Matisyahu Quotes

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.

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.

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

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 happily immersed in Jewish culture and community.

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.

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.

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

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 never paid much attention to being Jewish when I was a kid. In fact, I'd say my religion was more surfing than Judaism - that's what I spent most of my time doing.

I was brought up a Jew but, you know, that way of being Jewish - the New York way. We were stomach Jews; we were Jewish-joke Jews. We were bagel Jews. We didn't go to synagogue. I'm frightened of synagogue to this day.

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

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

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

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

I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral or a Bar Mitzvah.

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

I consider myself more of a cultural Jew; I'm not religious in any way.

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.

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

I'm not super, super religious. If this is okay to say, I'm more culturally Jewish.

I have a very strong sense of who I am as a Jew and a strong sense of belonging.