Jewish Quotes

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Since the turn of the 20th century, members of the Jewish community in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia have been meeting together to celebrate and worship.

When Germany and England and America will long have lost their present identity or purpose, we shall still be strong in ours.

I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view.

Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.

Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance.

Our Jewish friends are no more responsible for the actions of Israel or the Netanyahu government than our Muslim friends are for those of various self-styled Islamic states or organisations.

Our policy is very simple. The Jewish state was set up to defend Jewish lives, and we always reserve the right to defend ourselves.

They’re good people. I have a lot of Jewish friends.

I hardly exaggerate. Jewish life consists of two elements: Extracting money and protesting.

England is no longer controlled by Britons, we are under the invisible Jewish dictatorship, a dictatorship that can be felt in every sphere of life

I had given up practising my Jewish religion when I was a 14-year-old girl and did not begin to feel Jewish again until I had returned to God.

It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.

Neither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can be used to disallow terror as a means of war.

I've always rebelled a little when people say, 'My Jewish values lead me to really care about the poor.' I know some Christians who care about the poor, too.

I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it.

There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.

For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.

If the main thing the next generations know about Jewish history is that we were persecuted and suffered, they will lose sight of the tremendous heritage of Jewish culture, theology, and wisdom.

I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe.

In the Jewish religion it says - in the time of deepest darkest night act as if the morning has already come

The world is aware how jealously the Jewish community guards the Holocaust, both as a memory and a weapon.

I think gold is a great thing to sew onto your garments if you're a Jewish family in Vienna in 1939, but civilized people don't buy gold, they invest in productive businesses.

There are some religious traditions that view human beings as participants in creation. This is true of the Jewish tradition, from which I come.

Zionism is the most stupendous fallacy in Jewish history

In Jewish history there are no coincidences.

My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions.

Harvard has been almost as important to the American Jewish community as the pork-sausage industry.

I was from a poor Jewish family in the South Bronx. My father was a plumber, but when I was 16, he got sick and I had to take over. Being a plumber in the South Bronx wasn't fun.

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

For a Jewish guy, I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums.

"I am not an American of JEWISH faith. I am a JEW. I have been a JEW for a thousand years. Hitler was right in one thing. He calls the Jewish people a race, and we are a race."

Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.

The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.

The Jewish community has always taken care of its own.

The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality.

In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community.

When you have a Jewish mother who has a very strong Jewish family, it's very ethnic in its practices. Eating brisket, the food and the family and the interconnectedness for better or worse.

The greatest Jewish tradition is to laugh. The cornerstone of Jewish survival has always been to find humor in life and in ourselves.

Let's face it: The Jewish community is the most active political community in American society.

I grew up in a Jewish family, and we have raised our children in a Jewish tradition. Religion gives a framework for moral enquiry in young minds and points us to questions beyond the material.

Written with grace and thoroughly researched, One People, One Blood is an ethnography with a lot of heart that also sheds new light on a fascinating and fraught chapter in recent Jewish history.

There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close.

I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in the present day.

Doctor doctor, what do you say, lets put the id back in yid

I'm not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant.

I'm Jewish, so I don't know much about Easter eggs.

A Jewish man with his parents alive is half the time a helpless infant!

The Talmud: Heart's Blood of the Jewish Faith.

I'm now a bit anti-Jewish since my last visit to the synagogue, but my atheism does not necessarily reject religion.

Zionist willingness to compromise met by Palestinian rejection and Jew hatred.