Jewish Quotes - Page 13

I would like Israel to be a Jewish state, and therefore not to annex over 2 million Palestinians who live in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to Israel, which will make Israel a bi-national state.
Yitzhak Rabin / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Gaza
Gaza Strip
Israel
West
Jewish
Bank
Jewish State
Million
Palestinians
Strip
Therefore
West Bank
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If you're criticizing Israel, but you're doing it in a way that implies that the Jewish people in America have a dual loyalty, that's anti-Semitism. It's more than just criticizing Israeli policy.
Dan Crenshaw /
Loyalty
America
Anti Semitism
Israel
Israeli
Policy
Way
Just
Jewish
More
People Way America
Doing
Dual
Criticizing
Implies
Jewish People
Than
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I remember once doing a benefit for a Jewish charity and wearing an enormous cross. I kind of don't let the audience dictate anything to me. I sort of dictate to them, and they better be on board.
Lisa Lampanelli / Stand-Up Comedian
Charity
Enormous
Jewish
Me Better Remember
Benefit
Board
Better Me Remember
Cross
Dictate
Me Remember Better
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I was joking with my mom that all Jewish mothers now will want their kids to be filmmakers instead of doctors. Because you can make one film, and suddenly you're directing a 'Jurassic Park' movie.
Colin Trevorrow /
Doctors
Jurassic Park
Jewish
Directing
Filmmakers
Joking
Jurassic
Mothers
Park
Suddenly
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When Jesus calls his disciples 'brothers' and 'friends', he is contradicting general Jewish usage and breaking through into a new concept of brotherhood which is not tribal, but open to any person.
David Kirk /
Friends
Jesus
Brotherhood
Usage
Jewish
General
Open
Breaking
Calls
Concept
Disciples
Tribal
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To be a Jew, essentially and not just accidentally, is to regard the Jewish people as one's sole primal community. Election by the unique God requires total and unconditional loyalty to one people.
David Novak /
Loyalty
Community
Election
Primal
Regard
Sole
Unconditional
Unique
Jewish
Accidentally
Essentially
Jewish People
Requires
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I was raised in an orthodox Jewish home where it was expected that, as a woman, I'd marry an investment banker, raise kids in the suburbs and go to temple. I wasn't raised to set the world on fire.
Dani Shapiro / Author
Investment
Orthodox
Jewish
Banker
Marry
Raise
Temple
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I loved pretending to be a middle-aged Jewish woman. I just wanted to do what I saw Gilda Radner and Carol Burnett doing. But I'm not a particularly good impressionist. It was never my strong suit.
Jenny Slate / Actress
Middle Aged
Jewish
Burnett
Carol
Carol Burnett
Impressionist
Strong Suit
Suit
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My 'act' was schoolwork. I was your basic, garden-variety, ambitious, upwardly mobile, hard-working Jewish boy from Brooklyn. I was bound to go beyond my parents. It was simply the way things were.
Clive Davis / Record Producer
Brooklyn
Mobile
Schoolwork
Jewish
Bound
Hard-Working
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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 / Philosopher
Human Rights
International Law
Trials
Jewish
Jewish People
Oppose
Surely
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Mother humor is such a universal theme. I wrote a show called '25 Questions for a Jewish Mother.' I had people coming up to me after the show saying, 'I'm Baptist, and my mother is just like yours.'
Judy Gold / Stand-Up Comic
Theme
Jewish
Baptist
Humor Me People
Yours
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There's an Irving Howe book called 'World of Our Fathers' which is about the wave of Jewish integration from Eastern Europe. It starts in 1880 and goes to 1920, and that was just really informative.
Morgan Spector /
Book
Eastern
Eastern Europe
Informative
Integration
Wave
Jewish
Fathers
Goes
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I just think of myself as a comedian, really. I mean, I talk about being Jewish a lot. It's funny because I do think of myself as Jewish ethnically, but I'm not religious at all. I have no religion.
Sarah Silverman / Comedian
Comedian
Jewish
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I am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewish and Catholic, and Presbyterian and Holy Rollers and Revival Churches, and I do this voluntarily.
Pete Seeger / Singer
Catholic
Holy
Revival
Jewish
Presbyterian
Churches
Sung
Voluntarily
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Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy and psychiatry and underrepresented in the priesthood. That immigrant Jewish humor is still with us.
Robert Klein / Stand-Up Comedian
Alive
Comedy
Funny People
People
Priesthood
Psychiatry
Jewish
Immigrant
Jews
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Nothing would do more to improve Israel's security or its relations with its neighbors than to bring about a sovereign and contiguous Palestinian state alongside a secure, democratic, Jewish Israel.
Denis Mcdonough /
Palestinian
Secure
Sovereign
Jewish
Alongside
Neighbors
Palestinian State
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Most of the wrestling happens in the South, so I had to ask myself how I was going to be received as a Jewish boy named Goldberg. Then again, I have never, nor would I ever, hide my Jewish identity.
