Judaism Quotes · Page 39

I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song…

— Theodore Bikel

I'm very proud to be the prime minister of all of Israel's citizens, Arabs and Jews alike.

— Benjamin Netanyahu

I'm Jewish; I'm not religious at all, and I wouldn't pretend to know anything about Catholic politics.

— Stephen Frears

We played a gig and we had a song that was offensive to people of the Jewish persuasion, and we led off…

— Santiago Durango

What I find fascinating about Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights we celebrate at this time of the year, is the way…

— Jonathan Sacks

It pains me to see the gap that exists in the public's consciousness - religious and secular - between the notion of…

— Reuven Rivlin

“the ancient blood libel: that every year at Passover, Jews ritually slaughter Christian children and use their blood to bake matzo.”

— Helmut Walser Smith

It is often said that Poland is a country where there is anti-semitism and no Jews, which is pathology in its purest…

— Bronislaw Geremek

I always make this comparison between Bob Dylan and David Simon. Not in the most flattering way possible - these two intellectual…

— James Ransone

There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure…

— Sinclair Lewis

“Historians are fairly certain that Buonarroti spent much time in the Jewish parts of Rome, using the authentic features of real Jews…

— Benjamin Blech

“As the Italian proverb says, 'Translators are traitors.' At some level we all are traitors to the text, saying a little less…

— William D. Mounce

Senator McGovern is very sincere when he says that he will try to cut the military budget by 30%. And this is…

— Irving Kristol

“The Hebrew word for “glory” (kabod) literally means “weight.” To give something glory in your life (or, to worship it) is to…

— J.D. Greear

“In ways that now elude precision, it seems obvious that Jews appealed to Arabs for relief from the Visigothic "final solution." We…

— Daniel Levering Lewis

I accept that there are multitudes seeking God, seeking meaning, and so on, but if they reject atheism, I would rather they…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I do not speak Hebrew, but I understand that it has no word for 'history.' The closest word for it is memory.

— David Miliband

On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.

— Alexander Pope

Those who live by the Qur'an have a scriptural mandate to kill Christians and Jews... it teaches that very clearly.

— John Hagee

When I grew up I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalis.

— Yehuda Berg

“Akhenatens ate Seth (whose animal is: the pig) to war and plagiarize the Osirians and Roman Christians eat Jesus to war and…

— Ibrahim Ibrahim

“In Jewish eyes, ‘anti-Semitism’ is any policy which works against a policy of the Jewish leadership.”

— Israel Shamir

Every Israeli government since 1967, of left or right, has asserted that Jerusalem is Israel's capital and has allowed Israeli Jews to…

— Elliott Abrams

It is time the Arabs and the Jews sat down and settled this dispute in the true Christian spirit.

— Warren Austin

Rest in the Lord; wait patiently for Him. In Hebrew, "Be silent in God, and let Him mould thee." Keep still, and…

— Martin Luther

While I'm Jewish, the Hasidic world is still foreign to me. But I do understand some of the ideas of tradition and…

— Ari Graynor

“Besides, if you lump them all together because they're German, how does that makes you any different from the way they lump…

— Jodi Picoult

As the Jews were making constant disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus, he [ Claudius ] expelled them [the Jews] from Rome

— Suetonius

As a Jewish thinker, I don't think of myself in relationship to the dominant culture's religion.

— Emily Barton

Palestine, as Icelanders see it, includes the Western Wall of the Second Temple, Judaism's holiest site.

— Elliott Abrams

As a practicing Jew, I have studied with Christian teachers whom I respect for who they are and what they are, including…

— David Novak

Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants…

— Karen Armstrong

One of the stranger things about me is that I was raised as an Orthodox Jew. I went to a yeshiva until…

— Dani Shapiro

I'm rather secular. I'm basically Jewish. But I think I'm Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.

— Mel Brooks

I'm sorry I'm not gay or Jewish, so I don't have a special interest group of journalists that support me.

— Vincent Gallo

If you want to be a Jewish state and you want to remain a democracy, you have to have a two-state solution.

— John F. Kerry

I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral…

— Jesse Eisenberg

Judaism stands or falls with its belief in the historic actuality of the revelation at Sinai.

— Joseph Hertz

I think my sense of humor is Jewish. I'm smarter than most white people, which is kind of a Jewish thing, too.

— Jim Goad

In the facades we put on for others we demonstrate our potential; through our children we reveal our reality.

— Lawrence Kelemen