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Personal Narrative: My Experiences In The Jewish Community
It is a feeling that is indescribable. A feeling that makes you feel like you belong. Because here, I know I belong. This feeling is so overwhelming. Not the kind of overwhelming that makes you feel anxious or stressed or fearful, although those emotions are not abnormal here. As I am sitting at the usual welcome circle, which is how we start every event, I sit next to the people, my friends, who I have grown to know over the last three years. As I enter the building that lays right off the busy street that is in the heart of Pittsburgh’s largest Jewish Community, I am welcomed in with a smile. I walk down the halls that are decorated with pictures of faces I know and see every week. I sit down in the circle and spark conversation with my

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