"In mid-career, I was at one and the……" — Arthur Hertzberg
"In mid-career, I was at one and the same time the rabbi of a major congregation, writing books, and teaching at Columbia. I didn't spend enough time with my children. Now, when I get an all-important call, I sometimes say that I'm having lunch with my granddaughter. And I do not apologize"
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Arthur Hertzberg
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19 Quotes by Arthur Hertzberg
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What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judaism inculcates?…
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I think anti-Semitism is the meal ticket of the organizations that fight it.
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A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without…
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The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never…
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But, I know enough people in that court, through the years, to know one thing: There's always somebody who surprises…
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How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt.
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On campuses, and when I speak to the younger intelligentsia, I am getting a hunger for the text - the…
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When you turn the discussion onto talk of religion, you will soon start to reveal a whole range of views…
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You save your soul by saving someone else's body.
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Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish…
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I argue that the Talmud is about the constant struggle to understand.
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I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope…
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