In the Media

The Jewish Herald-Voice takes an interstellar journey to the past, spotlighting how thirty years ago Prof. Jeffrey Hoffman set off on an expedition into space on the Space Shuttle Columbia, bringing with him the “first kosher Torah scroll in history to be taken into space.” Hoffman was the “first Jewish-American male astronaut to fly into space and saw the act of bringing religious objects into space as part of bringing his practice of Conservative Judaism with him.” He noted that: “It wasn’t that space made this Torah special; it was more that the Torah made space special.”