Quotes of: Jewish-community Keyword

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 beco...

Noah Feldman

Jewish vampires: Starve me to death? Seriously? Then what?

The Jewish Vampire and the Confused Slayer

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

Mel Brooks

It's very clear from Biblical history and Jewish history that Jewish monotheism wasn't developed in an instant, that it became gradually the accepted norm. But undoubtedly, Jewish ancestors were polytheists.

Robert Winston

I came when I was in high school as part of a student exchange program with the Jewish Community Center in New Jersey, to Ramat Eliyahu. You come and volunteer for five weeks at a day camp. I was a teenager - I couldn't really appreciate it as much, ...

Zach Braff

Jewish families encourage pursuit of wealth accumulation, high-income careers, and investing.

The Money Code: Become a Millionaire With the Ancient Jewish Code

The most celebrated American author of the twentieth century, Bellow objected during the first part of his career to being designated a “Jewish writer, ” but it was he who demonstrated how a Jewish voice could speak for an integrated America. Wit...

The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature

It has become a cultural norm in Jewish families for parents to bring up their children to value wealth.

The Money Code: Become a Millionaire With the Ancient Jewish Code

I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.

Lionel Blue

When Superman was originally created, by Siegel and Shuster, they were two Jewish immigrants that were desperately trying to assimilate into America. They were having a hard time because they were Jewish. They wanted to get in to mainstream publishin...

David S. Goyer

I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for th...

Richard Dreyfuss

My wife is Jewish, and therefore, it's my children's birthright to be Jewish.

Michael J. Fox

I'm part Jewish and part Christian, but I'm mostly Jewish.

Joey King

Matthias: Look, I don't think it should be a sin, just for saying "Jehovah". [Everyone gasps] Jewish Official: You're only making it worse for yourself! Matthias: Making it worse? How can it be worse? Jehovah! Jehovah! Jehovah! Jewish Official: I'm w...

Life of Brian

I'm Jewish. Went to a Jewish school.

Jonathan Glazer

My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.

Nathan Lane

Jews are estimated to be less than 1% of the world's population yet approximately 25% of the world's billionaires are Jewish.

The Money Code: Become a Millionaire With the Ancient Jewish Code

I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about all that is hard, unfair or ridiculous in life-having strong feelings, and not being able to suppress them. That, to me...

Fred Melamed

I come from French Cajun Jewish people.

Shia LaBeouf

There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close.

Richard Rogers

My father's Jewish, so my world is Jewish whenever I go home.

Ben Feldman