Arthur Hertzberg Quotes
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What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judaism inculcates? The American Jewish community is…
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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 much hope. And so, they…
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The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of…
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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 you, who rises above what…
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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 at Columbia. I didn't spend…
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On campuses, and when I speak to the younger intelligentsia, I am getting a hunger for the text - the authentic text for Jewish knowledge.
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When you turn the discussion onto talk of religion, you will soon start to reveal a whole range of views ranging from the ardent supporter…
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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 culture. The American Jewish story…
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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 they will in their own…
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Nobody is in the process of making any changes that we can be specific about.
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Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders…
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I don't know where Bush is going - yet. But, Sharon obviously - I wrote somewhere in the last several months, that Sharon has adopted,…
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I regard Christian and Jewish fundamentalism, and all other forms of fundamentalism, as the enemies of God - and I hope you'll quote me on…
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Look, the hard-line Jewish position is based, to this day, on the idea that the Palestinian Arabs somehow or other will either accept third-class status,…
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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…
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