Harry Triguboff Quotes

I'm no more or less Jewish than any other Jew. Israel has survived because we haven't forgot our Judaism, but there are some Israelis who did forget.

My purpose is to have American Jews look away from the success story with which they've cheered themselves up, and to have them remember the classical tradition, whatever it is.

What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judaism inculcates? The American Jewish community is not going to survive by lining up against its common enemy.

Chabad is very important because without Jewish education, Diaspora Jewry would disappear.

Though I am not religious in the least, I am very proud to be Jewish.

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 generation after another is drifting away from anything Jewish.

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

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.

It is not wealth, it is not station, it is not social standing and ambition which can make us worthy of the Jewish name, of the Jewish heritage. To be worthy of them, we must live up to and with them. We must regard ourselves their custodians.

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

In North America, the greatest threat to the Jewish people is not the external force of antisemitism, but the internal forces of apathy, inertia and ignorance of our own heritage.

I'm a Jew. I'm fascinated by our culture and our history, by what made us the people we are. It influences every breath I take. It informs and guides me. Without it, I'd just be a vacuum.

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

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.

Being among my people is a delight. We Jews live among ourselves. I love it.

There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond territory, it is something we all have in common.

Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.

I have never talked publicly or privately about the Jewish people, including conversations with President Nixon, except in the most positive terms.

We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.

I think that every Saturday, we ought to say, 'My father's a Jew, my mother was a Jew, and I'm a Jew,' with great pride.

I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.

I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it.

I feel very Jewish, and I feel very grateful to be Jewish. But I don't believe in God or anything to do with the Jewish religion.