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Your recent article, “The Gentrification Of The Gefilte” (April 13), would have been more appropriately titled “The Gentilification.” For Jews, “you are what you eat,” is at the core of their identity. Pick up a Ukrainian cookbook, and you will find many of our own Jewish holiday staples such as pirogi, holobtzi, etc. A rabbi […]

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Rebecca Missel, 32 Twitter: @JerseyTribe www.jerseytribe.org Rebecca Missel grew up mostly in Mesa, Ariz., a predominantly Mormon city with few Jews. But when she moved to Morristown, N.J., she was surprised to find she felt a more acute lack of connection with her community. The perception in suburban New Jersey, where Missel landed six years […]

Mor Keshet, 33 Twitter: @mor330 www.stonybrookhillel.org Mor Keshet has spent much of her life helping others, and along the way has realized something about the power of artistic expression to help people. “Given the right support,” she said, “a person can really transform their life.” Keshet was born in Israel and raised mainly in Queens […]

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