Upcoming Events & Screenings
Spring 2024
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, MD
- Pozez JCC, VA – read about it at the Washington Jewish Week
- Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School of the Nation’s Capital, Washington DC
- Weston Public School, MA
- Shalom Club, Port St. Lucia, FL
- Afikim School, Israel
- Greenville Jewish Film Festival, SC
- Phoenix Jewish Film Festival, AZ
- Santa Cruz Jewish Film Festival, CA
NEW Children’s Book
Space Torah: Astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman’s Cosmic Mitzvah by Rachelle Burk is available on Amazon.
Stay tuned for some upcoming exciting events!
Awards
- New Hampshire Jewish Film Festival – Best Short Film (2023)
- Atlanta Jewish Film Festival – Audience Award Best Short Film (2021)
- San Diego: Joyce Forum Jewish Short Film Festival – Best Documentary (2021)
- Ann Arbor Jewish Film Festival – Best Documentary Short Film (2021)
- The Telly Award – Silver – Biography (2021)
- The Telly Award – Silver – Use of Music (2021)
- The Telly Award – Bronze – Religion/Spirituality (2021)
- Istanbul Film Award – Best Jewish Short Film and Best Music Short Film (2020)
Film Festivals
We are excited to share that Space Torah was selected for over 40 film festivals in ten countries.
Greater Phoenix Jewish Film Festival – Phoenix, AZ (2024), Twin City Jewish Film Festival – Minnesota, MN (2023), Oklahoma Jewish Film Festival – Tulsa, OK (2023), New Hampshire Jewish Film Festival, NH (2023), Palm Spring Jewish Film Festival, CA (2023), Washington, DC. Jewish Film & Music Festival (2023), Santa Barbara Jewish Film Festival – California (2022), Jewish Film Week at the Sidewalk Film Center and Theater – Birmingham, AL (2022), Boston Jewish Film Festival – Massachusetts (2021), Austin Jewish Film Festival – Texas, (2021), Baton Rouge Jewish Film Festival – Louisiana (2022), Florida Film Festival – Orlando, Florida (2021), Gershman Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival (2021), Moscow Jewish Film Festival – Russia (2021), UK Jewish Film Festival – UK (2021), Atlantic Jewish Film Festival – Canada, Halifax, Nova Scotia, (2021 ), Joyce Forum Jewish Short Film Festival – San Diego, CA. (2021), Atlanta North Jewish Film Festival (2021), San Francisco Jewish Film Festival (2021), Toronto Jewish Film Festival (2021), J x J – Washington State (June), Space Faring Civilisation Film Festival (Australia), Tokyo Lift-Off Film Festival (Japan, 2021), Tsiolkovsky Space Fest (Russia, 2021), Flint Jewish Film Festival (2021), Boca Raton Jewish Film Festival (2021), Atlanta Jewish Film Festival (2021), Istanbul Film Award (Turkey, 2021), New Jersey Jewish Film Festival (2021), Spokane Jewish Film Festival (2021), Miami Jewish Film Festival ( April 2021) Ann Arbor Jewish Film Festival (2021), Baltimore Jewish Film Festival in collaboration with the Jewish Museum of Maryland (2021), International Cultural Artifact Film Festival (India 2021), Berkshire Jewish Film Festival (2020), Big Apple Film Festival (New York, 2020), Documentary Film Festival (LA and Toronto, 2020), Houston Jewish Film Festival –Texas (2022), Sacramento Jewish Film Festival – California (2022), Tucson International Jewish Film Festival – Arizona (2022), Charlotte Jewish Film Festival – North Caroline and South Caroline (2022) , Hartford Jewish Film Festival – Connecticut (2022); Denver Jewish Film Festival – Colorado (2022)
Communal Educational Screenings
We are now booking screenings for communities, schools and organizations from around the country and the world. If you would like to show our film and or add a program with Rachel Raz, please be in touch with us by sending an email to Rachel Raz, Executive Producer and Educator, spacetorah@gmail.com.
Check out a partial list of past events:
UnitEd (Global), Out of the Box (Global), Israeli American Council – Eitanim (Newton, MA), St. Lucia Jewish community (Florida), Sheagat Arye (Israel), Moishe House (Boston, MA), Judaica Thematic Society (UK), Society of Israel Philatelists (Berkshire Hills, MA), Temple Shalom (Newton, MA), Tel-Aviv Univereisty (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Ben-Gurion Univeristy (Beer Sheva, Israel), MadaTech (Haifa, Israel), Bloomfield Science Museum (Jerusalem, Israel), The Technion (Haifa, Israel), Metrowest Jewish Day School in collaboration with TCAN(Natick, MA), Beth El Temple Center (Belmont, MA), ZFA Jewish Educators’ Conference (Melbourne, Australia), US Airforce Academy (Colorado Spring, CO), Moishe House (Columbus, OH), Anshe Emeth Memorial Temple (New Brunswick, NJ), Kesher Newton (Newton, MA), MIT (Cambridge, MA), Bharati Vidyapeeth Rabindranah Tagore School of Excellence (Pune, India), Beth Israel (San-Diego, CA),URJ Camp George (Toronto, Canada), Center Makor (Newton, MA), Temple Emunah (Lexington, MA), Temple Emanuel (Newton, MA), Balticon 55 (Baltimore, MD), Shaarai Shomayin (Lancester, PA), Temple Beth David (Westwood, MA), Temple Beth Abraham (NY), Umass Amherst Hillel (Amherst, MA), The Lappin Foundation(MA), Out of the Box (Israel/Italy/Panama/USA/Turkey), Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School of the Nation’s Capital (Washington, DC), Arizona Jewish Historical (AZ); Haddasa (Concord Chapter, MA), The Rabin School( Nesher, Israel), Seminar Hakibutzim (Israel), Kalanit Community Center (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Epstein Hillel Day School (Marblehead, MA), Kerem Shalom (Concord, MA), Chabad (Lexington, MA), Jewish Residents I’d Leisure World (Silver Spring, MD), Boston Museum of Science (Boston, MA), Wornick Jewish Day School (Foster City, CA), Jewish Community Day School (Watertown, MA).
Past Events
Space Torah at NASA Goddard Space Center, MD – 2024
Two screenings of the Space Torah Film with NASA employees and students, a lecture by Jeff Hoffman about the future of space exploration, a celebration of the new children’s book with author Rachelle Burk, commemorating the 30th anniversary since the first repair of the Hubble Space Telescope, and much more.
Space Torah 2023 Israel Tour
View tour itinerary and photos from selected events HERE.
Read about the tour HERE.
Space Torah 2022 Houston Texas Premiere
Space Torah Premiere
At the Boston Museum of Science in Collaboration with the Boston Jewish Film Festival.
Space Torah at the Joyce Forum Jewish Short Film Festival, San Diego (October 2021)
Torah in Orbit: Jewish Journeys in Space (2019)
Astronaut Jeff Hoffman and Executive Producer Rachel Raz in Hollywood Florida at the Israeli-American Council Summit (IAC)
What does it mean to be a Jew in the “Space Age”? How do we stay connected to Judaism when we’re “off-world”? Astronaut Dr. Jeffrey Hoffman has thought about these questions and more. As the first Jewish-American man in space he took a Torah made for travelers with him onto the Columbia space shuttle. Educator Rachel Raz and IAC Eitanim student Tal Keshet conversed with Dr. Hoffman and discussed how he adapted Jewish rituals for leaving Earth, how Jews have traditionally dealt with religion on the road, and where the Jewish journey may take us next.