Sunday, November 15th 2026   |

Rav-Elations!: A Chanukah Miracle

By RABBI DAVID GERBER

To truly fulfill the mitzvah of Chanukah, we must put the Chanukah menorah near our windows for everyone to see. Well…nobody fulfilled this mitzah like Jasmin Moghbeli. She was on the International Space Station during Chanukah and put her felt menorah in the window for the whole world to see!

She’s actually not the first. In 1993 on the space shuttle Endeavor, Jeffrey Hoffman spun a dreidel in space!

Rabbi David Gerber is the senior rabbi of the URJ’s Congregation Gates of Prayer (Sha’arai Tefillah) in Metairie.

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