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I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral or a Bar Mitzvah.

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Jesse Eisenberg
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: October 5
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Queens
New York
Jesse Adam Eisenberg
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