Truthfully, it was a different life.

Whether it was synagogue life,

and whether it was Jewish life,

and whether it was Kashrut life (kosher food).

Kosher or not, there was a sweet life.

My family, my mother from the Levant and my father from Deir al-Qamar.

There is a village in Lebanon called Deir al-Qamar.

Most (Beirut Jews) were from Deir al-Qamar.