Global Celebration Highlights Achievements of Masa Israel Fellows
The 5 Towns Jewish Times December 19, 2020 TEL AVIV — Growing up in Cutchogue, New York, Jovan Booker thought he was the only amputee in his small Long Island town. Raised largely by his late father and grandmother, Booker also had no idea until he was 15 that he was Jewish — an identity later cemented during a trip to Israel and through time spent in Jerusalem. Now a graduate student at New York’s Hofstra University and a basketball coach, Booker, 27, decided last year that he wanted to find a way to return to Israel. He soon secured a five-month internship through the Masa...
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