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PhD  Boston University, Cultural Anthropology
MA   Columbia University, Cultural Anthropology
BA    Barnard College, Architecture and Anthropology


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Cultural anthropologist, Jewish communal leader, aficionado of Medieval Jewish history, fiction-writer, essayist, teacher, and wife, sister, mother and daughter:  

When my life endeavors pull in such disparate directions, that I wonder how they are all connected - I find inspiration in Marc Chagall's beautiful painting, "The Circus."  These figures in motion, all float alone.  Yet, each is carefully balanced between the others.  If one were to be removed, the whole would collapse.

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