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Madeline Dolgin is a community builder 鈥 one who engages Jewish young adults through low-pressure programming. The 25-year-old has dedicated her summer to creating strategic partnerships and building a social media audience for The Chosen One, a humorous Jewish card game. The concept is simple: One player reads aloud a question card each round, and the […]
鈥淚 was born with muscular dystrophy. My muscles may not be as strong as everyone else鈥檚, but I鈥檝e learned to adapt and figure out how to do things in my own way.
鈥淚 was adopted as a child, but I knew my chances of developing breast cancer were high.鈥
鈥淚 was enrolled in a Catholic school, where I was the only Jewish and Eastern European student.鈥
Nowadays, I鈥檓 not scared to tell people that I鈥檓 adopted and Jewish anymore.
It was a small, tight-knit community that immediately absorbed us and gave us a respite from the constant pressures at West Point.
鈥淛ewish life centered around the home for me. My family immigrated from India to New York and then moved to North Carolina.鈥
鈥淢y time as a cadet ended when I began studying cybersecurity at Towson University, but I wanted to find a way to continue my support of our military. And Towson Hillel gave me an opportunity to do that.鈥
鈥淚鈥檓 Jewish and Latina. I feel like I have the best of both worlds. Being Jewish and Spanish has influenced who I am 鈥 my personality, the foods I like, my values. I grew up in a traditional Modern Orthodox home in Hollywood, Fla. I attended Jewish private school my whole life, spent almost every […]
On the day I moved into my dorm room at University of Connecticut, I walked into Hillel.
