I am a proud Jewish man who keeps kosher, fasts on Yom Kippur, and celebrates shabbat every Friday evening. There are many stereotypes amongst Jewish people, and one that I have been stereotyped for is if I am greedy with my money. I have heard all of the Jewish jokes throughout my life whether it were from strangers or my own peers who thought making Jew jokes was funny. I remember vividly when I was in middle school someone dropping a penny from their pocket onto the classroom floor and yelled out to me in front of all of my peers and teacher “Hey you! Pick up that penny I know how much Jews love thier money.” I will never forget the feeling of anger that arose throughout my body when he made a comment like that because not only was I offended, but he offended every Jewish person I know and love. This was something I was not prepared to have to defend because never did I think someone would dare make a joke about anyone’s religion, race, sexuality and so on; I accept everyone for exactly who they are, what they believe in as well as who they choose to love. Overall, my experience being a Jewish man has been very positive in the sense that I love all of my family members, my Jewish friends and Isreal. Fun fact I was actually bar-mitzvahed in Israel and the gift my parents got for me is a gold chain necklace with a Chai on it that means “life”. I got this gift when I was 13 and have never taken it off since. It means so much to me and I truly believe me wearing it brings me lots of good luck as well as positive energy all throughout my life physically, mentally and spiritually. As far as social media goes I feel like people on social media do a great job nowadays at accepting everyone for exactly who they are and posting about all the holidays to celebrate everyone. This is important because it creates a positive outlook on everyone and how even though we live in a world with lots of different religions, races, sexualities and so forth everyone at the end of the day is the same in some form of way and want to receive the same amount of respect. I believe that the construction on social media portrays Judaism in a positive way because there are always so many groups that I see on social media which include accounts strictly to showcase the best parts of Judiasm and its holidays as well as a large community of people that you can relate to. However, there could be a negative thing to this as well because people who are either anti-semetic or just not liking to see a broader version of social media who will try to add negative and harmful comments to try and make something that is supposed to be a positive thing and turn it into something negative because of their beliefs. Overall, I believe that people need to be respectful towards all people regardless of how they feel about them because no matter who you are you are deserving of receiving the same amount of respect as anyone else.