He celebrated his bar mitzvah in Teaneck , where he would join his family at synagogue on the Sabbath , and recounted how the fact that `` I was the Jewish kid growing up in Teaneck , but at the same time , I had black and Filipino and Asian friends and to have that experience all through high school while getting an awesome education was wonderful .
Damon Lindelof felt self-conscious about being a white Jewish kid in Teaneck .