Childhood in a convent
My name is Emily and I am going to tell you about my Grandpa, Michael Gyepes. My grandpa was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1933. Budapest is the capital and most…
Everyone is created in the image of G-D
My grandfather was born in 1936 in Baltimore, Maryland. My grandpa thinks that An important part of being Jewish is to believe that everyone is created in the image of…
Living life full of meaning, after parents survived the Holocaust
My Grandmother's parents were Holocaust Survivors. When my grandmother was a little girl, her parents never told her about the holocaust, because they didn’t want her sister and her to…
Blessing the fruits on Tu Bishvat
My grandmother was born in Isfahan, Iran, in 1932. Isfahan (Persian: اصفهان) is the capital of Isfahan Province in Iran, located about 340 kilometres (211 miles) south of Tehran. The…
From Breslau to Los Angeles
My grandfather’s name is Aron Redner. He was born in 1924 in Breslau, Germany in an orthodox Jewish family which included the Rosenbergs and the Ormianas. His family was from…
Celebrating Jewish holidays in Africa and America
My grandfather was born in 1943 in Santiago, Chile. Santiago is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. The city…
My Grandmother's memories with her grandmother
My Grandmother was born in Philadelphia in 1944. Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the fifth-most populous city in the United States. Philadelphia is the economic…
The story of a Jew in a sea of Catholics
Born in 1945 in Laredo, Texas, USA, She grew up in a town with hardly any Jews, but there was no question she knew she was Jewish. There were only…
A woman with lots of names
Describe the first time you felt a sense of your Jewish Identity? When she moved to the USA she realized that being born in Israel was really cool and important.…
Yom Kippur and Bar Mitzva Jossej savours of Judaism
Joseph Mobasseri is my grandfather. He was born in Tehran,Iran in 1936. When he was little his dad used to take him to shul every Saturday morning and on holidays. On Yom…
Here you can achieve anything you want
Rita came to the United States as a displaced person. She was glad to leave her home (Yugoslavia) because the Holocaust was going on while she lived there, so she…
Joyce Cooper, originally Kosloff, was born in Philadelphia in 1945. When speaking of her Jewish identity, Joyce recalls: I remember that I really connected to my Jewish identity during Friday…