See, Count Blucher? I didn’t even have to ask.
Don’t take that to mean that you can’t bring me cheese burgers.
My dad’s Jewish. Well. He doesn’t go to a synagogue, is married to a Catholic woman, all of us kids were raised Catholic, and he loves pork chops, which I guess means he’s Jew-ish. I’d say he’s been a pretty big influence on me, although I’m not a huge fan of pork chops. 
My mom’s Jewish. I attended a Jewish preschool and went to temple/Hebrew school for a while, but stopped before having a bat mitzvah. I know the basics, and will sometimes do a little celebration for the fun holidays (make latkes and light candles for Hanukkah/eat challah and pomegranate at Rosh Hashanah, etc), but Yom Kippur gets shafted. Mainly, I’m just Jewish enough to make anti-Semites uncomfortable by going “actually, being Jewish . . .” 
I think the Catholic equivalent would be either an Easter-Christmas Catholic, or a Raised Catholic.
We have a number of Jewish friends (one of whom is a dead ringer for Jason Alexander), but they are far from being orthodox, with some being totally unobservant. As for being influenced by them, I’d have to say that there has been little to none. They’re just people like everybody else. Well, the one husband is close to what I would call a Jewish stereotype. He’s constantly looking for deals, won’t go to a restaurant unless he has a coupon of some sort, and likes to talk about your money. He annoys me at times with all that.
A quarter to a third of students at my high school were Jewish. Occasionally some would incorrectly guess my religious heritage. I dated a Jewish woman for a while. I was profoundly influenced by the Milgram experiments in high school which in turn were shaped by the holocaust.
ETA: Also, I was once a member of the Illuminati, but I let my subscription run out.
I suspect my great grandmother was Jewish, given that her surname is predominantly Jewish. The surname also shows up with regularity on the concentration camp lists. Shifting borders in Poland and the secrecy of her life has made verification impossible.
I taught in an Orthodox yeshiva for a while – they hired teachers (for the secular, state-required subjects only, obviously) from among the penurious adjuncts at a nearby university.
Other than that, various friends over the years, including one woman who was studying to be come a rabbi when I met her, and then finished her studies and became a rabbi at a fairly conservative synagogue in New York. We had many, many fascinating discussions about religion (among other things) over the years, and she used to bring me to really interesting lectures at the seminary (is that the right word?) she was attending.
I didn’t know many Jews until I was well into my college years, having spent the years before that in a Catholic bubble (Catholic schools from kindergarten through my first year of college).
Mods, may we please move this to The Pit? I think Flea Market MD deserves a reply.
Other than a ton of Jewish friends?
I listen to lots of Leonard Cohen.
Well, let’s see.
I like Jonathan Miller a lot. However, in his own (joking) words, he’s “not really a Jew, just Jew-ish. Not the whole hog.”
But seriously… 
My brother was a music teacher, and one of his side jobs for many years was singing in the small choir of a Reform synagogue. My brother also was the accompanist for a soprano in the choir on her separate gigs. Occasionally the choir needed an extra tenor and I was good enough to sing with them as well. I even sang with them once for High Holidays. I can still recall bits of the music and prayers. The choir director, a woman, was an excellent musician.
For a while I dated a Jewish girl. I think that made me a shegetz (male version of shiksa).
I was friends with a non-practicing Jew for many years. I read a poem when he married his third wife (non-Jewish). The marriage was officiated by a minister whose denomination I don’t remember. Because of my choir singing, my friend said I knew more of the music and prayers than he did.
18 years in the NYC metro. Being a jazz musician and music/pop culture historian.
Jews like Leon Schlesinger and Mel Blanc, when I was at a young, impressionable age.
This is well out of line for this forum. Tone it down, please.
As is this. Same instruction.
And no, there’s no reason this needs to be in The Pit. If you folks want to snipe at each other, start your own Pit thread. Let’s keep this one civil.
Every one of my relatives (except my husband) is Jewish.
Halloween is based on Samhain, the highest of pagan holidays. It was the Christians who later labeled it “Satanic.” That really gets my blood boiling. Paganism is NOT, and never has been “Satanic.”
My five favorite lyric writers are Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Jim Steinman, Kris Kristopherson, and Kinky Friedman. Three of them have Jewish roots.
There’s a Jewish carpenter that I talk to a lot.
Regards,
Shodan
My last DM was Jewish, I guess that would be it…
My best friend since fourth grade and her husband are Jewish. She has always been a good influence to me, and her husband helped my daughter get her job, which has saved her, I believe.