During the interview, Eric Avram (1965-) describes his parents' immigration to Brooklyn. He relates how his parents met when his father was in medical school in Geneva. Avram talks about his close family, including his children and their cousins, most of whom live in Brooklyn Heights. He talks about career changes and shares his memories of the Brooklyn Heights Synagogue. He recalls setting up the chairs and someone bringing home-baked challah at Grace Court. He describes that the elders/founders of the synagogue conveyed to the young children a sense of thankfulness that the church was allowing them to worship in the space on Friday nights. Avram recalls that this was only 30 years after WWII and the elders were "suspicious of being accepted or not" and "seemed touched" by the church's generosity. He also describes well the political sense of the synagogue community and their proactive response to the AIDS crisis in the 1980s—1990s and reaching out to the Muslim Community in Brooklyn following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Avram explains that his family is still very close to the synagogue and all family life cycle moments have involved the synagogue (bar/bat mitzvahs, weddings, births) and that it is his family's tradition on Yom Kippur to do the Jonah reading, a tradition they maintain as the family grows. Interview conducted by Sady Sullivan.

During her interview, Margaret Wagner Bary (1957-) describes her family's immigration history in detail. Bary recalls the synagogue's meeting spaces vividly, first in a church on the southeast corner of Clinton and Remsen [Spencer Memorial Church] which has now been converted into apartments; one of her first memories, at 6 years old, is being asked up to bima because it was her birthday that month and Rabbi Gelber lifted her up. She later remembers the services at the Bossert Hotel with Marion Cohen singing and learning about the 1967 [Six-Day Arab-Israeli] war in religious school as it was happening.  She also remembers services at the Grace [Episcopal] Church on Grace Court alley. She describes how her interest in Jewish culture continued through high school and college. Bray joined an Israeli dance club at Hunter High School, participated in a young Jewish leadership program, and traveled to Israel in 1973 (just prior to the Yom Kippur Arab-Israeli war). She describes her dance education beginning with classes taught at Saint Ann's after school, followed by classes in Manhattan and eventually studying with the New Dance Group Studios (Martha Graham), Alvin Ailey Studios, and extensively with Merce Cunningham. She describes wonderfully her family traditions on high holidays and meeting her husband through Israeli folk dancing. Bray and her husband officially joined BHS when their daughter was 8 years old (1995) because they wanted the children to go to Hebrew school. Interview conducted by Sady Sullivan.

During his interview, Herbert Glantz (1930-) talks about his parents and grandparents the history of the family business, N. Glantz and Son, a wholesaler of outdoor advertising supplies. Glantz recalls growing up in Flatbush, attended PS 193 in Flatbush and then Brooklyn Technical High School followed by M.I.T. He discusses serving in the U.S. military and working as a technical consultant for two years before joining the family business. He describes his family and how he became involved with Brooklyn Heights Synagogue. He recalls becoming president of the Synagogue following Stanley Levinson, and served for five years ca. 1975. He describes the issues BHS was dealing with at that time: membership, finances, no full-time staff. He talks about the founding of the BHS homeless shelter and expanding of the Hebrew school. He describes a very strong feminist drive at BHS after he left as president. Throughout the interview, Glantz mentions leading members of the Synagogue including the founders Belle and Ruben Huffman, Dr. Avram, Art Raden and his wife Miriam Kadowitz, Diane and Stanley Person, and their daughter, Hara Person. Glantz describes himself as an atheist who has a strong belief in Jewish cultural society. He also discusses his children, grandchildren, and changes in Brooklyn Heights in the forty years he has lived there. Interview conducted by Sady Sullivan.

During her interview, Jean Mondschein Gottfried (1915-) discusses her family's immigration history. She recalls her father's business, he was an egg handler and worked in the butter and egg business. Her father's parents owned a butter and egg store. Gottfried talks about attending PS 174 on Livonia Avenue in East New York. She mentions that she was in one of the first classes to graduate from Thomas Jefferson High School and she remembers when it was built. Gottfried recalls getting a job during the Depression working as a cashier in a restaurant in a wholesale fruit and vegetable area known as Washington Market. She describes the farms along Linden Boulevard in East New York and the two-family house in which she grew up. She also describes the clothing at the time; girls never wore slacks. Gottfried recalls her religious education – she learned traditions in the house. She talks about Talmud Torah, the Orthodox synagogue the family attended, because it was across the street on Pennsylvania and New Lots. She remembers how the Brooklyn Heights Synagogue got started in the Huffman's living room and how she was introduced to the Huffmans. Gottfried and her daughter, Fran, talk about the different role of women at Brooklyn Heights Synagogue from their experiences in an Orthodox synagogue. She also discusses how different life was in the early 20th century, people had less and shared more. Interview conducted by Sady Sullivan.

