By the time I was 5, I was already an outcast. It was the early 1960s, and I was part of the only Jewish family in a decidedly Christian suburb of Waltham, Mass.
My family is a Jewish Iranian family, but I was born in Turkey and raised in Italy. So it's a very mixed background.
I like the idea of a love story between men. There is a great affection between men, which exists much more in ethnic groups: Latin, Italian, Jewish.
The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America.
I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.
We have our own values; we build our own special, our JEWISH life - and we are proud, so very proud.
They say that every Jewish person is supposed to love one black person in his life. I'm glad Lorne Michaels chose me.
A Confucian or Jewish love of learning would gain minorities far more than any affirmative action laws we might pass.
I just went to Hebrew school, had a bar mitzvah. No crazy weird Jewish cult.
My story is so boring: Long Island Jewish parents take their daughters to Broadway.
'Cullum' is Scottish, but I'm nowhere near Scottish. My mother is Burmese, and my father is of German, Jewish, English ancestry.
It is written in the Jewish law book, the Talmud, that only the Jew is human, that Gentiles are only animals.
Oskar Schindler: I kissed a Jewish Girl. Prisoner: Did your prick fall off? [laughs]
What I find fascinating about Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights we celebrate at this time of the year, is the way its story was transformed by time.
I must admit, even though I'm the product of two Jewish parents, I think the Irish temper got in there somewhere, so I'm going to check Mom's genealogy.
Our main battle has always been against Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers.
Jewish vampires: Crosses & holy water won’t hurt me whatcha gonna try next?
At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.
A Jewish man with his parents alive is half the time a helpless infant!
A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!
It's not hard to find a date if you are Jewish in New York and Miami, but its hard in Texas.
