Jewish Tradition Quotes
18 Jewish Tradition quotes by 16 unique authors
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I was raised in the Jewish tradition, taught never to marry a Gentile woman, shave on a Saturday night and, most especially, never to shave…
— Woody Allen
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Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away... Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat)…
— Calvin Trillin
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I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about all that is…
— Fred Melamed
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I am a judge born, raised, and proud of being a Jew. The demand for justice runs through the entirety of the Jewish tradition. I…
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Neither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can be used to disallow terror as a means of war,
— Yitzhak Shamir
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The greatest Jewish tradition is to laugh. The cornerstone of Jewish survival has always been to find humor in life and in ourselves.
— Jerry Seinfeld
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The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality.
— Elie Wiesel
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In Jewish tradition, death-defying devotion to scholarship was the stuff of saintliness.
— Israel Shenker
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It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and children, but also…
— Elie Wiesel
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The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence -- these are the features…
— Albert Einstein
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The concept known as bal tashchit--'Do no destroy'--has a special significance in Jewish tradition...We are constantly being warned in our faith that the capricious, thoughtless,…
— David Geffen
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I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it.
— Herman Wouk
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I grew up in a Jewish family, and we have raised our children in a Jewish tradition. Religion gives a framework for moral enquiry in…
— Michael Sandel
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The most important part of the process of mourning is regularly reciting kaddish in a synagogue. Kaddish is a doxology, which Jewish tradition has mandated…
— David Novak
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When Zionism becomes co-extensive with Jewishness, Jewishness is pitted against the diversity that defines democracy, and if I may say so, betrays one of the…
— Judith Butler
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There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close.
— Richard Rogers
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Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through…
— Calvin Trillin
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There is a big controversy on the Jewish view of when life begins. In Jewish tradition, the fetus is not considered viable until it graduates…
— Nikhil Saluja
Who Wrote These Jewish Tradition Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 18 Jewish Tradition Quotes as follows: