Mayim Bialik, best known for her roles on Blossom and The Big Bang Theory, is opening up about being religious in Hollywood.
The actress, who is of Jewish faith, finds is “alarming” that she got negative attention for simply taking a trip to Israel, where she was visiting a friend in the Israel Defense Forces.
"Simply by going to Israel this summer and saying nothing more than, 'I've gone to Israel,' I got the same amount of hatred and threats and anti-Semitism for actually making a statement trying to support people whether I like it or not are serving in an army,” she told Fox411.
"That reveals the truth,” she continued. “It really doesn’t matter what I support or believe the fact that I'm Jewish and go there is enough – that should be alarming to most people."
Bialik, who is known to dress modestly as part of her faith, said she knows being religious is not popular amongst her Hollywood counterparts.
"I think in general it's never going to be trendy to be observant or religious in Hollywood circles," she said. "There are people I know of faith and we tend to congregate together. I study Jewish texts weekly. That's something really positive to me when you're a person of faith, it stays with you all the time."
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