Day two of Chanukah today and First Evidence of Maccabees’ Revolt in Judean Desert UnearthedBy David Israel In First, Ivory Panels Mentioned in Bible Found in Jerusalem and After Soy Milk, Oat Milk And Almond Milk… It’s Lettuce Milk By John Jeffay, and SHLOMO CARLEBACH - HASHIVENU and Israel Philharmonic Orchestra returns to America to play Carnegie Hall

View in browser Yehuda Lave is an author, journalist, psychologist, rabbi, spiritual teacher, and coach, with degrees in business, psychology and Jewish Law. He works with people from all walks of life and helps them in their search for greater happiness, meaning, business advice on saving money, and spiritual engagement. Love Yehuda Lave Join my blog by sending me an email to YehudaLave@gmail.com The Three Musketeers at the Kotel The Three are Rabbi Yehuda Glick, famous temple mount activist, and former Israel Mk, and then Robert Weinger, the world's greatest shofar blower and seller of Shofars, and myself after we had gone to the 12 gates of the Temple Mount in 2020 to blow the shofar to ask G-d to heal the world from the Pandemic. It was a highlight to my experience in living in Israel and I put it on my blog each day to remember. The articles that I include each day are those that I find interesting, so I feel you will find them interesting as well. I don't always agree with all the points of each article but found them interesting or important to share with you, my readers, and friends. It is cathartic for me to share my thoughts and frustrations with you about life in general and in Israel. As a Rabbi, I try to teach and share the Torah of the G-d of Israel as a modern Orthodox Rabbi. I never intend to offend anyone but sometimes people are offended and I apologize in advance for any mistakes. The most important psychological principle I have learned is that once someone's mind is made up, they don't want to be bothered with the facts, so, like Rabbi Akiva, I drip water (Torah is compared to water) on their made-up minds and hope that some of what I have share sinks in. Love Rabbi Yehuda Lave. In First, Ivory Panels Mentioned in Bible Found in Jerusalem https://www.haaretz.com/archae... After Soy Milk, Oat Milk And Almond Milk… It's Lettuce Milk By John Jeffay, Unlike all other non-dairy alternatives, it can be made into 'real' cheese Soy, almond, oat, coconut, rice, cashew… there are plenty of non-dairy milk alternatives on the market. But there's a surprise new addition to the list. It looks exactly the same as the lettuce in your salad bowl, but it's been genetically modified (GM) to yield casein – a key protein which means it can be made into cheese that has a 'real' dairy texture. Milk from cows, humans and all other mammals contains casein, which allows it to be processed into a range of dairy products. But none of the other non-dairy alternatives do. Tal Lutzky, Co-Founder and CEO of Pigmentum. Courtesy Pigmentum, a startup based in Kiryat Shmona, northern Israel, plants GM lettuce in hi-tech greenhouses, cultivates it with special fertilizers and harvests the crop when it's ready, a little over three weeks later. It then squeezes out the juice – over 90 per cent of lettuce is liquid – adds natural ingredients to give it a milk-like taste and smell, and has a product which is ready to drink, pour on your breakfast cereal or add to your coffee. Casein added to lettuce creates liquid that mimics cow's milk. Deposit Photos "Lettuce is green and leafy and doesn't look the sort of thing you'd make cheese from," says Tal Lutzky, CEO of the company. But as he explains, they use lettuce as an organism for growing many things, including casein. He and co-founder Amir Tiroler both studied agronomy at Hebrew University's Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, with Prof. Alexander Vainstein, a world leader in genetic engineering in plants, and a member of their team. Lutzky and Tiroler came up with the idea of using lettuce as a platform to grow a range of pigments, such as anthocyanin (the purple found in blueberries and raspberries) and vanillin, which makes vanilla, as well as aromas and other compounds used in the food industry, that are otherwise very costly or hard to produce. They genetically modify romaine lettuce, then irrigate or spray it with a special fertilizer that triggers the growth of whatever they've encoded into its genes. "We engineer the lettuce to produce whatever we want in very, very high yields, in this case casein, to make milk," says Lutzky. Ordinary lettuce contains no casein at all. It's only by genetically modifying it that they have been able to turn ordinary-looking lettuce becomes a platform or a vehicle for casein production. "Our lettuce grows naturally and looks normal. We modify it to react to a certain kind of fertilizer, which means it produces very high yields of casein." The biggest advantage is that they will also be able to make cheese and other dairy products out of it, although that's still in the development process, says Lutzky. "The GM lettuce contains casein, which accounts for 80 per cent of the protein in cows' milk. It's what makes the cheese formulation possible. Without it you can't make any cheese. You can't make cheese from almond, rice and soy milk." There is a huge and growing demand for methods of producing animal products, without animals, as evidenced, for example, by the popularity of plant-based meat and fish products and the development of "real" steak grown from cells in a lab. "We are familiar with the problem of sustainability in our food supply chain and especially around animal-based food products," says Lutzky. "Eighty per cent of the world's agriculture is used for feeding animals. The food industry is constantly looking for new ways to make products that have always been produced by animals." One of Pigmentum's greenhouses with genetically modified lettuce. Courtesy "There are many alternative dairy products from plants but there is no other company producing milk, casein or milk proteins in plants in this way and especially not in lettuce." He says it will probably be six months before research on milk is at the stage where they can seek regulatory approval for the GM process they use, and about two years before it will be commercially available. At the moment he says lettuce milk is slightly more