Bill Goldberg / Actor
Jewish
Named
Hide
Received
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I think Judas was a very devout religious Jewish person. He realizes that Jews had been persecuted and enslaved for thousands of years, and he wants to keep his people from going through that anymore.
Josh Young / Actor
Judas
Persecuted
Religious
Thinking
Years
Jewish
Anymore
Devout
Enslaved
Jewish Person
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
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Since 2002, there has been a wave of attacks against Jewish 'persons or property' in France, a great many of them committed by young men living outside Paris, in the vast ghettos called les banlieues.
Tom Reiss / Author
Committed
France
Wave
Jewish
Attacks
Vast
Les
Young Men
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I learned Hebrew from a high school teacher named Mr. Cohen. We would drive down the highway to meet his car, and Jewish boys from these Massachusetts towns would sit in his car and learn the lessons.
Israel Horovitz / Playwright
Hebrew
Lessons
Massachusetts
Towns
Jewish
Named
Mr
High School Teacher
School Teacher
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I was terrified, terrified in 'Songwriter,' because there I was, New York Jewish girl, singing country-western onstage with Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. I mean, forget it. I was so terrified.
Lesley Ann Warren / Film Actress
Nelson
Terrified
Jewish
Onstage
Willie
Willie Nelson
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Jewish persecution is a historical memory of the present generation and people fear it in the present day, and that's why those references are so much more powerful. I just understand that better now.
Gregg Easterbrook / Writer
Better Now
Memories
People
Persecution
Powerful
Jewish
Memory
References
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As a first generation Jewish American, I have witnessed firsthand Jewish immigrants who have come to this Nation in order to create a better life for themselves, their families, and future generations.
Jan Schakowsky / U.s. Representative
Better Life
Firsts
Generations
Immigrants
Order
Jewish
Life Future Better
Nation
Create
First Generation
Future Generations
Generation
Themselves
Witnessed
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Had my grandparents not emigrated when they did, I might have been born Jewish in Eastern Europe during World War II, or I might not have been born at all. Instead, I was born in 1942 in New York City.
Carole King / Singer
New York
War
Born
Eastern
Eastern Europe
Might
New York City
World War Ii
World City New
Jewish
War World City
Instead
World War
York
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When the Temple was destroyed, the Jewish people faced a crisis unlike any other in its history. For centuries, the sacrificial system had served as the primary medium of atonement before the Almighty.
Meir Soloveichik /
Almighty
Atonement
Crisis
Destroyed
Jewish
Centuries
Unlike
Jewish People
Medium
Primary
Sacrificial
Served
System
Temple
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This is the positive way of seeing the modern Jewish dilemma: I am from everywhere. The negative way is no matter where you go, you find out that you're a victim, that you're unwanted and don't belong.
Tom Reiss / Author
Dilemma
Unwanted
Positive I Am Negative
Jewish
Belong
Negative Way
Positive Way
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The search for a Jewish national home came about due to centuries of anti-Semitic pogroms, expulsions, discrimination and hate. The Holocaust was simply the evil culmination of all that came before it.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr. / Businessman
Home
Anti Semitic
Culmination
Discrimination
Evil
Hate
Holocaust
Jewish
Centuries
Due
Simply
National
Search
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In these difficult times, the feeling of solidarity with my Jewish co-religionists is doubly gratifying and comforting in view of the deprivation of rights with which German Jews are now forced to live.
Max Liebermann /
Comforting
Deprivation
Difficult Times
Solidarity
Jewish
German
Doubly
Forced
Gratifying
Jews
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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 / Former United States Representative
Helping
Population
Jewish
Contributions
Cultural
Develop
Economic Life
Scientific
Vital
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I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument.
T Bone Burnett / Musician
Kids
Argument
Christian
Christianity
Judaism
Mean
Not Interested
Relative
Jewish
Anyone
Interested
Merits
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The first profile piece on myself came about after my Rabbi sent information to the Jewish Chronicle on what I was up to. The story was then picked up by one of the nationals and things grew from there.
Benjamin Cohen /
Profile
Rabbi
Jewish
Chronicle
Picked
Piece
Sent
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I think part of being Jewish is that innate desire to question things. Rabbis sit around all day and question the Torah. Giving yourself the room to question things, in a religion, just breeds thinking.
Iliza Shlesinger / Comedian
Desire
Giving
Innate
Torah
Jewish
Breeds
All Day
Question
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My mom is a white Jewish lady, and my dad is black. The cultures never seemed separate - I had a lot of mixed friends. When I was young, I identified with being Jewish, but I embraced my dad's side, too.
Daveed Diggs /
Jewish
Mom Dad Black
Cultures
Embraced
Dad Mom Black
Identified
Lady
Mixed
Separate
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All the other members of the U.N. were admitted, at the outset or subsequently, but Israel was created by the U.N. as a Jewish state, on the motion of Stalin's ambassador, seconded by President Truman's.
