Shir :

My father grew up in a secular family and when he met my mom he became religious. As I grew up we met his family on holidays but the difference was that we always stayed to sleep and everyone else drove home.

Aseel Swaaed:

I was born and raised in a mixed neighborhood of Arab residents also with the Jewish population, and I mixed with them in a great and enjoyable way. I had many friends in my old village, no one ever made me feel that I did not belong to the same place and the same environment, even though my identity was different from them.

Lee:

My family is very conservative. I always had an early curfew and was not given the freedom like the rest of my friends. Even when I had a boyfriend, I hid our relationship for a whole year. today I have a conservative way of thinking like my parents.

Gadi:

As a teenager, I lived for almost two years in Germany, in a little village called Uting, located in the vicinity of München. My parents sent me to a local elementary school, which was a secular German school. I strongly remember feeling different and alienated. As an Israeli Jewish student studying with the other German pupils, I frequently asked myself how could I integrate? They seemed so different from me: Their language, their manners, ways of dressing, of behaving, of thinking, customs. I remember feeling alienated and inferior to them. I believed that who I am is not acknowledged. I felt they are better. It felt that they were in their identity something better than standing beyond my powers to achieve.  I felt miserable. Only later on, when I was sent to a Jewish school, I felt better as I found th

Rosaline:

My Mom and  Dad are from different country, and each one has different thoughts and traditions. But I’m saying the truth that I followed  my Mom’s parents traditions more in some cases; because I used to spend every summer vacation when I was a child with them. However, that meant  I didn’t follow my dad’s parents traditions and thoughts. ” I follow my dad’s parent traditions in other cases”.

But the problem is when someone ask me which traditions do you follow? Or where are you from “to know my origin and traditions” ?

I didn’t know really what to answer! if I am from my mom’s county or my dad’s country.

Ola:

When I was 10 years old, I traveled with my family to Turkey, I was so excited because it was my first travel experience, but unfortunately, when we arrived there and entered some stores, they were always asking us about our identity or where we came from, I was surprised because I didn’t understand as a child why they kept asking us questions about our identity. I haven’t stopped asking myself why these things are essential to make you decide how you’re going to treat people. Also, some of them have not accepted our identity, they have judged us according to our identity, not what we are.