The world was created because God willed it, but why did He will it? Judaism has maintained, in all of its versions, that this world is the arena that God created for man, half beast and half angel; to prove… — 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 of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall… — 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
