“Nan Fink Gefen, a Jewish meditation teacher and author of an introduction to Jewish meditation, identifies three major sources of contemporary Jewish… — Rifat Sonsino Copy Share Image
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The Hebrew scriptures say it's okay to enslave anybody except your fellow Jews. It says you should enslave only your neighbors. I… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“The Jews were, as he (Augustine) put it, the living letters of the Law, that they were a constant reminder of the… — Thomas F. Madden Copy Share Image
The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Most of the times that I think about my relationship to Judaism, I not only accuse myself of a shallowness, but I… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The Jews could be put down very plausibly as the most unpleasant race ever heard of. As commonly encountered they lack any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
“for the writers of the Jewish Scriptures, details concerning the afterlife were murky. Solomon wrote that “the living know that they will… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“You might look back at the Zionist movement—there were plenty of Jews killed by other Jews. They killed collaborators, traitors and people… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The word "Auschwitz" has become a metonym for the Holocaust as a whole. Yet the vast majority of Jews had already been… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
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I will call not just on Israel, but on the Palestinians, on the Arab States, and the international community to join us… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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“I don't care if you care, I retorted. But in my religion, we're taught to admit our mistakes and to apologize for… — Amy Fellner Dominy Copy Share Image
America as a setting seems inexhaustibly fascinating to me, and I think there's something about the outsider viewpoint that works for me.… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
On another level, I want to mention that I have a strong Jewish identity and - over the years - have been… — Walter Kohn Copy Share Image
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[Louis Brandeis] at the age of 57 decided to become the head of the American Zionist movement was more influential than anyone… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
My prayer is that the good news of Jesus, the crucified and risen Messiah, would flood Jewish communities around the world, that… — John Piper Copy Share Image
I was fascinated by the lack of a word for a parent who has lost a child. We have no word in… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Some friends of Israel believe that the Palestinians will never, in their hearts, accept a Jewish state in Palestine. Yet Germans and… — Antony Blinken Copy Share Image
In the past, we saw European leaders speaking against the Jews. Now, we see them speaking against Israel. It is the same… — Ayelet Shaked Copy Share Image
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The Jews are a Distinct Nationality regardless of where they live, their station in life or their shades of belief, and his… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
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The Christian ethic did not raise the worth of female life much above the Jewish: nor did the clinical ethic raise it… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
The Palestinians have no other land. They are absolutely right about this. The Israeli Jews also have no other land and they… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
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