My purpose is to have American Jews look away from the success story with which they've cheered themselves up, and to have them remember the classical tradition, whatever it is. — Arthur Hertzberg 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 American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx. — 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 Sharon has… — 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 them remember… — Arthur Hertzberg 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 American Jewish… — Arthur Hertzberg 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 in their… — Arthur Hertzberg 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 disobey the… — Arthur Hertzberg 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 the ardent… — Arthur Hertzberg Copy Share Image
I think anti-Semitism is the meal ticket of the organizations that fight it. — Arthur Hertzberg Copy Share Image
How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt. — Arthur Hertzberg Copy Share Image
I argue that the Talmud is about the constant struggle to understand. — Arthur Hertzberg 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 Jewish community… — Arthur Hertzberg Copy Share Image
On campuses, and when I speak to the younger intelligentsia, I am getting a hunger for the text - the authentic text for Jewish… — Arthur Hertzberg 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 quote me… — Arthur Hertzberg 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, that this… — Arthur Hertzberg 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 very depths… — Arthur Hertzberg Copy Share Image
