On Being Jew(ish)

A personal story on what it means to be a Jew. Or at least a half of one.

by Ben Cohen

It was under a Chuppah during my uncle’s Orthodox Jewish marriage ceremony in a synagogue in north London that I first remember feeling enormous pride in my Jewish heritage. I was 16 years old and confused, as most teenagers are, with the concept of my identity. Wearing a yarmulke standing next to my Grandmother while the rabbi officiated, …