Allen Crowell and Johanna Norry

Recorded November 4, 2010 40:34 minutes

Id: ATL000552

Allen Crowell (73) and his daughter Johanna (45) have a conversation about his religious past and her conversion to Judaism.

Allen (A) describes his religious upbringing.

A says he learned a lot from the Minister of Music at his church.

A says he went to college in Florida and later transferred.

Johanna (J) asks if her parents ever made a decision to let them follow their own religious path.

J describes the day she told her family that they shouldn’t go to church.

J describes her experience living in Princeton. She says it was all work for her parents.

J says she was missing the feeling of “belonging” while working in NYC.

J describes winning a $250 raffle tickets that, through fate, placed her at the Jewish Conversion Center.

J says she is married to a Rabbi.

J and A sing a Hebrew song together.