by kshea2025 | Jun 9, 2023 | Featured, Stories, Stories (2023)
On June 5th we took a trip to Brighton Beach which is located in Brooklyn, NY. It is a place where a lot of immigrants and refugees moved from the Soviet Union in the 20th century. Throughout Brighton Beach there are plenty of Russian and other Soviet country shops....
by snovofastovsky2026 | Jun 9, 2023 | Featured, Stories (2023)
My grandmother is not like any grandmother that everyone has met. My grandmother has her very own special story. She was born in the Soviet Union, in 1940, during the Holocaust. It was a very dangerous time period, and as a little girl, she saw basically, her whole...
by kshea2025 | Jun 9, 2023 | Featured, Stories, Stories (2023)
On June 7th, we took a trip to Paterson, NJ, to visit different Middle Eastern shops. We started the day off at Fattal’s, which was a bakery and grocery store serving mostly Middle Eastern cuisine. We tried different kinds of pita there, including plain pita...
by jluo2025 | Jun 9, 2023 | Featured, Stories, Stories (2023)
In 1945, my mom’s father, a 17-year-old soldier of the youth military (青年军), followed the Chinese military academy to the small island of Taiwan to pursue military training. At the time, China was under the rule of Chiang Kai Shek, the leader of...
by jluo2025 | Jun 8, 2023 | Featured, Stories, Stories (2023), Uncategorized
A country double the size of Germany, home to 135 ethnic groups, and going through the world’s longest civil war is a missing piece of the world. I have only heard of Myanmar once in my life, and it was merely glossed over as “a part of Southeast...
by cackermann2025 | Jun 8, 2023 | Featured, Stories (2023)
The movie “Refusenik” created by Laura Bialis in 2007 illustrates the struggles of Jews in the Soviet Union trying to leave their country in the 1960s and 70s. By definition, Refusenik means “a person who refuses to follow orders or obey the...
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