A Family Story Carried Across Generations
From the courage of those who journeyed across oceans to the Jewish values nurtured in every home since, the Heller Family legacy is built on love, community, and the instinct to do what’s right. Here, your stories, traditions, and treasured memories are gathered so each generation may recognize the profound heritage they inherit.
Honoring a Life Built Together
These recordings and photos reveal the larger story you belong to — the Heller family story — inviting you to carry its meaning and widsom into the future.
A Collection Of Stories with Bob & Amy
"You know, how do we get to where we are? It’s only later that you look back and see where you stand, and understand where that journey began — and recognize the courage, the decisions, and the wisdom over the years that brought you to this place."
Part 1: A Unique Partnership
The ways our secular needs and life circumstances can and often are tethered to Jewish
Circumstances That Shaped Jewish Life and Practice
A joke Bob told, pulled from a session, for your enjoyment
Tracing your roots, one picture at a time
Tracing our roots means more than looking back, it’s stepping into a journey through generations, captured forever in photos. Each one a reminder of where we come from, wrapped in the stories we know, love, or perhaps never knew. Until now. This is the history that still lives with you today.
A sneak peek at a session…
In this conversation, we revisit the threads that run through your family’s story—heritage, courage, community, and the evolving experience of Jewish life across generations. We begin with recent travels and day-to-day life, then move into memories of ancestors who journeyed from Kiev, relatives who helped shape the early labor movement, and the women who broke barriers, including a pioneering doctor in the 1930s. We look at how history, circumstance, and resilience shaped the choices your parents made—from building new Jewish communities in the postwar suburbs to navigating assimilation while holding onto core values.
We also talk about the traditions that define your family today: raising children as true partners, valuing education, caring about justice, and carrying forward rituals in ways that still feel alive and meaningful. You reflect on the stories passed down (and the ones that weren’t), the different ways each generation approaches risk, and the importance of preserving both memories and the objects that hold them—from cherished Judaica to beloved recipes like gefilte fish.
This unedited session offers a preview as we move toward the new year and the full, more holistic wrap-up of our work together.