Tag #141979 - Interview #78129 (Maria Baicher)

We didn't raise our son in the spirit of Jewish traditions as we didn't observe any. My son became interested in the history of the Jewish people in his teens. He had many Jewish friends at school. They went to the synagogue on Jewish holidays. Periodically, he talked of moving to Israel or America, but then he thought otherwise when in the 1990s perestroika [29] began and he decided that life would be interesting here. My son identifies himself as a Jew, though he doesn't observe traditions or holidays.