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Roman Shmulenson, 34 Part of a Ukrainian-Jewish family that came to the U.S. in 1993, Roman Shmulenson made his first meaningful contact with the Jewish community while studying at a Brooklyn high school the next year. A social worker from the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services who met with émigré teens arranged a […]

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Alicia Jo Rabins, 34 Twitter: @ohaliciajo, @girlsintrouble www.girlsintroublemusic.com Growing up, Alicia Jo Rabins never gave much thought to Jewish tradition. She was raised secular, in a mostly non-Jewish section of Baltimore. “It was not a huge part of my life,” she said of Judaism in her youth. Her passion was for poetry, and as a […]

Yehuda Kurtzer, 35 Twitter: @YehudaKurtzer www.shalomhartman.org Growing up, Yehuda Kurtzer was accustomed to high-level discussions around the dinner table. His father, Daniel Kurtzer, is the former U.S. ambassador to Egypt (1997-2001) and Israel (2001-2005), and served in more junior positions in the American embassies in Cairo and Tel Aviv during Yehuda’s childhood. In fact, the […]

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