Keeping one of the world?s oldest religions alive is Rabbi Sonya Starr?s mission. Starr leads the Columbia Jewish Congregation, founded by Columbia?s pioneers in 1971.

She came to the Columbia in 2000 after serving in Connecticut and earning a master?s degree in Hebrew Letters at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Pennsylvania.

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