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First female black rabbi tells her story at Pitt
by Justin Jacobs
Associate Editor
Mar 03, 2010 | 2 2 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
At an age when most kids are contemplating what they’ll do during recess, Alysa Stanton was contemplating which religion was right for her. She was 9 when she called a priest out of the blue to dis...

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