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Simi Lampert, 22 Twitter: @beaconmag www.thebeaconmag.com Talk about a bombshell. The story Simi Lampert chose to publish in The Beacon, an online publication for and by Modern Orthodox college students — about a Modern Orthodox woman’s premarital tryst in a New York hotel room — bounded past the Jewish media and made it all the […]

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Sara Aharon, 26 www.fromkabultoqueens.com Of the roughly 1,000 Afghani Jews living in the U.S. today, most reside in Queens. Like Sara Aharon. Her father, like many Afghani Jews, emigrated from Afghanistan in the 1950s. He married a woman who was part-Ashkenazi, part-Sephardic (Iraqi Jews with family from Iraq), and they gave birth to Sara here […]

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