The American Jewish Committee has pioneered the German-Jewish-American dialogue. Votes: 3
Klaus KinkelAs Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative. Votes: 3
Ben SteinI remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization. Votes: 3
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish. Votes: 3
Elizabeth WurtzelSince 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community. Votes: 3
Anita DiamentIn Jewish tradition, death-defying devotion to scholarship was the stuff of saintliness. Votes: 3
Israel ShenkerChabad is very important because without Jewish education, Diaspora Jewry would disappear. Votes: 3
Harry TriguboffThe Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality. Votes: 3
Elie WieselThere are three things Jewish people worship-God, Chinese food and wall-to-wall carpeting. Votes: 3
Woody Allenthe Jewish press in the USA is solely responsible for our poor publicity. Votes: 3
Mohammed Reza PahlaviThis American Jewish music is a new experience for us at least consciously. Votes: 3
Neville MarrinerBeing half Jewish, we grew up with Christmas trees but had Jewish ornaments. Votes: 3
Gina RodriguezMy wife is Jewish, and therefore, it's my children's birthright to be Jewish. Votes: 3
Michael J. FoxIt's typical of Mormon people to love all people, but especially Jewish people. Votes: 3
Orrin HatchI have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people. Votes: 3
Jesse JacksonCapitalism and Bolshevism are the two sides of the same international Jewish coin. Votes: 3
Adolf HitlerThe age of hairsplitting Jewish intellectualism is dead... The past lies in flames. Votes: 3
Joseph GoebbelsThe disappearance of the Jewish state will not mean the disappearance of anti-Semitism. Votes: 3
Jack SchwartzLenin had taken part in Jewish student meetings in Switzerland thirty-five years before. Votes: 3
Chaim WeizmannThere are three kinds of pianists: Jewish pianists, homosexual pianists, and bad pianists. Votes: 3
Vladimir HorowitzI hardly exaggerate. Jewish life consists of two elements: Extracting money and protesting. Votes: 3
Nahum GoldmannI strongly believe that antisemitism and Jewish chauvinism can only be fought simultaneously. Votes: 3
Israel ShahakA messianic Jew is a Jewish person that believes Jesus Christ is the savior. Votes: 3
Ruqaiyyah Waris MaqsoodIf you research history, I think we are all Jewish. It's the original culture. Votes: 3
Amar'e StoudemireNo one will frighten the large and free Jewish community of the United States. Votes: 3
Menachem BeginI'm still Elliott Yamin. I'm still the funky white Jewish boy from Richmond, Va. Votes: 3
Elliott YaminIf you have never read the Protocols, you know nothing about the Jewish question. Votes: 3
Henry Hamilton BeamishPolitics in America has become a Jewish profession, just like arts and the law... Votes: 3
Ira FormanMy story is so boring: Long Island Jewish parents take their daughters to Broadway. Votes: 3
Idina MenzelOn my mother's side I'm Polish-Jewish, and on my father's side I'm Scottish puffin. Votes: 3
Tamsin GreigThe Jewish heart has always starved unless it was fed through the Jewish intellect. Votes: 3
Henrietta SzoldAcceptance of race mixture was more developed in Arab culture than in Jewish culture. Votes: 3
Ali MazruiI'm always very proud of belonging to three minorities: gay, Jewish, white South African. Votes: 3
Antony SherIt's highly likely that what you're doing is indeed influenced by your Jewish background. Votes: 3
Michael MarmotI'm 100 percent Jewish by blood, but by education I'm nothing. By affiliation I'm nothing. Votes: 3
Joseph BrodskyIf synagogues are attacked, this would give Jewish extremists an excuse to attack mosques. Votes: 3
Mohammed DahlanMy family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions. Votes: 3
Whoopi GoldbergI remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose. Votes: 3
Jack SteinbergerYou know, in Saudi Arabia, you're innocent until proven Jewish. Female. Guilty! They're guilty! Votes: 3
Jon StewartIf certain Jewish communities had distinctive qualities, they were due to history, not biology. Votes: 3
Shlomo SandI have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish. Votes: 3
Tom T. HallThe problem is Jewish-American fiction that always ends with assimilation back into the community. Votes: 3
Joshua CohenI just went to Hebrew school, had a bar mitzvah. No crazy weird Jewish cult. Votes: 3
Hayden SchlossbergYou know what I ask Jewish liberals? 'Why don't you preach what you practice?' Votes: 3
