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Social change often bubbles up from below, far from the corridors of power. And particularly in the Jewish community, weighed down as it is with slow-moving institutions headed (generally) by men in their 60s, the burden of innovation falls on the young. For five years now, we’ve been highlighting some of the young people who […]

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Unlike with other Jewish holidays, the Torah does not specify a date for Shavuot; it is celebrated on the 50th day (seven weeks) after Passover. We moderns celebrate Shavuot on the sixth day of the month of Sivan (this year, May 27-28). Equally strange, the actual date on which the Torah was given is not […]

Yair Saperstein, 21 http://yuacs.wordpress.com/start/ Yair Saperstein has been a science guy for a long time (witness the permanently singed hair on the back of his hand from an elementary-school science “‘magic show” that went amiss). Today, he’s still looking to spread the magic of science. Saperstein, a chemistry major and 2012 Yeshiva University valedictorian, is […]

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