It is very difficult to be a non-religious Jew outside Israel. The synagogue keeps Jews together in the Diaspora. In Israel, you… — Tommy Lapid Copy Share Image
“Awe rather than faith is the cardinal attitude of the religious Jew.” — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
To have knowledge of Judaism and to be a religious Jew or an interested Jew, is to have a doorway into a… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
They always threw their arms around and hugged me while crying our Yiddish endearments. Yet none of them believed in God. They… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“The religious Jew is to study Torah for the sake of studying Torah. Torah lishmah. The ingenuity of the edict, I realized… — Judith Shulevitz Copy Share Image
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