Yeshiva Student In Class By Himself

Excerpt from NY Daily News
Yeshiva Student In Class By Himself
By Charles W. Bell

Sammy Samuels can count the Jewish population of his
homeland, Myanmar, on his fingers and toes - to the exact
digit - and despite his current residence in New York, he
includes himself in the count. "There are exactly 20 of us
left in the whole country," he said this week, "and I'm the
youngest."
Samuels, who is 25, took a subway to Madison Square Garden
Thursday, for the annual Yeshiva University commencement
exercises - and as diverse as his 2,000 or so fellow graduates
were, it is safe to say that Samuels belonged in a class by himself.
For one thing, he is the first Jewish student in school history from
his country, which is known as Myanmar to its military rulers and as
Burma to much of the rest of the world.

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