Filmmaker Statement

Growing up, I attended Hebrew School…. very briefly. I remember having the conversation of quitting Hebrew School in the car, with my mother. She wasn’t thrilled about it, but ultimately, I was allowed to quit. Fifteen years later, my mother, who believes in God, told me that she didn’t mind if I weren't bar-mitzvahed and that her mother, my grandmother, guilted her into making me go to Hebrew School. This film exaggerates and expands that conversation to convey that being atheist doesn’t exclude one from being a Jew…. or Jewish.