Q&A: One lawyer's journey from refugee to J.D.
In the late 1980s, Bernard Cherkasov walked past a bakery in Italy with his cousin, staring wide-eyed at pizzas neither of them could afford.As they walked away, the bakery owner came out and handed them free bags of pizza to take home to their families. Cherkasov and his cousin were refugees moving from country to country after fleeing anti-Semitism in his native …
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