Campbell, who is of Irish and Italian descent, grew up
Catholic in a Philadelphia suburb. One of his aunts is a
Catholic nun. A typical Campbell joke is that his aunt is a nun, "which of course makes Jesus my uncle, allowing for easier parking in Jerusalem." Campbell
converted to Judaism with a Reform rabbi, and says that a "spiritual hunger" led him to have a second conversion with a Conservative rabbi. On a four-month visit to Israel in 2000 he decided to have a third conversion and live as an
Orthodox Jew. Campbell and his wife Avital, an Orthodox rabbi, have four children, including twins, and live in Jerusalem. In 2006, Campbell appeared with the
Israeli-Palestinian Comedy Tour. Campbell is the subject of a 2008 documentary film,
Circumcise Me. == References ==