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After 37 Years, I m Finally Embracing My Jewish Heritage I associated being Jewish with looking like me, rather than following a faith. And since looking like me elicited nothing but negative comments, I didn’t want to claim Judaism as a part of me.
By Ashley Jordan
My grandfather s name was Bernard Berman, and I have his nose. You ve got that Berman nose, my parents told me when I was a kid. You re just our little Jewish girl.
Until recently, this nose was all I knew about Judaism and my link to it.
Growing up in rural northern Illinois, religion didn’t play much of a role in my upbringing. My mother and father were raised Catholic, so that’s what I was by default. Our family didn’t attend church regularly, and I had no real knowledge or thoughts about my faith, other than the fact that it placed me in a separate category from every other kid at my Lutheran school.