Culture Quote by Chelsea Peretti

I'm Jewish and Italian, and I lucked out and got the nose of both cultures.

— Chelsea Peretti

I am Jewish, Italian, American, Catholic.

— Lapo Elkann

“What about you, Ian? Why don't you come too? Can't. I'm Jewish. You are not Jewish! You're Italian. I was thinking of converting.”

— Terri Blackstock

Everyone says we have our first African American president. Has there ever been a Jewish president? An Italian president? They don't say a damn…

— Monte Irvin

Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust…

— Brett Ratner

The American Jewish left gets a lot of press time. But the American Jewish right does not. And in many ways, the American Jewish…

— Michael Oren

When the Jewish state of Israel is strong, Jewish communities worldwide are also strong.

— Robert C. O'Brien

Being "Jewish" is way stronger culturally than it is religiously.

— Gene Weingarten

“Good Christ, a Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!”

— Philip Roth

I starred in a Broadway play that was Sidney Poitier's first directing job and the cast was Lou Gossett, Cicely Tyson, Diana Ladd and…

— David Steinberg

There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500…

— Samantha Power

I remember my own life as a small boy, son of Jewish immigrants, in a janitor's flat on Orchard and Stanton streets on the…

— Jacob K. Javits

In 19 years growing up in Israel I had no Jewish friends. Zero.

— Nuseir Yassin

I think we were raised in a nice Texas Jewish family where education was the most important thing, and close behind that was the…

— Lisa Loeb

I am a practicing Catholic, but my lineage is Jewish, so if someone asks me if I'm Jewish, I say yes.

— Neve Campbell