Coming soon, total solar eclipse

Rabbi-Dr. Jack Shlachter talks about going to Alliance, Neb., later this month, the anticipation in his voice is palpable. He will be traveling, he says enthusiastically, to the perfect place. One might wonder what’s so perfect about this modest plains town some 250 miles northeast of Denver (with apologies to the good citizens thereof), but Shlachter is only too happy to explain. Alliance is smack dab in the middle of the “path of totality,” a diagonal path across the US along which viewers will be able to experience an ultra-rare 100% solar eclipse on Aug. 21, 2017. Shlachter, a physicist who works at the fabled Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, and who occasionally serves as a part-time rabbi, will be in Alliance on […]