I grew up in Wakefield, Mass., and there were only a couple of Jewish families in the town.

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

It's not hard to find a date if you are Jewish in New York and Miami, but its hard in Texas.

The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state.

I am Jewish, but I love Christmas, as most Jews with any taste do, because Hanukkah is lame.

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

I identify myself as what I am. I'm half Jewish, like Proust. I have no other way to put it.

I'm hot on the Jewish book club circuit. How many black authors do you know who can say that?

I attended five different Jewish day schools as a teenager. I mean, I was trained as a hazan!

In Alexandria, my birthplace and my home, all streets bearing Jewish names have been renamed.

My music is really about people connecting with their identities, even if they aren't Jewish.

You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.

No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.

If I wrote a Jewish superhero, he'd have awesome time-traveling powers. I'd call him Doctorow.

Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials.

We need to do everything possible to save the Jewish state. We don't have another Jewish state.

I have one identity, and that's Israeli and Jewish. I don't view myself as an American citizen.

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

The German debt to the Jewish people can never end, not in this generation and not in any other.

I think that peace will require two states, a Palestinian state that recognizes the Jewish state.

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

I think the people of America just need to listen more to the ministers and MKs from Jewish Home.

You don't have to be Jewish to understand the history of Europe in the 20th century, but it helps.

My mom's family is Russian Jewish, and my dad's Puerto Rico Catholic, so it's kind of a weird mix.

I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.

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

I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.

I was one of two Jewish kids in my school. We were probably one of two Jewish families in our town.

But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.

I grew up Jewish, became an atheist and a Marxist, and 28 years ago, at age 26, became a Christian.

Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.

We have our own values; we build our own special, our JEWISH life - and we are proud, so very proud.

Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.

My family was totally non-religious. There was no question we were Jewish, but we were not observant.

Intermarriage is not a calamity but an opportunity for both a Jewish and non-Jewish partner to learn.

The Jewish community is all about love and family, which is the most important thing in my life, too.

When the Jewish state is established - it is very possible that the result will be transfer of Arabs.

It's very important to me to be an American poet, a Jewish poet, a poet who came of age in the 1960s.

I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which.

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

I'm Jewish; I'm not religious at all, and I wouldn't pretend to know anything about Catholic politics.

Although I was raised Jewish, my upbringing didn't include any formal religious education or training.

I don't feel we need a declaration from the Palestinians that they recognize Israel as a Jewish state.

I'm Muslim the way many of my Jewish friends are Jewish: I avoid pork, and I take the big holidays off.

The Jewish state has so much to teach diaspora Jews about resilience, innovation, energy, and optimism.

The Jewish story is the story of wandering. It is the story of extraordinary heterogeneous complication.

My dad's Jewish and my mum is Christian, so I grew up with no religion. Just whatever religion I wanted.

I am a woman, and I am Jewish; I'm a film-maker, and I'm a writer, so you cannot just put me in one box.

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

I was born in New York City, but I was raised in New Jersey, part of the great Jewish emigration of 1963.

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