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Jewish People
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.
- A. B. Yehoshua
About
Pat
To me, 'The End of the Jews' - both the title and the novel itself - is about the end of pat, uncritical ways of understanding oneself in the world.
- Adam Mansbach
Holy
Judaism
We have no problems with Jews and highly respect Judaism as a holy religion.
- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Sometimes
Very
Sometimes my biography is interpreted as the upbringing of a French aristocrat. It was very, very different. We were a family of mercantile, immigrant Jews.
- Alain de Botton
Christians
Bush
Christians get trees. Jews get bushes. To stay in good standing with the Tribe, you've got to refer to a Christmas tree as a Hanukkah bush.
- Alan Colmes
World
Interesting
It's interesting when you're part of a group - the Jews, to be exact - that the world has had such problems with.
- Albert Brooks
Maintain
Another
The Arabs have a God, the Jews have another, and the Catholics have another! And they're all fighting to maintain that they worship the one real God. Idiots!
- Alejandro Jodorowsky
Glad
Attend
I'm glad many Jews attend Knick games.
- Amar'e Stoudemire
Holocaust
Obsessed
I'm obsessed with history, especially WWII and the Jews in Europe during the Holocaust.
- Amy Heckerling
Like
Old
We just want Jews to be perfected, as they say. That is what Christianity is. We believe the Old Testament, but ours is more like Federal Express.
- Ann Coulter
Elephants
Christians
I'm not defining Christians as Jews or Jews as Christians or zebras as elephants.
- Ann Coulter
Accusing
Republicans
I'm accusing Republicans of thinking the Jews have so much power.
- Ann Coulter
Lesson
Which
The sad and horrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being murdered... This is the Jewish lesson of the Holocaust and this is the lesson which Auschwitz taught us.
- Ariel Sharon
Country
Will
One must remember that the Jews have one, tiny country, the only place they have the right and capability to defend themselves by themselves. And it is our duty and my responsibility to see that we will never compromise about that.
- Ariel Sharon
Israel
Everywhere
Arabs have the right to visit everywhere in the Land of Israel, and Jews have the right to visit every place in the Land of Israel.
- Ariel Sharon
Socialism
National
The Jews are the enemy of National Socialism.
- Arthur Seyss-Inquart
About
Dad
My dad was such a bigot. He was a horrible, self-centred person. He was really racist and he'd talk about the Jews and blacks and Catholics even.
- Cindy Sherman
Tell
Edison
I grew up as one of the few Jews in Edison, and I had people tell me they hated me because of my religion.
- David Bryan
Without
Extent
Without Hitler, the State of Israel probably would not exist today. To that extent he was probably the Jews' greatest friend.
- David Irving
Including
Practicing
As a practicing Jew, I have studied with Christian teachers whom I respect for who they are and what they are, including their positive concern with Jews and Judaism.
- David Novak
Seriously
Question
We Jews who willingly and happily confirm our covenantal status and its attendant rights and duties must take the question of mission seriously: either to accept it or reject it knowingly and with conviction.
- David Novak
Zionism
Opposed
When modern political Zionism emerged around the turn of the twentieth century, most Orthodox Jews opposed it.
- David Novak
Brought
Primordial
As a traditional Jew, I have benefited personally from the hospitality of Chabad Hasidim on many occasions, and I marvel at how many Jews Chabad has brought back to their primordial home.
- David Novak
Like
Ethnic
Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that their personal identity and their ethnic identity are not one and the same.
- David Novak
Better
Play
Well, who better to play Nazis than we Jews?
- John Banner
Christians
Atheists
Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are taking up their pens to paint a portrait of Jesus.
- John Clayton
Wife
Regrets
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.
- Joseph Epstein
Knew
Seemed
I knew I wanted to be an actor, and my mother said, 'Call Aaron Sorkin.' It seemed dubious that I'd make it as an actor by calling Jews I knew, but it worked.
- Joshua Malina
Argument
Some
The argument that all Jews have a heartfelt investment in the state of Israel is untrue. Some have a heartfelt investment in corned beef sandwiches.
- Judith Butler
Set
Allegation
When one set of Jews labels another set of Jews 'anti-Semitic,' they are trying to monopolize the right to speak in the name of the Jews. So the allegation of anti-Semitism is actually a cover for an intra-Jewish quarrel.
- Judith Butler
Terrorism
Attacks
Terrorism attacks Jews, but it targets all countries and Western values. Israel is just an hors d'oeuvre.
