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The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment.
Terrorism attacks Jews, but it targets all countries and Western values. Israel is just an hors d'oeuvre.
Jews must be able to live with enemies and defend themselves from them. The hatred for Israel has not disappeared.
If you will not stand with Israel and the Jews, then I will not stand with you.
The mandate we have as Jews is for the story of the Exodus from Egypt to be retold every generation.
Jews were asked when life begins. For them it's when they finally graduate medical school.
The notion that Jews are mythic creatures is well circulating in our culture.
During the Middle Ages, Jews were members of a semi-independent polity within a larger polity.
Anti-Semitism is not just a problem for Jews; it is a problem for all of our society.
Jews have been living in Jerusalem way before British people were living in London.
Jews have never, ever, ever wished to be separate, unless they were forced to be.
As long as I'm needed. I'll be ready to serve. I look forward with optimism. We need the Jews here. Move to Israel! Move to Israel!
As Prime Minister of Israel, I will introduce a bill into the Knesset that will simply pay the Arabs not to shoot at the Jews.
While Jews and Christians both agree on many religious issues, we disagree, and believe each other profoundly wrong, about others.
The majority of Jews and Arabs want to get along. Don't let a few bad apples ruin it for everyone.
Jews have deep respect for the Queen and the royal family. We say a prayer for them every Sabbath in synagogue. We recite a special blessing on seeing the Queen.
One of the great things about us Jews is that we tell the best jokes. Part of the reason is we tell jokes against ourselves - before anyone else gets to do it.
An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!
The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.
Arab society features apartheid of women, apartheid of homosexuals, and apartheid of Christians, Jews, and democracy.
The Jews had, as a matter of fact, long been all along the most ingenious entrepreneurs. It was only our own future that we had never built upon a business basis.
Everyone - whether it's the Jews, the Greeks, the Catholics - everybody is entitled to religious beliefs and entitled to their traditions.
Israel being condemned by the EU, which 66 years ago watched with glee as its Jews were being mass murdered. That is pretty rich.
Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam.
Surely it is time for Jews, worried over the huge growth of Arabs in Israel, to consider finishing the exchange of populations that began 35 years ago.
The Jews integrated themselves into American life to the point that the argument that the Jews aren't American sounded so stupid, that people stopped thinking it.
We are one family, and the connection between all Jews, all over the world, is very important to the State of Israel.
Nobody likes Jews. You can't say people like Jews. We're not popular. We're too smart to be liked. But it has been unacceptable to express anti-Semitism since the Holocaust.
Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn.
The ransoming of captives has been practiced by Jews for many centuries and has been regarded as a greater obligation than charity for the poor.
I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty.
I think maybe I became funny because as a kid, I was a Jew in a town of no Jews, and being funny just instinctively came about as a way to put people at ease around me.
It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims.
We are committed to raising our children as Jews. I knew that it had to start with me at a greater level, at a deeper level, if it was going to be a meaningful example to them.
I respect Israel as hugely special, especially given all the sensitivities around it. The Jews managed to build a country, to elevate it, without anything except people and brains.
Anyone who starts badmouthing Latino immigrants is not only a racist but ignorant. You need to refer them to what was written about the Irish, the Jews, the Italians, any group you want.
The malady of the Jews is that they don't see territory as part of their identity.
What will ye then that I shall do unto him whom ye call the King of the Jews?
The Jews' fear of assimilation and intermarriage should not replace fear of anti-Semitism.
Throughout history, particularly in the last 2,000 years, Jews have been key in adapting local foods to Jewish sensibilities and dietary laws and then spreading them.
Never to forget the Holocaust was not only against Jews. It was mostly against Jews but it was also against homosexuals, gypsies and, let's not forget, people with disability.
If Jews don't come to Nazareth, Arabs don't go to Afula. There is fear on both sides.
Israel will do all in its power to ensure that from Paris to Jacksonville, from Berlin to Manchester, Jews can walk on the streets without hiding their identity.
I feel that the Jews have always had a special connection to this part of the world, which in geographical terms was called Palestine for so many centuries.
If I believed in fate I'd be very curious why I picked the name Silver Jews.
We just want Jews to be perfected, as they say. That is what Christianity is. We believe the Old Testament, but ours is more like Federal Express.
The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.
What you have in the Middle East is tension not between Jews and Arabs, not between Israelis and Palestinians, but between the radical wing and the moderate people.
American Jews are no longer a homogenous minority; we come in all colors and from all corners of the world.
A fully positive relationship between Christians and Jews is one that would elide all differences.