Catherine Lewi comes from a community that has all but disappeared = the Jewish minority in French villages, from Alsace to Normandy. In this episode, Rebecca tries to understand how Catherine led her quest to keep her family's heritage and leg...

In this episode, Rebecca interviews Judith Vacchino, who spent her childhood in Venezuela and Argentina amidst the backdrop of a military coup, in a family with strong humanistic values and political involvement. Moving from country to country ...

In this episode, Rebecca interviews Antonia and Fred Benque, who grew up with very different backgrounds but share a joint desire to transmit strong values to their children. Antonia grew up in a Catholic family from Portugal and converted to J...

In this episode, Rebecca interviews Meital Amzallag and Ben Slomka, two siblings whose grandparents were pioneers in a kibbutz in Israel, and whose parents made a striking choice to leave the kibbutz to move to France - thus defining what it me...

In this episode, Rebecca reverses the roles. Instead of interviewer, she becomes the interviewee of Nurith Aizenman, who in her day job is NPR’s correspondent for Global Health and Development, but is also a great friend to the French  gro...

In the midst of the Covid winter, Rebecca interviews Cassy who brings a different perspective to the identity of the French Friends group. A descendant of catholic immigrants from Northern Europe and raised in the US by a mother who converted t...

In this episode, Rebecca interviews Sophie and Itai Dadon who recently kicked off a zoom study group on Friday evenings during the pandemic, in an attempt to create a transmission link across generations. In her quest to understand their attach...

In this episode, Rebecca meets Judith and Marc Rapoport on the eve of Yom Kippur, to get an Askhenazi perspective on what makes the French Friend community so unique. Judith and Marc both carry the weight of their families' tragic destinies dur...

In this episode, Rebecca is planning for Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, which is a difficult task due to the Covid Pandemic and the California Forest Fires. She remembers that her friends Eric and Aurelia Setton, who now live in Israel, are...

In this first episode, Rebecca decides to follow a group of French Friends living in the Silicon Valley for one year during the covid pandemic - their unique traditions, their attachment to the Sephardic Jewish tradition and their attempts to t...