The trip offered me a chance to define my Jewish and religious identity on my own - to be, for the first time in my life, completely independent of the community I was raised in, and, for many, the first Jewish person they had ever met.
I spent my summer conducting and learning about Arctic research at the Kangerlussuaq International Science Support Center. Seventeen high school and college students from three countries ate, studied and committed to becoming lifelong friends over almost four weeks while hiking ice glaciers, visiting the U.S Summit Station, and identifying flowers.
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