On Becoming Jewish:

I. Obama’s foreign policy adviser, Tony Lake, was at NYU today, talking to students at the Bronfman Center about why he thinks the Democratic presidential hopeful is so great. But before he got into details, Lake, who served as national security adviser in the Clinton administration, described his own history of first being mistaken for, and then actually becoming, a Jew.

Here is a link with an audio excerpt

(H/T: Inna from Egage comments)

II. And here is Christopher Hitchens, explaining how he found out he was (technically speaking) Jewish. Watch the first installment.

(H/T: Will, from the Sodden Trotskyites)