Dennis PragerI really don't even think of myself as being Jewish except when I'm in Germany. Votes: 3
Peter EisenmanI think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English. Votes: 3
Daniel RadcliffeThe Jewish people, no matter where they are, they become the best in the world. Votes: 3
Josef MengeleMy grandmother was a Jewish juggler: she used to worry about six things at once. Votes: 3
Richard LewisMy mom's Jewish and my dad's Irish Catholic alcoholic, so I whine on the inside. Votes: 3
Margaret SmithThe driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people. Votes: 3
Yitzhak ShamirIt took me many years to understand that my identity is more Israeli than Jewish. Votes: 3
Mili AvitalCave of the Patriarchs and Rachel's Tomb were not and never will be Jewish sites. Votes: 3
Recep Tayyip ErdoganI was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish. Votes: 3
Kenneth LonerganI was a Jewish rabbinical student for 12 years, and studied the Bible all the time. Votes: 3
Alan DershowitzI don't consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother. Votes: 3
Ben EltonThere is a wide range of views within the Jewish community, so it's not monolithic. Votes: 3
Barack ObamaRoses are reddish Violets are bluish If it weren't for Christmas We'd all be Jewish. Votes: 3
Benny HillZionism wants to define the Jewish people as a national entity ... which is a heresy. Votes: 3
Roger GaraudyBeyond being Jewish, I've always found myself to be very much in tune with spirituality. Votes: 3
Paula AbdulFrom Jewish terrorism against Arabs it is a short step to Jewish terrorism against Jews. Votes: 3
David Ben-GurionGuilt is a Jewish invention improved upon by Christians for the last two thousand years. Votes: 3
Rita Mae BrownPurim is the birthday of the first Schutz-Jude , the first Jewish toady to foreign royalty. Votes: 3
I. L. PeretzMy music is really about people connecting with their identities, even if they aren't Jewish. Votes: 3
MatisyahuComing from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials. Votes: 3
Mordecai RichlerComing from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials. Votes: 3
MordecaiIf I wrote a Jewish superhero, he'd have awesome time-traveling powers. I'd call him Doctorow. Votes: 3
Ta-Nehisi CoatesLet's face it: The Jewish community is the most active political community in American society. Votes: 3
Zbigniew BrzezinskiJust saw an orthodox Jewish kid do 3 pull-ups on the scaffolding. Shattering the previous record. Votes: 3
Gary GulmanHollywood is controlled by homosexual Jewish men who expect favors in return for sexual activity. Votes: 3
John TravoltaThat is a Nazi expression. The Nazis called Germans who defended Jewish rights self-hating Germans. Votes: 3
Israel ShahakHarvard has been almost as important to the American Jewish community as the pork-sausage industry. Votes: 3
P. J. O'RourkeTo be a success as a Broadway composer, you must be Jewish or gay. I'm both. Votes: 3
Leonard BernsteinI was raped by a doctor. Which is, you know, so bittersweet for a Jewish girl. Votes: 3
Sarah SilvermanMy dad was old school Jewish. Not do your taxes Jewish - steal your car Jewish. Votes: 3
Dov DavidoffI am not Jewish, but I think that America invented nothing so fine as deli food. Votes: 3
Mike NewellI'm not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant. Votes: 3
Daniel RadcliffeSince my daughter is only half-Jewish, could she go in the water up to her knees? Votes: 3
Groucho MarxThere's so much Botox around now that you can't tell when a Jewish girl is angry! Votes: 3
Mort SahlThe only advantage I have found in being Jewish is that I can be openly anti-Semitic. Votes: 3
Kirk DouglasI'm the little half-black, half-Jewish girl who was odd and awkward. I try to be myself. Votes: 3
Lauren LondonOutsiders develop humor as a defense; why do you think most comedians are gay or Jewish? Votes: 3
Paul LyndeIf the choice is one-state, Israel can either be Jewish or Democratic. It cannot be both. Votes: 3
John F. KerryI haven't made art about Israel. There's a covert subtext of Jewish identity in my artwork. Votes: 3
Jill SolowayThe official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state. Votes: 3
Aaron KleinIf you really are superior, you don't go around saying you're superior - unless you're Jewish. Votes: 3
Bonnie McFarlaneAnd furthermore did you know that behind the discovery of America there was a Jewish financier? Votes: 3
