Jewish Quotes
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People value Halloween, like Valentine’s Day, because they can tell themselves that it’s not merely secularized but actually secular, which is to say, not Christian, Jewish, Hindu or Muslim. (Jewish Quotes)
The women cried with one another, and it didn’t seem to matter whether you were Jewish or Christian, you just mourned. (Jewish Quotes)
The real reason Jews don’t have more Hanukkah music is that, historically, American Jewish singer-songwriters were too busy making Christmas music. ‘White Christmas,’ ‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,’ ‘Silver Bells’ and ‘The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting)’ were all written by Jews. (Jewish Quotes)
My mother told me once that she and my father agreed that I would not be brought up Jewish in Chicago. She had me going to a Methodist church. (Jewish Quotes)
At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I’m Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim. (Jewish Quotes)
I am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewish and Catholic, and Presbyterian and Holy Rollers and Revival Churches, and I do this voluntarily. (Jewish Quotes)
We use American influence with Israel not to promote economic growth in the West Bank, but to try and impede Jewish - never Arab - construction in the capital city. (Jewish Quotes)
I came from a very comfortable, middle-class family living in Highland Park, Illinois.Really growing up in a Jewish community with a fabulous public school. (Jewish Quotes)
I always like to sing barefoot, but when I first started doing these dates with the symphonies, I of course thought I should clean up my act, being a Jewish girl from Long Island with a little bit of a trucker mouth. So I wore a gown and some high heels. (Jewish Quotes)
The fight against Jewish world Bolshevization requires a clear attitude toward Soviet Russia. You cannot drive out the Devil with Beelzebub. (Jewish Quotes)
There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close (Jewish Quotes)
There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It’s bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it. (Jewish Quotes)
When I began teaching you hardly could find a university in America or a college where they would teach either Jewish studies or Holocaust studies. (Jewish Quotes)
I starred in a Broadway play that was Sidney Poitier’s first directing job and the cast was Lou Gossett, Cicely Tyson, Diana Ladd and I played a Jewish kid who offered himself as a slave to two Columbia University students as reparations. (Jewish Quotes)
I grew very skeptical of certain kind of Jewish separatism in my youth. I mean, I saw the Jewish community was always with each other; they didn’t trust anybody outside. You’d bring someone home, and the first question was, ‘Are they Jewish, are they not Jewish?’ (Jewish Quotes)
I grew up in a tradition where having ideas and contributing to the community and creating art that had an impact on the world mattered. That’s part of the Jewish tradition. (Jewish Quotes)
Working with the Jewish community is essential to me and what I stand for (Jewish Quotes)
No one will frighten the large and free Jewish community of the United States (Jewish Quotes)
People who criticize power in the Jewish community are regarded the way Ahab treated Elijah: You’re a traitor. (Jewish Quotes)
In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community. (Jewish Quotes)
A traditional rabbi is the man to whom the community and its members turn to rule on what Jewish law requires of them, particularly in cases of doubt. (Jewish Quotes)
You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were small communities in Frankfurt or Berlin, but in a provincial town in south Germany, Jewish people didn’t exist. (Jewish Quotes)
I started the label Tzadik to support an entire community of musicians, not just Jewish musicians. But the radical Jewish culture movement was begun in a lot of ways because I wanted to take the idea that Jewish music equals ‘klezmer’ and expand it to, ‘Well, Jewish music could be a lot more than that.’ (Jewish Quotes)
There is a wide range of views within the Jewish community, so it’s not monolithic (Jewish Quotes)
If you aren’t any religion, how will you know if you should join the Y or the Jewish Community Center? (Jewish Quotes)
My prayer is that the good news of Jesus, the crucified and risen Messiah, would flood Jewish communities around the world, that the veil would be lifted, and that we would see a massive turning of Israel to the Lord Jesus. (Jewish Quotes)
I and others like me believe Timerman was chosen by President Kirshner, first as Argentina’s U.N. ambassador and then as foreign minister, among other reasons because he does not hide his Jewishness and his relations with the Jewish community and, therefore, can be a ‘fig leaf’ for her policy. (Jewish Quotes)
It is beyond belief that someone could come to the launch of a report on antisemitism in the Labour Party and espouse such vile conspiracy theories about Jewish people. (Jewish Quotes)
I want to remind people that the Nazis weren’t able to take the Jews to the crematoriums immediately. The German people wouldn’t have allowed for it. Instead, the Nazis had to change public opinion. They marginalized the Jewish people, disparaged them, and made them objects of contempt. (Jewish Quotes)
I don’t do Jewish stuff because I don’t want people to be left out. If I mention the Torah in Alabama, it’s not going to go down that well. I used to do some Jewish jokes because when I started, I used to play lots of Jewish country clubs. (Jewish Quotes)