Tikkun Olam

In the stuff which used to be of science fiction, Israel technology has once more developed a product which is now in the realm of science fact.  After having developed a device to " see through walls " from around 2004, the Israeli company Camero , with corporate headquarters in Virginia and R&D near Netanya, Israel has developed a mobile version, called the Xaver 400. Approximately the size of a laptop computer, it uses the same UWB (ultra wide band) radio frequencies as its bigger Xaver 800 parent, which can pass through solid objects such as wood or concrete and bounce back, much like ultra-sound imaging of fetuses in their mothers' wombs.  These bounced-back waves are changed into electrical signals which are then interpreted by computer and created into 3-D images visible to someone on the other side of the wall. This technology will greatly aid in saving lives , with its use in law enforcement, the military and search and rescue operations, again demonstra...

I know this is an annual event (my husband just tonight alerted me to it's impending appearance)--the Leonid meteor shower --but I am still reeling from the video we saw last night, a 3-hour production made from the TV mini-series, "Impact." It is a science-fiction story about a meteor shower during which a brown dwarf crashes into the moon and jars it out of it's orbit, putting it on a collision course with Earth. The brown dwarf embedded in the moon also has a mass twice the mass of Earth and a strong magnetic and gravitational pull, and wreaks havoc on Earth with intermittent EMP events and gravitational anomalies. I have no idea whether or not this is scientifically possible, but I have to admit, the premise gave me pause. Now, with the Leonid Meteor Shower about to present on or about November 17th, I am thinking, we are so vulnerable here on our little lonely planet, out there by itself in vast space. . . Ok, enough of that. What we'll do is just break o...

I received a very weird email from my cousins אי-שם in the Galil. I almost didn't read it ( it was one of those emails which are forwarded around the globe ad nauseum), but I started to, and it intrigued me, so I read it through to the end. It almost felt like the Jewish version of the 1980's science fiction movie Back to the Future . The more things change, the more they remain the same . Some (but not all) spelling errors have been corrected by yours truly. Read on. . . (Note: the author of this piece contacted me after having seen it on my blog. I never knowingly publish copyrighted material, so following is the author's information and link to the original work: "May We Please Have the Moon?"by Janet S. Tiger, copyright 11/15/2003, all rights reserved http://playsbyjanetstiger.com/Jews_on_Moon.html ) The Jews settled the moon in 2053, just about five years after the end of the Islamic Wars of the 40's, where the Middle East , and Israel...