JLC learner Ilana Pond reflects on how Jewish service and Jewish learning shape her identity.

She’s recommitted to learning Hebrew, working with her teacher, Fran Pearlman, who Ilana connected with through the Jewish Learning Collaborative to relearn the letters and even read without vowels. “If you’d told me in Hebrew school that I’d willingly pick it up again, I wouldn’t have believed you,” she jokes. “But now, it feels like a way to reclaim a piece of my identity.” Read the full article here.