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An American Jewish success story…in space
Federation Staff Report
azel tov to American Jewish controlled release fertilizer product to
astronaut Jessica Meir for grow vegetables on the International
Mmaking the front cover of Space Station for our astronauts.
Fertilizer Focus magazine. Congrat- Using Florikan controlled release
ulations also go to Sarasota residents
Ed and Betty Rosenthal, as Meir is
growing Mizuna mustard greens on the
International Space Station (ISS) with
their invention, Florikan controlled
release fertilizer.
The Rosenthals founded their fam-
ily business from the garage of their
Sarasota home in 1982. Their sons
Jonathan and Eric are the owners to-
day.
After several years of rigorous re-
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PEOPLE OF THE BOOK
Author Lecture Series
Featuring 25
virtual events
through June 2021
Events are $10 each per
household or $18 for all
three January events.
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purchase a Page Turner
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For a complete schedule
of events, admission
information, author bios
and book synopses, visit
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Authors appearing in the
monthly series of the People of
the Book are members of the
Jewish Book Council Network.
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vegetables on the ISS, which not only Fertilizer Focus
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Astronaut Jessica Meir was one
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plants, documented their plant devel-
opment via photographs, and harvested
and weighed the plants before perform-
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Who would have thought an Amer- fertilizer research • Green ammonia
• Precision agriculture
in space
ican Jewish woman would become an
astronaut and someday study how to
grow vegetables in space using a prod- Jessica Meir, American Jewish astronaut on the
ISS tasting Mizuna mustard greens she grew
uct created by Jewish ingenuity? An on the ISS (Photo credit NASA, as published in
Betty and Ed Rosenthal only-in-America mitzvah story! Fertilizer Focus magazine, November 2020)
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JANUARY EVENTS THEME:
ARTS & CULTURE
Tuesday, January 5 at 7:00pm
“Hearing Voices” by Yoni Glatt, koshercrosswords@gmail.com
Alan Zweibel Across
1. Lag follower
Laugh Lines 7. Israeli 0
11. Clairvoyance initials
Alan Zweibel was one of the first writers at Saturday Night Live, where 14. Big name in glue
15. Bonet whose daughter is a Kravitz
he penned classic material for Gilda Radner, John Belushi and all of the
16. Common title starter
original “Not Ready For Prime Time Players.” From SNL, he went on to
have a hand in a series of landmark shows – from It’s Garry Shandling’s 17. Count Dracula
Show to Curb Your Enthusiasm. Throughout the pages of Laugh Lines,
19. HaMoriah or HaBayit
Zweibel weaves together his own stories and interviews with his friends 20. Tribe some say 11-Down are descendants of
21. Comic legend whose real last name was
and contemporaries including Richard Lewis, Eric Idle, Bob Saget, Sarah
Silverman, Dave Barry and Carl Reiner. Lieber
22. Word for a king
Wednesday, January 6 at 7:00pm 23. Marlin the clownfish
28. Sarajevo land
31. You might review a restaurant on it
Ben Sheehan 32. Elsa
36. “...and, behold, it ___ stiffnecked people”
OMG WTF Does the Constitution (Exodus 32:9)
39. Capital of Latvia
Actually Say? 40. Brit’s bathroom
41. Kamehameha Highway locale
Do you know what the Constitution ACTUALLY says? This witty and 42. Place you might take a load off
highly relevant annotation of our founding document is the go-to guide
43. Marge Simpson
to how our government really works (or is supposed to work). Written by
political savant and entertainment veteran Ben Sheehan, and vetted for 47. Israel’s Shvut
49. Home of Denali National Park
50. Mike Wazowski
accuracy by experts in the field of constitutional law, OMG WTF Does
the Constitution Actually Say? is an entertaining and accessible guide 55. Safari spots?
that explains what the Constitution actually lays out. Sheehan walks us
56. It’s a mitzvah to do this on 9 Tishrei
through the entire Constitution, from its preamble to its final amendment. 57. Puma or lynx
Thursday, January 7 at 10:30am 60. Cinque follower
61. Lumière
66. Cable news channel
67. Muck
Myla Goldberg 68. Movie set backdrop
69. Crone
Feast Your Eyes 70. Fires
71. Part of CIA
Feast Your Eyes, framed as the catalogue notes from a photography Down
show at the Museum of Modern Art, tells the life story of Lillian Preston:
“America’s Worst Mother, America’s Bravest Mother, America’s Worst 1. Drop of sweat
Photographer or America’s Greatest Photographer, depending on who 2. Actor Alan of “Bridge of Spies”
was talking.” After discovering photography and moving to New York 3. A neighbor of Saudi Arabia
City, Lillian is arrested and thrust into the national spotlight when a small 4. Hebrew letter with a numerical value of 40
gallery exhibits partially nude photographs of Lillian and her daughter, 5. E.M.T. destinations
changing the course of both of their lives. The book is a portrait of a
mother and an artist dedicated to a vision of beauty, truth and authenticity.