 2006: “Israel is there, and it is going to be there whether we like it or not. We have to learn to deal with that.” False claim two: Sarsour has no tolerance for Muslims who disagree with her. To advance this notion, many critics cite Sarsour’s 2011 Twitter response to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali anti-Islam activist who claimed (falsely) that female genital mutilation proves Islam’s inherent misogyny. Sarsour’s retort — that Ali and others she disagrees with “don’t deserve to be women,” so she wishes she could “take their vaginas away” — was written in anger, and we agree it wasn’t nice. But it was not meant to be taken literally, and is hardly proof that she wants to assault Muslims who disagree with her or surgically strike women’s bodies. False claim three: Sarsour supports terrorism. To the contrary, she has clearly denounced it, saying “I do not support suicide bombers or anyone else who harms innocent people, regardless if they are Palestinian or Israeli.” Yet, as supposed proof of terrorist sympathies, sites like MilitantIslamMonitor.org, under the headline “Head of Arab American Association Linda Sarsour linked to Hamas,” claim that Sarsour’s brother-in-law and a cousin are serving sentences in Israeli jails for Hamas activities. That’s a lie. For others, the “proof” is an image she tweeted in 2015, of a child holding rocks which she captioned: “The definition of courage. #Palestine.” The image was of a child roughly aged 5 approaching a group of heavily armed soldiers. Still others point to her friendship with and support of Rasmea Odeh, who was convicted of involvement in a 1970 supermarket bombing in Israel that killed two people. They ignore Odeh’s claim that she was tortured and coerced into confessing guilt, a contention worth exploring. We do not know Odeh, but we know Sarsour — as a tireless advocate for social justice, and against racism, anti-Semitism, feminism, workers’ rights, immigrant rights and all other forms of prejudice. She has never tried to hide her beliefs. We believe there is no reason why she should. The sloppy attempt to demoize her reeks of anti-Muslim bias. CUNY wants to honor a leader at commencement. We say amen. Ellman is an adjunct professor of religion at Fordham University and with the Bard Prison Initiative. Lippmann is the senior rabbi of Kolot Chayeinu: Voices of our Lives. Signature Bronx race takes on special meaning (News 12) May 6, 2017 A signature race in the Bronx is a little bit more special this year. The 39th annual Roscoe C. Brown Run anD Walk is being helD for the first time since its namesake passeD away. Brown was the former presiDent of Bronx Community College anD legenDary Tuskegee airman. He founDeD this race back in 1978 to open the Doors of the college to the community. He DieD last July. Organizers helD a moment of silence anD officially retireD his number SaturDay morning. A portion of the entry fee will be useD to funD two scholarships for stuDents at the school. Photonic Hypercrystals Combine Best Features Of Metamaterials And Photonic Crystals By Jof Enriquez Follow me on Twitter @jofenriq Scientists at The City College of New York (CCNY) and Purdue University have demonstrated a new type of composite artificial media, called photonic hypercrystals, which combine the best characteristics of metamaterials and photonic crystals — two promising technologies in the field of optoelectronics that depend on frequency resonance mechanisms that limit bandwidth, or suffer from poor light-coupling mechanisms. Photonic hypercrystals overcome these limitations by combining the large broadband photonic density of states provided by hyperbolic metamaterials with the light- scattering efficiency of photonic crystals. "In particular, surface waves supported by a hypercrystal possess the properties of both the optical Tamm states in photonic crystals and surface-plasmon polaritons at the metal-dielectric interface," explained Evgenii E. Narimanov, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University, who first described photonic hypercrystals in a paper in APS Physical Review X (PRX). Narimanov collaborated with Vinod M. Menon, professor of physics in CCNY’s Division of Science, and CCNY graduate students Tal Galfsky and Jie Gu in testing the effectivity and efficiency of photonic hypercrystals to manipulate light-matter interaction, which are essential in natural phenomena like photosynthesis, and in technologies like lasers and solar cells. In the research group's paper published in a recent issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), they report achieving simultaneous enhancement of spontaneous emission rate (20×) and light outcoupling (100×) from quantum dots embedded in the hypercrystal. The scientists attribute these promising results to the unique combination of length scales in the features of the hypercrystal, as well as the inherent properties of the nanoscale structures. "Such designer photonic media with complete control over the optical properties provide a platform for broadband control of light–matter interaction," wrote the researchers. More specifically, photonic hypercrystals can pave the way for ultrafast LEDs for Li- Fi (uses visible light to transmit data electromagnetically), enhanced absorption in solar cells, and the development of single photon emitters for quantum information processing, said Menon in a press release. This latest research in optoelectronics was supported by the Army Research Office, the National Science Foundation – Division of Materials Research MRSEC (Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers) program, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Physicists demonstrate photonic hypercrystals for control of light-matter interaction Date: May 5, 2017 Source: City College of New York Summary: Control of light-matter interaction is central to fundamental phenomena and technologies such as photosynthesis, lasers, LEDs and solar cells. Researchers have now demonstrated a new class of artificial media called photonic hypercrystals that can control light-matter interaction in unprecedented ways. Control of light-matter interaction is central to fundamental phenomena and technologies such as photosynthesis, lasers, LEDs and solar cells. City College of New York researchers have now demonstrated a new class of artificial media called photonic hypercrystals that can control light-matter interaction in unprecedented ways. This could lead to such benefits as ultrafast LEDs for Li-Fi (a wireless technology that transmits high-speed data using visible light communication), enhanced absorption in solar cells and the development of single photon emitters for quantum information processing, said Vinod M. Menon, professor of physics in City College's Division of Science who led the research. Photonic crystals and metamaterials are two of the most well-known artificial materials used to manipulate light. However, they suffer from drawbacks such as bandwidth limitation and poor light emission. In their research, Menon and his team overcame these drawbacks by developing hypercrystals that take on the best of both photonic crystals and metamaterials and do even better. They demonstrated significant increase in both light emission rate and intensity from nanomaterials embedded inside the hypercrystals. The emergent properties of the hypercrystals arise from the unique combination of length scales of the features in the hypercrystal as well as the inherent properties of the nanoscale structures. The CCNY research appears in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The team included graduate students Tal Galfsky and Jie Gu from Menon's research group in CCNY's Physics Department and Evgenii Narimanov (Purdue University), who first theoretically predicted the hypercrystals. The research was supported by the Army Research Office, the National Science Foundation -- Division of Materials Research MRSEC program, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
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