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Yona Pianko

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Yona Pianko is a junior at Lakeside High School in Seattle, WA. At her school, she founded and now leads the Jewish Student Union, runs the Outdoor Club, and serves on the Student Library Board. Yona enjoys performing with her youth circus troupe, baking chocolate chip cookies, and participating in outdoor activities, especially backpacking, mountain biking, and scuba diving. She also loves attending her camp (Ramah in the Rockies), leading Shabbat services at shul, and learning in the Hartman Teen Fellowship.  

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The Question that Sparked My Jewish Journey

Yona Pianko

I hadn’t thought much at all about why I engaged with Judaism—or even why I was Jewish beyond having been born that way.

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Yona Pianko." (Viewed on December 8, 2024) <https://jwa.org/blog/author/pianko-yona>.