| Benjamin Cohen, right, greets worshippers at the Sabbath service in the Sholom Home East in St. Paul. Ukrainian immigrant Israel (Izzy) Perel, 91, left, came to the United States when he was 38 with his wife, Sarah and three-year-old daughter, Dede. Jews suffered widespread persecution in the region at that time, and Perel, a shoemaker by trade, said he came to America for the opportunity and the right to worship as he pleased. Cohen, whose parents immigrated from Minsk, Russia, is studying to become a rabbi. |
