I feel very strongly that it is vital for us to constantly keep in mind the fact that the Jewish problem is but a phase of the world problem.
The beth din is the court of the chief rabbi. I see myself taking an active role within the beth din.
One of my favorite cartoon characters is Snoopy. I love the way he sits and lies on his kennel and contemplates the great things of life.
I would like to sound like James Mason. I reckon if I'd had a better voice I could have been prime minister. It is the most irritating voice in public life.
A traditional rabbi is the man to whom the community and its members turn to rule on what Jewish law requires of them, particularly in cases of doubt.
One cannot accept Christ and still be part of the normative Jewish community; one cannot live by Torah and still be part of the Church.
Christians and Jews alike are the new exiles of the contemporary world, struggling with how to sing the Lord's song in a strange land.
During the Middle Ages, Jews were members of a semi-independent polity within a larger polity.
It has always been inevitable that, living as a small minority among a Christian majority, some Jews would convert to Christianity.
Jewish status is defined by the divine election of Israel and his descendants. One does not become a Jew by one's own volition.
The rabbi is often the regular preacher in the synagogue, the man whose sermons offer his community more general theological and moral guidance.
When modern political Zionism emerged around the turn of the twentieth century, most Orthodox Jews opposed it.
The religious doctrine of traditional Judaism entails the acceptance of the nationhood of the Jewish people and the everlasting sanctity of the Land of Israel for them.
Mason: I just feel like there are so many things that I could be doing and probably want to be doing that I'm just not.
Professor Bill Welbrock: You don't like me much, do you Mason? Professor Bill Welbrock: That's okay, neither do I.
Private Cox: [beating up Mason] English prick. I tell you my old man was Irish?
John Mason: I'm fed up saving your ass. I'm amazed you ever got past puberty.
Stanley Goodspeed: You're shooting too close to the rocket! Him, but not the rocket! John Mason: Any other news, professor?
Mason: Marcus is going to get better. Grace: I think I am too.
Hollis Mason: [about Rorshach] They forced everyone out except him. Dan Dreiberg: Oh he'll quit. When he's dead.
I believe in fate and I believe you were supposed to walk into my life, so Mason could walk into yours.
