Editor’s note: This week's column is authored by David, his wife, Cindy Skrzycki, and their daughter, Natalie Louise Shribman.
Mom was baptized in a neighborhood Catholic church, had 16 years of Catholic education and served three terms on the board of a Jesuit college. Dad, born nine years after the Holocaust, is Jewish, had a bar mitzvah and was confirmed. Daughter is in the middle of her third year of rabbinical school and has her own Reform congregation in Marion, Ohio.
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