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production of "Lynn Harris on Ice." Directed by Jim
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1996 cover story in PARADE Magazine, broke the term “dating violence” into the mainstream. In the two weeks after the article ran, calls to the
National Domestic Violence Hotline doubled. One of Harris’ articles for
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Adelson, currently the dean of the New York City campus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, in 2003. They live in Brooklyn and have two children, Bess and Sam.
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