The times I have gotten on best with Jewish guys I’ve dated is when we were on the same page about that. I like bacon and going dancing on Friday nights, and I like my life that way. But if you’re looking for a proper Jewish wife with whom to make proper Jewish babies and lead a proper Jewish life - as Bob Dylan‚ née Robert Allen Zimmerman, so succinctly stated - it ain’t me, babe. I am, as the phrase goes, culturally Jewish: not practicing, but I have a special place in my heart for the cultural trappings of Judaism and the experience of existing in the world as a person who hails from such a background.
I have, on more than one occasion, described my relationship to Judaism as “more Mel Brooks than Matzo Meal,” a phrase I think even the comedy legend himself might identify with (Brooks is notably not religious). I swore up, down, and sideways I would never use a Jewish dating app again.