Amy Heckerling Quotes

I'm Jewish. Went to a Jewish school.

Being Jewish is a culture and a religion; we have food, music, and land specific to us.

When you have a Jewish mother who has a very strong Jewish family, it's very ethnic in its practices. Eating brisket, the food and the family and the interconnectedness for better or worse.

Judaism is a brilliant religion, and the main function of Judaism is to learn and read.

All of my friends on the street we're Jewish. I went to a lot of bar and bat mitzvahs. I even learned a little Hebrew.

My husband is Jewish.

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

In terms of my religious preference, if a year goes by and I don't have a Seder or I don't light the menorah, I feel a loss.

I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.

One of the stranger things about me is that I was raised as an Orthodox Jew. I went to a yeshiva until I was thirteen years old and spoke fluent Hebrew.

I get invited to an awful lot of Jewish functions.

Judaism has always been a strong interest of mine. My two sons speak Hebrew and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live.

Judaism is an intellectually based religion, and the single most important theme is that of study …. Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study.

I'm Jewish, and so religion, to me, is a kind of moral code and a kind of history.

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

You are not practicing Judaism if you celebrate Christmas.

When I was little, I went to a Jewish community day school for most of elementary school.

Judaism is in all my books.

Just the little bit that I've learned about Judaism, I didn't realize how, dare I say, intense that religion is as far as all of the things that you have to know and remember and the ritualism of it.

I never thought I'd play an orthodox Jewish man.

My brothers were rabbis. My grandfather was a rabbi.

When I am at home, I never go near the synagogue unless, say, there is a bar or bat mitzvah involving the children of friends. But when I am traveling, in a country where Jewish life is scarce or endangered, I often make a visit to the shul.

I was raised in the church.

I grew up in a household that had its roots in church and community and culture and poetry and song and in the arts. Those aspects certainly shaped what I do.

People expect someone with the name 'Israel Horovitz' to be a little old man with sideburns carrying a Torah.