Areas Quote by Jill Soloway

There's something interesting about being really intimate and familiar with Israel, but still being American - that really thin piece of glass between me…

— Molly Antopol

Most of the Jewish writer friends I have are American, and I feel closer to them because they're always obsessed with one issue -…

— Etgar Keret

Jewish Americans weren't just integrated, like other ethnic and religious groups. They also attracted a particular sympathy and admiration, rooted in Holocaust remembrance, affection…

— Ross Douthat

Suddenly in high school, I'm in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America.

— Anna Deavere Smith

Aaron was one of the few Jewish volunteers in our study, and I felt a certain kinship with him at that level.

— Rick Strassman

I was recently in Israel doing my work and casting for models in the streets of Haifa and Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, meeting young…

— Kehinde Wiley

I've always felt a very strong affinity with Jewish people. Over the years I find I've become very friendly with certain people I've worked…

— Denis Lawson

I don't hide my being Israeli. I say it in every interview. I put out a record with songs in Hebrew. The people who…

— Yael Naim

Before, we may have taken part in it without even thinking it was American Jewish, but in this case, I think, you have now…

— Neville Marriner

It took me many years to understand that my identity is more Israeli than Jewish.

— Mili Avital

I meet people and a lot of times, instead of saying, "Are you from the East Coast?" people just go, "you're from the East…

— Ben Feldman

I'm a fifth generation Jew from the South, and I would say that I felt this connection to my religion, but it wasn't a…

— Bruce Feiler