When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
Most of the times that I think about my relationship to Judaism, I not only accuse myself of a shallowness, but I… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
On another level, I want to mention that I have a strong Jewish identity and - over the years - have been… — Walter Kohn Copy Share Image
America as a setting seems inexhaustibly fascinating to me, and I think there's something about the outsider viewpoint that works for me.… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
When he was not talking about race, David Duke was a very pleasant guy to talk to. He was a very nice… — Ron Stallworth Copy Share Image
“Lately, I have been occupied with the Jewish position, which reproaches the New Testament writers with vigor for having falsely interpreted the… — Scott Cowdell Copy Share Image
“I'll tell you why the six million matter so much: it is because the Jews are the chosen people. Forget the Cambodians,… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
The majority of people who come to America come for a better life, just like the Italians, the Jews, the Irish, and… — Marty Walsh Copy Share Image
“My first female lover was a Jewish woman. She was butch, but not in a swaggering macho way- she could pass as… — Lawrence Schimel Copy Share Image
Being raised a Jew in southern California in the 1950s and 1960s, my religious training emphasized learning the Hebrew language and Jewish… — Rick Strassman Copy Share Image
The Christian ethic did not raise the worth of female life much above the Jewish: nor did the clinical ethic raise it… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
The Jews are a Distinct Nationality regardless of where they live, their station in life or their shades of belief, and his… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
“And I'll close by saying this. Because anti-Semitism is the godfather of racism and the gateway to tyranny and fascism and war,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“...[E]xcept the flying fish, there was no race existing on the earth, in the air, or the waters, who were the object… — Sir Walter Scott Copy Share Image
The Palestinians have no other land. They are absolutely right about this. The Israeli Jews also have no other land and they… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I am interested to learn that a group of distinguished men and women is to be formed to spread knowledge and appreciation… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“Tyndale was in prison for sixteen months. “If I am to remain here through the winter,” he wrote to the authorities, “have… — Larry Stone Copy Share Image
“The Jews have a saying worth remembering: "Whoever doesn't teach his son some trade or business, teaches him to be a thief."… — Cotton Mather Copy Share Image
The [Nuremberg Trial was] the biggest legal farce in history... the legend about six million supposedly murdered Jews acquired a legal basis,… — Rick Sanchez 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
You want us to be like good Germans, supporting the evils of our decade and then when we refused to be good… — David Dellinger Copy Share Image
“We were trying, as I irrelevantly analyzed it, to avoid what might be termed a historic mistake. We were trying to understand,… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
Anti-Semitism has never gone away; it will always be there because it's a very convenient prejudice. The gene of it, the original… — Steven Berkoff Copy Share Image
The covenant between Jews and God was conditional on their respect for human rights. The reason they were expelled from the land… — Stephen Sizer Copy Share Image
I know many Catholic priests and nuns who use the Buddhist teachings to become better Catholics, and Jews who use them to… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
When the Jews were being persecuted by the Nazis in 1944 we passed the War Refugee Act, which focused on rescuing Jews,… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Nine times out of ten, people consider a nice little Jewish boy the kid who grows up and sits behind a desk… — Bill Goldberg Copy Share Image
As a Jew, it is my historic responsibility to defend the Jewish people. I feel this responsibility for the survival of the… — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
“long before man traveled into space, rabbis debated how one would observe Shabbat there—not because they anticipated space travel but because Buddhists… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“The word “canon” is derived from a Hebrew word signifying “reed” (qaneh) and by extension “measuring stick.” It enters into the Greek… — J. Daniel Hays Copy Share Image
“Now, at the time that I write this to you, the Jews have seven times eaten of the lamb of the passover… — John Emmett Richardson Copy Share Image
A real spirituality must be rooted in earthliness. Any spirituality that denies the earth, rejects the earth, becomes abstract, becomes airy-fairy. It… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Vichy officials and collaborationists imprisoned 135,000 people (many for little more than their political beliefs), sent 650,000 more to Germany as “guest… — Michael Neiberg Copy Share Image
“In fact the two religions are so close in terms of their structure that the tenth-century rabbinic leader Saadia Gaon would unselfconsciously… — Harry Freedman Copy Share Image
I will call not just on Israel, but on the Palestinians, on the Arab States, and the international community to join us… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Other people were turning in their papers and I still hadn't written a word. I was starting to panic until out of… — Anita Diamant Copy Share Image
I urge you to sin. But not against these itty-bitty religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism-or their secular derivatives, Marxism, Maoism, Freudianism… — Mary Daly Copy Share Image
Through centuries of struggle, Jews across the world have been witnesses not only against the crimes of men, but for faith in… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image