Mordecai RichlerAs a Jewish thinker, I don't think of myself in relationship to the dominant culture's religion. Votes: 3
Emily BartonI think that peace will require two states, a Palestinian state that recognizes the Jewish state. Votes: 3
Benjamin NetanyahuThe prohibition of L'shon Hara is the Jewish equivalent of the Buddhist practice of Right Speech. Votes: 3
Sylvia BoorsteinThe sincere Christian knows that what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity. Votes: 3
Elie WieselMaybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type. Votes: 3
Hanna RosinHey, I may loathe myself, but it has nothing to do with the fact that I'm Jewish. Votes: 3
Larry DavidI am Jewish. My real name is Chris Tuckenberg. A lot of people don't know about that. Votes: 3
Chris TuckerI want a hairy little Jewish Princess with a brand new nose, who knows where it goes. Votes: 3
Frank ZappaMy mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt. Votes: 3
Lorna LuftDo you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals? Votes: 3
Mahalia JacksonWhen I was little, I went to a Jewish community day school for most of elementary school. Votes: 3
Clara MametEven though I'm not Jewish...Israel is one of the few causes I feel good about supporting. Votes: 3
Ray CharlesIf you elect me the first Jewish justice of the peace, I'll reduce the speed limits to 54.95! Votes: 3
Kinky FriedmanNo one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish. Votes: 3
Adam MansbachNeither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can be used to disallow terror as a means of war, Votes: 3
Yitzhak ShamirI'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish. Votes: 3
Heather MatarazzoI'm a good girl, and I have a very good Jewish family who brought me up very well. Votes: 3
Jess GlynneI asked a Jewish man, "Do you know where Michigan Avenue is?" He said, "Yes", and walked away. Votes: 3
Henny YoungmanNo Jews have our own guilt, that's why we have psychiatrists - the Jewish version of a priest. Votes: 3
Nan GoldinI like the character of Moses. He is the first disunionist we read of in the Jewish Scriptures. Votes: 3
Frances HarperThe role of Jews who write in both the Jewish and [American] general press is to defend Israel. Votes: 3
Norman PodhoretzThere is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close. Votes: 3
Richard RogersI've got a friend who is half-Jewish and half-Italian. If he can't buy it wholesale, he steals it! Votes: 3
Jackie MasonI grew up Jewish, became an atheist and a Marxist, and 28 years ago, at age 26, became a Christian. Votes: 3
Marvin OlaskyI'll tell you now that I hate myself for many reasons, but being Jewish is not one of them. Votes: 3
Clive SinclairYou know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there. Votes: 3
Natalie PortmanI regard the Jewish race as the born enemy of pure humanity and everything that is noble in it. Votes: 3
Richard WagnerThe German debt to the Jewish people can never end, not in this generation and not in any other. Votes: 3
Menachem BeginThe United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a Mohammedan nation. Votes: 3
John AdamsYou don't have to be Jewish to understand the history of Europe in the 20th century, but it helps. Votes: 3
Tony JudtI am officially Jewish, but Iâm Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant. Votes: 3
A. J. JacobsThe Holocaust is not only a tragedy of the Jewish people, it is a failure of humanity as a whole. Votes: 3
Moshe KatsavI do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people. Votes: 3
Ken LivingstoneBut, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist. Votes: 3
Theodore BikelAs a matter of fact, part of being Jewish is the whole question of what it is to be a Jew. Votes: 3
Peter RiegertIt's not hard to find a date if you are Jewish in New York and Miami, but its hard in Texas. Votes: 3
Patti StangerI was one of two Jewish kids in my school. We were probably one of two Jewish families in our town. Votes: 3
Michael LyntonTo get on in Hollywood, you've gotta be a bit gay and a bit Jewish, and I'm saving up to be Jewish. Votes: 3
Vinnie JonesI'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish. Votes: 2 Billy Crystal
No one will frighten the large and free Jewish community of the United States. Votes: 3 Menachem Begin
But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel. Votes: 3 Theodore Bikel
I was a Jewish rabbinical student for 12 years, and studied the Bible all the time. Votes: 1 Alan Dershowitz
Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community. Votes: 4 Anita Diament
