Inspirational Quote by Maxine Kumin

Growing up near Scarsdale, I should have had at least one Jewish girlfriend. Maybe at some point it'll happen.

— Ato Essandoh

Israel is not the safest place in the world for Jews. Melbourne in Australia is better. Teaneck, New Jersey, is safer.

— Naftali Bennett

I grew up in Danville, Illinois, right in the middle of the state.

— Dick Van Dyke

I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.

— Ed Koch

I come from two parts of the oriental community - Jerusalemite and North African Jews.

— A. B. Yehoshua

I lived in a house in the East Bronx, a totally Jewish neighborhood on East 172nd Street. You didn't see Christians much, although one…

— Grace Paley

I'm the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.

— Al Franken

I'm from Manhattan. I'm some Jewish girl from the Upper West Side.

— Julia Garner

I grew up in Wakefield, Mass., and there were only a couple of Jewish families in the town.

— Israel Horovitz

I came from a very comfortable, middle-class family living in Highland Park, Illinois.Really growing up in a Jewish community with a fabulous public school.

— Jill Stein

I'm from Naperville.

— James Holzhauer

It is very difficult to be a non-religious Jew outside Israel. The synagogue keeps Jews together in the Diaspora. In Israel, you are a…

— Tommy Lapid