Feb 23
What Do Judaism and Science Have in Common?
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12:00 p.m. - 12:45 p.m.
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Bruce Alpert received his rabbinic ordination from The Academy for Jewish Religion. He serves as rabbi of Beth Israel Synagogue, an independent congregation in Wallingford Connecticut. Prior to attending AJR, he worked in the dental industry, manufacturing restorative materials. He and his wife Terri, a director of Americans for Ben Gurion University and a member of the university’s Board of Governors, live in Madison, Connecticut.
Prof. Simon Barak is a member of the French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands at BGU’s Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research. His research focuses on understanding the molecular mechanisms of plant tolerance to harsh environmental stresses such as those found in the Negev including heat, drought, and high soil salinity. Prof. Barak’s team has discovered two genes that, when disabled, lead to plants’ tolerance to multiple stresses.
Prof. Barak received his B.Sc. in Agricultural Science from the University of Nottingham, in the United Kingdom. He completed his Masters of Science in light control of plant gene expression and his PhD in light and chloroplast signal control of plant gene expression at BGU’s Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research. Prof. Barak did his postdoctoral studies in molecular genetics of the plant circadian clock at University of California, Los Angeles.
The Academy for Jewish Religion is an accredited, pluralistic, rabbinical, cantorial, and graduate school located in Yonkers, NY. It serves students nationally and internationally with on-line rabbinical and cantorial programs that attract students from throughout the United States, Canada, and Israel. Its Center for Science and Judaism is one arm of its groundbreaking Institute for Applied Pluralism.