I argue that the Talmud is about the constant struggle to understand. — Arthur Hertzberg Copy Share Image
Nobody is in the process of making any changes that we can be specific about. — Arthur Hertzberg Copy Share Image
How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt. — Arthur Hertzberg Bible Copy Share Image
I think anti-Semitism is the meal ticket of the organizations that fight it. — Arthur Hertzberg Anti semitism Copy Share Image
A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope.… — Arthur Hertzberg Copy Share Image
My purpose is to have American Jews look away from the success story with which they've cheered themselves up, and to have… — Arthur Hertzberg Culture Copy Share Image
When you turn the discussion onto talk of religion, you will soon start to reveal a whole range of views ranging from… — Arthur Hertzberg Ardent Copy Share Image
I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will… — Arthur Hertzberg Grandchildren Copy Share Image
On campuses, and when I speak to the younger intelligentsia, I am getting a hunger for the text - the authentic text… — Arthur Hertzberg Campus Copy Share Image
I regard Christian and Jewish fundamentalism, and all other forms of fundamentalism, as the enemies of God - and I hope you'll… — Arthur Hertzberg Christian Copy Share Image
The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the… — Arthur Hertzberg Copy Share Image
I don't know where Bush is going - yet. But, Sharon obviously - I wrote somewhere in the last several months, that… — Arthur Hertzberg Copy Share Image
In mid-career, I was at one and the same time the rabbi of a major congregation, writing books, and teaching at Columbia.… — Arthur Hertzberg Copy Share Image
Look, the hard-line Jewish position is based, to this day, on the idea that the Palestinian Arabs somehow or other will either… — Arthur Hertzberg Class status Copy Share Image
What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judaism inculcates? The American… — Arthur Hertzberg Copy Share Image
But, I know enough people in that court, through the years, to know one thing: There's always somebody who surprises you, who… — Arthur Hertzberg Court Copy Share Image
Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The… — Arthur Hertzberg Bronx Copy Share Image
Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and… — Arthur Hertzberg Civil war Copy Share Image
The world was created because God willed it, but why did He will it? Judaism has maintained, in all of its versions,… — Arthur Hertzberg Angel Copy Share Image
