MANHATTAN BEACH - Sun. 2/12/12.
What a Sunday we spent with our grandparents.
It was such a beautiful scene, seeing all those children greeting their grandma or grandpa into Hebrew school.
“Grandparents you guys are the connecting bridge between the generations, its from you that the grand kids see the past and their personal connection to Judaism” said Rabbi Winner, director of the Chabad in Manhattan Beach. “…Tell them the stories of your grandparents, the impact can be extraordinarily impressionable”, added the Rabbi.
The impact made upon everyone and the atmosphere was very warming to the heart.
Words were shared by some of the Grandparents including Mrs. Mirra Khauvulya. Who spoke of the opposition to Judaism in Russia, and now, through seeing her Grandchildren Learning in a Hebrew School it makes her feel that she has won all that opposition!
The program included a delicious lunch and a show and tell from grandparents of something personal and dear to them that they want the grandchildren to remember.
“It was so interesting to see the different items of the past that the grandparents brought along” said Shula Winner, Director of the Hebrew School.
Richard Fesinstine's grandfather Mr. Peter Korotoshevsky showed off a newspaper clipping and Tallit from his Bar Mitzvah in the US. When Peter was in Russia and turned 13, it was forbidden to have a Bar Mitzvah (or to do anything Jewish for that matter). When Peter came to America he finally had his Bar Mitzvah. He was 50 years old!
For more pictures of the event >
Bar Mitzvah Fesinstein Article
