Burden Quote by Bruce Feiler

Growing up, the influence Judaism had on me was an overwhelming understanding to love those around you, care for others as if they are…

— Stacey Solomon

I was raised in a religious home. It was unreasonable enforced religion that turned me off it. It was a joyless, unpleasant, stupid, barbaric…

— Woody Allen

I never paid much attention to being Jewish when I was a kid. In fact, I'd say my religion was more surfing than Judaism…

— Julian Schnabel

Religion triggers a lot of emotions in me, most of which stem from being raised Jewish in a very Baptist community in the South.…

— David Cross

The faith I was born into formed me. I come from a missionary family - I grew up in China - and in my…

— Huston Smith

I never even realized I was Jewish until I was practically grown up. Or rather, I used to feel that everybody in the world…

— Joseph Heller

I had given up practising my Jewish religion when I was a 14-year-old girl and did not begin to feel Jewish again until I…

— Edith Stein

I grew up with very little religious training. Actually, like, none. I think what Jewishness I felt as a kid stemmed almost entirely from…

— Jonathan Raymond

I grew up happily immersed in Jewish culture and community.

— Rachel Brosnahan

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

I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in the present…

— Gregg Easterbrook

I grew up pretty secular. I went to public school, and all the Jews that I knew, none of them were religious. While probably…

— Matisyahu