For all but five of her 79 years, Ruth Bornstein has lived in Chelsea. While it no longer has the vibrant Jewish community of her younger days - with 14 shuls and lots of spots to nosh on kosher food - die city still suits her. "I raised my children here, the schools were good, it was a safe place to live, we were happy," Bornstein said. "Our neighborhood changed, but we changed along witfi it."

"It's the story that has never been told," said Lisa Berenson, director of development at the Jewish Cemetery Association of Massachusetts, which is overseeing the Web site as well as a renovation of the Ohabei Shalom Chapel in East Boston that will include an exhibit hall. The chapel is on the grounds of the first Jewish cemetery in Massachusetts, founded in 1844.

"I think that I'm an example of it; I think my sons are an example of it; my grandparents are an example of it - of the Chelsea Jewish community," she said. "They made tìieir small mark here, good people, working-class people."