Humanitarianism Quote by Daniel Waterman

Jews with unconventional identities should not have to wrestle alone at the intersection where their tradition seems to clash with their integrity as loving…

— Vanessa L Ochs

“...one may easily define two diametrically opposed lessons to be drawn from Jewish history: one holds that the memory of Jewish suffering should lead…

— Amnon Rubinstein

“About Jews: The phenomenon of why Jews have kept the unanimity of a distinctive culture is because combination of the persecution and specific Jewish…

— Leo Pevsner

“The story of the return of the Jewish people to its ancestral homeland became, in short, one of the great dramas in the history…

— Daniel Gordis

“Jewish history is never simply about the Jews, but always about their relationship with the rest of society.”

— Abigail Green

“Thus for me, the principal meaning of being a Jew was something people reliably held against me, a barrier to overcome. ”

— Scott Turow

“I think that anti-Jewish prejudice is an unfailing sign of a sick and disordered person ... It's a horrible, conspiratorial, pseudo-intellectual, mean spirited, eventually…

— Christopher Hitchens

Holocaust survivors came to Israel in order to establish a new human society where nobody would be able to hurt them just because they're…

— Yair Lapid

“Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of a state for Jews…

— Christopher Hitchens

“without fighting back. The persecution of the Jews”

— Miklós Nyiszli

The story of the American Jewish community is one of resilience and transformation. While often facing antisemitism and discrimination, the Jewish community fought to…

— Jamaal Bowman

“There are few aspects of my family not imbued with Jewishness; it is braided through every memory, part of nearly every conversation and every…

— Tova Mirvis