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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 […]

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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 […]

Simon Goldberg, 21 Twitter: @simongoldberg www.trianglesoftruth.org www.facebook.com/torchofmemory For Simon Goldberg, 21, the call came when he was a high school sophomore and attended a huge rally on the National Mall to raise awareness about the Darfur genocide. Somebody handed him a T-shirt bearing the slogan, “Don’t mourn a genocide. Stop one.” The connection between present-day […]

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