 is amazing. As a student of the Persian culture, I probably went to shul more than many of you. I come out of the black community. The background of my family is Irish-American. I'm fundamentally unlike the Palestinian people. I am, you might say, raised in the synagogues of my state. Everybody in town is either Polish or Italian. I grew up feeling self-conscious. My name didn't end in an S-K-I. I was raised in a neighborhood