Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, learning, and more learning.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The whole upbringing was interesting because we grew up Orthodox Jews all the way until we were teenagers.
My mum was raised Jewish, my dad is very scientifically minded, and my school was vaguely Christian. We sang hymns in school. I liked the hymns bit, but apart from that, I can take it or leave it. So I had lots of different influences when I was younger.
When I was little, I went to a Jewish community day school for most of elementary school.
I'm Jewish. Went to a Jewish school.
I'm Russian Jewish. And I had to grow up really quickly.
Growing up in the San Fernando Valley, I grew up around a lot of Jews. I grew up culturally Jewish, ethnically Jewish, but without real belief and without a strong faith.
I grew up Jewish, became an atheist and a Marxist, and 28 years ago, at age 26, became a Christian.
Sometimes my biography is interpreted as the upbringing of a French aristocrat. It was very, very different. We were a family of mercantile, immigrant Jews.
Although I was raised Jewish, my upbringing didn't include any formal religious education or training.
I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in the world.