MY FRIEND DIDN'T FIND OUT HIS HOUSEMATE WAS JEWISH UNTIL AFTER HE LEFT !?!?

[Merkava]

Funnily enough a friend of mine lived with a person for a year and didn't know he was Jewish. It wasn't until the former housemate told my friend Mazal Tov at a recent party. I met the guy himslef and he is not religious but he is very Zionistic.

I wonder if he was hiding his heritege or did everyone just assume that he was Christian ? Bit of a surprise to me!

Do you have similar experiences where you have known someone for a long time and you didn't find out they were Jewish until much later ?

[Eliezer Ben Avraham]

The problem is that today there is so little distinction between liberal secular Jews and their non-Jewish cousins. This causes the confusion about whether or not they are actually Jewish

[Ehud]

No, that is a very odd story.  I can't imagine living with anyone for a year and not knowing their background, religion, or ethnicity.  I'd say that he was probably trying to hide it. 

[Merkava]

I can't imagine living with anyone for a year and not knowing their background, religion, or ethnicity.  I'd say that he was probably trying to hide it.

Thats what i thought initially but when I spoke to him he seemed proud of being Jewish so I doubt he was hiding anything. When I asked him about it he said that no one ever asked him what religion he was    i guess it could be true because while I was at Uni religion among the students seemed to be non existent.

[Daniel]

There were times when I had co-workers who initially, I didn't know they were Jewish and found out later. But anyone who I roomed with in college, I knew whether or not they were Jewish.