As I walked into the room, I smelled a tasty aroma from the Russian food sitting on the table. There were a few different types of Russian food such as some rolls filled with an egg salad and a Russian pancake rolled up and filled with cottage cheese that almost tasted like a blintz. Both of these were delicious. After having a little nosh, Vadim jumped right into the lecture. He began by talking about a 1.5 generation, and his personal example of this. Vadim was born in Russia and moved to Israel at age 11. The reason that Vadim considers himself part of the 1.5 generation is because he has one leg in the Russian culture of his parents which he was born to, but is now living in Israel and also part of the Israeli culture. A great example of this is how he teaches his four year old daughter both Hebrew and Russian. Inside the house his family speaks Russian and outside of the house they speak Hebrew. After moving to Israel, Vadim’s parents enrolled him into a Jewish day school, as he was previously attending Jewish day school in Russia. 2 weeks went by in the Jewish school one of his teachers suggested that he be given the bible test which is much like a spelling bee and he did very well. On the day of the test he came to school wearing a suit, bow tie and unusual looking glasses. Many of the students thought that what he was wearing was weird and one of the kids came up to him and said “Israelis don’t dress like that”. Vadim’s response was, “now I am an Israeli and this is how I dress”. This shows how although Vadim lives in Israel and is an Israeli, he still follows Russian culture in the way that he dresses, which is the same today as he did at age 11.