Too young to vote, these Jewish teens are getting others to the polls

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Lucy Targum, top right, hosts a letter-writing event at Concord Academy in Concord, Massachusetts where community members gather to write letters to voters in swing states. (Courtesy Lucy Targum)

This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives.

Even though they’re too young to vote, Shayne Cytrynbaum and Lucy Targum are running campaigns to get others to the polling booths.

Targum, 16, a junior at Concord Academy in Concord, Massachusetts, says her interest in community service comes from her Judaism. “The values that are really important to me about Judaism, like repairing the world, are really a driving force behind my interest in social justice,” she said…

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