Acceptance Quote by David Novak

In the land of Israel was born the Jewish nation. There came an order to kill the religious and social spirit of the people.…

— David Ben-Gurion

Jewish nationalism means no more than recognition of the peoplehood of Israel, and of the propriety of that people's being a religio-cultural group in…

— Milton Steinberg

Judaism is an historical religion.

— Moses Hess

In Mesopotamia or Egypt, for example, the monarch had a god-like religious status. But this is not the case in Judaism. So that notion…

— Simon Schama

Zionism is nothing more, but also nothing less, than the Jewish People's sense of origin and destination in the Land linked eternally with its…

— Abba Eban

It is true that we aspire to our ancient land. But what we want in that ancient land is a new blossoming of the…

— Theodor Herzl

Modernity has been largely shaped for Jews by three momentous experiences: the acquisition of citizenship by individual Jews in secular nation-states, the destruction of…

— David Novak

Judaism will be enmeshed in pride and shame for as long as it endures. But to endure as a country, Israel must shun both…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

Judaism is important to me from a tribal point of view.

— Vidal Sassoon

“Israel is the historical definition of the specific nature of the religious consciousness, save only that here this consciousness was circumscribed by the limits…

— Ludwig Feuerbach

The teaching of their ancient belief is filled with truth for the present day. Its profound sense of justice, nation to nation, man to…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Jewish existence in the Land of Israel depends only on the Jews, and on what the Jews think of themselves.

— Yair Lapid