Nomi Levy circled the globe until she found her people, her calling, and herself
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ost mornings, Nomi Levy wakes up at 5:30 a.m. — she’s a nutritionist by trade, currently working on a Ph.D. clinical doctorate.
Nomi emanates the positivity and self-possession that come from being squarely centered in who she is and what she wants to do with her life.
What isn’t immediately apparent is the journey it took to get here. Nomi literally circumnavigated the world before settling in Jerusalem, moving from her birthplace in Salt Lake City, Utah, to an adoptive home in Minnesota to modeling in Hong Kong. She then converted to Judaism and married in Los Angeles before making aliyah to Jerusalem. Her peripatetic life brought her to many cultures before choosing Judaism, and to create a broad, inclusive definition of what it means to have a family.
Nomi’s mother, Joy, born in Korea in 1950, wore her name well. She was a happy, positive, enterprising young woman. She married an American serviceman and moved with him to California, bringing over her aunt, three uncles, and grandmother. She and her husband divorced after a short time, and she married Nomi’s father.
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