Top 1200 Jewish People Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Public opinion in the United States has shifted significantly, not just outside but also within the Jewish community.

I was such a Jewish princess. My whole life was leading up to marrying a rich man and living on 48th Street.

With the Holocaust - I wonder if a lot of Jewish writers of my generation have felt this way - it feels really intimidating to approach it. I feel like so many writers who have either lived through it firsthand or were part of that generation where they were closer to the people who were in it have written so beautifully about it, so there's no lack of great books about it

I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

My grandfather was a lot like a white Jewish George Jefferson, and he did not enjoy my work very much.

I'm deeply curious about Jewish things. I've toyed around with the idea of going to rabbinical school.

Has there ever been a crisper expression of the consequences of 'intersectionality' than a ban on Jewish lesbians from a Dyke March?

In spite of the frightful pogroms which took place, first in Poland and then in unprecedented fashion in the Ukraine, and which cost the lives of thousands of Jews, the Jewish people considered the post-war period as a messianic era. Israel, during those years, 1919-1920, rejoiced in Eastern and Southern Europe, in Northern and Southern Africa, and above all in America.

I think the lack of automatically feeling, 'Yes, the future is going to be like the present' - that is very much a Jewish thing.

My track record is that I have always sought to work with warmth and in a constructive way with the leaders of other components of the Jewish faith.

Here, in the Land of Israel, we returned and built a nation. Here, in the Land of Israel, we established a State. The Land of the prophets, which bequeathed to the world the values of morality, law and justice, was after two thousand years, restored to its lawful owner - the members of the Jewish People, On its Land, we have built an exceptional national Home and State.

The trouble with Christianity was that by about 150, there were hardly any Jews left in the Christian church, and so from that time until the last part of the twentieth century, the only people reading the gospels and interpreting the gospels and writing commentaries on the gospels were gentiles who were simply ignorant of the Jewish background, and I just thought they were prejudiced.

God is not good, or wise, or intelligent anyway that we know. So, people like Maimonides in the Jewish tradition, Eboncina in the Muslim tradition, Thomas Aquinas in the Christian tradition, insisted that we couldn't even say that God existed because our concept of existence is far too limited and they would have been horrified by the ease with which we talk about God today.

Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the wine.

In the 5,000-year history of Jewish thought, the notion of a God-man is completely anathema to everything Judaism stands for.

Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners.

If there's one thing I've learned in the last 18+ years of interacting with over 60,000 people during my vegan lecture tour, it's that everyone is the same, whether they are Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, atheist, Republican, Democrat, independent, socialist, fascist, black, white, Asian, Latino, Native, pro-life, pro-choice, pro-gun or anti-gun.

I am appalled by the great injustice being perpetrated by those Jewish organizations that engage in anti-Christian bigotry.

If the Jewish state becomes a fact, and this is realized by the Arab peoples, they will drive the Jews who live in their midst into the sea.

My grandmother was a nanny for an Orthodox Jewish family, and she would come home and tell us about that.

There's a mixture of pride and self-loathing in Jewish female comedians that I've always admired and wanted to bring into Jinkx.

Open a Jewish daily prayer book used in any part of the world, and Zionism will leap out at you.

I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.

Chabad is very important because without Jewish education, Diaspora Jewry would disappear.

Aaron was one of the few Jewish volunteers in our study, and I felt a certain kinship with him at that level.

When my children were born, I made the choice I wanted them to be raised as Jews and to have a Jewish education.

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

Since my daughter is only half-Jewish, could she go in the water up to her knees?

I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.

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

I have not seen any Christian sparrow or Muslim lion or Jewish elephant! Animals are lucky as they have not yet invented the religion!

We're never going to please everyone, but all the great Jewish comics have succeeded through irreverence and self deprecation.

We must stop using the Bible as though it were a potpourri of inerrant proof-texts by which we can bring people into bondage to our religious traditions...We must no longer use the Bible as the Pharisees used the Torah when they gave it absolute and final status. Christian biblicism is no different from Jewish legalism. It is the old way of the letter, not the new way of the Spirit.

There's never really been a tradition of making films about Jewish themes or using Judaism as a constant.

I am proud that generations of Jewish Americans have chosen to make this state their home; Georgia has been better for it.

I did say to myself one day, 'I'd love to be a Jewish comedian,' but that's my only memory with any connection to show business.

The point in the report is that you shouldn't say to somebody just because they're Jewish, you must have an opinion on Israel. Any more than you say to anyone who is a Muslim you must have an opinion on any vile action that's been taken by misquoting the good name of Islam. I just ask people to be respectful and inclusive in their debate.

Asked to make a list of the men who have most dominated the thinking of the modern world, many educated people would name Freud, Einstein, Marx and Darwin. Of these four, only Darwin was not Jewish. In a world where Jews are only a tiny percentage of the population, what is the secret of the disproportionate importance the Jews have had in the history of Western culture?

The notion of someone who is fitting in or trying to become part of a larger family... It's hard to separate that from my own Jewish roots.

At the heart of anti-Semitism lies Moses. He made a catastrophic error, a terrible mistake, and all anti-Semitism for two thousand years stems from his misjudgement. Moses said we Jews could remain a people without having a land. He said we don't need territory to hold onto our Jewish identity. This was a disaster.

My grandfather was a Russian-Jewish immigrant who lived in Northern Ireland and apparently when he sang in the synagogue he made everyone cry.

The Holocaust remains unique in contemporary Jewish consciousness for its capacity to engender the most visceral grief and abject pain.

Traditions are always puzzling to those who don't share them. I'm Jewish, so the idea of a 'perfect family Christmas' is foreign to me.

My wife who is non-Jewish regrets it all the time that I can say these terrible things about fellow Jews and she can't.

My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.

All of my friends on the street we're Jewish. I went to a lot of bar and bat mitzvahs. I even learned a little Hebrew.

Things are loud in a Jewish household. Conversations are up here; they're pitched pretty high. That's just the way we talk.

I'm Jewish, but my mom's Catholic, so the guilt area is covered. I have the highest expectations, along with the lowest. I tried to put as much of myself as possible in Reality Bites, but in terms of my humor, I'm still trying to figure out what my sensibility is. It's a process, really. I don't feel like I have a very clear idea of what I'm supposed to be, or even of how people perceive me, except that I got put into this Generation X file.

In the New York metropolitan area, you can find Jews from just about every Jewish cultural community in the world.

There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic.

Anyone who makes a decision at our meetings is seen later and referred to a local clergyman, Protestant, Catholic, or Jewish.

This is not a matter of subjective theory, but of plain, historical fact. If there had never been a nation of Israel, there would have been no patriarchs, no prophets, no apostles, no Bible and no Saviour. In John 4:22, Jesus Himself summed all this up in one simple statement: "Salvation is from the Jews." Christians from all other racial backgrounds owe to the Jewish people a spiritual debt which can never be calculated.

Lenin had taken part in Jewish student meetings in Switzerland thirty-five years before.

It was nothing I ever hid and when I was asked about my background, I of course mentioned I'm Jewish. It's an important part of who I am.

Jewish status is defined by the divine election of Israel and his descendants. One does not become a Jew by one's own volition.

I may be a Jewish scientist, but I would be tickled silly if one day I were reincarnated as a Baptist preacher.

The fact that we have 7 days of the week can be traced to the Babylonian and Jewish civilisations, with the first documented reference dating to 600BC.

I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, He would have put diamonds on the floor.

It's only fitting that a Jewish comic makes his Just for Laughs anglo debut in a church, right?

The idea that the State of Israel could be democracy only for its Jewish citizens is unconscionable, and we must find a way to address this.