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    Commentary: A secular prayer for my neighbors in Squirrel Hill

    by Stephen Heyman, Los Angeles Times Oct 31, 2018 4 minutes

    My wife, Yana, and I moved to the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Squirrel Hill from Paris in the fall of 2015. Technically we are Jewish, but the only thing we did religiously up to that point was eat smoked fish. We never went to synagogue and had not been bar or bat mitzvahed. I'm not sure we had any idea of what being Jewish meant.

    We rented our house sight unseen. We didn't even realize Squirrel Hill was a Jewish enclave until we met our first Orthodox neighbor, Rochel, a hippie-ish mother of three who swept up her

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