AKA "
Hin-Jew." For some reason,
Hinduism is extremely popular among a certain population of educated, disaffected Jews (
I could name lots of names).
I'm not sure why so many nice Jewish boys and girls go off to the ashram, but it seems to happen with a good deal of regularity. It's most common among those who came of age in the 1960s, when more people were questioning their given faiths, and Indian thinkers/popularizers like the Maharishi were suddenly in the public eye. I think Jews were and are more inclined to do this because they tend to be raised in a tradition that teaches that it's okay to question any religious tenet, but have often found the traditional responses to these questions to be inadequate.
Hin-Jews, in my experience, tend to remain culturally Jewish, even when renouncing any connection with the Jewish religion.