quotes about Judaism
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We have no problems with Jews and highly respect Judaism as a holy religion.
-- Akbar Hashemi RafsanjaniSource : "Iranian Press Defiant Over Israel". news.bbc.co.uk. October 29, 2005.
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My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.
-- Anita Diament -
Do you know what Christianity is? We believe your religion [Judaism], but you [Jews] have to obey.
-- Ann Coulter -
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 -
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Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism, Christianity would not exist.
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Having people be afraid of you comes with responsibility.
-- Daniel Gordis -
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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 -
Some call it Marxism — I call it Judaism.
-- Genrikh Yagoda -
Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
-- Golda Meir -
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 -
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I love religions and find them fascinating, and I find Judaism very beautiful. It's enriched my life enormously.
-- Isla FisherSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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A good journalistic organisation upholds four values: inform, reflect, crusade, connect.
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We are not an isolated insulated community anymore
-- Jane Eisner -
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 -
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I'm not alive to be right. I'm here to care, to heal, to understand
-- Jonathan Wittenberg -
There is no spirituality without ethics
-- Jonathan Wittenberg -
"We seem to have thought of everything - except the Arabs"
-- Judah Leon Magnes -
Judaism tells us in many ways how to listen and say 'Hinneni', I am here.
-- Julia Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger -
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I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version.
-- Lionel Blue -
Can it be I am the only Jew residing in Danville, Kentuchy, looking for matzoh in the Safeway and the A & P?
-- Maxine KuminSource : Maxine Kumin (2000). “Always Beginning: Essays on a Life in Poetry”
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Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn.
-- Michael Novak -
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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 MendelssohnSource : Moses Mendelssohn (2011). “Moses Mendelssohn: Writings on Judaism, Christianity, and the Bible”, p.87, UPNE
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I hardly exaggerate. Jewish life consists of two elements: Extracting money and protesting.
-- Nahum Goldmann -
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 HirschSource : Samson Raphael Hirsch (1962). “Horeb: A Philosophy of Jewish Laws and Observations”, London : Soncino Press
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I realized that Judaism required me to give up something that meant too much to me...Bacon cheeseburgers.
-- Shawnee Smith -
Judaism is important to me from a tribal point of view.
-- Vidal Sassoon -
If this be the Messiah, then I do not wish to see his coming
-- Ahad Ha'am -
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Judaism teaches everyone tolerance towards everyone.
-- Csanad SzegediSource : Source: www.salon.com
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As I'm getting to know Judaism, my view of the whole world is changing.
-- Csanad SzegediSource : Source: www.salon.com
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I would not speak of Judaism as a Talmudic or Rabbinic religion. It's a Biblical religion.
-- Frank Moore Cross -
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 -
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We realize that Judaism as a faith can survive only in an atmosphere of general faith.
-- Louis Finkelstein -
[My mother] wanted to go as deep as possible into the world of religion. And that took her into Judaism.
-- Trevor Noah -
Judaism is absolutely incompatible with the abandonment of the Torah.
-- Solomon SchechterSource : Solomon Schechter (1908). “Inaugural Address of Solomon Schechter as President of the Faculty of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America: Delivered November 20, 1902”
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In Judaism social action is religiousness, and religiousness implies social action.
-- Leo Baeck