Koehler, Robert. "Hey, Chili, Meet a Real Producer", Los Angeles Times, January 6, 1996. Accessed August 8, 2019. "The poverty was somewhat self-imposed. The Bronx-born Bender grew up in Cherry Hill, N.J., 'which was all-white and anti-Semitic, so I’d hear comments about me like, "He’s a good kid for a Jew." I have some idea of what it means to be discriminated against, though not as a distinct minority of color.'"
