I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I didn't know I was Jewish until I encountered anti-Semitism at the age of 10, when my best friend told me I couldn't come to their house because I was a Jew.
I was one of two Jewish kids in my school. We were probably one of two Jewish families in our town.
I never paid much attention to being Jewish when I was a kid. In fact, I'd say my religion was more surfing than Judaism - that's what I spent most of my time doing.
The funny thing is that I write and I act a lot about being Jewish, but I don't really think about it as a regular person.
I'm Jewish. Went to a Jewish school.
My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
I really don't even think of myself as being Jewish except when I'm in Germany.
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.
I was raised Jewish. I didn't know anything about Christianity.
My dad was Jewish. My mom is not. So I was not raised anything.