"Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that……" — David Novak
"Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that their personal identity and their ethnic identity are not one and the same."
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55 Quotes by David Novak
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The one and only time I met Pope Benedict XVI was when he was Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger.
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Although most Christian churches advocate some sort of mission to non-Christians, no Jewish group advocates a mission to non-Jews. Proselytization…
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We Jews who willingly and happily confirm our covenantal status and its attendant rights and duties must take the question…
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A religious commitment coupled with theological awareness gives Jews a much better way to answer the claims made upon us…
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Proselytizing is only wrong if coercive or deceptive. Coercion, whether violent or not, is immoral, just as deception is immoral.
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Theology always has moral implications, and morality is always undergirded by theology.
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The common moral praxis of Jews and Christians is most definitely theologically informed by the doctrine we share in common:…
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A traditional rabbi is the man to whom the community and its members turn to rule on what Jewish law…
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The rabbi is often the regular preacher in the synagogue, the man whose sermons offer his community more general theological…
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When modern political Zionism emerged around the turn of the twentieth century, most Orthodox Jews opposed it.
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As a traditional Jew, I have benefited personally from the hospitality of Chabad Hasidim on many occasions, and I marvel…
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Even when God chose Israel, he did not create the people of Israel as he created its human members, as…
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More Ethnic Quotes
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one of 298 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting.
— Darren Aronofsky
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My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
— Arthur Ashe
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The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all…
— Dave Barry
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Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region,…
— Anthony Bourdain
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School boards are, for the most part ,made up of political wannabes who see a board seat as a stepping…
— Eli Broad
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Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're…
— Gwendolyn Brooks
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It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any…
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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My features are completely ethnic.
— Naomi Campbell
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In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of…
— Sherman Alexie
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We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this…
— Cesar Chavez
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I want to make it clear that the black race did not come to the United States culturally empty-handed. The…
— John Henrik Clarke
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Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.
— Stephen Ambrose
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