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Joan Stein Jenkins (54) and her daughter Sarah Jenkins (27) talk about Judaism and Jewish culture in their family, anti-Semitism, visiting Israel, and their family's immigration to the United States.

My name is Rebecca Gruber and I am thirteen years old and in eighth grade. I'm interviewing my mom. She is now 42, but back then she was in her mid twenties. In this interview my mother answers questions about...

Gregory Skibinski, age 72, talked about his upbringing in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast in Soviet Russia. He discussed his personal experiences as well as larger events that happened in Russia. He explained the reason for leaving Russia to live in...

Learning the history of my Grandma’s past

Joanna Kobylivker (42) talks with her father, Daniel "Dan" Dinur (74), about his life journey from Lithuania to Israel and ultimately to the United States. NOTE: During the interview, Dan quoted his mother as saying "Greta Garbo will be meeting...

One Small Step partners Andrew Feil (37) and Matt Kotler (26) discuss their faiths, their political views, and building ties between different faith communities.

A father and son talk about the children’s travel book they wrote together, Backpacks & Baguettes, and the reminder it provided of what it was like to live in the world before the pandemic hit - the sights, the smells...

Robin Reiner (53) talks with her friend Andrea Daniel about her family, her Christian and Jewish heritage and her choice to become Jewish.

Oscar, born in Siberia, was a toddler when WWII broke out. His father was in the Russian military and could see what was taking place in Europe and became fearful for his family. After a stint in a Polish relocation...

Paulina, during the war the Nazis would make their lives miserable. When she was four they were taken from their home in Romania and forced them into a ghetto where they waited to be taken to Auschwitz. Her father was...