Diane Rippa - To Life! A Celebration of Vermont Jewish Women

About this film

Diane Rippa, was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1957. While growing up she had a close family relationship with her mother’s parents who lived nearby in Braintree. Her grandfather, a physician, had his family practice right in his home. Diane used to “hang out in his office a lot.” He also took her out on house calls and was Diane’s predominant role model for going into medicine. Diane’s grandmother kept house and taught piano lessons. She baked delicious pies from the blueberries Diane and her brother, Joel, helped her pick in the backyard. When Diane was three her family moved to Vermont when her father got a teaching position in the education department at the University of Vermont. Her mother taught math at Pine Ridge, a school for children with learning disabilities. Diane and her brother Joel went to Hebrew School at Ohavi Zedek and were active in NEFTY (the New England Federation of Temple Youth) during junior and senior high school. They traveled throughout New England and Canada meeting other Jewish teenagers at social and educational gatherings. Following in her parents’footsteps, Diane received her undergraduate degree from Harvard University. She returned to Burlingto…

Directors & creators

DAVAR: The Vermont Jewish Women's History Project

Subjects

Vermont, Jewish women, New England Federation of Temple Youth, doctor, education

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