Community Quote by Anita Diament Download Open image “Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.” — Anita Diament ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare 1985 Written Community Contemporary Contemporary Jewish Jewish community Jewish Practice Judaism Practice Practice Jewish Written Written Contemporary
My six handbooks to Jewish life and lifecycle events mostly followed the trajectory of my adult Jewish life. — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
I've always felt as much outside the Jewish experience as in it. It astonished my family that I wrote about things Jewish. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
I have a broad but not an expert or scholarly background in the Jewish tradition. I've tried to learn what I can from childhood,… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
Working with the Jewish community is essential to me and what I stand for. — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
I am not conventionally religious, but I am an ongoing student of the Old and the New Testament and the history of the Jewish… — Robert Littell Copy Share Image
I have a great identification with Judaism as a religion and as a culture, and all the values that created such a great history,… — Jackie Mason Copy Share Image
I think the most influential aspect of my work is to show that Judaism and Christianity exist in a continuity with archaic religions. — Rene Girard Copy Share Image
For many American-Jewish writers, the dominant motifs have been cultural, secular, sometimes comic, often satirical. Writing about the religious component of Judaism, I found… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart. — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
It was one of those perfect fall days when the air is cool enough to wake you up but the sun is also kissing… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker for the… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
Right now, I'm Writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these will eventually… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12. — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy. — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible. — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying. — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff. — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to mistreat each… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second… — Vikram Sarabhai Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my… — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection,… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community. — Dwight Schultz Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image