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A mezuzah that has orbited the earth 109 times came to rest Monday at the Jewish Museum here. Astronaut Dr. Jeffrey Hoffman, who took the mezuzah into space two years ago on the shuttle Discovery, made the presentation of the unearthly mezuzah to the Jewish Museum. Hoffman, an identifying Jew and active member of a […]https://www.jta.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/jta-long-logo-bw.jpg600315