This film tells the remarkable true story of Colonel Ilan Ramon, Israel's first Astronaut and a tiny Torah that he carried from the depths of hell to the heights of space.

This Torah scroll was smuggled into a concentration camp during the Holocaust; safeguarded by Joachim Joseph, a Holocaust survivor; and later carried into space by Col.  Ramon. It is a unique story that interweaves the heights of scientific achievement, the depths of a nation’s cruelty, the private grief of a boy who came of age during the Holocaust, and the public mourning of many nations in the aftermath of the Columbia Shuttle disaster. To fulfill the promise that a boy in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp made– to use the Torah scroll to tell the world what happened in the camp – comes An Article of Hope an hour-long film exploring the journey of the Torah from pre-World War II Europe, to Israel, and then to space. Combining historical and ethical inquiry, the film reaches across faiths and nationalities.

Free and open to the community
Cosponsored with the Judaic Department

Sponsored in part by the Berit and Martin Bernstein Open Forum Endowment Fund and the Edwin Soforenko Foundation