Ato Essandoh Quotes

I went to bar mitzvahs as a kid. I had a lot of classmates who are Jewish.

I was not a very good Jew. I never practised what Judaism tells you to do, to teach your kids all about Judaism.

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.

My husband is Jewish.

My grandmother was a nanny for an Orthodox Jewish family, and she would come home and tell us about that.

Judaism is in all my books.

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

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

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

I was Jewish, through and through, although in our house that didn't mean a whole lot. We never went to synagogue. I never had a Bar Mitzvah. We didn't keep kosher or observe the Sabbath. In fact, I'm not so sure I would have known what the Sabbath looked like if it passed me on the street, so how could I observe it?

You are not practicing Judaism if you celebrate Christmas.

People expect someone with the name 'Israel Horovitz' to be a little old man with sideburns carrying a Torah.

I've always enjoyed the communal side of Jewish life.

The town I grew up in was at least fifty percent Jewish, so every weekend in the 7th grade, we went to Bar and Bat Mitzvahs.

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.

I do love the idea of ritual. I'm a very ritualistic person. I have to wash my face twice, and on the second wash before I rinse, I brush my teeth, then I rinse, then I floss, then I put on moisturizer. I'm ritualistic. Jewishness is very ritualistic.

I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.

I am an observant Jew! Now my secret is out.

I was a Jewish rabbinical student for 12 years, and studied the Bible all the time.

I didn't go to Hebrew school.

When you have a Jewish mother who has a very strong Jewish family, it's very ethnic in its practices. Eating brisket, the food and the family and the interconnectedness for better or worse.

Why don't Jews drink? It interferes with their suffering.

Judaism has always been a strong interest of mine. My two sons speak Hebrew and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live.

All of my friends on the street we're Jewish. I went to a lot of bar and bat mitzvahs. I even learned a little Hebrew.

Just like I am a food snob, I am also a rabbinical snob.