Science with a Schmear hosts Astronaut Dr. Jeffrey Hoffman, Professor in MIT's Aeronautics and Astronautics Department & an astronaut

Breakfast at 9:00 AM; Speaker & Zoom session at 9:30 AM

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Please join the Brotherhood and the Scientists in Synagogues Speaker Initiative as we host Dr. Jeffrey Hoffman, Professor in MIT’s Aeronautics and Astronautics Department. As an astronaut, Dr. Hoffman has made five space flights, becoming the first astronaut to log 1000 hours of flight time aboard the Space Shuttle. He has performed four spacewalks, and has helped develop space suit designs and procedures for assembly of the International Space Station.

Dr. Hoffman is currently the director of the Massachusetts Space Grant Consortium, responsible for space-related educational activities and Deputy Principal Investigator of the MOXIE experiment on NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance mission. In 2007, Dr. Hoffman was elected to the US Astronaut Hall of Fame. Dr Hoffman will show his short film “Space Torah” -- which shows how he became an astronaut, carried a Torah on a space flight and performed a short ceremony reading the first words of Beresheet.

For more information about the Scientists in Synagogues Initiative, visit: https://www.bethelohim.org/scientists

and you can read this recent article in the Times of Israel: https://www.timesofisrael.com/an-empirical-haggadah-reading-how-one-us-group-is-mixing-science-and-religion/

The “Science with a Schmear” breakfast is funded by the Scientists in Synagogues program and is co-sponsored by the CBE Brotherhood.