This piece, which first appeared at eJewishPhilanthropy.com, was was written by the Jewish Women’s Archive’s 2019-20 Rising Voices cohort: Dahlia Soussan (senior at Kehillah Jewish High School, Palo Alto), Madeline Canfield (Brown University), Lila Goldstein (Brandeis University), Ellanora Lerne (Clark University), Lilah Peck (Charlotte Country Day School) and Maddy Pollack (UMass). It…
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Local Voice
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