AI Answer
It seems like the concept of "Jewish by association" refers to the idea of presenting oneself as being connected to Jewish culture or traditions, even if one is not actually Jewish. In the context you provided, it seems that the person found success in their career by embracing this identity and using it to gain opportunities, such as getting agent meetings and TV show invitations. This concept seems to have been influential in their career, whether it was related to working as a bar mitzvah dancer or in other endeavors.

GDL April 11, 2023

Hilarious . II I think we just , this is what I told Andy the other day is um after I wrote Jewish by association and I placed and I got all these agent meetings Jewish by association , it was all about why not Jewish by association . Like , so when I was working as a , when I was working as a bar mitzvah dancer , all these kids would be like , what , what was your Bat Mitzvah ?

GDL April 11, 2023

And so um and so like I played that up and when I , especially when I was 19 and um I said my bat Mitzvah was amazing and I just like went with it and then the more , the more I probably did 5000 parties . And I would start saying , I , then , then I would start saying like , I mean , you know what , I'm not Jewish , I'm actually Jewish by association . People loved it so much .

GDL April 11, 2023

And so then it kind of stuck . And then when I wrote my very first , uh , TV , Show Jewish by association , um I got like , invited into all these rooms , invited to all these agents . And then , um , one of the agents said , uh my best piece of advice for you is to not get hung up on this and to keep creating .

GDL April 11, 2023

I was like , well my bat Mitzvah was insane . And this is also when I was like , it's a Mitzvah or Bar Mitzvah . I thought so you just said what I said Mitzvah ?

GDL April 11, 2023

And this is also when I was like , it's a Mitzvah or Bar Mitzvah . I thought so you just said what I said Mitzvah ? Oh I thought you said I was like , was that like a special thing ?