PUBLISHED EVERY ROSH HODESH

Tammuz 5763

July 1, 2003

Theme: Family KOACH assistant director Rabbi Elyse Winick tells her favorite family story. KOC Editor Audrey Shore recalls a dorm room visit by her mother. Stephanie Schwartz writes about how her mother was also her best friend. YOUR OPINIONS READ: Now that you're in college, how important is your family to you? Students give their opinions in "Five Questions, Five Minutes." WRITE: Do you think it's a problem to date non-Jews? Do you think there's a higher success rate for marriages in the faith? Express your opinions on this months "Five Questions/Five Minutes."

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Link to responses from non-Jewish students

(Tammuz 5763/July 2003)

Compiled by Audrey Shore
KOC Editor

OUR QUESTIONS:

1. What's your name?

2. Where do you go to school?

3. How important is your family in your everyday life TODAY, as a college student?

4. When you project your long-term goals, how important will family be THEN?

5. Growing up, how important was family THEN? To you / to your parents?

YOUR ANSWERS:

1. Lauren

2. University of Kansas

3. SO important, parents are the only ones that care whether you fail or get an A, I wouldn't be here without them... Who else encourages you everyday and really, really loves you? No one like your parents.

4. I really would want their support and when things got tough, I know they wouldn't let me give up.

5. Family has been such a big part of my life, it always has and always will be... because of my parents.

1. Tami Abdollah

2. UC Berkeley

3. They're pretty important. I call them for reassurance or just a friendly voice often between classes.

4. Family will always be important to me.

5. Family was always a priority in our family. Family time and family activities.

[Posted 7/8/03]