I'm sorry I'm not gay or Jewish, so I don't have a special interest group of journalists that support me.

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

My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him... My mother is British, but she's of French extraction.

We established Israel as a Jewish country. I want to provide an Israel that is a Jewish, Zionist country.

We should never forget that Hollywood was built by Europeans, and the old Jewish boys from Eastern Europe.

It's based around a Jewish family but it really is a universal theme about getting along and coming along.

When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.

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

Jewish existence in the Land of Israel depends only on the Jews, and on what the Jews think of themselves.

Most people are blown away by the fact that Beck is Jewish... and Billy Joel. I didn't know he was Jewish.

Today, there are those who hallucinate that a democratic and Jewish state is only democratic for the Jews.

The Jewish world is becoming fully integrated with the ideas of the normal world. They feed off each other.

I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish.

No person with a sense of the dignity of mankind can condone the persecution of the Jewish race in Germany.

I'm rather secular. I'm basically Jewish. But I think I'm Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.

My family were finally kicked out of Egypt in 1965 for being Jewish. We managed to remain longer than most.

It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one.

You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose.

My six handbooks to Jewish life and lifecycle events mostly followed the trajectory of my adult Jewish life.

I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it.

I think what history has done to Jewish people, frankly, cannot be made good by giving them a piece of land.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

If you had to say in one sentence what being Jewish means, it is being able to make fun of yourself Jewishly.

People who criticize power in the Jewish community are regarded the way Ahab treated Elijah: You're a traitor.

I think my sense of humor is Jewish. I'm smarter than most white people, which is kind of a Jewish thing, too.

I'm confident President Obama will continue his unambiguous commitment to the Jewish state in his second term.

Jews have been in Egypt since Biblical times, and Alexandria had once been, at least partially, a Jewish city.

I'm Italian, but some people think I'm Jewish because I work the Yiddish. I also work the Italian, by the way.

Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal.

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

Suddenly in high school, I'm in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America.

I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion.

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

It's a lie! I am not an anti-Semite. The World Jewish Congress supported me and said that I am not anti-Semitic.

Without any doubt, the Iranian threat is the biggest threat facing the Jewish people since the Second World War.

The right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel does not mean disregarding the rights of others in the land.

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!

The fact that I am not Jewish by religion does not prevent me from connecting to the Jewish nation's spirituality.

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

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

What it depends on is someone's upbringing and the traditions and that is how you decide if you are Jewish or not.

Israel desperately needs peace if it is to come anywhere close to being the 'light unto nations' of Jewish dreams.

It is absolutely important to make accessible the Gospel for all people and also understandable for Jewish people.

Alan King, a comedian I adored, was considered society, and I was considered the Jewish kid from the neighborhood.

The prime minister is not a private individual, but the leader of the Jewish State and the Jewish world as a whole.

All chefs are like Jewish mothers. They want to feed you and feed you and impress you. It's an eagerness to please.

My mother's father was Jewish, so she was very conservative. She liked little, pretty music-orchestral-type things.

I married a man whose Hindu father grew up in the rural north of India and whose Jewish mother grew up in the Bronx.

My family is a Jewish Iranian family, but I was born in Turkey and raised in Italy. So it's a very mixed background.

My father died in 1957, just before I was born. My mother went to her Jewish aunt, who slammed the door in her face.

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