524 Jewish Quotes for You to Enjoy

I'm part Jewish and part Christian, but I'm mostly Jewish. Joey King

Christian Part Mostly Jewish

The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel's existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state. John Podhoretz

War Conflict Reality World Rest First Country Active Every Jewish State State Once Minimal Arab Somehow Hostage Had Idea Israel Years Existence Being Held Basis Jewish

I started the label Tzadik to support an entire community of musicians, not just Jewish musicians. But the radical Jewish culture movement was begun in a lot of ways because I wanted to take the idea that Jewish music equals 'klezmer' and expand it to, 'Well, Jewish music could be a lot more than that.' John Zorn

Music Musicians Culture Community Radical Jewish Culture Ways Entire More Could Take Support Idea Well Equals Because Lot Label Expand Than Begun Just Movement Wanted Started Jewish

The United States Jewish population has made many vital contributions in all areas of our society in such ways as helping to develop the cultural, scientific, political and economic life of our country. Jon Porter

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

Community States Percent Winners Fact Nobel Nobel Prize Been Prize Representatives In Fact Century United United States Jewish Jewish Community

I'm Jewish. Went to a Jewish school. Jonathan Glazer

School Jewish

Yom HaShoah is a vital day in the Jewish calendar, providing us with a focal point for our remembrance. We cannot bring the dead back to life, but we can bring their memory back to life and ensure they are not forgotten. We can undertake in our lives to do what they were so cruelly prevented from doing in theirs. Jonathan Sacks

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The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation. Jonathan Sacks

Freedom World Inspire Power Lost Imagination Jews Drama Liberation Religious Ritual Never Observed Generations Continuously Festival Centuries Across Successive Oldest Slavery Jewish

The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story here. We are being called to a radical act of empathy. Here we are, embarking on an ancient, perennial attempt to give human lives - our lives - dignity. Jonathan Safran Foer

Dignity Memory Book Law Radical Living Our Our Lives Embarking Ancient Torah Telling Give Perennial Attempt Empathy Merely Text Human Being Story Act Foundational Lives Here Jewish

Sherrod Brown and President Obama have lost the faith of Jewish Democrats. Josh Mandel

Faith Lost President President Obama Obama Brown Democrats Jewish

To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost. Joyce Carol Oates

History You Lost Identified Tradition Child Whole Aware Specifically Jewish

It will not do to say that international law is the enemy of the Jewish people, since the Jewish people surely did not as a whole oppose the Nuremburg trials, or the development of human rights law. Judith Butler

Rights Trials People Enemy Law Will Oppose Human Rights Jewish People Say Development Since Surely Did Human International Whole International Law Jewish

When Zionism becomes co-extensive with Jewishness, Jewishness is pitted against the diversity that defines democracy, and if I may say so, betrays one of the most important ethical dimensions of the diasporic Jewish tradition: namely, the obligation of co-habitation with those different from ourselves. Judith Butler

As scary as it was being raised by one Jewish mother, I have to feel for my kids because they have two Jewish mothers. Judy Gold

Mother Kids Scary Feel Because Mothers Being Raised Two Jewish

I never paid much attention to being Jewish when I was a kid. In fact, I'd say my religion was more surfing than Judaism - that's what I spent most of my time doing. Julian Schnabel

I'm still ambiguously ethnic. I could be Persian - I could be anything. But I'm Italian and Jewish, so I'm a citizen of the world; that's what I prefer. Justin Baldoni

World Citizen Could Still Italian Persian Anything Prefer Ethnic Jewish

In the past some of the most influential Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians, such as Maimonides, Aquinas and Ibn Sina, made it clear that it was very difficult to speak about God, because when we confront the ultimate, we are at the end of what words or thoughts can do. Karen Armstrong

My second novel began after my family moved from New York City to North Carolina, and I watched my son walk into kindergarten at a school in which he was the only Jewish child out of 600 students - and this in the middle of the Bible Belt. Karen Bender

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Like the protagonist of her 2006 novel, 'Love and Other Impossible Pursuits,' Ayelet Waldman is a Jewish redhead who attended Harvard Law School and is madly in love with her husband. But the obvious similarities end there. Katie Hafner

I support Israel. And I have long supported a two-state solution and a democratic and secure state for the Jewish people, with a democratic and viable Palestinian state side-by-side in peace and dignity. Keith Ellison

Peace Dignity People Long Jewish People State Secure Solution Support Supported Democratic Israel Viable Palestinian Palestinian State Jewish

Jewish voters are not one homogenous block. Ken Livingstone

Voters Block Jewish

I must recall with gratitude those 178 Jewish women and men who participated in the Estonian War of Independence. Both of our nations know what it means to keep your identity and freedom even under the pressure of foreign powers, and we can be proud of their achievements. Kersti Kaljulaid

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