Word: miriam
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...sleep in the same bedroom and eat almost every meal together," Miriam says. And while they pursued different academic paths, both have been successful students, making the dean's list all semesters and graduating with honors. Miriam has been inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and won a Hoopes Prize for her thesis...
While they currently share their Adams House quarters, graduation will put several time zones between them. Miriam will be studying Jewish and Arab literature at Cambridge University next year as a Marshall scholar, while Beth will begin medical school at Hebrew University...
...sisters' commitments to their religion and to the Jewish community are something that both have strengthened over the years. They grew up in Tampa, where their father worked as a doctor and their mother as a homemaker, but after they came to college their family moved to Israel, where Miriam and Beth now spend their vacations from school...
...were the ones who stopped them [from going] 20 years ago and we're the ones who brought them [there] 20 years later," Miriam says...
Their parents, who were strong Zionists, had been contemplating a move to Israel before Miriam and Beth were born, but put off plans once they learned they were having twins. Their family later decided to move after visiting the twins who were participating in summer programs in Israel...