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Jessica was in search of something. Just what that was, she wasn’t sure. She was comfortable in her queer identity but didn't know how Judaism played into it. And while she didn’t grow up religious, a Federation-supported post-college Taglit-Birthright Israel trip woke up something…
By Gabrielle Peck
Growing up, I could never really understand why the Jewish day began and ended at sunset. While the biblical explanation for the phenomena is that God first created night and then day, and the historical explanation is that clocks were not around during the time the Torah …
Gabrielle Peck is a rising junior at Northwestern University studying neuroscience and global health, and a proud member of the Sycamore High School Class of 2014. Gabrielle is currently participating in the Onward Israel program and, thanks to a Cincy Journeys grant, will spend the next…
By Deboarh Fineblum (JNS) - Scott Michaud is a hard-working lawyer 51 weeks out of the year. But for that final week, the 58-year-old is more at home on the trail than in a courtroom. “It was my daughter’s idea,” says Michaud, who splits his time between homes in Colorado and…
You would think that a single mom of four who put herself through college and runs her own business would have very little time to invest in her Jewish identity. But for northern Kentucky resident Jen Pilott, rediscovering her Jewish roots made everything else possible.
