American college students may not seek out Jewish life when they’re taking a semester or year abroad, but say they easily could be coaxed to experience it with even a modicum of outreach from local communities.
December may be the cruelest month for intermarried families, with the annual tug-of-war between Christmas and Chanukah, but dilemmas surface again in the spring with Passover and Easter – especially when they fall in the same week, as happens this year.
For many skeptical parents, the opportunity to participate in the prestigious Fulbright scholarship program trumps any fears they have about their children returning to a Russia that for many of them still remains shrouded in painful memories.
