Great Neck was a very intellectual, very ambitious group of people who were well-educated. He was willing to sacrifice whatever it would take to reclaim our heritage. “We had never lived in a Jewish neighborhood in our lives and it was important to my father for us to have an upbringing in a Jewish community as much as possible. We moved to Long Island and lived in Westbury, East Meadow and then moved to Great Neck, where it was primarily Jewish,” Deborah says. “My father decided we really needed to come to America to be Jewish. Army during World War II in Germany and had been shaped by what he saw during the holocaust. He attended Harvard and had been a military intelligence officer for the U.S. Deborah’s father Aaron was a business man in retail who had a great investment in Jewish life.
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