Quote by Lester L. Grabbe

Judaism is an historical religion.

— Moses Hess

“There was a centre to the religion: worship at the Jerusalem temple. Most Jews accepted the sacredness of the temple and the general teachings…

— Lester L. Grabbe

Most Modern Orthodox are religious Zionists. Despite all differences and nuances among us, we consider the founding of the State a historic change. We…

— Norman Lamm

Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.

— Berthold Auerbach

“The church that refuses to stand with the Jewish people in their final distress will not be the Church of Jesus Christ. Of this…

— Dalton Lifsey

“Orthodoxy is life. If we don’t live Orthodoxy, we simply are not Orthodox, no matter what formal beliefs we might hold.”

— Seraphim Rose. Leaving the Orthodox Worldview

Judaism was not a religion but a law.

— Moses Mendelssohn

Judaism is absolutely incompatible with the abandonment of the Torah.

— Solomon Schechter

I would not speak of Judaism as a Talmudic or Rabbinic religion. It's a Biblical religion.

— Frank Moore Cross

“Among the tastemakers and power brokers and intellectual agenda setters of late-twentieth-century America, orthodox Christianity was completely déclassé.”

— Ross Douthat

“the church has allowed itself to become dangerously polarized into two camps: politicized and privatized views of faith. The problem is, neither view has…

— Charles W. Colson

Judaism is in a sense a Rabbinic, Talmudic religion, rather than a Biblical religion.

— Elie Wiesel