"My purpose is to have American Jews look……" — Arthur Hertzberg
"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 the classical tradition, whatever it is."
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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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In mid-career, I was at one and the same time the rabbi of a major congregation, writing books, and teaching…
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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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