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Kosher campus corps

Jewish collegiate life is a local growth industry
by Richard Greenberg
Associate Editor, Washington Jewish Week

Growing up in a heavily non-Jewish community outside Boston, Becky Sanfield felt like a gefilte fish out of water.
Few of her high school classmates appreciated her Jewish-inflected sense of humor, which reflected the sardonic worldview of comedian Larry David.
That feeling of alienation soon dissipated, however, when Sanfield enrolled at George Washington University in the District, where she fell in with a crowd of like-minded students she had met during freshman orientation through the school's Hillel chapter. Communal viewing of David's Curb Your Enthusiasm became a regular ritual for the group.

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