This project is not about Mitch and I, but for those of you who are interested about who's behind this....Here goes:

I am a first-generation American, second-generation Holocaust Survivor, born to Jewish parents who were hidden in various locations for one year by Christians during Hitler's occupation of Hungary.

My father spoke seven languages, was a textile engineer, movie producer, and owner of a few factories...all of which were taken first by the Nazis and then later by the communists.  The Communists "let" him manage his companies...while giving him minimum wage.  My parents, along with my brothers and sisters, escaped the Communists during the Hungarian Revolution in 1957 and immigrated to New York.

My mother became ill upon arrival, and as a new immigrant, my father couldn't care for us, and seek employment at the same time.  Hence, we were placed in an orphanage and then in separate foster homes with the Jewish Child Care Association.

A wonderful family on Long Island raised me.  Since I was one year old and grew up with regular monthly visits and excursions with my father and siblings, I thought everyone had two sets of parents and siblings!

I attended five years of Hebrew school in a Conservative temple and was a Bat Mitzvah at age 12.  
I attended high school in Geneva, Switzerland at L'Ecole Internationale de Geneve.  After I graduated, I became a Yogi and helped run yoga centers for ten years in Geneva, Paris, Montreal, Val Morin and Mexico.

I met Mitch in Mexico, and we've been married for 27 years.  Our 2 daughters and our niece who grew up in our home have now left the nest and are very successful in their personal and professional lives.

We had been studying the Jewish Roots of Christianity and we recognized the importance for the Jewish community to get back to their own Jewish roots as well.  For 15 years, I departed from my Jewish roots by following the pagan New Age Movement. It took a group of Evangelical Christians celebrating the Sabbath and other "Jewish" things to provoke me to jealousy and to bring me back to the practice and appreciation of my own Jewish roots.