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Building Friendships

Andrea Waldstein, a social worker, recalls how and why she organized bi-cultural seders for American and Soviet Jewish women in Boston and discusses what those seders meant to participants, including Olga Shmuylovich.

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Building Friendships." (Viewed on June 15, 2026) <https://qa.jwa.org/media/building-friendships>.