I have heard from my father and mother all the answers that faith in God could offer to those who doubt and… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
An interesting difference between African-American humor and Jewish humor, in it's kind of basic or maybe most austere type form is, African-American… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
In school they told me I was a Jew, "a filthy Jew." At first I asked myself what exactly that was. But… — Anita Lasker-Wallfisch Copy Share Image
The Hebrew word, the word timshel - 'Thou mayest' - that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Other divine names not peculiar to the Hebrew people is Shaddai.” — John Courtenay James Copy Share Image
It seems to me that one of the most interesting things about God as a concept, if you decide to believe in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I asked my grandmother how a Hungarian Jewish person can experience being Jewish. My grandmother answered was the only choice was to… — Csanad Szegedi Copy Share Image
If God wanted to forgive our sins, why not just forgive them, without having himself tortured and executed in payment-thereby, incidentally, condemning… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In Jewish tradition, dying in one’s sleep is called a kiss of God, and dying on the Sabbath is a gift that… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
I didn't know I was Jewish until I encountered anti-Semitism at the age of 10, when my best friend told me I… — Peter Eisenman Copy Share Image
If you don't have two states, you have one state, already the non-Jewish population outnumbers the Jewish population in one state. — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Most of the wrestling happens in the South, so I had to ask myself how I was going to be received as… — Bill Goldberg Copy Share Image
We are Jewish soldiers. Our battle orders include the rules of engagement and the Ten Commandments. The computer code of the F-35… — Benny Gantz Copy Share Image
A [Jewish] woman could not divorce her husband, but she could petition for divorce, and the religious courts could force him to… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
“Torah is not just a book, not just a bunch of laws, and not just a history, but so much more. The… — Laura Weakley Copy Share Image
Jewish sovereignty and governance over our ancestral home are, I believe, important goals that every Jew ought to support. — Edgar Bronfman, Sr Copy Share Image
Barack Obama is the most Jewish president we've ever had (except for Rutherford B. Hayes). No president, not even Bill Clinton, has… — Jeffrey Goldberg Copy Share Image
“In 586 BC the Jewish people’s land of Judah was attacked by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar—whom some versions of the Bible describe… — Ed Strauss Copy Share Image
“A very interesting scene appears in the Bible right after the ten plagues. The Egyptians had enslaved the Jews and mistreated them,… — Celso Cukierkorn Copy Share Image
“belief, expressed in such diverse and fascinating ways, in the One who had placed them there: the Christians, the Jews, the Mohammedans,… — William Brinkley Copy Share Image
For many people - from secular feminists to observant Jews - the notion of a feminist Judaism is an oxymoron. — Judith Plaskow Copy Share Image
Islam and Islamic values now have a level of immunity from comment and criticism in the Western world that Christianity has lost… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
There was an Israeli artist who was in grad school with me. I remember trying to get to know him on a… — Jill Soloway Copy Share Image
The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man. — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
I often feel that worse than the most fiendish Nazis were those Germans who went along with the persecution of the Jews… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
Nothing is sacred. Not even your own mother, not the Jewish martyrs, not even people starving of hunger. Laugh at everything, ferociously,… — Francois Cavanna Copy Share Image
“Make that His will should be your will, so that He should make your will to be as His will. Nullify your… — Yosef Marcus Copy Share Image
I believe in Islam. I am a Muslim and there is nothing wrong with being a Muslim, nothing wrong with the religion… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The troblemakers in Hungary are the Jews... they demoralize our country and they are the leaders of the revolutionary gang that is… — Jozsef Mindszenty Copy Share Image
In today's US, it's possible for almost anyone - women, gays, African-Americans, Jews - to run for, and be elected to, high… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The ultimate goal is two states for two people: Israel as a Jewish state and the homeland for the Jewish people and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Together, these advocates create a pro-Israeli case so compelling that the idea and reality of Israel has worked itself deep into American… — Aaron David Miller Copy Share Image
“Samaritan Targum ... maybe compared with the Aramaic of the Jerusalem Talmud and with the Palestinian Syriac. On the whole it was… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
I saw in 'the wandering Jew' the personification of the Jewish people, exiled in the Middle Ages. Nevertheless, they are once again… — George Sand Copy Share Image
“First, concerning terms that refer to God in the Old Testament: God, the Maker of heaven and earth, introduced himself to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've inherited a Jewish sensibility and sense of humor from my parents and all those who came before me. All the Jewish… — Philip Rosenthal Copy Share Image
According to Jewish legend, only the very wisest and very holiest rabbis had the power to make golems, animated servants of clay.… — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
“...FOR HE [GOD] HIMSELF HAS SAID, I WILL NOT IN ANY WAY FAIL YOU NOR GIVE YOU UP NOR LEAVE YOU WITHOUT… — Chris Adkins Copy Share Image
The purpose of the University of Washington cannot be to produce black lawyers for blacks, Polish lawyers for Poles, Jewish lawyers for… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image