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College is often a time and place where young people are figuring out who they are and who they want to be. For many Jewish students, that experience has been especially fraught amid escalating conflict in and around Israel and Gaza this past year. The deaths of more than 12-hundred Israelis last October and more than 40-thousand Palestinians since then has amplified divisions in the Jewish community — and within Jewish students themselves. On the eve of Rosh Hashanah – the Jewish New Year – That’s made fellowship with Jewish classmates both more important — and all the more difficult. WBEZ’s Lisa Kurian Philip has this report from Northwestern’s campus. HOST: DIXON