A project for gifted teens from Eastern Europe takes them through Belarus to reclaim and strengthen their Jewish past and identity.

Her long, bright red hair loose against her heavy winter coat, Nastia Feigina, 16 sits on a bench in the dreary cold in Borisov, in central Belarus.  The imposing red brick Russian Orthodox Church, with its turquoise rooftops and skyward spires, is just behind her, but Feigina is staring at a small, crumbling building.  It is one of the few structures left from the large shtetl that was here in Borisov before the Holocaust.

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