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Previous Teen Voice Columns

• Jan/Feb 2010: Swine Flu or How I Learned to Love the Vaccine
• April 2009: Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Cancer Survivor - A Role Model for Young Jewish Woman
• March 2009: Walking The Walk
• February 2009: Why you should become a vegetarian
• January 2009: So you're not going to college?
• December 2008: Every Child Left Behind
• November 2008: B'nai B'rith Youth Organization
• October 2008: Top Cause of Teen Deaths: Car Crashes
• September 2008: Youth Make a Difference
• August 2008: Tichon Ramah Yerushalayim (T.R.Y.)
• July 2008: Righteous Polish Heroine
• April 2008: Dear Sean and Will It Be Clinton Or Obama?
• March 2008: USY and Students United Against Violence Everywhere.
• February 2008: Walking The Walk and Say It Loud
• January 2008: Friendship Circle and A Failure to Communicate
• December 2007: Student Global AIDS Campaign and Volunteering
• November 2007: Machaneh Bonim B'Israel

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