Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Zionism demands a publicly recognized and legally secured homeland in Palestine for the Jewish people. This platform is unchangeable. — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
There are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
I strongly believe that antisemitism and Jewish chauvinism can only be fought simultaneously. — Israel Shahak Copy Share Image
On this land, Muslims, Christians and Jews can coexist together, as they have - as they had for the - for hundreds… — Hassan Nasrallah Copy Share Image
“For hundreds of years, Christians had been trying to convert the Jews, and now, for the first time, they had real success.… — Phyllis Goldstein Copy Share Image
“Even if dogma has a purpose, it can never function as a substitute for faith, only as a dry aspect of it.” — Nathan Lopes Cardozo Copy Share Image
Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals? — Mahalia Jackson Copy Share Image
All the other members of the U.N. were admitted, at the outset or subsequently, but Israel was created by the U.N. as… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
“. . . but of those Jews whom I hated, for they called me 'heathen' when I would have taught them my… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
For many American-Jewish writers, the dominant motifs have been cultural, secular, sometimes comic, often satirical. Writing about the religious component of Judaism,… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
“Still, by the end of the thirteenth century, most European Jews were forced to wear badges or distinguishing clothing. The aim was… — Phyllis Goldstein Copy Share Image
The three religions because I wanted to discuss faith, not organized religion, so wanted to relativize organized religion by having Pi practice… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I am interested in the literature and religion of ancient Israel. I focus on biblical law in its ancient Near Eastern context… — Bernard M. Levinson Copy Share Image
Identity for Jews like us was shaped by cultural practices and family traditions rather than allegiances of place or language or class,… — Sasha Velour Copy Share Image
Israel, the Jewish state, the only democracy in the Middle East, continues to shine as a beacon of light in the darkest… — Brigitte Gabriel Copy Share Image
My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Hebrew in America has a bemusing past. The Puritans, out of scriptural piety, once dreamed of establishing Hebrew as the national language. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I love being Jewish; I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
Alan King, a comedian I adored, was considered society, and I was considered the Jewish kid from the neighborhood. — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
I feel like when I was 13 and I had to go to bar mitzvahs every weekend. This is the same feeling.… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
“If pain were all that mattered, it would be as important to protect the rabbits from the foxes as to protect the… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist. — Yehuda Berg Copy Share Image
“Achmed: Two Jews walk into a bar... Jeff: No no no no no Achmed: You don't let Jews in your bar? You… — Jeff Dunham Copy Share Image
I'm more Jewish than you think I am...I read the part of the Bible that said the Jews are God's chosen people. — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
I mean, I talk about being Jewish a lot. It's funny because I do think of myself as Jewish ethnically, but I'm… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
It is something that I always found quite unfair: wondering why the Jews never rebelled when deported. — Roselyne Bosch Copy Share Image
The sincere Christian knows that what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Watch out, brothers, so that there won’t be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart that departs from the living God.… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
Jewish suffering is also a political factor, and whoever says that Hitler diminished our strength, is not telling the truth. — David Copy Share Image
The difference between the three Abrahamic religions: Christianity - mumbling to the ceiling, Judaism - mumbling to the wall, Islam - mumbling… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
People need to know why we, as the Jewish people, have a right to be here. We need to tell people what… — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
Judaism shouldn't be the jailhouse of ideas but a liberator of ideas; not a disintegrator of people but what brings people together. — Yair Lapid Copy Share Image
“Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another—and all… — Suzanne Crocker Copy Share Image
All chefs are like Jewish mothers. They want to feed you and feed you and impress you. It's an eagerness to please. — Padma Lakshmi Copy Share Image
“Venerable the scorn of the Jews for the Ishmaelites may have been; but it was nothing like so savage as their loathing… — Tom Holland Copy Share Image
No person with a sense of the dignity of mankind can condone the persecution of the Jewish race in Germany. — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might… — Abba Eban Copy Share Image
We're never going to please everyone, but all the great Jewish comics have succeeded through irreverence and self deprecation. — Bryan Fogel Copy Share Image
