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Lauren Dickel (31) and Freeman Shore (80) talk about their history and experiences with Central Synagogue in New York City.

Friends Audrey Zucker (82) and Carolyn Breidenbach (93) talk about their experiences with Sisterhood at Central Synagogue from the 1970's to the late 90s and early 2000s.

Jordan Smoller [no age given] talks with his mother Sylvia Smoller [no age given] about her life including escape from Poland and the Nazis, becoming a refugee, her experience of becoming a world renowned scientist (with whom he sometimes co-authors),...

Susan Picker [no age given] interviews her colleague and co-congregant Ami Samuels (62) about his background and how he came to be a member of Central Synagogue.

Rabbi Angela Buchdahl (50) and Rabbi Peter Rubinstein (78) discuss their childhoods and their respective paths to becoming rabbis. They describe the roles played by rabbinic mentors along the way and their experiences each serving as Senior Rabbi for Central...

Howard Sharfstein (76) Jill Sharfstein (71) speak about their upbringings, their marriage and their 40 years as congregants of Central Synagogue. They discuss how Central became increasingly more important through Howard’s illness and their growing involvement after his recovery, including...

Jules Spotts (82) and his love partner Ethel Goldberg (83) follow up from their last interview to share the end of their story and talk about Jules recovery from a recent diagnosis with COVID-19.

Rabbi Sarah Berman (41) and her friend and congregant, Gail Sinai (61) share their professional and spiritual journeys and their experience during and immediately after the Covid pandemic.

Patricia Rich [no age given] and Michael Silverberg [no age given], recently married, talk about their lives and how they met through Central Synagogue and its Wise Aging program.

Estelle "Nicki" Tanner [no age given] interviews friend and colleague Burton Lehman (81) about his experiences and relationship to Hebrew Union College (HUC) and Central Synagogue.