But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist. Votes: 4 Theodore Bikel
Chabad is very important because without Jewish education, Diaspora Jewry would disappear. Votes: 1 Harry Triguboff
Although I was raised Jewish, my upbringing didn't include any formal religious education or training. Votes: 1 Melissa Gilbert
I think a lot of Jews make Israel the centerpiece of their Judaism. It becomes the centerpiece of their Jewish existence and of their faith. I have always felt that that's not for me. Votes: 2 David Gregory
President Obama himself has attributed the legitimacy of the Jewish State not to its historic identity as Jewish territory, but to the Holocaust. Votes: 1 Ben Shapiro
I regard Christian and Jewish fundamentalism, and all other forms of fundamentalism, as the enemies of God - and I hope you'll quote me on that. Votes: 1 Arthur Hertzberg
It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state. Votes: 1 Alan Dershowitz
Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, learning, and more learning. Votes: 1 Elie Wiesel
Marriage is the most obvious public practice about which information is readily available. When combined with the traditional Jewish concern for continuity and self-preservation - itself only intensified by the memory of the Holocaust - marriage becomes the sine qua non of social membership in the modern Orthodox community. Votes: 1 Noah Feldman
Mother humor is such a universal theme. I wrote a show called '25 Questions for a Jewish Mother.' I had people coming up to me after the show saying, 'I'm Baptist, and my mother is just like yours.' Votes: 4 Judy Gold
I started the label Tzadik to support an entire community of musicians, not just Jewish musicians. But the radical Jewish culture movement was begun in a lot of ways because I wanted to take the idea that Jewish music equals 'klezmer' and expand it to, 'Well, Jewish music could be a lot more than that.' Votes: 1 John Zorn
Zionism is nothing more, but also nothing less, than the Jewish People's sense of origin and destination in the Land linked eternally with its name. It is also the instrument whereby the Jewish Nation seeks an authentic fulfillment of itself. Votes: 3 Abba Eban
In fact, my New Year's resolution every year, and I'm Jewish so I get two New Years a year, is to meditate, and I fail every time. Votes: 3 Sheryl Sandberg
All modern secularity requires is that our public norms and the arguments for them not presuppose common acceptance of Jewish or Christian revelation, even if these public norms are consistent with a particular community's revelation and the authoritative teachings it derives from that revelation. Votes: 1 David Novak
Zionism is nothing more, but also nothing less, than the Jewish People's sense of origin and destination in the Land linked eternally with its name. It is also the instrument whereby the Jewish Nation seeks an authentic fulfillment of itself. Votes: 3 Abba Eban
I don't judge people by their sexual orientation or the color of their skin, so I find it really hard to identify someone by saying that they're a gay person or a black person or a Jewish person. Votes: 2 Diana Ross
Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the wine. Votes: 0 Geraldine Brooks
First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish. Votes: 4 Barbara Walters
Now, when we say we want peace, what we want is really for our Palestinian neighbours to have a demilitarized state next to us that recognizes the Jewish State. We're willing to recognize their state, the Palestinian state. But we ask them to recognize the Jewish state. Votes: 4 Benjamin Netanyahu
I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality. Votes: 1 Sandra Bernhard
As a Jew, it is my historic responsibility to defend the Jewish people. I feel this responsibility for the survival of the Jewish people. We're not going to accept any decision by anybody else about security of the State of Israel. It is our role and only our role. Votes: 1 Ariel Sharon
There's never really been a tradition of making films about Jewish themes or using Judaism as a constant. Votes: 2 James Gray
I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it. Votes: 1 Herman Wouk
I grew very skeptical of certain kind of Jewish separatism in my youth. I mean, I saw the Jewish community was always with each other; they didn't trust anybody outside. You'd bring someone home, and the first question was, 'Are they Jewish, are they not Jewish?' Votes: 1 Judith Butler