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How to feel more Jewish?

For reference, I am Jewish, my mother is Jewish (my father is not), I am Bar Mitzvah.

I’m in my second year of university right now and I’m just feeling very disconnected from my faith. I was raised fairly secularly, with little connection to my Jewish roots – my mother’s family lived 200 miles away – and the area I grew up in is no longer very Jewish and hasn’t been for quite a long time. A lot of ritual and prayer feels very hollow, as I stutter through Hebrew that I barely understand the meaning of. It’s like I’m acting being Jewish rather than actually being Jewish. I also feel quite out of place at my university’s Jewish society, as it’s quite small and a lot of the Jews here grew up, quite frankly, far wealthier than I did, and in much more Jewish areas. Any advice would be appreciated:)

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