Elon Musk says he’s ‘aspirationally Jewish’ because his ‘name is pretty Jewish’Reuters
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00:00 I grew up around a lot of Jewish people. I went to Hebrew preschool, Rachel Spiro in South Africa.
00:04 My name is very Jewish. I will tell you that for the past 10 years people have assumed in
00:13 my community that you're Jewish until I informed them otherwise. Yeah. Elon is a pretty Jewish name.
00:17 He is super Jewish. Yeah. And then I went to Israel when I was 13, you know, I mean,
00:25 you know, visited Masada. I'm certainly checking the boxes on a lot of things.
00:31 And like I said, most of my friends are Jewish, just worked out that way. So
00:38 sometimes I, yeah, I guess maybe I forget, maybe am I Jewish?
00:43 I'm Jewish. Aspirationally Jewish.