Today, Feb 13, 1977 is the day that Rivka and I set foot on American soil for the first time. It is hard to believe that it is 31 years ago. Did Pappa and I made the right decision to move to the States....
Pappa for sure was happy to return to America, for me it was hard to leave family and friends. One of the reasons we decided to come was for a better Jewish life. We wanted Rivka and our future children to have a more intense Jewish life than Holland could offer at that time. We were not looking for a Chabad community, actually if somebody would have said that we would move to a Chabad community we would have laughed and said that is not for us.
But Hashem has his ways B"H and look at us now. We are very grateful for having married of all our children and to know that our future generation is Jewish. We love our Chabad Community and yes I still miss a little Holland, but could you ever see Pappa living anywhere but America....
Just don't forget that your ancestors are going back to the 1700 in Holland.
Mamma
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Wow! Could you just imagine how different our lives would be if Mamma & Pappa hadn't moved to Long Beach. Who knows who would've married!!!
Im just grateful I can wait one hour from mmeat to milk:)
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