Firsts Quote by I. L. Peretz

Purim, one of my favorite holidays. It's like the original drag queen's holiday. It's when all the Jewish men go for it and feel…

— Sandra Bernhard

“135 years later, in 586 BCE, the Babylonians conquered Judea, the southern kingdom. They destroyed the Temple in Jerusalem and forced thousands of Jews…

— Phyllis Goldstein

“The earliest inscriptions in Hebrew date from the tenth BCE.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

I'm not Jewish but would still appreciate some acknowledgment for working on a Jewish holiday.

— Anonymous

My wife is Jewish, and therefore, it's my children's birthright to be Jewish.

— Michael J. Fox

“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

When we talk about the Judeo-Christian or the Judeo-Muslim tradition, it's important to remember that we are speaking of a Jewish component of civilization,…

— Bernard Lewis

“The Jewish barbers, who cut the hair of thousands of women, remembered the beautiful ones.”

— Timothy Snyder

Art thou the King of the Jews?

— Pontius Pilate

Jerusalem is the holiest place for the Jewish people.

— Ariel Sharon

My husband is Jewish.

— Harris Faulkner

The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous glories of…

— H. G. Wells