Skip to content
How it works

Preserve a living Jewish world, one conversation at a time

Jewish Family Legacyis a private, living archive for the voices, traditions, recipes, melodies, objects, journeys, and blessings your family carries. You don't begin with a questionnaire — you begin with one story.

Voices of the Family

The original voice stays central

Blessings, niggunim, Kiddush, Havdalah, a Yiddish saying, a Ladino song, the way a name is really pronounced. Short audio treasures and full conversations, filterable by person, language, holiday, or family branch.

Kiddush over wine
Saba Yosef · Hebrew
Kiddush
A Ladino lullaby
Savta Miriam · Ladino
Song
“Gezunt af dayn kop”
Bubbe Rivka · Yiddish
Saying
Havdalah blessing
Dad (Avi) · Hebrew
Blessing
Traditions, minhagim & recipes

The customs your family carries — with honest notes

The Family Minhag Book preserves what your family does, when, who remembers it, and where it's believed to have come from — keeping uncertainty intact. Recipes keep the family's own wording: “a little until it feels right.”

This records your family's recollection and practice. It is not a ruling of Jewish law.
L'dor v'dor journeys

Gentle collections of conversations

A journey is never an assignment or a checklist. It shows one meaningful prompt at a time, and you can record, write, save for later, ask a family member, or choose another question.

The Shabbos We Remember

Friday nights across the generations

Our Pesach Table

Seders, foods, and the people around them

The Customs We Carry

Minhagim and where they came from

Recipes With a Story

Food that carries memory

How Our Family Came Here

Journeys, displacement, rebuilding

Our Family and Israel

A personal relationship, not assumed

The People Who Shaped Us

Teachers, rabbanim, neighbors

Songs and Tefillos

Niggunim, prayers, melodies

Jewish Courage and Rebuilding

Hard seasons, resilience, and hope

Optional · entered deliberately · easy to leave

The Jewish Objects in Our Home

Heirlooms with a story

What I Want You to Carry Forward

Values, blessings, and love for the next generation

Trusted story layers

Their voice is never overwritten

Every derived layer stays connected to the original recording. Nothing is ever silently rewritten, regenerated, or removed.

1

Original recording

The voice itself, unedited. Always preserved and never overwritten.

2

Original transcript

A faithful, word-for-word transcript when one is added — kept separate from the audio.

3

Family-corrected transcript

Your family fixes names, places, and spellings — without changing the original.

4

Lightly edited reading version

An optional, clearly labeled reading version the family can accept, reject, or edit.

For communities & institutions

Preserve the voices of an entire community

Guided programs help synagogues, schools, camps, and senior communities create meaningful intergenerational recording — with clear family and community attribution. Each family keeps ownership of its own stories.

Synagogue · community

Preserve the Voices of Our Community

A synagogue or community captures the voices, customs, and histories of its members, with each family retaining ownership.

School · families

Interview a Grandparent

A school-guided family interview experience that brings generations together around real questions.

B'nai mitzvah

The Stories Behind My Jewish Name

A bar or bat mitzvah family journey exploring the meaning and origin of a child’s Hebrew name.

Senior community

One Story at a Time

A senior-community recording program built around dignity, patience, and a single story per session.

Community minhagim

Our Community Minhagim

Preserve customs with clear family and community attribution — never presented as universal practice or halacha.

Community minhagim are preserved with clear family and community attribution — never presented as universal practice or halacha.

One story is enough to begin.

You do not need to record an entire life. One story is enough to begin.

Preserve Your First Story