All Quotes

Jewish immigration in the 20th century was fueled by the Holocaust, which destroyed most of the European Jewish community. The migration made the United States the home of the largest Jewish population in the world.
‐‐ Jon Porter

Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict.
‐‐ Daniel Barenboim

Jewish persecution is a historical memory of the present generation and people fear it in the present day, and that's why those references are so much more powerful. I just understand that better now.
‐‐ Gregg Easterbrook

Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the wine.
‐‐ Geraldine Brooks

Jewish status is defined by the divine election of Israel and his descendants. One does not become a Jew by one's own volition.
‐‐ David Novak

Jewish students, by culture and by ability and by the very nature of their liveliness, make a university a much more habitable place in terms of intellectual life.
‐‐ Gordon Gee

Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist.
‐‐ Moshe Dayan

Jewish voters are not one homogenous block.
‐‐ Ken Livingstone

Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which two peoples are struggling for the same piece of land.
‐‐ Jack Schwartz

Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.
‐‐ Emma Lazarus

Jews are underdogs - not in my world, obviously, they're not.
‐‐ Chelsea Handler

Jews bear children not only because the carnal election of Abraham must continue. For Jews, raising children is essential to living a rounded ethical life.
‐‐ Meir Soloveichik

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

Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
‐‐ Gore Vidal

Jews can build in New York, Moscow and Paris, but in our own land, we can't build? That's nuts.
‐‐ Naftali Bennett

Jews can live their own life as Jews and yet be part of a different country.
‐‐ Simon Schama

Jews cannot be apathetic when hundreds of thousands of refugees are searching for safe haven.
‐‐ Isaac Herzog

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

Jews don't care about ancient rivalries. We worry about humidity in Miami.
‐‐ Evan Sayet

Jews focus on the Torah, the embodiment of God's will; Christians, on an embodied God.
‐‐ Meir Soloveichik

Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.
‐‐ M. H. Abrams

Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user's manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things.
‐‐ Jonathan Safran Foer

Jews have a tendency to become comedians.
‐‐ Sacha Baron Cohen

Jews have always thought that having someone elevated with his head above the grass was not good for the Jews. I never felt that way. I believe that you have to stand up.
‐‐ Ed Koch

Jews have been in Egypt since Biblical times, and Alexandria had once been, at least partially, a Jewish city.
‐‐ Meir Kahane

Jews have been living in Jerusalem way before British people were living in London.
‐‐ Naftali Bennett

Jews have deep respect for the Queen and the royal family. We say a prayer for them every Sabbath in synagogue. We recite a special blessing on seeing the Queen.
‐‐ Jonathan Sacks

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

Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.
‐‐ Janet Suzman

Jews have long experience with Christians who have tried to help us in putting our Judaism behind us.
‐‐ David Novak

Jews have never, ever, ever wished to be separate, unless they were forced to be.
‐‐ Simon Schama

Jews have not only become equal citizens in Western democracies, they have become leading citizens. And, of course, the reestablishment of the State of Israel has given Jews a political presence in the world they have not had since biblical times.
‐‐ David Novak

Jews have suffered persecution from misguided Christians who tortured the Jews for their part in killing Christ. These Christians forgot that Christ died because of the sins of all men.
‐‐ Sargent Shriver

Jews know this in their bones. Our community could not exist for a day without its volunteers. They are the lifeblood of our organizations, whether they involve welfare, youth, education, care of the sick and elderly, or even protection against violence and abuse.
‐‐ Jonathan Sacks

Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, 'What happened?' but rather, 'How then shall I live?' And it's only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins.
‐‐ Jonathan Sacks

Jews seek to cleave to the will of God as set forth in the Bible and, particularly, the Pentateuch, with its rabbinic commentaries, the Mishnah and Talmud.
‐‐ Meir Soloveichik

Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear.
‐‐ Jonathan Sacks

Jews were asked when life begins. For them it's when they finally graduate medical school.
‐‐ Evan Sayet

Jews, when they get successful, they will help their people.
‐‐ Donald Sterling

JFK inherited three recessions from the Dwight D. Eisenhower years. And he wound up slashing tax rates across the board, for upper, middle and lower incomes as well as corporate investment. That's Kennedy the Democrat.
‐‐ Lawrence Kudlow

JFK is a role I've always dreamt of playing.
‐‐ Rob Lowe

JFK used to say the bishops and the cardinals were all Republicans, but the nuns were Democrats! I sort of believe that too.
‐‐ Kitty Kelley

Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits.
‐‐ Christopher Marlowe

Jigsaw Lady is the working title of a science fiction novel I've had in my head for darn near 15 years. I think I'll start work on it next year (in all my spare time) but I'd like to get it finished some day.
‐‐ Raymond E. Feist

'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.
‐‐ Feisal Abdul Rauf

Jihad expands Islam's domain by any means available.
‐‐ Ralph Peters

Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one's community.
‐‐ John O. Brennan

Jihad is obligatory for the Muslims.
‐‐ Abu Bakr

Jihad is the Afghan bling.
‐‐ Aman Mojadidi