Michael, who grew up in Far Rockaway and is fluent in Hebrew, shared his life stories while walking slowly up the block due to a disability from an incident during the COVID pandemic. He spoke of his two brothers, both rabbis in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, and his own experiences as a Jewish history lecturer at summer camps in the Catskills and as an activities director at a senior living home in California. Michael considers his most significant achievement to be the year he spent in Europe and Israel, where he wrote and published a Holocaust research grant paper in 1975. His journey reflects resilience and a commitment to preserving Jewish history.