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I grew up in Minnesota.

My family were Conservative Jews. My parents were both born in this country, but my father grew up on the Lower East Side, and my mother was born and raised in Harlem when there was a large Jewish 'colony' there. Eventually, they moved to Jersey City to get away from New York.

I grew up in New York.

I grew up in Brooklyn.

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.

My dad grew up in Washington Heights. I grew up in New York in Manhattan. So we're purebred New Yorkers.

I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.