February 17, 2023
Adult Learning movie screening and Q&A with “Space Torah” Executive Producer Rachel Raz
The following blurb is from spacetorahproject.com:
In 1996, NASA astronaut Dr. Jeff Hoffman brought a small Torah scroll on board Space Shuttle Columbia. On Shabbat, while orbiting Earth, he read from the book of Genesis, “In the beginning God created heaven and the earth.”
This is a story about inspiration, communities, and a man’s journey. A story of how family, educators, scientific and religious communities achieve great things and bring our identity to new realms.
The Space Torah Project aims to preserve the extraordinary story in American and Jewish history and share it with communities around the world.
