Andrew Kraut is from Calabasas, California, a small suburb outside of Los Angeles. Andrew has a younger sister named Rachel back home who is sixteen and a junior in high school.
Andrew is an active member of the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets, Sqaudron 3 and is currently majoring in general Engineering but by the end of the semester he hopes to be admitted into Aerospace Engineering because "I love air planes and learning about how they fly."
Andrew's favorite Jewish food is his great grandmas homemade kugel. Andrew had the opportunity to make make his great grandmas's kugel for after Yom Kippur, Break-the-Fast after at Chabad for everyone to enjoy.
"I think it’s important to be involved in Jewish life because it is a part of who we are and if all we do is try to avoid it then we will divide ourselves mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, and we will lose such a loving community that is our Judaism."