Purim is the birthday of the first Schutz-Jude , the first Jewish toady to foreign royalty.
The Holocaust marooned the Jewish people in history.
I feel like I've got far more gay fans in America. . . Maybe they caught wind that I have a cute Jewish brother who's gay.
I'm short, I'm Jewish and I'm a liberal
The Jewish part of me is superstitious.
When I grew up I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalis.
I never paid much attention to being Jewish when I was a kid. In fact, I'd say my religion was more surfing than Judaism - that's what I spent most of my time doing.
I'm not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant.
And just as you supported and carried out a policy of not wanting to share the earth with the Jewish people and the people of a number of other nations - as though you and your superiors had any right to determine who should and who should not inhabit the world - we find that no one, that is, no member of the human race, can be expected to want to share the earth with you. This is the reason, and the only reason, you must hang.
Zionism is nothing more, but also nothing less, than the Jewish People's sense of origin and destination in the Land linked eternally with its name. It is also the instrument whereby the Jewish Nation seeks an authentic fulfillment of itself.
You can't love God without loving the Jewish people.
I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate.
I'm Jewish. Went to a Jewish school.
I'd had a vaguely Jewish upbringing, but no deep connection to faith.
Because we can't comprehend it, and that's what allows us to do it again. And it is the normal, it's the average person that can do this. Again, in an imaginary other universe, maybe we'd have done it. That's the terrible truth that lies at the heart of each of us; that imponderable, 'were I not Jewish, in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Germany, would I have gone down on the other side?'
I get anxious. That lovely Jewish guilt that comes with ancestry.
The only way to fight a moral war is the Jewish way: Destroy their holy sites. Kill men, women and children (and cattle).
The bitter hatreds that now poison Middle Eastern politics are rooted in the real or perceived wrong of the setting up of a Jewish State in an Islamic region. In view of all that the Jews had been through, it must have seemed a fair and humane solution. Probably deep familiarity with the Old Testament had given the European and American decision-makers some sort of idea that this really was the historic homeland of the Jews.
At a young age, I became very aware that not only did my family have to struggle but that families around the country were struggling as well. Also, being Jewish and having lost relatives in the Holocaust, I've always been aware of the meaning of prejudice. These are things that have remained with me throughout my political career.
The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a Mohammedan nation.