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I have a very strong sense of who I am as a Jew and a strong sense of belonging.
Ron Ben-Israel
Strong
Sense
Strong Sense
Am
Very
Who
Belonging
Jew
I think maybe I became funny because as a kid, I was a Jew in a town of no Jews, and being funny just instinctively came about as a way to put people at ease around me.
Sarah Silverman
Funny
Me
People
Think
Jews
Way
Ease
Kid
About
Put
Instinctively
Town
Became
Because
Around
Came
Maybe
Just
Being
Being Funny
Jew
I'm of that generation of Jews still deeply influenced by the Holocaust. Certainly the notion that the state power to kill can be subject to such extraordinary abuse is always lurking beneath the surface for me. Certainly my experience and identity as a Jew is there.
Scott Turow
Me
Generation
Experience
Power
Jews
Beneath
Extraordinary
State
Abuse
Identity
Always
Surface
Still
Subject
Influenced
Holocaust
Notion
Certainly
Deeply
Lurking
Jew
You can take a Jew out of a shtetl, but you cannot take a shtetl out of a Jew.
Sholom Aleichem
You
Out
Take
Cannot
Jew
Here lies a plain and simple Jew who wrote in plain and simple prose.
Sholom Aleichem
Simple
Lies
Prose
Wrote
Plain
Who
Here
Jew
Moses Montefiore loved Jerusalem, lived for Jerusalem, and even made it our family motto. A Zionist before the word was invented, he believed in the sacred idea of Jewish return as a religious Jew's duty, and in Jewish statehood.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Family
Word
Made
Before
Duty
Our
Religious
Invented
Sacred
He
Idea
Moses
Return
Motto
Loved
Even
Lived
Believed
Jerusalem
Zionist
Jew
Jewish
I am not a practising Jew, and I am not embedded in Nigerian culture, but I have a sense of those things inside me, which is very handy for acting. There are a lot of things I can draw on.
Sophie Okonedo
Me
Culture
Sense
Draw
Those
Embedded
Inside
Practising
Am
Lot
Very
Handy
Which
Acting
Things
Nigerian
Jew
My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town.
Stanley Donen
Happy
Long
About
Small
Town
Very
Southern
Childhood
Being
Story
Grim
Jew
Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German.
Stefan Zweig
Today
Disappointment
Desperation
Impossible
Language
Group
Living
Hopelessness
See
Totally
Misery
Write
Writers
Writes
Make
German
Much
Who
Jew
Jewish
I feel that I am completely in solidarity with Jews in the world, because I know what it is to be a Jew. I've seen what it is; I am myself of Jewish origin, and therefore I can only be fully in support of the idea that the Jews, after all they've suffered, need a country where they are at home.
Stephane Hessel
Myself
Home
World
Seen
Country
Jews
Solidarity
Only
Support
Idea
Feel
Know
Because
Am
Where
After
Fully
Origin
Therefore
Suffered
Jew
Need
Jewish
Something fundamental about the myth of the Jew has resurfaced.
Steven T. Katz
Myth
About
Something
Fundamental
Jew
I've begun to think like a Jew, to feel like a Jew.
Sylvia Plath
Think
Feel
Like
Begun
Jew
There is constant talk about the intermarriage crisis: who is a Jew and how we define a Jew. That doesn't go over well with young Jews trying to figure out whether they want to be a part of this thing or not.
Tahl Raz
Young
Jews
Define
Crisis
Out
Constant
About
Part
Over
Talk
Well
How
Go
Trying
Want
Whether
Figure
Who
Thing
Jew
It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.
Victoria Woodhull
Love
You
Old
Black
Young
White
Christian
No Difference
Black Or White
Makes
Difference
Love You
Want
Loved
Mean
To Love
Pagan
Your
Who
Jew
Being from Israel and a Jew is complex already, but with France, there is a freedom and a mix of culture. I have met musicians from all over the world.
Yael Naim
Freedom
Musicians
Culture
World
Met
France
Complex
Over
Israel
Mix
Being
Jew
In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Me
Hate
Rage
Must
Russian
True
Callous
Am
Blood
Reason
Now
Jew
Jewish
Israel is a piece of real estate that neither Jew or Arab will let go of; neither will leave these shores. And so they will have to learn to live together.
Zubin Mehta
Together
Real Estate
Will
Live
Arab
Neither
Piece
Learn
Real
Israel
Leave
Go
Shores
Estate
Let Go
Jew
Jewish sovereignty and governance over our ancestral home are, I believe, important goals that every Jew ought to support.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
Home
Goals
Important
Believe
Every
Ought
Our
I Believe
Ancestral
Support
Over
Governance
Sovereignty
Jew
Jewish
When Auden said his poetry didn't save one Jew from the gas chamber, he'd said it all.
Tom Stoppard
Poetry
He
Said
His
Chamber
Gas
Jew
Save
As an American Jew who loves Israel, I cannot support John McCain. He cannot provide what Israel needs most - a respected, credible, morally strong America.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
Needs
Strong
Respected
John
Morally
John McCain
He
Support
Most
Israel
Provide
America
American
McCain
Cannot
Loves
Who
Credible
Jew
In terms of defending Jews, I'm a Jew.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
Jews
Terms
Jew
Defending
Leonard Cohen kept his Jew name. He's so cool. It's too bad he died.
Ari Shaffir
Too
Bad
He
Name
His
Died
Cool
Jew
Kept
I would like every Jew to be as comfortable in his skin as I am in mine.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
I Am
Skin
Every
Mine
Would
Like
Comfortable
Am
His
Jew
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