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Not everybody is comfortable with my ethnicity. When I first came along in the business, they didn't really like the idea of my name being Raquel.

My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.

I'm Jewish. Went to a Jewish school.

I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish.

When I first came along in the business, they didn't really like the idea of my name being Raquel.

I'm a Jewish born-again Christian.

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 really don't even think of myself as being Jewish except when I'm in Germany.

I identify myself as what I am. I'm half Jewish, like Proust. I have no other way to put it.

My first agent told me to change my name or I'd only play Jewish parts or Indians. Of course I refused to change it. Shortly thereafter she came up to me and told me I had to keep it, because her numerologist said it was very, very good.