A whole community of wacky parents
"For the first time I found other people whose parents didn't understand the concept of a sleepover," says Victor Zhivich '13. "My parents would ask me why I'd want to sleep somewhere else when I had a perfectly good bed at home....I always thought my parents were wacky and suddenly I realized there was a whole community of parents like mine."
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"I was shocked to hear the stories from my grandfather," Zhivich says. "I'm so used to waving my Judaism like a banner, it was strange to hear about him hiding his Jewish celebrations from his neighbors in the communal living apartments by locking all the doors and making sure no one heard the prayers."
http://www.brandeis.edu/bgi/news/russian-jewish-dilemma.html
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"I was shocked to hear the stories from my grandfather," Zhivich says. "I'm so used to waving my Judaism like a banner, it was strange to hear about him hiding his Jewish celebrations from his neighbors in the communal living apartments by locking all the doors and making sure no one heard the prayers."
http://www.brandeis.edu/bgi/news/russian-jewish-dilemma.html