Adopted Quote by 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…

— Arthur Hertzberg

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

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

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

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

How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt.

— Arthur Hertzberg

I argue that the Talmud is about the constant struggle to understand.

— Arthur Hertzberg

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

You save your soul by saving someone else's body.

— Arthur Hertzberg

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

I regard Christian and Jewish fundamentalism, and all other forms of fundamentalism, as the enemies of God - and I hope you'll quote me…

— Arthur Hertzberg