Jewish Quotes
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If I was a Jewish girl in Hitler’s day, I would become his girlfriend. After ten days in bed, he would come to my way of thinking. (Jewish Quotes)
The concept of God in Jewish orthodoxy is one where you’re having constant quarrels with God. Where I come from, in Islam, the only concept of God is you submit to Him and you obey His commands; no quarreling allowed. (Jewish Quotes)
I don’t care whether you’re Baptist, Buddhist, Mormon, Methodist, Jewish, Muslim, or no religion at all. Jesus Christ still loves you. You still matter to God. (Jewish Quotes)
My influences were mostly gospel. So I was playing my twisted Jewish equivalent of gospel music over his twisted equivalent of rock and roll music. And it was a very excellent marriage. (Jewish Quotes)
I was named after my Jewish grandfather who left Poland early in the 20th century. What I knew from an early age was that he had lived most of his life in England, his Jewish wife had died, and he married a non-Jewish woman who was my grandmother. (Jewish Quotes)
The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America. (Jewish Quotes)
Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in. (Jewish Quotes)
I don’t think I ever really knew the right words to ‘Hava Nagilah,’ which isn’t great for a Jewish singer. (Jewish Quotes)
I wouldn’t trade anything for family time. To me, it is more important than everything else, and I have a very deep-rooted belief in it, which is influenced by my Jewish faith. That’s a very great source of who I am and what I believe in. (Jewish Quotes)
The opposition tried to brand us as the ‘Ground Zero megamosque.’ The language was deliberately wordsmithed in order to arouse hostility against us. But the idea that the Jewish mayor of New York City and the president of the United States supported a mosque at Ground Zero, and took a lot of flak for it, raised their stature in the Muslim world. (Jewish Quotes)
If you are a Rothschild, a Rosenwald, a Gimbel, or even a Waldbaum, growing up Jewish can be a rich experience. For the rest of us, it could be just so-so. (Jewish Quotes)
Growing up in the San Fernando Valley, I grew up around a lot of Jews. I grew up culturally Jewish, ethnically Jewish, but without real belief and without a strong faith. (Jewish Quotes)
You know, in Saudi Arabia, you’re innocent until proven Jewish. Female. Guilty! They’re guilty! (Jewish Quotes)
I had always known that I was Jewish - we celebrated the holidays, we went to a synagogue - but I had never known that I was supposed to feel ashamed about it. (Jewish Quotes)
What you do for Jewish New Year is you go down to Times Square ... It’s a lot quieter than the regular New Year. It’s just a few Jews walking around going, sup? (Jewish Quotes)
I’m regarded outside New York University as a looney tunes leftie, self-hating Jewish communist; inside the university, I’m regarded as a typical, old-fashioned, white male liberal elitist. I like that. I’m on the edge of both; it makes me feel comfortable. (Jewish Quotes)
My track record is that I have always sought to work with warmth and in a constructive way with the leaders of other components of the Jewish faith. (Jewish Quotes)
When those of Jewish blood exhibit moral or intellectual superiority, genius or special talent, we feel pride in them, even if they have abjured the faith like Spinoza, Marx, Disraeli or Heine. Despite the meditations of pundits or the decrees of council, our own instincts and acts, and those of others, have defined for us the term ‘Jew.’ (Jewish Quotes)
Most of the Jewish writer friends I have are American, and I feel closer to them because they’re always obsessed with one issue - identity: what does it mean to be an American Jew? (Jewish Quotes)
I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder. (Jewish Quotes)