Susan Isaacs Quotes

I'm rather secular. I'm basically Jewish. But I think I'm Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.

Sometimes, growing up, I tried to be very Latina; I would change my voice... experiment with my hair a lot, trying to figure out who I was in a primarily white school.

I'm certainly not a practicing Jew. I would never claim, 'I'm Jewish.' That's not the first and foremost thing in my mind, as far as who I am as a person.

I've never dated a Jewish woman.

My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.

Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.

I've discovered my Jewishness late in life. And I've really enjoyed exploring that world.

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

Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx.

I feel more Jewish than I do Iranian.

I'm a fifth generation Jew from the South, and I would say that I felt this connection to my religion, but it wasn't a spiritual connection.

I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.

I mean, I talk about being Jewish a lot. It's funny because I do think of myself as Jewish ethnically, but I'm not religious at all. I have no religion.

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

When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.

I was a heathen Jewess with no bat mitzvah. Only the neurosis, the brown hair, and the self-deprecating humor. But being one of the only Jewish kids in my WASPy hometown definitely informed my perspective on the humor of being an outsider.

Growing up in Beverly Hills, everyone was Jewish, and I always secretly wanted to be.

Whenever I ask myself what blackness means to me, I am struck by the parallels that exist between my predicament and that of many Western Jews, who struggle with questions of assimilation at a time when marrying outside the faith is common.

I'm half-Russian, half-Polish and all Jewish.

There's no such thing as being a cultural Jew. You're religious or you're not.

The secular Jew is a figment; when a Jew becomes a secular person he is no longer a Jew.

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.

Bearing an eternal longing for Jewishness, I threw myself in all directions and left to work for another people. I am not one of those lucky ones raised in their own environment, whose work is normal.

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

As a journalist, I've always treaded carefully about being Jewish and caring a lot about Israel and having that not become too big of an issue that could affect my journalism. But I also don't think it's essential to my Judaism, as I think it might be for some other people.