Edith Stein Quotes

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.

Catholic, which I was until I reached the age of reason

I never outgrew my conversion to atheism at 13, but at various times was a serious cultural Jew.

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

I was real religious when I was young. I wanted to be a missionary.

My family was Jehovah's Witnesses, which is a really tough religion. It kind of deterred me from religion for a long time. They still practice, but I don't. But I always remained spiritual, and had a belief that there is a God. I'm trying to find my way, you know?

I'm Jewish, but I'm totally not.

It's been a while since I've been to church, but you don't get unborn again.

I believed in God my whole life, and then strayed away from it in my teen-age years, until recently.

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've begun to think like a Jew, to feel like a Jew.

Myself, first of all, I am a Jew. And that is the most important thing for me.

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

I've been a religious, spiritual person for a long time.

You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.

While I am very much Jewish 'identified,' I'm not a very religious person.

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

My wife is Jewish, and therefore, it's my children's birthright to be Jewish.

I have a great identification with Judaism as a religion and as a culture, and all the values that created such a great history, and the Jewish contribution to the betterment of all humanity.

I am very proud of being Jewish.

I grew up an Orthodox Jew, and now I'm not an Orthodox Jew. So I have sympathy for people who lose their faith.

I'm proud to be Jewish.

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 like being Jewish and I married a Jewish girl. It's like a way of life and it's good to be able to instil some of that sense of being in your kids. All of that makes me seem as though I am quite observant but actually the flipside of this is I don't know if there is a God or not.

There was no question of ever sending us to Jewish schools... They wanted us out there. They wanted us to be lawyers and doctors. They wanted us out of the religious thing, apart from that ethnic bonding.