- Avigdor Lieberman
Which
Christians
The problem is that those of us who were born into Islam and who don't want to live according to scripture - we don't have what the Jews have, which is a rabbinical tradition that allows you to ask questions. We also don't have the church tradition that the Christians have.
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Government
Represents
The Knesset members - Jews and Arabs - don't represent the state of Israel. The government is the one that represents the state of Israel officially.
- Ayman Odeh
Goal
Country
My goal is that Jews feel safe in their country.
- Ayman Odeh
Area
Before
If you look at the history of advertising, most of them were Jews, so it was only a matter of time before 'Mad Men' explored that area of advertising.
- Ben Feldman
Interesting
Whole
The whole upbringing was interesting because we grew up Orthodox Jews all the way until we were teenagers.
- Benny Fine
Like
Before
We Muslims in the West, like Jews before us, grapple with the same issues that Jews of the past did: integration or isolation, tradition or reform, intermarriage or intra-marriage.
- Hamza Yusuf
Christians
Had
On this land, Muslims, Christians and Jews can coexist together, as they have - as they had for the - for hundreds of years in the framework of a democratic state.
- Hassan Nasrallah
Doing
Control
America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they're doing in Yugoslavia.
- Bobby Fischer
Germany
Disappeared
The Jews must realize that their influence in Germany has disappeared for all time.
- Hjalmar Schacht
Nationality
Other
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
- Brendan Behan
Going
Encouraging
Rabbis throughout the ages, from Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak Hacohen Kook onward, strictly prohibited going up on the Temple Mount. And now there is a minority group of rabbis encouraging Jews to go.
- Isaac Herzog
Middle
Spanish
In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.
- Jack Schwartz
Church
Christ
In early church polemics, Jews are deemed no longer worthy of their own Scriptures because they have failed to accept Christ as the Messiah.
- Jack Schwartz
Islam
Shown
Islam has shown two faces to the Jews, one benevolent, one less so.
- Jack Schwartz
Religious
Left Wing
When Jews left Judaism, they didn't stop being religious. They simply swapped God-based Judaism for godless secular humanism and leftism. For left-wing Jews, Judaism is their ethnicity; leftism is their religion.
- Dennis Prager
Iraq
Using
And we've also had now the speaker of the Parliament in Iraq using blatantly anti-Semitic remarks, saying the Jews and sons of Jews are the problem of all the violence that's in Iraq.
- Jan Schakowsky
Help
Will
Jews, when they get successful, they will help their people.
- Donald Sterling
Like
Border
My Kashubian family, like the Jews, are people who were born and live in border areas and were suspected by the Nazis and by the Communists of being disloyal.
- Donald Tusk
Been
Sign
I had been involved in the March on Washington in 1963. I was with friends carrying a sign, 'Protestants, Jews and Catholics for Civil Rights.'
- Doris Kearns Goodwin
Love
Leave
God's love doesn't leave out Jews or Muslims or anyone.
- Dyan Cannon
More
Sympathetic
The Jewish background is not that far from the black groove. Blacks are downtrodden, Jews are downtrodden, therefore they have something in common in that affliction. Being downtrodden often makes one more empathetic and sympathetic.
- Jerry Leiber
Face
Comments
No one said anything to my face, but I constantly heard comments denigrating Jews.
- Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
Defending
Terms
In terms of defending Jews, I'm a Jew.
- Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
Anti-Semitism
Should
The Jews' fear of assimilation and intermarriage should not replace fear of anti-Semitism.
- Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
Arrest
Another
My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.
- Jesus Christ
Side
About
At East Side Jews, we can take a risk because it isn't all about the rules. I started it to create a space for all those people who wouldn't go to temple because they were scared of getting the rules wrong.
- Jill Soloway
Politics
Been
I had been taught that the separation between religion and politics happened in the Enlightenment. But there were people who tried to create a secular relationship to government 2,000 years ago, and those people were the Jews.
- Elaine Pagels
Turned
Romans
The Romans weren't trying to kill all the Jews, but they did destroy Jewish resistance to Roman rule. Jerusalem was turned into a Roman army camp, and it was a total devastation.
- Elaine Pagels
New
Christians
Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.
- Karl Barth
Church
Always
My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews.
- Kate O'Brien
Nationality
Form
Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.
- Emma Lazarus
Society
Problem
Anti-Semitism is not just a problem for Jews; it is a problem for all of our society.
- Ephraim Mirvis
Been
Britain
Britain has been good to the Jews, and the Jews have been good for Britain.
- Ephraim Mirvis
Medical
Finally
Jews were asked when life begins. For them it's when they finally graduate medical school.
