#jewish-heritage

#jewish-heritage

Since 1990, Murray Horwitz and the late Susan Stamberg have been celebrating Hanukkah with stories about family, faith, friendship and community. This year, to honor Susan's memory, we reflect on her 34 years of performances that can still move us, make us laugh and bring us fresh meaning plus one new story to fill this festival of lights with gratitude. A Jewish girl with a loud voice is chosen to narrate her school's Christmas pageant.

Every week, the Teitel family balanced their Jewish faith and community ties with their grocery store's operations, serving Italian neighbors and maintaining cultural traditions intertwined with survival.

"I think I was the only child who didn't cry. I was probably quite numb," Roemer explained to Vulture's Bilge Ebiri in an interview earlier this year.

During the Nazi Occupation, Lelouch and his mother found refuge in movie theatres, where she would hide him from the Gestapo while looking for new places to stay.