He was raised as a Reform Jew. Goldbacher grew up as a Reform Jew. In 1965 he married Betty Haas, a Reform Jew. Katz was raised in Woodmere, New York as a Reform Jew. Weiss was raised as a Reform Jew and converted to Christianity as a teenager. Mamet is a Reform Jew and strongly pro-Israel. She was raised as a Reform Jew, but converted to Christianity as an adult. Epstein grew up in Flushing, Queens, New York as an assimilated and disinterested Reform Jew. His father's family were Hasidic Jews; his mother was a Reform Jew. She was a Reform Jew, and belonged to Congregation Emanu-El of San Francisco.