From Rechovot to Los Angeles
My safta,Yael Kubani, was born in April 18, 1944 in Rehovot, Israel. Her house had a big bedroom which all her family slept in, a small kitchen, a small dining…
The story of my Great Aunt
Anita was born in the Bronx New York where she lived on a street near a building that children came to study music in. She would hear girls auditioning and…
Growing up in Egypt and France
In 1950, my grandma Leonie Bonivida, who was thirteen years old, and her family of eight left Egypt as refugees because they were Jewish. The Egyptian government was discriminating…
Growing up in New Haven, CT
My grandpa is named mark kasowitz. He was born in October 19, New Haven Connecticut. He lived in a two family house. His grandparents lived on the first floor with…
My Great Grandpa's story
My great grandpa, Abraham Ehrenhaus was born in Fall River, Massachusetts on March 31, 1924. As a kid he had two sisters and his parents living with him. During the…
My Zaydie's story
My name is Haskell Bernat. I was born in Boston in 1935. I was very young, less than two, when my father taught me the Shema before going to sleep. We lived…
Buying Matsah in an undercover house
My grandma was born in 1946 in Lvov, Ukraine. the first time she felt a sense of Jewish Identity is very hard for her to remember - because since she…
Grandpa's Jewish History
On Sunday January 15, 2017, I got to interview my grandfather on his jewish roots. He said his parents came from Poland and his mother's father was a Zionist. They…
Choosing Wine
Andrew (AJ) Ullman was born in New-York in 1955. AJ first felt a sense of his Jewish Identity when he started Hebrew school at the age of 7, And some of the…
Pesach in the Bronx
My grandfather was born in Manhatten, New-York, in 1933. My grandfather felt his jewish identity for the first time when he was in kindergarten and started to learn the history…
Celebrating Passover in Arizona
My name is Lois Reinis. I was born in 1944 in Los Angeles, California. The first time I felt a sense of Jewish identity was when I went to temple…
Growing up in a small town in Hungary
My grandfather was born in 1930 in the Hungarian town Ujhely. Ujhely is a town located in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county in northern Hungary near the Slovak border. Historically, Ujhely (Sátoraljaújhely) belonged to…