Judaism Quotes · Page 58

It has always been inevitable that, living as a small minority among a Christian majority, some Jews would convert to Christianity.

— David Novak

For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media…

— Toni Morrison

“The geographical and historical facts of Hebrew place it within the Northwest Semitic group of languages.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

Most Jews do not like to admit it, but our god is Lucifer... and we are his chosen people.

— Harold Wallace Rosenthal

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

— Phyllis Goldstein

“Columbus never found the Ten Lost Tribes. However, he did unknowingly stumble upon two continents new to Europeans that would, in time,…

— Phyllis Goldstein

I haven't made art about Israel. There's a covert subtext of Jewish identity in my artwork.

— Jill Soloway

If you are trying to raise a child to be a Jew, then you have to create a sense of Jewish identity.…

— Elliott Abrams

I asked my grandmother how a Hungarian Jewish person can experience being Jewish. My grandmother answered was the only choice was to…

— Csanad Szegedi

“On the very day that Columbus finally set forth on his journey that would shake the world, the port of the city…

— David E. Stannard

The law of dislike for the unlike will always prevail. And whereas the unlike is normally situated at a safe distance, the…

— Israel Zangwill

“In Jewish tradition, we find the cautionary adage “Be in the world, but not of the world.” In the Gospels, Jesus says:…

— Benjamin Blech

One of the gifts of the Jewish culture to Christianity is that it has taught Christians to think like Jews, and any…

— William E. Rees

I think you can't really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child, whether it's New Age or Judaism or Buddhism…

— Jack White

Fear presides over these memories, a perpetual fear.Of course no childhood is without its terrors, yet I wonder if I would have…

— Philip Roth

My grandmother is a Holocaust survivor. Some heroes of mine have long been the Jewish Partisans, these young people who just went…

— Margaret D. Klein

Each country can absorb only a limited number of Jews, if she doesn't want disorders in her stomach. Germany already has too…

— Chaim Weizmann

The Jews will become socialist colonisers with strong fists and sharp teeth, a strong national group within the Soviet family of nations.

— Mikhail Kalinin

The prime minister is not a private individual, but the leader of the Jewish State and the Jewish world as a whole.

— Naftali Bennett

“Allah had given us the responsibility of eradicating the Jews, and my father didn’t question that, though he personally had nothing against…

— Mosab Hassan Yousef

I attended five different Jewish day schools as a teenager. I mean, I was trained as a hazan!

— David Draiman

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

— Tom Lehrer

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

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Benjamin Netanyahu

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

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

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

— Jackie Mason

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

— Israel Shenker

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

— Natalie Portman

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

— Edgar Bronfman, Sr

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

— Amos Oz

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

— Zubin Mehta

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

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