Sylvia Zeltzer is a senior at the Abraham Joshua Heschel School in New York City. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Helios, the school newspaper, and attended the Medill Northwestern Journalism Institute( Cherubs) during the summer of 2023. Sylvia is an Israeli-American from Hoboken, New Jersey.
For my father, hummus is not just a dip that you order at a restaurant to try something “ethnic.” It is a taste of home.
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