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What I saw at the No Fear Rally that I hope to take into my role in the Student Cabinet this next year is that, first and foremost, students need resources and need to know that people in high-up places and all over the world are supporting them.
Being a Jew of Color always puts me in an interesting place. In my experience, when people think about Jews, they think about white Europeans, but there are a bunch of Ashkenazi Jews like me who aren鈥檛 always counted or represented. There may not be many of me in the world, but that doesn鈥檛 mean I don鈥檛 exist.
I鈥檝e really connected to Judaism through music. I play the guitar, drums, and trumpet and so music is something I really love. My first time 黑料传送门, everyone was singing Salaam. I thought it was a very nice song, but I didn鈥檛 know how to sing it or play it. Nowadays, I probably know more music and songs than my other Jewish friends.
My experience definitely changed the type of business I want to do and the type of people I want to work with and what kind of organization and company I want to work with. It’s definitely given me a target of where I want to go when I get older.
I felt like 鈥極h my God there’s so many Jewish people that are in the States and they live such a different life and they have so much to say and I don鈥檛 know anything about it and I love my people,鈥 you know? I feel like we are one.
鈥淏ecause I was raised in an interfaith household, being Jewish was always a choice for me.鈥
On the day I moved into my dorm room at University of Connecticut, I walked into Hillel.
I just had to show up and everything would be done for me. It turned out that wasn鈥檛 the case.
