I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I just went to Hebrew school, had a bar mitzvah. No crazy weird Jewish cult.
The town I grew up in was at least fifty percent Jewish, so every weekend in the 7th grade, we went to Bar and Bat Mitzvahs.
I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers.
I did go to cheder and was a bar mitzvah. We were members of an Orthodox synagogue, although we were not religious. My grandfather was Polish. He came to Ireland in the '30s.
I'm Jewish. Went to a Jewish school.
I was one of two Jewish kids in my school. We were probably one of two Jewish families in our town.
I'm the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
We are a mixed marriage, so our kids were raised with a little less Judaism than I was raised with.
My dad was Jewish. My mom is not. So I was not raised anything.
I grew up in a reform Jewish family in St. Louis. Our idea of Judaism was no bar mitzvahs and a Christmas tree that had a skirt at the bottom embroidered with the names of my grandparents.