When I grew up I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't…

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

— Yehuda Berg

My mother's Puerto Rican and my father's Russian-Jewish, so we consider ourselves to be Jewricans or Puertojews. I think Puertojew sounds like a kosher…

— Rachel Ticotin

I was born Jewish, and I consider that my religion. But I've studied all religions, and as you learn more, you really learn that…

— Goldie Hawn

I don't consider myself a Jewish writer.

— Ellen Ullman

I don't consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.

— Ben Elton

I never suffered anti-Semitic racism because no one thought I was Jewish.

— Sophie Okonedo

Of course I consider myself a Jewish writer - I am one! All of the protagonists in my five books have been Jewish, and…

— Lauren Weisberger

“Attempts to locate oneself within history are as natural, and as absurd, as attempts to locate oneself within astronomy. On the day that I…

— Christopher Hitchens

I consider myself a Jewish writer, like all my heroes: Tom Stoppard, David Mamet, Philip Roth, Arthur Miller, Woody Allen.

— Patrick Marber

I'd like it if people thought I was Jewish looking.

— Natalie Portman

When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that…

— Alan King

I don't think Hank Greenberg thought of himself as the first Jewish baseball player - he was a baseball player who happened to be…

— Jose Feliciano

I took to religion at about age 12; it was very hard for me to be Sabbath observant as a kid in a home…

— Erica Brown

“thought outside the religious realm. 3. Jewish values, particularly because they are often manifest in concrete ways, are of particular interest to those in…

— Kerry M. Olitzky

Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust…

— Brett Ratner