I’d spent the last few years stressing about what will they think about me

“I don’t like it when people decide to do their ‘chesed for the day’ by being nice to a giyores”

I could never find a good opportunity to say, “Hey, by the way, I converted to Judaism when I was little”

I wanted to see what would happen if I shared my past with one of the friendly, popular girls in camp

“Well, you know,” she said. “You don’t live in a place with lots of Jews….”

You teach Jewish subjects in a Bais Yaakov, how could you not know how to answer my simple question?

I wasn’t nervous about remaining Jewish, just nervous about declaring it in a public setting