I was named after my Jewish grandfather who left Poland early in the 20th century. What I knew from an early age was that he had lived most of his life in England, his Jewish wife had died, and he married a non-Jewish woman who was my grandmother.
I believe that the only alternative Israel has to save itself as a Jewish state - and let's be frank about that: the Jewish state is predicated on having a Jewish majority - the only way we can do that is by unilaterally withdrawing our border and wi...
All civilizations we know about have left a record of their history in material things. We know them through tablets or ruins dug up by archaeologists. But we know of the Jews in ancient times mostly from the ideas they taught and the impact which th...
The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
Intermarriage is not a calamity but an opportunity for both a Jewish and non-Jewish partner to learn.
Israel, as the Jewish state, must disappear from the map.
I believe that for the small numbers of Jewish people in the United States, they exercise a tremendous amount of influence on the affairs of government.
Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.
When Zionism becomes co-extensive with Jewishness, Jewishness is pitted against the diversity that defines democracy, and if I may say so, betrays one of the most important ethical dimensions of the diasporic Jewish tradition: namely, the obligation ...
Poverty is a result of poor choices not of poor luck
Working with the Jewish community is essential to me and what I stand for.
The Jewish community has always taken care of its own.
My six handbooks to Jewish life and lifecycle events mostly followed the trajectory of my adult Jewish life.
The disappearance of the Jewish state will not mean the disappearance of anti-Semitism.
The fact that I am not Jewish by religion does not prevent me from connecting to the Jewish nation's spirituality.
As a rabbi, I’ve spent long hours counseling people I’ve married, and in each case I like to talk with the couple about not only compatibility and love, but also their relationship with money. If you and your partner are not in the same financial...
Greenspan advised the American people to buy - he repeated the old mantra: 'spending is patriotic'. He also managed to convince them that if they did not have the money, that shouldn't stop them. They would 'pay later'. To a certain extent he was cor...
People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz.
Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy and psychiatry and underrepresented in the priesthood. That immigrant Jewish humor is still with us.
I don't even know if people even care what a 27-year-old Jewish kid thinks about politics.
There's a charm, there's a rhythm, there's a soul to Jewish humor. When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, 'You're doing a Jewish act.'
