Andy grew up as a secular Jew, and his connection to Judiasm was limited to celebrating Hannukah and attending a single Bat Mitzvah. He never attended services, had a Shabbat dinner, celebrated any other holidays or engaged in anything but cultural Judiasm until he got to college.
At UC Berkeley, Andy joined Alpha Epsilon Pi, the Jewish fraternity and began visiting the campus Hillel. He started with the free Wednesday bbq's, and then began attending Shabbat dinners. Although Andy never connected with religious Judaism, he attended services for Yom Kippur, and then became the Jewish Chairman of the fraternity.
By his senior year, Andy had decided that he wanted to work at a campus Hillel after he graduated, and he ended the year by having a bar mitzvah at Hillel with four of his fraternity brothers. Andy went on birthright israel this summer, something he plans on writing about in great detail in the coming months.
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