During an interview with the Washington Jewish Week publication, Ashley Dyke told the reporter that although her mother was Jewish and her father was Christian, she was raised Jewish. She said that the age of thirteen she had a Bat Mitzvah (the traditional coming-of-age religious service for Jewish adolescents) and they celebrated all the Jewish holidays in their home. She also got to celebrate Christian holidays with her father's family, which as a child meant "double the presents. We did understand that it was his faith but also that we were Jewish.".
