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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),...
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.
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.
Lauren Dickel (31) and Freeman Shore (80) talk about their history and experiences with Central Synagogue in New York City.
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...
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.
Brother and sister Freeman Shore (82) and Wini Freund [no age given] discuss growing up, their family history, and how they got involved at Central Synagogue.
Mother and daughter Ruth Perelson [no age given] and Lois Perelson-Gross [no age given] talk about Ruth's 50 year membership at Central Synagogue and her project CLEWS, which was designed to teach members how to observe Shabbat.
Mother and daughter Robin [no age given] and Carla [no age given] discuss Carla's daughter, Talia, who died of Tay-Sachs disease at 23 months old. They talk about their relationship around this experience and discuss discovery of strengths and connections.
Husband and wife Daniel (Dan) Ross [no age given] and Jade Sank Ross [no age given] share stories of how they became rabbis, when they first felt they were rabbis for real, how Dan transitioned from Hillel rabbi to Central...
Arden Donohue (31) and Gail Sinai (62) talk about their friendship, their connections to Judaism, and Central's Mishkan program.
Friends Sharon Gunderson [no age given] and Ed Saslaw [no age given] discuss growing up, parents, Hebrew School, Shabbat and Judaism.
Miles Gerstein (73) and his wife Susan Davis (71) discuss their membership in Central Synagogue, their life together, their childhood memories of Judaism and some of their life lessons.
Monica Corton (56) interviews her friend, Laura Strauss (89), about her connection to Central Synagogue, the impact that her relationships and involvement at Central have had on her life, and their experiences counting the Omer together.
Edward "Ed" Saslaw (70) and Alissa Ballot (66) speak about their families, upbringing, relationship to Central Synagogue and Judaism.
Sue Dorn (87) is interviewed by her Rabbi, Sarah Berman, about her memories of growing up in a Jewish family in Seattle around WWII, moving to New York, meeting her husband and starting a family as well as pursuing an...
Jill Sharfstein (72) interviews friend and fellow congregant Nancy Fisher (77) about her experiences as a member of Central Synagogue and her work interviewing Holocaust survivors for the Shoah Foundation.
Marion Greenup (74) interviews her friend, Nancy Hannah Levy Torres (76), about her life, faith, and at times, fraught relationship to her Jewishness.
Rabbi Sarah Berman (42) interviews Livia Thompson (63) about her life, her career, her family and connection to Judaism. Livia also talks about her experiences as the executive director of Central Synagogue, including her memories of the fire there in...
Sisters Susan Wagner (61) and Liz Wagner (57) interview one another about their connection to Central Synagogue and their Jewish journey from being cultural Jews as children without any ties to a synagogue to becoming adult b'not mitzvah, sought-after Hebrew...
Peggy Epstein Tanner [no age given] and her husband David Tanner [no age given] talk about their respective Jewish backgrounds and education.
Zachary "Zach" Rolf (38) and his wife Hadley Rolf (32), engage in a conversation about how they met, their lives together, and the crucial role that Central Synagogue has played in their life story.
Jules Spotts (82) and his love partner Ethel Goldberg (83) tell their love story, from second grade until today, in their 80s, including the two intervening marriages, divorces, and widowhoods until they reunited.
Hilly Haber (33) speaks with Sherry King (70) about their lives and experiences at Central Synagogue. They talk about Hilly's role as a rabbi and how they've each incorporated social justice into volunteer work.