Dr. Joachim Joseph

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  www.jewishtribune.ca/TribuneV2/index.php/20080527648/To - [Cached Version]
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  The Torah changed hands after Joachim Joseph read his portion.
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  So the 13-year-old Joseph took the Torah and eventually moved to Israel, where he became a physicist. Not just any physicist, though. Joseph designed the experiments that took place on the Columbia's fateful trip, and it was his Torah that his friend Ilan Ramon borrowed.
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  Maclean's Torah was loaned by Professor Henry Fenichel - like Joachim Joseph, the owner of the first Torah, a physicist of Dutch origin.

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  "Reach For the Stars" Bnai Mitzvah Videoconference - [Cached Version]
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  Ramone (who lives in Israel) will be broadcast live from Netanya, Israel along with Israeli students and Dr. Joachim Joseph, Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University, the Holocaust survivor who was linked to Israeli Astronaut Ilan Ramone.

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  "We just lucked out," said Tel Aviv University's Joachim Joseph, an atmospheric physicist who is overseeing the experiment.A plane that took off from Crete made simultaneous observations.
  
  January is a particularly poor time for dust storms, but that's where Columbia's flight ended up after the repeated delays.The Mediterranean is the scientists' primary area of interest, but they also have gathered images of a small dust plume over the Atlantic off the African coast.
  
  The goal of the $2 million experiment is to provide a better understanding of how migrating dust plumes affect climate.
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  The images showing the smoke breaking up the cloud cover can help provide better models for climate, Joseph said.

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  AP Wire | 01/21/2003 | Torah Flies Aboard Space Shuttle - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/21/2003    Last Visited: 1/21/2003  

  Watching with emotion from a NASA control center in Greenbelt, Md., was the Torah's owner, Joachim Joseph, a 71-year-old atmospheric physicist at Tel Aviv University who is overseeing an Israeli experiment aboard the shuttle.
  
  The scientist received the Torah from a rabbi while both were imprisoned at a Nazi concentration camp in Germany in 1944.Joseph had just turned 13, and the rabbi secretly arranged a 4 a.m. bar mitzvah ceremony in the prisoners' barracks.
  
  "After the ceremony, he said, `You take this, this scroll that you just read from, because I will not leave here alive.But you must promise me that if you get out, you'll tell the story,'" Joseph recalled.
  
  The rabbi was killed two months later.
  
  Joseph was freed from the Bergen-Belsen camp in a prisoner exchange in 1945, one month before it was liberated by the Americans and British.
  
  Ramon, whose mother and grandmother survived the Auschwitz death camp, visited the scientist's home two years ago and saw the Torah."He was deeply affected.He almost cried," Joseph said.The astronaut asked if he could take the Torah with him into space.
  
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  Joseph said: "I feel now that I finally was able to fulfill my promise to Rabbi Dasberg 50 years ago, more than 50 years ago, and then on a grand scale, and I'm very grateful to Ilan for making it possible."
  
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  AP Wire | 02/03/2003 | Nearly 2,000 Remember Israeli... - [Cached Version]
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  Ramon took a Torah scroll into space aboard Columbia that belonged to Joachim Joseph, a 71-year-old atmospheric physicist at Tel Aviv University who was overseeing an Israeli experiment aboard the shuttle.

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  Abarbanel Wines - [Cached Version]
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  Col. Ilan Ramon carried with him a miniature Torah scroll which Dr. Joachim Joseph, a 71-year-old atmospheric physicist at Tel Aviv University, (who was overseeing an experiment aboard the space shuttle), lent to him.Dr. Joseph received the Torah from Rabbi Dasberg, (who was the Chief Rabbi of Holland at the time), while both were imprisoned in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.When Joachim Joseph became 13 in 1944, Rabbi Dasberg secretly arranged a 4 a.m. bar mitzvah ceremony in the prisoners' barracks using that Torah scroll, which he kept close to him at all times.Rabbi Dasburg was killed by the Nazis two months after Joachim Joseph's bar mitzvah.

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  Americans grieve for crash victims - [Cached Version]
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  One of them, atmospheric physicist Joachim Joseph of Tel Aviv University, gave Ramon a tiny Torah scroll.
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  A rabbi gave Joseph the scroll in 1944, when they were in a Nazi concentration camp.
  
  RADCLIFF, Ky. (AP) -- Half a dozen teachers training at a space center were in disbelief Saturday morning after learning space shuttle Columbia had broken apart.

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  Anchorage Daily News | Israeli astronaut carries tiny... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/21/2003    Last Visited: 1/21/2003  

  Watching with emotion from a NASA control center in Greenbelt, Md., was the Torah's owner, Joachim Joseph, a 71-year-old atmospheric physicist at Tel Aviv University who is overseeing an Israeli experiment aboard the shuttle.
  
  The scientist received the Torah from a rabbi while both were imprisoned at a Nazi concentration camp in Germany in 1944.Joseph had just turned 13, and the rabbi secretly arranged a 4 a.m. bar mitzvah ceremony in the prisoners' barracks.
  
  "After the ceremony, he said, 'You take this, this scroll that you just read from, because I will not leave here alive.But you must promise me that if you get out, you'll tell the story,'" Joseph recalled.
  
  The rabbi was killed two months later.
  
  Joseph was freed from the Bergen-Belsen camp in a prisoner exchange in 1945, one month before it was liberated by the Americans and British.
  
  Ramon, whose mother and grandmother survived the Auschwitz death camp, visited the scientist's home two years ago and saw the Torah."He was deeply affected.He almost cried," Joseph said.The astronaut asked if he could take the Torah with him into space.
  
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  Joseph said: "I feel now that I finally was able to fulfill my promise to Rabbi Dasberg 50 years ago, more than 50 years ago, and then on a grand scale, and I'm very grateful to Ilan for making it possible."
  
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  CNN.com - Holocaust survivor sends Torah to space -... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/24/2003    Last Visited: 1/24/2003  

  Watching with emotion from a NASA control center in Greenbelt, Maryland, was the Torah's owner, Joachim Joseph, a 71-year-old atmospheric physicist at Tel Aviv University who is overseeing an Israeli experiment aboard the shuttle.
  
  The scientist received the Torah from a rabbi while both were imprisoned at a Nazi concentration camp in Germany in 1944.Joseph had just turned 13, and the rabbi secretly arranged a 4 a.m. bar mitzvah ceremony in the prisoners' barracks.
  
  "After the ceremony, he said, `You take this, this scroll that you just read from, because I will not leave here alive.But you must promise me that if you get out, you'll tell the story,"' Joseph recalled.
  
  The rabbi was killed two months later.Joseph was freed from the Bergen-Belsen camp in a prisoner exchange in 1945, one month before it was liberated by the Americans and British.
  
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  He almost cried," Joseph said.The astronaut asked if he could take the Torah with him into space.
  
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  Joseph said: "I feel now that I finally was able to fulfill my promise to Rabbi Dasberg 50 years ago, more than 50 years ago, and then on a grand scale, and I'm very grateful to Ilan for making it possible."

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  Chicago Jewish News - Jewish Chicago's Hometown... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/21/2006    Last Visited: 12/21/2006  

  It belonged to Professor Joachim Joseph of the University of Tel Aviv, a Holocaust survivor who brought it out of the Bergen Belsen concentration camp, where as an inmate he secretly held a ceremony for his bar mitzvah.
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  Fenichel expressed the hope that Joseph's "Torah-the Columbia Torah-and by extension my Torah, -- the Atlantis Torah -- represents the survival of the Jewish people and the hope for the future, as well as the ability to rise from the anguish of the Holocaust, and to reach for the stars."

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