Mayor, you grew up not religious, and Alan, you are currently not religious, and mayor is your son.

Judaism, it was cultural, it was fun, it was the JCC.

I was introduced to an organization called CT.

I went on the summer experience for three weeks, like in Poland and Israel.

All Jewish pride, I felt, going there and having that experience was like huge for me. I wanted to start wearing a yarmulka to school. That was wasn't the movie were. That was one of the first ones where we realized this was becoming something else. I committed to George Washington University. I remember intentionally thinking that I owe it to myself to explore this Judaism thing a little more. Before just moving on with my life, I ended up going to my note.

This is not what I had in mind.

It sounded like you were kind of like blitzed by this whole concept.

I was getting concerned that this was more than a gap here.

Meet Mayor Harowitz.

He grew up Jewish, proud of his identity, but not observing.

Judaism was culture, community, and tradition, not lifestyle.

And meet his father Alan Harwoods.

He raised his family non-religious and remains non-religious to this day.

This is a conversation about what happens when a teenager begins pulling towards something his parents never planned for.

And what it feels like as a parent to watch your child's identity change in ways you don't fully understand. I was actually very freaked out of myself how excited I was becoming. Within months, I was just like obsessed and loving it. By the end of that year, I looked like a full-on Khadbacher, so I didn't quote a college. In my mind, this was a red line. Okay, well, that's not our deal. You're on your own if that, in fact, is the plan. You're going to lose your spot at GW, and I'm not paying for this again. Hello, hello, everybody. Welcome back to another episode of the Meaningful People podcast, Nachie Gordon here. And I thank you so much for coming for another episode. This is awesome. Alan Harowitz, Merahoa. It's a family that not religious, they were not religious growing up at all. Not the plan, Jewish, but not

religious, and not even aspiring to be, until Mayor had some plans of his own. And we

have this open discussion between a father who had aspirations for his son one way and

the son who went a completely different direction and boy was this an

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