Sagehens Abroad: Student Stories from Around the World

Sarah Burch - Kigali, Rwanda (Fall 2019) and Talia Ivry - Aix-en-Provence, France (Spring 2020)


Listen Later

Join us for a special Passover episode as co-hosts Talia Ivry '21, a religious studies major, and Sarah Burch '22, an international relations major, chat about their Jewish identities and studying in Aix-en-Provence, France through Wellesley-in-Aix in the spring of 2020 and Kigali, Rwanda through SIT Rwanda in the fall of 2019. Talia and Sarah have a thoughtful conversation about spending the High Holy Days in a refugee camp, sharing Judaism with host families, seeking out family heritage, and continuing to decide what Judaism means to them.

Keywords: religious identity, heritage seeker, homestay, non-traditional location, petition, language immersion, French, Kinyarwanda, direct enrollment

Transcript: https://pomona.box.com/s/qkizb5fnvxezjweado1g51txu22o2xpg

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

Sagehens Abroad: Student Stories from Around the WorldBy Sagehens Abroad