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Daniel Jontof-Hutter "catches" Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS (C/2023 A3), which was brightly visible in October 2024. (Courtesy)
Posted inIdeas

He spends his days searching for Earth-like planets beyond our solar system

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky February 25, 2026February 25, 2026

Daniel Jontof-Hutter is looking for planets. The astronomy professor, who was born in South Africa, raised in Australia and now lives in Pleasanton with his family, is at the forefront […]

A scientist from 1920s and one from today. Both are wearing lab coats.
Posted inSPONSORED CONTENT

A Century of Partnership: American Friends of the Hebrew University and the Transformation of Scientific Innovation

by Special to J. February 9, 2026February 9, 2026
Philippe Tlokinski as Stan Ulam in "Adventures of a Mathematician."
Posted inFilm

Ethics and science and the Manhattan Project in ‘Adventures of a Mathematician’ 

by Michael Fox February 22, 2021February 22, 2021
two older men in masks look at notes on a white board
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Israeli research institution to launch human trials of coronavirus vaccine

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA August 6, 2020
David Altman at a park in Pleasanton.
Posted inSeniors

‘I’m not ready to leave yet,’ says 100-year-old Manhattan Project scientist

Janet Silver Ghent by Janet Silver Ghent February 12, 2020April 23, 2020
Scientist-turned-artist Larry Lagin at Bothwell Open Studios (Photo/Vanessa Thomas)
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Nuclear scientist-turned-artist explores Holocaust

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 17, 2019April 17, 2019
Maimonides aka Rambam was a doctor and a rabbi — one of Judaism's earliest exemplars of melding science and religion
Posted inUncategorized

Where science and Judaism meet, in synagogue

Elissa Einhorn by Elissa Einhorn August 15, 2018August 15, 2018
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa (Photo/Wikimedia-Technion  CC BY-SA 2.0)
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Helen Diller foundation gives $50m to Israel’s Technion for new science center

by JTA April 17, 2018
Stephen Hawking meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in Jerusalem, Dec. 10, 2006. (Photo/Moshe Milner-GPO via Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

Hawking will be remembered by Israeli colleagues for his insight, not boycott

Barak Kol by Barak Kol March 16, 2018
Neurobiologist Adi Mizrahi is currently doing research at Stanford University, on sabbatical from Hebrew University. (Photo/Courtesy Adi Mizrahi)
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At Stanford, Israeli brain scientist thinks thoughts about thinking

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky November 29, 2017April 16, 2025

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