During the interview, Rabbi Hara Person (1964-) discusses her childhood, meeting her husband, her decision to become a rabbi, and Brooklyn Heights Synagogue. She talks about her mother who was a children's librarian and later as a professor of education. Rabbi Person's father was born in the Bronx and grew up in Brooklyn. Her father served in the military and then attended Long Island University and became a certified public accountant. She describes how both sides of her family came to the U.S. generations ago; her mother's side from Germany and her father's side from Russia and Poland. She describes her parents' differing Jewish backgrounds. Her mother grew up attending a very Conservative synagogue, but her family was not a very observant household. Her father's parents were socialists and he did not receive any religious education or even very much Jewish identity. Rabbi Person recalls attending Saint Ann's School from first grade through high school and she briefly describes how the Ocean Hill – Brownsville teachers strike affected her parent's choice of schools. She describes the character of different Brooklyn neighborhoods. Rabbi Person talks about meeting her husband in Israel during the mid-1980s. Rabbi Person describes joining Brooklyn Heights Synagogue. She recalls how she started teaching at BHS when she was 15 years old and that was when she decided to be a rabbi. She describes teaching at BHS from 1988 to 1990, while attending graduate school. Rabbi Person describes her decision to go to rabbinic school and her work as an editor at Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR). She talks about the Synagogue's growth and transitions and feeling enveloped by the community. She also describes the good relationships between the Synagogue and other religious institutions in the neighborhood. Interview conducted by Sady Sullivan.

During their interview, Carol Horowitz Schulhof (1937-) and Peter Schulhof (1937-) discuss their parents, childhoods, meeting each other, becoming members of Brooklyn Heights Synagogue (BHS), and friendships formed at BHS. Carol talks about her father's business and her family's immigration history. Peter recalls his parents' immigration from Prague to China in 1940. He describes his parents' decision to immigrate from China to the United States because of the civil war and rise of the Communist Party. Peter recalls living in the Inwood neighborhood of Manhattan and attending Brooklyn Technical High School. Carol and Peter describe meeting at Cornell University and getting married in 1961. They discuss moving to Augusta, Georgia, due to Peter's work in the Army, and their experiences in the segregated South. They also describe moving to Brooklyn Heights and connecting with Brooklyn Heights Synagogue. They talk about early services being held at Spencer Memorial Church and High Holiday services at the Bossert Hotel and moving in 1974 to the first Remsen Street building. The Schulhofs recall their daughter, Julia's bat mitzvah in 1979 at BHS at 117 Remsen Street. They describe the early community of the congregation. They talk about Reform Judaism and yarmulke/kippah and mixed marriages. They describe their friendships within the congregation and their children's feelings about BHS. They both recall the changes they have seen in Brooklyn over the years. Interview conducted by Sady Sullivan.

During their interview, Bernice Schwartz (1925-) and Eugene Schwartz (1918-) discuss growing up, how they met, how they became involved in Brooklyn Heights Synagogue, and what Brooklyn Heights was like in the 1950s. Eugene describes growing up in Brooklyn, his religious upbringing, and his father's career. He recalls that his father was a founder of the Ocean Parkway Jewish Center, but separated from the congregation for political reasons. Eugene and Bernice describe meeting each other and living together at the Bossert Hotel. They describe finding an apartment on Montague and Hicks Street for $110 per month and living there for fifty-two years. Eugene describes starting school at Brooklyn College in 1932 when the campus was in Brooklyn Heights. He talks about Brooklyn College's transition to the Midwood campus and that it was opened by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Eugene and Bernice describe how they became involved with the Brooklyn Heights Synagogue. They describe how it was difficult to find Jewish families in the neighborhood and that many Jewish families were not interested in religious education for their children. They recall that recruitment was difficult for the first ten years. They describe some of the early members who were influential in the founding and organizing rummage sales and recruiting events. Bernice also describes Brooklyn Heights in the 1950s and how many families would move out of the city to the suburbs once they had their second child because of the schools. Interview conducted by Sady Sullivan.

In this interview, Rita Itkin Schwartz (1937-) talks about family history of her parents and grandparents, and her young life in the traditional Jewish family in Crown Heights/Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn and Forest Hill in Queens. Schwartz recalls her educational experiences in music, and her career in music therapy, and as a community organizer and political lobbyist. She talks about her late husband Alan, and their settlement in Brooklyn Heights where she has lived for over 40 years. She talks about their experiences at Temple Emanu-El and Brooklyn Heights Synagogue (BHS) including her relationships with the BHS rabbis: Rabbi David Glazer, Rabbi Rick Jacobs, Rabbi Al Lowenberg, Rabbi Serge Lippe, Rabbi Hara Persons, and Rabbi Sue Ann Wasserman. She talks about her trips to Poland with her daughter, and to Russia with the members of BHS. Throughout the interview Schwartz talks about women in Judaism, and her family's connection with BHS. She describes the political origins of BHS' homeless shelter and the establishment of Heights and Hills, a provider of case management services for older adults in Brooklyn. Interview conducted by Sady Sullivan.