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In Judaism and theater, I feel a constant need to improve; to know that each event or moment in time can be better than the one that came before it.
Judaism at its core is about social justice, Tikkun Olam, and helping each other. Helping your fellow Jews, but also helping your fellow humans. That鈥檚 what an American republic is about too: helping each other and contributing to society. Those ideals are both very Jewish and very American.
鈥淎riel Walovitch, Northeastern University Hillel鈥檚 director of Jewish student life, contacted me a few days ago because she鈥檚 been running a mile a day for eleven days to honor the victims of the Tree of Life shooting and she鈥檇 heard that I was from Pittsburgh.”
鈥淚 grew up a practicing Catholic, but as I got older, I began to question my beliefs.鈥
鈥淰oting is a mitzvah. To help others fulfill that mitzvah, I became the first Mitzvote civic engagement intern at Franklin and Marshall Hillel.鈥
鈥淲ith the outbreak of the coronavirus, Onward Israel adapted the six-week internship I was supposed to do in Tel Aviv to a virtual experience.鈥
鈥淢y name is Octavio, but people call me Tavo.鈥
鈥淏eing Jewish and Latino are central parts of who I am.鈥
鈥淲hen I was moving into my apartment at Michigan State University, someone said to me, 鈥楧o you have to hang up your mezuzah? Do you need to tell the entire world your Jewish?鈥 I said, 鈥榊es, of course.鈥欌
鈥淚 was hundreds of miles away from campus, completing the semester online because of the coronavirus, when I received a flood of messages about an act of vandalism on Yom HaShoah.鈥
