Nicole Kahn, one of our summer interns, sent us a link to iTorah where she posted an article explaining how her religious beliefs and convictions as a Jew merge with her passion for social activism and the work of Jubilee USA. Read the excerpt below, then jump to the full article:
Like so many NFTYites, I love social action. For me, this passion stems from my South African heritage and my parents, who instilled in me the Jewish values of justice and equality. Considering this, one can imagine my excitement when I was accepted to the Religious Action Center’s (RAC) Machon Kaplan program in Washington D.C., where I will work for the summer with one of the RAC’s coalition partners.
A few weeks after my acceptance to the program, I learned I would be interning at Jubilee USA, a multi-faith network for debt cancellation. Debt relief, which is the legal cancellation of loans by creditor institutions, did not seem like a significant issue to me at the time; however, it did not take much research to help me understand its global impact.
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