expensive than cows' milk, but once the process is optimized and scaled up for industry, the cost will come down. First Evidence of Maccabees' Revolt in Judean Desert Unearthed By David Israel First Evidence of Maccabees' Revolt in Judean Desert Unearthed | The Jewish Press - JewishPress.com | David Israel | 19 Kislev 5783 – December 13, 2022 | JewishPress.com SHLOMO CARLEBACH - HASHIVENU Israel Philharmonic Orchestra returns to America to play Carnegie Hall Under the direction of an Israeli for the first time, the IPO looks to draw audiences from across the Jewish and cultural spectrum.BY MIKE WAGENHEIM The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) is preparing for a tour of the United States under the leadership of its history-making conductor, Israeli-born Lahav Shani. The first post-COVID tour for the IPO will hit the States from Nov. 2 to Nov. 14 with concerts in Costa Mesa, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Stanford and Miami, closing out at New York City's famed Carnegie Hall. "Any artist will tell you the experience of performing in front of a live audience makes a hell of a difference. There is nothing like the excitement, the need to be at your best at a certain minute," Avi Shoshani, the IPO's longtime secretary general, told JNS. "And Carnegie Hall is like Mecca. Everyone who thinks they are a good artist and everyone who is a good artist makes a point to come and perform there." Following a three-year halt in U.S. appearances due to the pandemic, the Israel Philharmonic now features Shani at the helm. He is the first IPO musical director to be born in Israel. The orchestra's founding members were leading musicians from Eastern Europe who were fired from some of the greatest orchestras of the world because they were Jews. They were saved when Polish violinist Bronislaw Huberman, founder of the then-Palestine Symphony Orchestra, brought them to Tel Aviv in 1936. More recently, the IPO benefited from a huge wave of musicians who immigrated from the former Soviet Union. Subscribe to The JNS Daily Syndicate by email and never miss our top stories 'A young Israeli leading the way' "In the last decade, we've seen the evolution of so many artists who were born and raised in Israel. Lahav exemplifies the artistic excellence, the talent, the ingenuity that has come out of Israel from those born there," Danielle Ames Spivak, CEO of the American Friends of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (AFIPO) told JNS. "There's this generation of Israelis who have changed the landscape, the makeup of the orchestra. The beauty of the Israel Philharmonic is that you're welcome no matter where you're from, but I do think there's something to celebrate in the fact that Lahav was born in Israel." Shani, a pianist who trained at Tel Aviv University's Buchmann-Mehta School of Music, first appeared as a guest pianist with the Israel Philharmonic in 2007. In 2010, Bombay-born conductor Zubin Mehta engaged Shani as pianist and assistant conductor for a tour with the IPO. Shani conducted the Philharmonic's opening season concerts in 2013. He returned each subsequent year as a guest conductor. In January 2018, the IPO announced Shani's appointment as its next musical director, beginning with the 2020-21 season. "We have been working with Lahav for quite some time, so we are already very much synchronized with him. But we haven't toured with him yet, so that will be an experience. It's a pleasure to finally have a young Israeli leading the way," said Shoshani. Spivak praises Mehta, the IPO's first official musical director, as a champion of the State of Israel and an important proponent of music education and touring. She noted that famed American conductor Leonard Bernstein once led the orchestra. Neither one, however, was born in Israel or made it their primary home. "Lahav really embodies what it means to be a cultural ambassador. The Israel Philharmonic [itself] strives to be one of the world's greatest orchestras, but we know that wherever it goes, especially when "Hatikvah" is performed, there's a lot going on that far exceeds artistic excellence," said Spivak. "Cultural diplomacy is a very impactful tool and a powerful experience, and the fact that our music director is an Israeli, I think hits that home really hard." 'Connection on a really deep level' Spivak is hopeful that Shani represents something even greater—a counter to the misconceptions about who artists are in the classical music space, and who audience members can and will be in the future, as American orchestras struggle with declining attendance. "There's an opportunity for connection on a really deep level because audiences want to see that the art form is alive and well, and breathing the future. And that's what the Israel Philharmonic represents," said Spivak. "Between our music education and the fact that so many of our musicians are so young today, and we have this young dynamic music director, we're really saying to people that all the stereotypes you might hear are not true of the Israel Philharmonic. We're younger and stronger than we've ever been before." Even as Spivak points to free content, including longer-form concerts, on the AFIPO website, she said this is a year to send a message that "events with an Israeli cultural institution in the United States matter and are relevant and should happen again and should thrive." She believes the American Jewish community's craving for post-pandemic communal experiences makes an IPO performance an ideal place to come together. She notes the unique American IPO audience, which consists of "the guy with the kippah on one side of me, the hipster in front of me, the Holocaust survivor behind me, the multi-faith and multi-racial couple, and our non-Jewish supporters." She points out that while at first glance, the IPO could be any other orchestra when you strip away another layer and "Hatikvah" plays at the beginning "and the names on the roster are Israeli and Jewish musicians, there's something unparalleled about that." See you tomorrow bli neder We need Moshiach now! Love Yehuda Lave Yehuda Lave, Spirtual Advisor and Counselor Jerusalem, Jerusalem  Israel 972-585043210 YehudaLave@gmail.com You received this email because you signed up on our website or made a purchase from us. Unsubscribe