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The outreach appears to have
worked for Gregory — the only
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who said he hopes to study Hebrew
when he returns from Israel. Last
week, as he prepared to depart for
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Matthew Grego?), gets a hug from his
mother, Beverly and brother, Michael
as he leaves for Israel.
Israel, he was still glowing from last
month's bar mitzvah, which Burg
orchestrated.
"Rabbi Burg asked me if I wanted to
read from the Torah, and I said I hadn't
even had a bar mitzvah, so he whi-
pered the words to me and I said them
aloud," recalled Gregory "Then, every-
one lifted me on a chair. It was great
and, on the way home, Rabbi Burg
asked me if I wanted to go to Israel."
Gregory said he will be studying
with Rabbi Burg while in Israel and
will also earn a Boy Scout's "religion"
badge in the process.
One of his companions on the trip,
Vicky Ioffe, is originally from Latvia,
where her family had little exposure to
religion. She got involved in NCSY
through the Israel culture club at
Berkley High School and —after read-
ing Exodus— is excited to check out
Israel.
, "I heard it's a great place and I
know how hard people worked to
make it what it is right now," she said.
Sonya Barash, also on the trip, is
from Moscow. She almost moved to
Israel instead of the United States six
years ago. "I'm curious about every-
thing there," she said. "The land, the
people, my relatives who I haven't seen
for 10 years."
Barash's family is not religious, but
she joined NCSY because "I wanted
to learn the whole package." ❑
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