Trip to Brighton Beach

Trip to Brighton Beach

by | 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....
Far Away From Home

Far Away From Home

by | Jun 9, 2023 | Highlighted, Stories (2023)

My mother, Amna Pervaiz Bajwa, was born in 1978 and grew up in Pakistan. My whole life I have heard stories about her childhood but I never really asked how she moved to America or why she decided to. My mom received her American citizenship in 1995 after waiting for...
Refugee Blues: W.H. Auden

Refugee Blues: W.H. Auden

by | Jun 9, 2023 | Stories (2023), Uncategorized

Refugee Blues is a poem written by W.H. Auden. The poem describes the difficulty of Jewish people who were forced to flee their homes during the holocaust it seems and the adversities that are faced vs the freedom others are allowed to have during this period. The...
My grandmother

My grandmother

by | 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...
Trip to Paterson

Trip to Paterson

by | 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...