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You Should Know … Rafi Glazer
Rafi Glazer. Photo by Lauren Glazer. Driven by Jewish values, Rafi Glazer lends a helping hand as a social justice advocate, foster parent and nonprofit employee. Glazer has volunteered with Jews...
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Carol Stern Fought for Marriage Equality in Maryland
Courtesy of Carol Stern. A child of the 1960s who protested the Vietnam War, Carol Stern is more than accustomed to advocating for change. The Chevy Chase resident co-chaired the marriage equality...
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You Should Know … Rabbi Bentzy Stolik
Rabbi Bentzy Stolik. Photo by Lauren Sachs. Rabbi Bentzy Stolik believes that one doesn’t have to be a rabbi to make a difference. “We all have a sense of influence on our surroundings in places that...
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Chris Wolf Brings DC Roots to Capital Jewish Museum
Courtesy of Chris Wolf. Chris Wolf is a Jewish fourth-generation Washingtonian with a love for D.C. history. So, it’s fitting that he was appointed as president of the Lillian and Albert Small Capital...
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You Should Know … Hannah Loffman
Hannah Loffman. Courtesy of JWI’s Young Women Impact Network. Hannah Loffman is driven by the opportunity to foster social change, which she does through her work with Jewish Women International and as...
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Michael Koplow Brings Nuanced Policy Approach to Israel-Palestinian Conflict
Michael Koplow. Photo by Ann-Marie VanTassell Photography. The chief policy officer of Israel Policy Forum, who’s been with the organization for nearly a decade, originally intended to study Turkey and...
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Bethesda’s Johanna Chanin Leads Edlavitch DCJCC Board
Johanna Chanin. Photo by Aryeh Photo. Johanna Chanin views Judaism as a source of great joy, so it’s only natural that she’s spending her retirement years facilitating Jewish communal life in the...
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You Should Know … Rabbi Amalia Mark
Rabbi Amalia Mark. Photo by Alyssa Craft. Rabbi Amalia Mark doesn’t know the exact moment she decided she wanted to be a rabbi. In fact, growing up in an Orthodox Jewish family, she only knew rabbis as...
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Bethesda’s Lindsey Jacobson Strengthens Community Ties at Sixth & I
Lindsey Jacobson. Photo by Jason Putsche Photography. Lindsey Jacobson is proud to start a career at the very synagogue where she and her husband were married and her grandfather had his bar mitzvah....
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Potomac’s Avery Sudow Helps Build Jewish Institutions
Courtesy of Avery Sudow. As a young teen, Avery Sudow had a “lightbulb moment” about Judaism: the customs her family practiced in their hometown of Charleston matched the Jewish traditions outside of...
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