David Sax Quotes

Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies.

Of course I love cooking Eastern European food because I'm a Jew, but I also love making roast chicken. I love making Hungarian goulash. There are a lot of egg noodles in my cooking.

As a Jew, even if you were not born in Poland, the very name, Poland, gives rise to a shuddering in your body and a longing in your heart. This country was the breeding ground for the soul of the Jewish nation, and unfortunately, also grounds to the largest Jewish cemetery.

We are one family, and the connection between all Jews, all over the world, is very important to the State of Israel.

'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.

Admitting that we ourselves are bar mitzvah boys is our way of letting non-Jews as well as Jews in the audience know that everything we're doing is meant in good fun; we're having fun with our background and don't want to be taken in the wrong way.

Food is sort of like the Jewish sense of humor, a defense mechanism. It is one of the things that helped the Jews survive through 2,000 years of an often very harsh Diaspora.

My two most fervent interests are pop music and traditional Judaism. Hell of a pair of fervent interests.

My husband is Jewish.

I love the nation of Israel. I love Jewish people. My King was Jewish, and I embrace that.

Jewishness is a very big part of my identity. I am a proud Jew, I would say, who doesn't practice very actively.

My mother is Jewish. We celebrated all the Jewish holidays at home.

German Jews don't show their emotions in public.

I have a massive head of hair: it's a Jew 'fro. It's living and kicking.

I went to bar mitzvahs as a kid. I had a lot of classmates who are Jewish.

I guess you could say I'm kind of Jewish but not really.

The Jews are always up for a laugh.

Judaism is a big part of my background, obviously, and my reality.

The Jewish state has so much to teach diaspora Jews about resilience, innovation, energy, and optimism.

To have knowledge of Judaism and to be a religious Jew or an interested Jew, is to have a doorway into a worldview that is entirely alien to the rest of the world's worldview.

I grew up so conservative. I grew up as an orthodox Jew.

I love being Jewish, but I think that our generation is the first generation that crossed that line between being a cultural versus a practicing Jew.

I respect Israel as hugely special, especially given all the sensitivities around it. The Jews managed to build a country, to elevate it, without anything except people and brains.

In the New York metropolitan area, you can find Jews from just about every Jewish cultural community in the world.

I've never talked about being Jewish in a promo ever. But my name is just so blatantly a Jewish name. It's not like my name is Maxwell Jacob Smith.