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From Award Winning Author SYLVIA ROUSS comes a story every child should know REACH FOR THE STARS by Sylvia Rouss Illustrated by Rosalie Ofer Introduction by Joachim Joseph, who gave the Sefer Torah to Ilan Ramon www.pitspopany.com A LITTLE TORAH'S JOURNEY As he traveled through space, Ilan Ramon, Israel's first astronaut, held a miniature Torah in the palm of his hand that he showed to the world. "This is a small Torah scroll that a young boy received from a Rabbi sixty years ago in the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp," he announced, holding up the Torah for the cameras. "The Rabbi used it to train Joachim Joseph for his Bar Mitzvah in the Camp and then gave it to him for safekeeping. Joachim gave it to me for this journey." The story of this Torah; it's journey from the depths of the Holocaust to the heights of the Heavens as it traveled with the crew of the ill-fated Space Shuttle Columbia, and the pride it brought to the Jewish people, are the magic ingredients of Reach for the Stars: A Little Torah's Journey, by National Jewish Book Award Winner, Sylvia Rouss. Sylvia is the author of over a dozen titles, including this year's Sydney Taylor Honor Award and the World Storytelling Award. The introduction, written by Joachim Joseph, describes his special relationship with Ilan, the launch of the space shuttle, the crew's sixteen days in space, and the experiments performed in space. While not an Orthodox Jew, Ilan considered himself a representative of all the Jewish people. During his flight on the space shuttle, Ilan ate only kosher food, kept the Shabbat, and even made Kiddush on the wine. He took a Mezuzah, donated by Holocaust survivors, with him into space. And he took a little Torah scroll& Reach For The Stars by Sylvia Rouss Hard Cover $16.95 ISBN: 1-930143-82-6 Soft Cover $9.95 ISBN: 1-930143-83-4 Ages: 8-12 Pages: 40 Size: 8.5" x 11" ========================================================================== HaSafran - The Electronic Forum of the Association of Jewish Libraries Submissions for HaSafran, send to: Hasafran at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listserver at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 at osu.edu AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org/