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Embracing the Other – Lyndsey Lipson
Today we visited a Jewish queer organization called JQSA. After learning about what all of the letters in the acronym LGBTQA stood for, we examined the scale of hostility and […]
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The Possibility of Progress – Adina Ornstein-Luks
Oxford Dictionary defines possibility as “a thing that may happen or be the case” (Possibility, oxforddictionaries.com). This definition explains an essential component of the impact of social action work. Today, […]
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Blast From the Past – AWB 2009 – David Smith
They say it’s a small world and it truly is.  Who would have guessed that we would have had the chance to hear a Holocaust survivor’s story at the Hebrew […]
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Fifth Time Around: Staff Reflection – Hillary Borker
Yesterday, my group of 7 participants and I worked on finishing Cathy’s house. This included tediously scrubbing the windows with toothbrushes in order to make sure they’d pass the lead […]
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Appreciate Appreciate Appreciate – David Ioffe
Yesterday we volunteered at the St. Bernard project. We were divided into two groups, and mine helped build a house from scratch. There used to be a house there but […]