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Rachel Isaacs is an alumna of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship/Davidson Scholars Program.  She is a fourth year rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological Seminary and is the rabbinic intern at the Park Slope Jewish Center.  She can be reached at risaacs@alum.wellesley.edu I am the type of person who likes large stages and grand gestures.  As a general rule, I compensate for the shortness of my stature with the volume of

Jonathan Gribetz is an alumnus of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship, and the Maurice Amado Foundation Fellow at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.  Next year, he will be the Ray D. Wolfe Fellow in Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto.  Jonathan can be reached at gribetz@post.harvard.edu We met Yosef at a small synagogue in Istanbul a few years back.  There were just eighteen people

Nessa Liben is a Wexner Graduate Fellow/Davidson Scholar alumnus, FEREP Scholar alumnus, and recent graduate of the NYU Dual Degree program in Nonprofit Management and Judaic Studies.  She can be reached at Nessa.Liben@gmail.com On purim night, I joined a dozen octogenarians for a conveniently located megilla reading at my neighbors’ apartment across the hall.  My neighbors have been married for almost 50 years, during which they have experienced both the

Carla Fenves is an alumna of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship Program. Carla is a rabbinical student at the Hebrew Union College-Institute of Religion in New York.  She can be reached at cfenves@gmail.com This Passover I led a seder on a cruise ship in the Caribbean. While planning with the ship’s staff, the maitre d’ kept insisting that we use only paper plates and plastic utensils for the meal. Despite my