Judaism Quotes · Page 30

“Zionism is to the Jewish people what the liberation movements of Africa and Asia have been to their own people….”

— Phyllis Goldstein

I've got another friend who is half-German and half-Polish. He hates Jews but can't remember why!

— Jackie Mason

You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.

— Natalie Portman

In Jewish tradition, death-defying devotion to scholarship was the stuff of saintliness.

— Israel Shenker

Jewish sovereignty and governance over our ancestral home are, I believe, important goals that every Jew ought to support.

— Edgar Bronfman, Sr

Aaron was one of the few Jewish volunteers in our study, and I felt a certain kinship with him at that level.

— Rick Strassman

The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state.

— Aaron Klein

Jerusalem doesn't belong only to Israelis and Palestinians, Muslims and Jews, but to the world.

— A. B. Yehoshua

“The Hebrew phrase in Psalm 104:8a is the basis for the correct translation of mountains rising and valleys sinking. This shows that…

— Ken Ham

As I was growing up, you know, I'm a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father fled Nazi Germany in…

— Eugene Jarecki

In trying to make a broader historical point about the range of atrocities the Germans committed against many people, I made a…

— Oliver Stone

“A true god surely cannot have been born of a girl, nor died on the gibbet, nor be eaten in a piece…

— Voltaire

Human rights did not begin with the French Revolution...[they] really stem from a mixture of Judaism and Christianity...[we English] had 1688, our…

— Margaret Thatcher

In spite of everything, there is still no more wonderful vocation than to continue to tolerate events and to work on in…

— Marc Chagall

“There is no halftruth in the Hebrew emet. We cannot take one moment, one feeling, or one perspective and call that the…

— Eric H.F. Law

“The Women in Black are Israeli Jews who meet wall in Jerusalem. They meet every Friday, the Sabbath evening, and pray. They…

— Megan McKenna

Everyone thinks I'm Jewish. I'm not. Last year I got a call: "Happy Hanukkah." I said "Ma, I'm not Jewish."

— Joy Behar

Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics/ And the Catholics hate the Protestants/ And the Hindus hate the Muslims/ And everybody hates the…

— Tom Lehrer

Our policy is very simple. The Jewish state was set up to defend Jewish lives, and we always reserve the right to…

— Benjamin Netanyahu

I suspect most likely that more Nazis came to America. I was a student at Harvard during the early 1950s. There was…

— Noam Chomsky

Celebrating the Jewish New Year is like celebrating the regular New Year except we blow into a ram's horn and have the…

— Anonymous

“A person who is insufficiently honored as a child is destined to chase honor as an adult.”

— Greg Marcus

Jewish guilt is more like my dad, who's very Howard Ratner... He's always calling me up on a High Holiday: 'Did you…

— Sarah Sherman

This is entertainment, not Judaism, I think the general public will celebrate this, but the religious public will be indifferent. (on Madonna's…

— Uri Orbach

You who believe, do not take the Jews and Christians as friends; they are allies only to each other. Anyone who takes…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The Jewish state has so much to teach diaspora Jews about resilience, innovation, energy, and optimism.

— Bari Weiss

Emerging from embattled and humble beginnings, the Jewish state has exceeded all expectations for its success and prosperity.

— Ehud Olmert

We will smite the Jews where we meet them and whoever goes along with them must take the consequences.

— Arthur Seyss-Inquart

Everyone - whether it's the Jews, the Greeks, the Catholics - everybody is entitled to religious beliefs and entitled to their traditions.

— John Catsimatidis

It's not how much or how little you have that makes you great or small, but how much or how little you…

— Samson Raphael Hirsch

There is a school in Israel called Hand in Hand which I support. There Arab and Jewish students study together on a…

— Zubin Mehta

Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.

— John Ruskin

There are certain concepts, which exist in english, and are unthinkable, untranslatable into Hebrew and vice versa.

— Amos Oz

I hate ignorant people who don't know the difference between Jews and zionists and Muslims and terrorists.

— Anonymous

Since the turn of the 20th century, members of the Jewish community in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia have been meeting…

— Anonymous

Judaism is a way of thinking, more than anything else, that I think is entirely distinct, and the more you know of…

— Ezra Furman

If certain Jewish communities had distinctive qualities, they were due to history, not biology.

— Shlomo Sand

“ . . . there was little to choose between Jews and Catholics. The Jews had holidays that turned up out of…

— Alan Bennett

“Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other people.”

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Israel is a Jewish state. It isn't a state of all its nations. That is, equal rights to all citizens but not…

— Ayelet Shaked