Ezra Furman Quotes

We are committed to raising our children as Jews. I knew that it had to start with me at a greater level, at a deeper level, if it was going to be a meaningful example to them.

I am very proud of being Jewish. I went to a Jewish school all my life.

When my children were born, I made the choice I wanted them to be raised as Jews and to have a Jewish education.

I'm a good Jewish boy from Edison, New Jersey, so I went and saw 'Fiddler on the Roof' because you have to: that's part of your bar mitzvah experience.

I went to Hebrew school but opted out of a bar mitzvah.

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

If you are trying to raise a child to be a Jew, then you have to create a sense of Jewish identity. You really weaken that sense of identity if you celebrate two religions.

We had a Jewish school; we had a Jewish club. My father was a main donor. My mother was on the committee of the school.

If you are a Rothschild, a Rosenwald, a Gimbel, or even a Waldbaum, growing up Jewish can be a rich experience. For the rest of us, it could be just so-so.

I've liked being Jewish in America - there's a secular version of Jewishness there that's more about bagels and jokes than going to synagogues.

I had a bat mitzvah, was confirmed, went to Jewish summer camp, I go to temple for the High Holy Days. I think, like most people in their early 20s, I kind of strayed away from it. I think once I have a family I'll be back into it.

Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.

I grew up in a reform Jewish family in St. Louis. Our idea of Judaism was no bar mitzvahs and a Christmas tree that had a skirt at the bottom embroidered with the names of my grandparents.

I grew up pretty secular. I went to public school, and all the Jews that I knew, none of them were religious. While probably half of my friends were Jewish, they were all secular Jews. We went to Hebrew school, we knew we were Jewish, but it wasn't a major part of our existence.

I grew up happily immersed in Jewish culture and community.

I just went to Hebrew school, had a bar mitzvah. No crazy weird Jewish cult.

Growing up in the San Fernando Valley, I grew up around a lot of Jews. I grew up culturally Jewish, ethnically Jewish, but without real belief and without a strong faith.

My six handbooks to Jewish life and lifecycle events mostly followed the trajectory of my adult Jewish life.

Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.

Chabad is very important because without Jewish education, Diaspora Jewry would disappear.

I believe in Judaism, I was raised a Jew, I'm happy to be one - or proud to be one.

We have our own values; we build our own special, our JEWISH life - and we are proud, so very proud.

On another level, I want to mention that I have a strong Jewish identity and - over the years - have been involved in several Jewish projects, such as the establishment of a strong program of Judaic Studies at the University of California in San Diego.

I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I grew up in a very Jewish neighbourhood and thought the whole world was like that. My parents were secular, but I went to a very Orthodox Jewish school, and I really got into it. I found it all fascinating, and I was just kind of really attracted to the metaphysical questions.

My father belonged to a Jewish social club.