(Fredricksburg [VA] Free Lance-Star) Lisa Chinn - Sharon Lack fell in love with Israel when a visit brought to life the Bible stories she learned as a child. Lack, 22, is attending Israel's Ben-Gurion University in the Negev this semester. She prefers to look past the violence, and focus instead on her goal of becoming a rabbi. "I have always felt really close to my [Jewish] religion and love learning about it as well as teaching it to others," she said. Lack, whose Virginia apartment was less than a mile from one of the recent sniper attacks in Virginia and Maryland, said, "I really did feel safer [in Israel] than in Fredericksburg for that period of time."
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