Judaism famous quotes

We have no problems with Jews and highly respect Judaism as a holy religion.
-- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

#Problem #Holy #Judaism

My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.
-- Anita Diament

#Wedding #Husband #Judaism

Do you know what Christianity is? We believe your religion [Judaism], but you [Jews] have to obey.
-- Ann Coulter

#Believe #Christianity #Judaism

Judaism to me, as badly as I practiced it, what I've always loved about it was its total embrace of complexity, its admission of unknowability.
-- Ben Marcus

#Embrace #Judaism #Complexity

Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism, Christianity would not exist.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Christianity #Judaism

In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism.
-- Chaim Potok

#Calvinism #Judaism

The Tanakh says John Lennon is wrong.
-- Daniel Gordis

#Lennon #Judaism

Having people be afraid of you comes with responsibility.
-- Daniel Gordis

#Responsibility #People #Judaism

I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because it is so grounded in legalism, and adherence to rituals.
-- Fred Melamed

#Ignorant #Adherence #Judaism

Some call it Marxism — I call it Judaism.
-- Genrikh Yagoda

#Judaism #Marxism

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
-- Golda Meir

#Luxury #Pessimism #Judaism

Judaism is not a religion. At best, it is a racial credo, designed to maintain racial cohesion, in this case the Khazar bloodlines.
-- Henry Makow

#Cohesion #Cases #Judaism

I love religions and find them fascinating, and I find Judaism very beautiful. It's enriched my life enormously.
-- Isla Fisher

#Beautiful #Judaism #Very Beautiful

A good journalistic organisation upholds four values: inform, reflect, crusade, connect.
-- Jane Eisner

#Four #Crusades #Judaism

We are not an isolated insulated community anymore
-- Jane Eisner

#Community #Judaism #Isolated

OK, well maybe I have to get back to Judaism. In the sense that if I look at me and my forebears forever stretching back to I don't know, whenever there's no sense of place and therefore no sense of nationality.
-- Janet Suzman

#Forever #Looks #Judaism

I'm not alive to be right. I'm here to care, to heal, to understand
-- Jonathan Wittenberg

#Alive #Care #Judaism

There is no spirituality without ethics
-- Jonathan Wittenberg

#Ethics #Spirituality #Judaism

"We seem to have thought of everything - except the Arabs"
-- Judah Leon Magnes

#Israel #Judaism #Apartheid

Judaism tells us in many ways how to listen and say 'Hinneni', I am here.
-- Julia Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger

#Way #Judaism

I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version.
-- Lionel Blue

#Judaism #Infant

Can it be I am the only Jew residing in Danville, Kentuchy, looking for matzoh in the Safeway and the A & P?
-- Maxine Kumin

#Judaism #Jew

Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn.
-- Michael Novak

#Christian #Hopeful #Judaism

Judaism is an historical religion.
-- Moses Hess

#Historical #Judaism

Judaism was not a religion but a law.
-- Moses Mendelssohn

#Law #Judaism #Jew

Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood.
-- Moses Mendelssohn

#Revelations #Salvation #Judaism

I hardly exaggerate. Jewish life consists of two elements: Extracting money and protesting.
-- Nahum Goldmann

#Two #Elements #Judaism

It's not how much or how little you have that makes you great or small, but how much or how little you are with what you have.
-- Samson Raphael Hirsch

#Littles #Judaism

I realized that Judaism required me to give up something that meant too much to me...Bacon cheeseburgers.
-- Shawnee Smith

#Giving Up #Too Much #Judaism

Judaism is a conspiracy against all races.
-- Tom Metzger

#Race #Conspiracy #Judaism

Judaism is important to me from a tribal point of view.
-- Vidal Sassoon

#Views #Important #Judaism

If this be the Messiah, then I do not wish to see his coming
-- Ahad Ha'am

#Israel #Wish #Judaism

Judaism teaches everyone tolerance towards everyone.
-- Csanad Szegedi

#Tolerance #Judaism #Teach

As I'm getting to know Judaism, my view of the whole world is changing.
-- Csanad Szegedi

#Views #World #Judaism

I would not speak of Judaism as a Talmudic or Rabbinic religion. It's a Biblical religion.
-- Frank Moore Cross

#Biblical #Speak #Judaism

The Hebrew Bible defines Judaism. It's certainly true that the Talmudic interpretations become authoritative and normative, but they are interpretations of the Hebrew Bible. So that is always there.
-- Frank Moore Cross

#Hebrew #Interpretation #Judaism

We realize that Judaism as a faith can survive only in an atmosphere of general faith.
-- Louis Finkelstein

#Atmosphere #Realizing #Judaism

[My mother] wanted to go as deep as possible into the world of religion. And that took her into Judaism.
-- Trevor Noah

#Mother #World #Judaism

Some call it Marxism — I call it Judaism.
-- Genrikh Yagoda

#Judaism #Marxism #Jew

Judaism is absolutely incompatible with the abandonment of the Torah.
-- Solomon Schechter

#Abandonment #Torah #Judaism

In Judaism social action is religiousness, and religiousness implies social action.
-- Leo Baeck

#Action #Social #Judaism