- Evan Sayet
Worry
Miami
Jews don't care about ancient rivalries. We worry about humidity in Miami.
- Evan Sayet
Anti-Semitism
Too
Anti-Semitism has not disappeared, and European Jews have too often come under attack.
- Federica Mogherini
Forgiveness
Atonement
On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.
- Laura Schlessinger
Like
Very
The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man.
- Louis Farrakhan
Built
Took
Many of the Jews who owned the homes, the apartments in the black community, we considered them bloodsuckers because they took from our community and built their community but didn't offer anything back to our community.
- Louis Farrakhan
Religious
Will
For as Jews, the problem happens to be more urgent and vital than for others; because the destruction of religion on America will involve the destruction also of the religious training of freedom; and with that our civil liberties.
- Louis Finkelstein
Eye
Lot
Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.
- M. H. Abrams
Play
How
Well, I play Jews and parrots. Parrots are how I've branched out.
- Gilbert Gottfried
Social
Distress
Economic distress, political pressure, and social obloquy already drive us from our homes and from our graves. The Jews are already constantly shifting from place to place.
- Theodor Herzl
Comedians
Tendency
Jews have a tendency to become comedians.
- Sacha Baron Cohen
Weapon
Secret Weapon
We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
- Golda Meir
Radical
Second
It is only in the fundamentalist religions that women are relegated to second class. Radical Evangelicals, Muslims, and Jews all have the same view of women.
- Sally Quinn
Almost
Gays
In today's U.S., it's possible for almost anyone - women, gays, African-Americans, Jews - to run for, and be elected to, high office.
- Salman Rushdie
Generations
Should
It was both Abraham's and the Jews' privilege also that they should have this promise to all generations.
- Thomas Goodwin
Art
King
Art thou the King of the Jews?
- Pontius Pilate
Understand
Christians
I do believe that Muslims and Christians and Jews pray to the same God. And yet they understand who God is in significantly different ways.
- Miroslav Volf
Survival
Use
Jews, black people - any people who are hated or who have suffered, either as individuals or as a people - use humour. It is a survival skill.
- Sarah Silverman
War
Fire
The Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a war.
- Moshe Dayan
Ethiopia
Israel
The State of Israel failed in absorbing the Jews from Ethiopia.
- Moshe Kahlon
Today
Jewish State
Today, there are those who hallucinate that a democratic and Jewish state is only democratic for the Jews.
- Reuven Rivlin
Accordance
Could
The whole point of Israel was to create a place where Jews could live the best life - and liveliest - in accordance with their values.
- Richard Ben Cramer
Nation
Discontented
The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.
- Shimon Peres
Death
Refuge
You can't portray wartime Shanghai without writing about the Holocaust - about 25,000 Jews survived the Nazi death machine by taking refuge there.
- Nicole Mones
Country
Own
Jews can live their own life as Jews and yet be part of a different country.
- Simon Schama
Russia
Left
As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism.
- Martin Lewis Perl
Religious
Juncture
Not all Modern Orthodox Jews, at the present juncture, identify with what the Israeli government does. In Israel many religious Zionists strongly oppose the government because of the disengagement.
- Norman Lamm
Death
War
Hungary has a moral debt to the Jews that it helped send to death camps thirty years after the First World War.
- Viktor Orban
Were
The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.
- Oskar Schindler
Like
Weighs
Like a horrible nightmare, the abrogation of equal rights weighs upon us all, but especially upon those Jews who, like me, had surrendered themselves to the dream of assimilation.
- Max Liebermann
Some
Over
Over the course of history, many Jews have ultimately embraced Christianity - some forcibly, some in order to advance in non-Jewish society, some out of wholehearted belief.
- Meir Soloveichik
Dramatic
Christians
If Christians see Mormonism as a dramatic deviation from a millennia-old, biblically-based faith, Jews see Christianity in the same light.
- Meir Soloveichik
Like
Over
Throughout its history, the members of Shearith Israel have observed Thanksgiving by reciting in synagogue the same psalms of praise and gratitude sung by Jews all over the world on festive days like Hanukkah.
- Meir Soloveichik
Will
Christians
Jews focus on the Torah, the embodiment of God's will; Christians, on an embodied God.
- Meir Soloveichik
Been
Gentile
I had been warned about Jews by my gentile friends - they did terrible things with knives to boys.
- Paul Engle
United States
United
The most successful terrorist group in the United States for almost 70 years was the Ku Klux Klan. They hated Catholics, Jews, and blacks. They were prone to violence.
- Pete Hamill
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