Ari Shaffir Quotes

The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitting comfortably into American or any other society.

The whole upbringing was interesting because we grew up Orthodox Jews all the way until we were teenagers.

No one in my family is Jewish; no one was raised as a Jew, me included.

I was brought up very conservatively. My father was positively Victorian - I wasn't even allowed to wear my hair down.

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.

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.

The whole culture of my background was deeply Conservative.

I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.

I grew up in a very Catholic household. We were pretty conservative.

I grew up in a very strict Pentecostal household.

I came from the most orthodox background you could ask for.

Although I was raised Jewish, my upbringing didn't include any formal religious education or training.

I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to turn my back on a great and noble heritage.

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

I came from a religious, homeschooled background; I had conventional views across the board.

I'd had a strict religious education.

My parents were very strict Muslims, and they weren't shy about showing it.

I came from a very military, Christian, Southern upbringing.

I was raised orthodox Muslim. Very sheltered, very conservative.

I was adopted into an extremely right-wing religious family.

I will decide who is a Jew!

I'm a cultural Christian in the same way many of my friends call themselves cultural Jews or cultural Muslims.

We are a mixed marriage, so our kids were raised with a little less Judaism than I was raised with.

I came from a very conservative Catholic family.