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December 2014

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Philanthropy ne 196 Common Bond: Young people connect through faith and fun. Jewish people … would disappear. So it's important for that reason that Jewish people understand, at least, what the consequences of assimilation are. It's a matter of survival of the Jewish people." Lappin says that Jews aren't merely members of a reli- gion, or even an ethnicity, but rather a family. "We've made contributions in all areas of human endeavor that benefit mankind, and I feel that it's important that the family con- tinues to exist and hopefully to prosper and live in peace some day," he says. Lappin first traveled to Israel himself in 1964. At the time, he was busy and therefore reluctant to go, but the trip had such an impact on him that he still gets emotional discussing it today, 50 years later. While there, he watched a ship carrying Jewish refugees from the Soviet Union dock, and when the old and sick travelers stepped onto Photograph courtesty of the Lappin Foundation

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