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the just started his four-month
slay aboard Mir and already he has
i holiday coming up: Rosh
Hashana, the Jewish New Year.
| Astronaut David Wolf’s mother
ijoubts her son — the first Jewish
.imerican to live on the Russian
jpace station — will be able to take
lime off to observe Rosh Hashana
iiis week or the rest of the Jewish
High Holy Days.
• But “maybe he’ll get a vision of
the High Holidays closer to heav-
tn than we will,” said Martha
[aratz of the Jewish Community
Center of Indianapolis, Wolf’s boy-
lood hangout. “It’s a lovely
bought, isn’t it?”
And Wolf did take up a mezuza,
rolled piece of parchment in a
tase that traditionally is attached
the doorpost of a new home.
Mir will be Wolf’s home until
ate January. He moved in Sunday
becoming the sixth American to
:ve aboard the station — and
ipent Monday getting to know the
dace and his two new Russian
rewmates.
“I doubt really if they’re going to
jive him time off for a holiday, I re-
ily doubt that, and he wouldn’t
:ven consider asking,” said his
nother, Dottie Wolf. “He will just
ay'Happy New Year’ to the Rus-
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will teach them something about
our New Year.”
With all the last-minute uncer
tainty over her son’s launch to Mir
and questions about his safety,
Wolf said she forgot to ask whether
he packed the traditional honey
and apples to celebrate the New
Year. (He didn’t, says NASA.) She
was more interested in whether he
remembered to take his screw
driver for the inevitable space sta
tion repairs. (He did.)
When he flew on space shuttle
Columbia in 1993, Wolf took up a
Torah pointer and a shofar, the
ram’s horn that is blown to an
nounce the new year, for Indi
anapolis’ Beth-El Zedeck Temple,
where he had his bar mitzvah 28
years ago.
This time, the temple gave him
a mezuza, which he will return
early next year and affix to a new
educational wing.
“Since Mir going to be David’s
home, we thought it would be ap
propriate,” said Rabbi Sandy Sasso.
She and her rabbi husband,
Dennis, offered a special prayer for
Wolf during a Sabbath service at
tended by the astronaut’s parents
and grandmother on Sept. 20, five
days before he left for Mir aboard
space shuttle Atlantis.
The opening verse of the She-
ma, the prayer that is tucked in
side the mezuza, is: “Hear, O Israel,
the lord our God, the lord is one”
— an especially fitting line consid
ering how borders and divisions
are invisible from space, the rab
bis said.
Wolf also took up a mezuza for
the Jewish nursing home in Indi
anapolis where his aunt lives.
His sister, Anne Berggren, said
he probably won’t unpack the two
mezuzot. But he will open her
Hanukkah gift after it arrives on a
Russian supply ship in October —
a menorah and gelt, or holiday
candy that looks like coins.
“People don’t realize when
they’re up there, they’re just not
putting out fires, so to speak, that
they have lives back on Earth and
it’s important that they are able to
observe certain holidays,”
Berggren said.
Wolf, 41, an unmarried doctor
and engineer, certainly will think
about Rosh Hashana, which begins
at sundown Wednesday night, and
Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement,
the following week, even if he can’t
observe them properly, his mother
said. On his way to the launch pad
last Thursday, he shouted: “Happy
New Year, folks!”
(Of course, there’s a sunrise and
sunset every 90 minutes in orbit,
one of the many aspects of space-
flight that could raise questions of
Talmudic complexity for an obser
vant Jew. Then again, observant
Jews aren’t supposed to be riding
in vehicles on the High Holy Days
or the Sabbath.)
Wolf spent Monday with his Mir
predecessor, NASA astronaut
Michael Foale, whose 4 1/2-month
mission included a devastating
collision and frequent computer
crashes and accompanying power
outages.
The two will work side by side
until the hatches between the
docked Atlantis and Mir are closed
Thursday, so Wolf can get the inside
story on life aboard the cluttered,
ruptured station. Atlantis is sched
uled to pull away with Foale on Fri
day, after six days of linked flight,
and return to Earth on Sunday.
Since arriving on Mir, Wolf has
expressed again his confidence in
the safety of the 11 1/2-year-old
space station and the importance
of his research up there.
Wolf said her son would not
have gone — and NASA would not
have sent him — if Mir were as
dangerous as some members of
Congress and others say.
Still, as a mother, she worries:
“He’s going to be gone so long.”
Health officials extend ban due to Red Tide
HARLINGEN, Texas (AP) — State health offi
cials Monday extended a ban of clam, mussel
and oyster harvesting to the lower Texas coast in
the wake of a red tide outbreak that has killed
millions of fish in past weeks.
Meanwhile, wildlife officials tested water
samples and flew over the coastline to try to de
termine where the algae might spread next.
“No one has a clue as to what’s going to hap
pen. No one can even second-guess this thing,”
said Larry McEachron, science director for the
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s Coastal
Fisheries Division.
Red tide is a bloom of microscopic algae that
attacks the nervous systems of fish and creates a
reddish tint in seawater. Its toxins can kill many
fish species, but only infected clams, mussels and
oysters are unsafe for human consumption, state
jiealth officials said.
"Clams, mussels and oysters concentrate the
toxin. When people consume those, the toxin
can make them ill,” said Kirk Wiles, assistant di
rector of the Division of Seafood Safety at the
Texas Department of Health.
Systems include nausea, dizziness, tingling
sensations in the extremities and dilated pupils.
Illness can last several days but is not usually fa
tal, Wiles said. Airborne toxins also can cause
nose, throat and eye irritations.
Red tide was spotted several weeks ago off
the coast of Port O’Connor, then moved south
in the Gulf of Mexico to San Jose Island, where
2 1/2 million fish washed ashore last week.
Although it has since dissipated in those ar
eas, the red tide has spread to the lower coast,
where thousands more fish were found dead
over the weekend from the south end of Padre
Island National Seashore to South Padre Island.
In response to the movement, state health of
ficials extended a ban on clam, mussel and oys
ter harvesting from the upper coast down to
South Padre Island, Wiles said. Only Galveston
Bay is excluded.
Although commercial oyster harvesting does
not start until Nov. 1, Wiles said recreational
fishermen may be catching infected fish.
“We are warning people not to consume
clams, mussels and oysters from any of those
waters,” he said. “This includes recreational har
vesters or people who eat brown edible mussels
off the jetties from Port Aiansas south to South
Padre Island.”
If the red tide persists and spreads into the
Texas bay system, health officials may be forced
to suspend commercial oyster harvesting as
well, Wiles said.
“It’ll depend on the circumstances we see
over the next several weeks,” Wiles said. “We’ll
be monitoring how long the red tide stays and
where it goes.”
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