We hear the phrase a lot, but what is it really all about? It’s about providing Jewish children with a strong foundation in our heritage, faith and culture so they will want to live Jewish lives and take care of the next generation. It’s about ensuring our future as a people.

Tamara Lipen and Inessa Carlin are sisters. Inessa is homebound. They have no family left to care for her - rather like many families from this region of the world, the Former Soviet Union, they were victims of the Holocaust.

Federation understands the need to grow Jewish experiences. This includes summer camp, particularly for those families with children who have never attended a summer camp and those who work hard to make ends meet.

Imagine a friend gives you a necklace for your 25th birthday. It’s lovely. It has a cross on it. You wear it to your grandmother’s house and she yells at you for having a cross. You innocently ask what the problem is. This is exactly how Natalia learned about her Jewish heritage.