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Years ago, Rabbi Sara B. Arias was showing Camp Alonim’s Israeli delegation around American Jewish University’s Brandeis-Bardin Campus in Simi Valley when she asked the young visitors what the landscape reminded them of.
Learn more about Marking BCI’s 85th Anniversary, Jewish Leaders Reflect on a Program That Shaped Their Lives“The Ziegler community was great,” he recalled. “The faculty and the students really rallied around me and supported me in the moment.”
Learn more about From Ziegler Student to Senior Rabbi: Daniel Cotzin Burg Begins New Chapter at Hamakom