Quotes About Jewish Identity

#1. If you are trying to raise a child to be a Jew, then you have to create a sense of Jewish identity. You really weaken that sense of identity if you celebrate two religions.

Elliott Abrams

#2. I haven't made art about Israel. There's a covert subtext of Jewish identity in my artwork.

Jill Soloway

#3. I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in the present day.

Gregg Easterbrook

#4. The arrival of thousands of Muslim infiltrators to Israeli territory is a clear threat to the state's Jewish identity. The refugees' place is not among us, and the initiative to transfer them to Australia is the right and just solution.

Danny Danon

#5. On another level, I want to mention that I have a strong Jewish identity and - over the years - have been involved in several Jewish projects, such as the establishment of a strong program of Judaic Studies at the University of California in San Diego.

Walter Kohn

#6. The majesty of the American Jewish experience is in its success marrying its unique Jewish identity with the larger, liberal values of the United States. There is no need anymore to choose between assimilation and separation. We are accepted as equals.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

#7. There are times when folks will point out certain characteristics I have, like me being an interruptor, and attribute them to my Jewish identity.

Jill Soloway

#8. There are no limits on what you can achieve with your life, except the limits you accept in your mind

Brian Tracy

#9. Well, I am nothing like perfection." "You're better. You're you.

Jennifer Ashley

#10. For at this juncture, the West has cut itself off from its own Jewish and Christian roots - the faith, the ideas, the ethics and the way of life that made it the West. It now stands deeply divided, uncertain of its post-Christian identity, and with its dominance waning in the global era.

Os Guinness

#11. Human beings, joined in collaboration with the gifts of grace, are responsible for the planet and its future.

William F. Schulz

#12. Are you going to wolf out and eat me now?"
"Certainly not, you'd be stringy and hard to digest."
"But kosher."
"I'll be sure to point any Jewish lycanthropes in your direction.

Cassandra Clare

#13. The Israeli philosopher Avishai Margalit has suggested that the important thing is not a person's identity but his or her identifications.

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David Kaufmann

#14. I have to take the positives from 2012 and the negatives as well because you learn more than you do from the positives. It has been a great season last year, a lot of learning, and now it's another approach. The way I will approach this year is totally different, so we are ready to fight for it.

Sergio Perez

#15. When the time comes, they won't ask what kind of a Jew you are.

Norman Mailer

#16. I claimed identity as Jewish musicians for political reasons, because most of us were touring in Germany and, at this time, twelve years ago, there was a strong resurgence of Nazism in the places we were touring and part of that was on the music scene.

Marc Ribot

#17. Here's tae us. Wha's like us?" "Damned few," she replied in broad Scots, "and they're all deid.

Diana Gabaldon

#18. President Obama himself has attributed the legitimacy of the Jewish State not to its historic identity as Jewish territory, but to the Holocaust.

Ben Shapiro

#19. If God never gave me one more thing in my life, then you, right now, would be enough. You are my Dayeinu

S. Khubiar

#20. It took me many years to understand that my identity is more Israeli than Jewish.

Mili Avital

#21. Oskar pushes away the blanket. Lies looking down at his naked body. His naked body that will give the lie to any false identity papers he manages to procure. Has anyone, he wonders, ever explained to me the significance of circumcision? Why I have had to sacrifice to God a piece of my sexual organ.

Glenn Haybittle

#22. As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Lance Morrow

#23. YOU find some one parade all of a sudden some -ism- as new and revolutionary socialism, for example.

Sathya Sai Baba

#24. I choose to be American, I choose to live in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, I choose to have Puerto Rican/Jewish neighbors, and I choose to maintain my Chinese identity.

Eddie Huang

#25. Wherever the Jew is found he is a problem, a source of unhappiness to himself and to those around him. Ever since he has been scattered in your midst he has had to maintain a continuous struggle for the conservation of his identity.

Maurice Samuel

#26. 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

#27. I hadn't known up to that moment that I had a surname that was recognizably Jewish, or that people named Marx would be unwelcome somewhere in the United States because of it.

Elinor Lipman

#28. I definitely have a strong sense of my Jewish and Israeli identity. I did my two-year military service; I was brought up in a very Jewish, Israeli family environment, so of course my heritage is very important to me.

Gal Gadot

#29. As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Gautama Buddha

#30. Most of the Jewish writer friends I have are American, and I feel closer to them because they're always obsessed with one issue - identity: what does it mean to be an American Jew?

Etgar Keret

#31. I thought those were others. Soon, I was to learn that they were us.

Ralph Webster

#32. The way I see it, religion, has done our family more harm than good. For me, faith has never been a source of comfort... For herself, Mela always missed having that sense of identity. She had a longing to belong... Long ago, we found that compromise.

Ralph Webster

#33. I am proud to state that every national Jewish organization we support enforces non-discrimination practices around sexual orientation and that more than 70 percent have written policies in place covering gender identity and expression.

Lynn Schusterman

#34. My family spans many world religions, ethnicities and nationalities. The truth is that I don't have one identity. I'm Scottish, British, European, Humanist, Atheist and in part at least, culturally Jewish.

Sara Sheridan

#35. It is not only a matter, I believe, of religious observance and practice. To me, being Jewish means and has always meant being proud to be part of a people that has maintained its distinct identity for more than 2,000 years, with all the pain and torment that has been inflicted upon it

Golda Meir

#36. When Germany and England and America will long have lost their present identity or purpose, we shall still be strong in ours.

Maurice Samuel

#37. Nowhere have the forces of intolerance been displayed less tolerantly than in the area of religious speech and practice.

Cal Thomas