The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher.
What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.
You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose.
Jews have been in Egypt since Biblical times, and Alexandria had once been, at least partially, a Jewish city.
All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.'
The search for a Jewish national home came about due to centuries of anti-Semitic pogroms, expulsions, discrimination and hate. The Holocaust was simply the evil culmination of all that came before it.
I'm half Puerto Rican and half Jewish and so, in some ways, living in many worlds at once is where I feel most at home.
Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, learning, and more learning.
In the 5,000-year history of Jewish thought, the notion of a God-man is completely anathema to everything Judaism stands for.
In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.
Our clear goal must be the advancement of the white race and separation of the white and black races. This goal must include freeing of the American media and government from subservient Jewish interests.
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.
I was born Jewish, and I consider that my religion. But I've studied all religions, and as you learn more, you really learn that everyone's praying to the same God.
Life has to be protected. It is precarious. I would even go so far as to say that precarious life is, in a way, a Jewish value for me.
Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the wine.
When I was little, I went to a Jewish community day school for most of elementary school.
Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.
I'm confident President Obama will continue his unambiguous commitment to the Jewish state in his second term.
There's never really been a tradition of making films about Jewish themes or using Judaism as a constant.
My wife who is non-Jewish regrets it all the time that I can say these terrible things about fellow Jews and she can't.
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.
