Most Jewish girls have bat mitzvahs when they turn twelve. For List College student Jackie Beckwith, born Roman Catholic, that age turned out to be the right time to adopt Judaism as her spiritual ideal and art as her professional and personal focus.

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“I decided to attend JTS because I wanted to pursue serious Jewish studies and be in a place where decisions were made and Jewish leaders bred."

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“I’m thinking law school after graduation, but that could just as easily be rabbinical school...That’s the beauty of this program, you can go anywhere—including Capitol Hill. The only hard part is choosing.”

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The List College environment is amazing...The atmosphere on Shabbat and the weekends makes you feel like you’re a member of a small, intimate community—while still being part of a large university setting.”

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“I realized that if I went anywhere else I would have just gotten a degree in Jewish studies. But after twelve years of Jewish education, I wanted to pursue a more focused degree that would allow me to engage rigorously with Jewish texts.”

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“The Joint Program is everything I hoped it would be...I get to study Jewish philosophy and then walk down the block and take a premed class. And then I get to pursue my third passion—tennis.”

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“You’re not secluded, like on an ordinary college campus. You see people of all ages, all the time, walking the streets just outside our gates. It gives you a worldly feeling.”

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