Quotes about jewish
jewish marry truth
To tell you the truth, in the old Jewish shtetls, if your husband died, sometimes they'd have you marry the brother, and my grandparents were actually stepbrother and stepsister. Amy Heckerling
jewish-tradition giving vampire
Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away... Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense. Calvin Trillin
jewish-values vision important
The vision I would like to see here is the entrenching of the Jewish and the Zionist state...I very much favour democracy, but when there is a contradiction between democratic and Jewish values, the Jewish and Zionist values are more important. Avigdor Lieberman
jewish lives misfortune sort streets three writer
A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is torn; he lives on two streets with three languages. It is a misfortune to live on this sort of 'border,' and that is what I have experienced.
jewish onstage terrified willie york
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
jewish people power regarded treated
People who criticize power in the Jewish community are regarded the way Ahab treated Elijah: You're a traitor. Noam Chomsky
jewish-history auschwitz
There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz. Romain Gary
jewish-tradition views catholic
It is true that the Jewish tradition emphasizes the moral mandate to save life. It also has a different position from the Catholic Church on the moral status of the embryo. It has a more developmental view of when human life, in the sense of personhood, begins than does the Catholic Church. Michael Sandel
jewish liked music people sort stopping weddings
People were sort of stopping having the traditional Jewish music in weddings and ceremonies. And I kind of liked that stuff.
jewish-tradition laughing survival
The greatest Jewish tradition is to laugh. The cornerstone of Jewish survival has always been to find humor in life and in ourselves. Jerry Seinfeld
jewish left mean point pursuing
The amendments mean pursuing Jewish settlements and not resuming the negotiations from the point where they left off. Saeb Erekat
jewish-identity attributes certain
There are times when folks will point out certain characteristics I have, like me being an interruptor, and attribute them to my Jewish identity. Jill Soloway
jewish ourselves regard social standing worthy
It is not wealth, it is not station, it is not social standing and ambition which can make us worthy of the Jewish name, of the Jewish heritage. To be worthy of them, we must live up to and with them. We must regard ourselves their custodians. Louis D. Brandeis
jewish jews since
Jews have been in Egypt since Biblical times, and Alexandria had once been, at least partially, a Jewish city. Meir Kahane
jewish main
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.
jewish preserve realized
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.
jewish record track
I have a 10-year track record of writing for the Jewish community. Anita Diament
jewish
As a matter of fact, part of being Jewish is the whole question of what it is to be a Jew. Peter Riegert
jewish koreans southern
In the Bronx, you have the southern Italians; in Queens, the Greeks, Koreans and Chinese; in Brooklyn, the Jewish community; and in Harlem, the Hispanics - all with their own markets. Daniel Boulud
jewish love people
I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. I love being Jewish, I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it. Lauren Bacall
jewish people reason sake torah
The G-d of History, the G-d of the Jewish people, called the world into being for one reason only and that was for the sake of the Jewish people and the Torah of Israel.
jewish-tradition inheritance wealth
I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it. Herman Wouk
jewish large presume
Honestly, what can really be said about 'the Jewish people' as a whole? Is it not a lamentable stereotype to make large generalizations about all Jews, and to presume they all share the same political commitments? Judith Butler
jewish religion ways
I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion.