Born in Princeton, NJ in 1965 Amy attended Princeton public schools. She became a Bat Mitzvah and later had her Confirmation at The Jewish Center of Princeton. Graduating early from Princeton High School she immediately matriculated to Rutgers University where she pursued her academic interest in the biological sciences. At this time she stopped using her first name Amy, choosing to call herself by her middle name, the Hebrew name, Adina.
It was her ten year involvement with Habonim-Dror, the progressive Labor Zionist Youth Movement, that shaped and molded her social consciousness, her commitment for social action and civil rights, a concern for the underprivileged, and a respect for the humanity of those who are different. These values were developed in the movement's summer camp and in its year long programs. Adina matured from a camper in the youngest group, to a junior counselor, counselor, and head of Camp Galil's arts and crafts specialty. She was active in the local Princeton-Trenton chapter, and was a member of the Delaware Valley Executive Committee.
Taking a year's leave from college, Adina participated in Habonim-Dror's Workshop program in Israel living on Kibbutz Gesher HaZiv during the 1984-85 academic year. Here her outrage against sexism and militarism was strengthened. She resumed her studies at Rutgers during 1985-86 and helped organize a Progressive Zionist Caucus (PZC) chapter at the university. She became a member of the Mazkirut, the national governing body of Habonim. She returned to the kibbutz in the summer of 1986.
In the Fall of 1986 Adina co-founded and lived in a cooperative housing unit (the "bayit") at Rutgers. An aneurysm burst on Nov. 11, 1986 and Adina died suddenly at age 20, her dreams of "Tikkun Olam", social justice, left for others to fulfill.
