Mark Litvin, 66, of Mayfield Heights is a 1979 emigrant from Kiev, Ukraine. The husband of Zena Ginis Litvin, he has little connection to the Jewish community but kept his promise to his father to have his son bar mitzvahed—the first bar mitzvah in the family in nearly one hundred years. Part of a series of interviews documenting the unique immigrant experience of Soviet Jews in northeast Ohio and explore issues of professional, family, and religious life.