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I grew up happily immersed in Jewish culture and community.

— Rachel Brosnahan

One of the stranger things about me is that I was raised as an Orthodox Jew. I went to a yeshiva until I was…

— Dani Shapiro

Culturally speaking, I was raised in a Jewish household. In addition to the religious side of it, I was taught respect for books and…

— Woody Allen

I am a fifth-generation American, but from a young age, I went to yeshiva. I spent 12 hours a day with rabbis, and I…

— Nathan Englander

Although I was raised Jewish, my upbringing didn't include any formal religious education or training.

— Melissa Gilbert

I never even realized I was Jewish until I was practically grown up. Or rather, I used to feel that everybody in the world…

— Joseph Heller

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…

— Natalie Portman

I grew up in an Orthodox family, as I grew older, I became Conservative and that's how it ended up. But I've developed that…

— Don Rickles

My father taught me to study, study, study hard and he sent me to a very good Jewish school even though it was not…

— Ruth Westheimer

I came from a very comfortable, middle-class family living in Highland Park, Illinois.Really growing up in a Jewish community with a fabulous public school.

— Jill Stein

My mum was raised Jewish, my dad is very scientifically minded, and my school was vaguely Christian. We sang hymns in school. I liked…

— Ben Barnes

When I was little, I went to a Jewish community day school for most of elementary school.

— Clara Mamet