(Image Credit: NASA) Hanukkah was first celebrated in space in 1993. Astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman was in space to service the Hubble Space Telescope during the mission. The event was celebrated using ...

the astronauts returned to Skylab to eat fruitcake, open gifts, and call their families. The first Hanukkah in space came a few decades later in 1993 when NASA’s Jeffrey Hoffman, on a mission to ...

“No one has the archive or library that YIVO has,” said Itzik Gottesman, who teaches Yiddish language and culture courses at ...

He also invited Jewish astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman to give a talk. Of course, as fascinating a resource as YIVO is for the layman, it is much more essential to scholars. New York City Mayor Fiorello ...

In 1993, NASA astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman celebrated Hanukkah after completing the third spacewalk of the servicing mission. Hoffman celebrated with a traveling menorah and dreidel. As NASA ...

(Image Credit: NASA) Hanukkah was first celebrated in space in 1993. Astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman was in space to service the Hubble Space Telescope during the mission. The event was celebrated using an ...

Blue Origin launched its massive new rocket, sending up a prototype satellite to orbit thousands of miles above Earth.

The Baltimore Orioles and Atlanta Braves backed out of agreements to sign Jeff Hoffman because of concerns about the reliever's pitching shoulder before he finalized a $33 million, three-year ...

Hoffman logged a 2.28 ERA in 118 2/3 innings over the past two seasons with the Phillies. But there were some cracks in the ...

Two NASA astronauts will perform the year's first spacewalk today (Jan. 16), and you can watch the action live. Nick Hague and Suni Williams are scheduled to venture outside the International ...