A holiday place, this Munich, with high spirits and happy people. I thought: Now I am like Dante, I walk through hell, but I am not burning.
I'm Jewish. Went to a Jewish school.
My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
Jews are estimated to be less than 1% of the world's population yet approximately 25% of the world's billionaires are Jewish.
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...
There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close.
My father's Jewish, so my world is Jewish whenever I go home.
The Jewish people and their fate are the living witness for the absence of redemption. This, one could say, is the meaning of the chosen people; the Jews are chosen to prove the absence of redemption.
We certainly love the Muslim people. But that is not the faith of this country. And that is not the religion that built this nation. The people of the Christian faith and the Jewish faith are the ones who built America, and it is not Islam.
Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people - the rich, the poor, white people, some Chinese, Filipino, Jewish and black people - they're all here.
I refuse to do shows that are narrowly constructed, that appeal to only one sentiment. I do a lot of Jewish material in front of non-Jews and a lot of non-Jewish material in front of Jews on the simple theory that the non-Jews are entitled to a glimp...
There is no Polish culture without Jewish culture.
There is no question that Israelis - indeed, all concerned Jews - have to continue to work out a Jewish public philosophy that truly justifies a Jewish state in the land of Israel.
Mr. Big Nose: I'll get you for this, you bastard. Parvus: Oh, yeah? Mr. Big Nose: Oh, yeah. Don't worry. I never forget a face. Parvus: No? Mr. Big Nose: I warned you. I'm going to punch you so hard, you Roman git! Parvus: Shut up, you Jewish turd! M...
The marriage of a Jewish son is a bittersweet prospect. There is relief, always, that he has navigated the tantalizing and plentiful assemblies of non-Jewish women to whom the children of the Diaspora are inevitably exposed: from the moment he enters...
People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.
People who criticize power in the Jewish community are regarded the way Ahab treated Elijah: You're a traitor.
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
arrogance is knowledge minus wisdom
Being half Jewish, we grew up with Christmas trees but had Jewish ornaments.
I first came to Jewish-Catholic relations in 1963, while studying for the rabbinate at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.
