Even a secret agent can't lie to a Jewish mother.
I was raised Jewish. I didn't know anything about Christianity.
I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish.
When the Jewish state is established - it is very possible that the result will be transfer of Arabs.
I am not Jewish, but I think that America invented nothing so fine as deli food.
Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.
My family history, like that of many Polish, German and Jewish families from Central Europe in the 20th century, is complex.
I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.
My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality.
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.
Israel desperately needs peace if it is to come anywhere close to being the 'light unto nations' of Jewish dreams.
When my children were born, I made the choice I wanted them to be raised as Jews and to have a Jewish education.
Ah, how many luxuries has the good God prepared for his Jewish children.
The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.
I think the lack of automatically feeling, 'Yes, the future is going to be like the present' - that is very much a Jewish thing.
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.
I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.
I think everybody has the ability to fall in love with a man or with a woman or a white person or a black person or a Jewish person or a Protestant person or whatever.
Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish.
I'm still Elliott Yamin. I'm still the funky white Jewish boy from Richmond, Va.
I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English.