Conrad Black / Life Peer
Members
Truman
Jewish
Admitted
Ambassador
Jewish State
Motion
Outset
Stalin
Subsequently
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The Tambors were conservative Jews, and we attended Temple Beth Shalom at 14th Avenue and Clement Street in San Francisco. We were the only Jewish family for miles. To me, being Jewish meant 'otherness.'
Jeffrey Tambor / Actor
Miles
San Francisco
Jewish
Family Me Street
Attended
Avenue
Francisco
Jews
San
Temple
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Well, I have been in physical altercations, but they weren't really fights because I am too scared and Jewish. So anytime that it gets to a point where there is gonna be a fight, I immediately apologize.
Adam Pally / Actor
Scared
Jewish
Anytime
Apologize
Fights
Immediately
Physical
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Creating a meal for my friends and family, sitting together, eating, laughing and talking - that is when I am so happy. Oh my God, if you could see how much food I make - I am the original Jewish mother.
Gwyneth Paltrow / Actress
Creating
Eating
Laughing
Sitting
Jewish
Oh
Original
Friends And Family
How Much
Meal
Oh My God
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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 / U.s. Representative
Dignity
Palestinian
Secure
Jewish
Jewish People
Palestinian State
Solution
Viable
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I'm just tired of people saying I'm a self-hating Jew because I'm critical of Israel or make fun of old Jewish ladies. I do not hate myself. And Jews who criticize Israel aren't necessarily mentally ill.
Harvey Pekar / Film Writer
Critical
Criticize
Ill
Tired
Jewish
Mentally
Jews
Ladies
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There was no question of ever sending us to Jewish schools... They wanted us out there. They wanted us to be lawyers and doctors. They wanted us out of the religious thing, apart from that ethnic bonding.
Howard Jacobson / Author
Bonding
Jewish
Ethnic
No Question
Sending
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The fact is, that with the creation of the Jewish state in 1948, hundreds of thousands of Jews fled Arab countries, almost all of whom left behind all their property for which compensation was never paid.
Meir Kahane / Rabbi
Compensation
Country
Creation
Facts
Paid
Property
Jewish
Almost All
Arab
Arab Countries
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Jewish State
Thousands
Whom
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As a Jew I am aware of how important the existence of Israel is for the survival of us all. And because I am proud of being Jewish, I am worried by the growing anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism in the world.
Steven Spielberg / Film Director
Anti Semitism
Existence
Growing
Important
Israel
Jew
Proud
Survival
Worried
Jewish
World I Am Important
Being
Am
Aware
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The hijab, or sikh turban, or Jewish skullcap are all explicit symbols, but they do not represent a threat or affront to others, and have no bearing on the competence, skills and intelligence of a person.
Randa Abdel-Fattah / Writer
Affront
Competence
Explicit
Hijab
Skills
Symbols
Turbans
Jewish
Bearing
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The Jewish people can do a lot of good if we stay united and strong - Israel and the Diaspora working together. If we don't, I always worry about the continuation of the Jewish people in Israel and abroad.
Charles Bronfman / Businessman
Continuation
Working Together
Good Together People
Jewish
Good Always Together
Abroad
Good Together Always
Jewish People
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The No. 1 best-selling Christmas album of all time is from Kenneth Bruce Gorelick, the Jewish smooth-jazz legend Kenny G. American Jews have always produced a lot of holiday music, just not Hanukkah music.
Matisyahu / Rapper
Christmas
Holiday
Time Music Always
Jewish
Album
Bruce
Christmas Album
Legend
Jews
Produced
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In my work with young Jewish adults in the gay community, I hear their stories of discrimination, of struggling for acceptance, of feeling invisible not for what they have done but simply for who they are.
Lynn Schusterman /
Acceptance
Discrimination
Gay Community
Invisible
Jewish
Struggling
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If there is ever to be an end to the conflict, the Palestinians must recognize the Jewish people's right to a homeland and the existence of an independent Jewish state in the homeland of the Jewish people.
Ariel Sharon / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Conflict
Homeland
Jewish
Jewish People
Palestinians
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My family spans many world religions, ethnicities and nationalities. The truth is that I don't have one identity. I'm Scottish, British, European, Humanist, Atheist and in part at least, culturally Jewish.
Sara Sheridan / Writer
Humanist
Identity
Scottish
Truth Is
Jewish
Religions
Spans
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Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx.
Arthur Hertzberg / Activist
Bronx
Candy
Class
Culture
Islands
Jewish Culture
Jewish
Candy Store
Classes
Ellis
Island
Lower
Store
Therefore
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My stepmother Angela is an Italian from New York City. I based Rhoda on her and a Jewish friend named Penny Ann Green. People often said that Rhoda seemed to be Italian. That was the Angela seeping through.
Valerie Harper / Actress
Angela
Green
Italian
New York City
City People New
Jewish
Based
Named
Penny
Seemed
Stepmother
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