Top 31 Quotes About Jewishness
#1. The egg cream is psychologically the opposite of circumcision
it pleasurably reaffirms your Jewishness.
Mel Brooks
#2. We're so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction uses animals to define truly humane behavior.
Chuck Palahniuk
#3. I am a Jew. Those are four words of pride. My Jewishness is as deep as my genes.
Michael Douglas
#4. There must be some connection between the general nullity of Christie's prose and the tendency of her detectives to take Jewishness as a symptom of crime.
Christopher Hitchens
#5. It was was very important not to cast any pearls before swine
especially when one of the swine was trying to keep kosher.
Jaffe Cohen
#6. Jewishness cropped up and has never successfully been put down since.
P. J. O'Rourke
#7. The peculiarity for which they'd been hunted was simply their Jewishness. They were orphans of war, washed up on that little island in a tide of blood.
Ransom Riggs
#8. I do not like the darkness, but please don't make the light too strong.
Raphael Ben Levi
#9. Bubby scoffs at my question. A Jew can never be a goy, she says, even if they try their hardest to become one. They may dress like one, speak like one, live like one, but Jewishness is something that can never be erased. Even Hitler knew that.
Deborah Feldman
#10. I've discovered my Jewishness late in life. And I've really enjoyed exploring that world.
Beeban Kidron
#11. I'm a very ritualistic person. I have to wash my face twice, and on the second wash before I rinse, I brush my teeth, then I rinse, then I floss, then I put on moisturizer. I'm ritualistic. Jewishness is very ritualistic.
Sarah Silverman
#12. I and others like me believe Timerman was chosen by President Kirshner, first as Argentina's U.N. ambassador and then as foreign minister, among other reasons because he does not hide his Jewishness and his relations with the Jewish community and, therefore, can be a 'fig leaf' for her policy.
Pepe Eliaschev
#13. And so was the synagogue lifted and moved. It was in 1783 that wheels were attached, making the shtetl's ever-changing negotiation of Jewishness and Humanness less of a schlep.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#14. many saw their antifascism as a more important mark of personal identity than their Jewishness
Helen Graham
#15. Any time the character is in a moral quandary is interesting. That's been true from the Greeks on down.
Robert Sean Leonard
#16. One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
Gustave Flaubert
#17. All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.'
S. Ansky
#18. The German mass murder of the Jews ... brought my Jewishness to the surface.
Ben Hecht
#19. Bearing an eternal longing for Jewishness, I threw myself in all directions and left to work for another people. I am not one of those lucky ones raised in their own environment, whose work is normal.
S. Ansky
#20. A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple.
Philip Roth
#21. I feel myself alien from everyone; that is my kind of Jewishness.
Frederic Raphael
#22. Sexuality is a topic that has huge shifts in -society. Attitudes toward different sexualities change, but the actual sexuality of a human being is something that's consistent, and it's consistently interesting, and so people write about it.
Ben Barnes
#23. So," Art [Green] said, "it's hard to do Judaism and travel light. Judaism is not mostly about letting go, but mostly about attachment to God, through attachment to tradition, attachment to forms.
Rodger Kamenetz
#24. When God hears us worshipping Him, that alone makes Him feel worthwhile to be God!
Raphael Ben Levi
#25. In hindsight, I must have been looking for a way to write about Jewishness that somehow managed to minimize irony and self-deprecation.
Zachary Lazar
#26. I don't know anything about Angola, but Angola's in trouble.
Charles Barkley
#27. If one intended to pamper oneself, she had long believed, half measures weren't worth the trouble.
Jeff Mariotte
#28. Our Jewishness is not a creed, it is ourself, our totality. Indeed, it may be fairly said that the surest evidence of your lack of seriousness in religion is the fact that your religions are not national, that you are not compromised and dedicated, en masse, to the faith.
Maurice Samuel
#29. I've liked being Jewish in America - there's a secular version of Jewishness there that's more about bagels and jokes than going to synagogues.
Beeban Kidron
#30. The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
Socrates
#31. No conjunction can possibly occur, however fearful, however tremendous it may appear, from which a man by his own energy may not extricate himself, as a mariner by the rattling of his cannon can dissipate the impending waterspout.
Benjamin Disraeli
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