Family Meyers

Our goal is to bring back the joy and freedom in experiencing to be jewish in Slovakia. The older generation lived in absolute fear of what they were during fascism and communism. Now they are just afraid. Sometimes if the small children from our kindergarden wear their ‘kippah’ outside, the older people are shocked. But the only way not to live in fear and get accepted is to be open. Teach your neighbours that it is a normal thing to be jewish. It is a blessing that there is a new generation that can learn in freedom. Of the approximately. 500 jewish people in Bratislava, 200 are born after 1994, so there is a lot of work to do!

Chanie Meyers is the wife of Rabbi Meyers, they came from New York 13 years ago to Bratislava, where they live with 9 of their 10 children. They started the jewish kindergarden, educational, religious and cultural events and try to improve the jewish life by doing so.