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Our people represent a tapestry of interwoven identities embodying the rich diversity of what it means to be Jewish.
If you think about it, there aren't that many women who are in their 40s, who are Jewish and funny and stage-worthy.
I noticed that people were craving a way of reinterpreting tradition and of being Jewish without joining a synagogue.
A Confucian or Jewish love of learning would gain minorities far more than any affirmative action laws we might pass.
The election of the Jewish people is the result of God's falling in love with Abraham and founding a family with him.
They say that every Jewish person is supposed to love one black person in his life. I'm glad Lorne Michaels chose me.
I'm a mongrel in the sense that I'm Spanish, English, Latino, Jewish, north, south - all these things are mixed in me.
I am one of the happiest people I know. And that's a weird place to have arrived at from being a depressed Jewish kid.
As scary as it was being raised by one Jewish mother, I have to feel for my kids because they have two Jewish mothers.
The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher.
I never felt like a good Jew. My mother was not Jewish, and that makes me a non-Jew according to Jewish religious law.
We had a Jewish school; we had a Jewish club. My father was a main donor. My mother was on the committee of the school.
I'm half Puerto Rican and half Jewish and so, in some ways, living in many worlds at once is where I feel most at home.
Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.
San Francisco is really fun and liberal, and it's my kind of politics. It's like being Jewish in front of Jewish people.
I'm Jewish. That's all. So I am in exile all the time. Wherever we go, we are in exile. Even in Israel, we are in exile.
I'm Jewish and my wife isn't so right now we're literally decorating a Christmas tree with Jewish stars draped around it.
I've always been proud of my body, my Jewish nose and all of that. Hollywood's Hollywood, but that's not going to change.
Israel was founded as a refuge for the Jewish people, but today it isn't a safe place. It is safer to be Jew in New York.
When my mother left home, her family sat shivah for her, more because my father was not Jewish than because he was black.
We have a very significant number of Jewish citizens, and they have always been safe and secure where they are in Turkey.
I've always felt as much outside the Jewish experience as in it. It astonished my family that I wrote about things Jewish.
I just dress like... I'm an old black man. Sorry! Like I'm an old Jewish black man. I just dress like it's still the '50s.
Tel Aviv was established in 1909 by a group of secular Jewish families; Judaism's origin story is about 2,000 years older.
For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.
When I tell people I'm an Italian Jew, they're very amused by it. But obviously by blood I'm Jewish, because my mother is.
The funny thing is that I write and I act a lot about being Jewish, but I don't really think about it as a regular person.
Jewish sovereignty and governance over our ancestral home are, I believe, important goals that every Jew ought to support.
They just think I'm a white dude. Every once in a while someone thinks I'm Jewish. I get a lot of stuff, but never Latino.
For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event.
I have very distinct memories about growing up as part of what was then a very small Jewish community in Buffalo Grove, IL.
The town I grew up in was at least fifty percent Jewish, so every weekend in the 7th grade, we went to Bar and Bat Mitzvahs.
My family history, like that of many Polish, German and Jewish families from Central Europe in the 20th century, is complex.
I could see myself in some sort of pioneer bonnet, it's my childhood fantasy, but I think I look too Jewish for the prairie.
Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.
The Jewish journey started in the land of Israel, and it always strove to return there against all odds and all limitations.
Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, learning, and more learning.
Emerging from embattled and humble beginnings, the Jewish state has exceeded all expectations for its success and prosperity.
The great question of our day is whether we, the Jewish people of Israel, can find within us the will to survive as a nation.
The Jewish people are very diverse, and I believe this rich tapestry of identities and experiences strengthens our community.
In the 5,000-year history of Jewish thought, the notion of a God-man is completely anathema to everything Judaism stands for.
A Bar Mitzvah is the time in his life when a Jewish boy realizes he has a better chance of owning a team than playing for one.
If you go into the old covenant, do you think that the Jewish people believe that you should be broke? They believe in wealth.
Israeli Arabs don't have to go. But if they stay, they have to take an oath of allegiance to Israel as a Jewish Zionist state.
It is true that we aspire to our ancient land. But what we want in that ancient land is a new blossoming of the Jewish spirit.
I realized that we have to do everything we can to preserve the Jewish race. I'm very proud of it, and I think it's wonderful.
The Jewish people and the Negro people both know the meaning of Nordic supremacy. We have both looked into the eyes of terror.
Jewish status is defined by the divine election of Israel and his descendants. One does not become a Jew by one's own volition.
The Florida Jewish community is incredibly important in the primary and will be that important in the general election as well.
There is a school in Israel called Hand in Hand which I support. There Arab and Jewish students study together on a daily basis.