Ephraim Mirvis Quotes

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.

When my children were born, I made the choice I wanted them to be raised as Jews and to have a Jewish education.

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

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.

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.

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

I believe in Judaism, I was raised a Jew, I'm happy to be one - or proud to be one.

As a traditional Jew, I have benefited personally from the hospitality of Chabad Hasidim on many occasions, and I marvel at how many Jews Chabad has brought back to their primordial home.

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

Jews have become the teachers of men in great things.

My Judaism has always been a great pride with me.

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

I grew up attending a Conservative day school, Solomon Schechter, until I was about 14, and going to a Reconstructionist synagogue.

I am a Jew. Those are four words of pride. My Jewishness is as deep as my genes.

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

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

I believe young people hold the key to building a vibrant global Jewish future, and we must invest in their passion and potential to do so.

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.

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.

We had a Jewish school; we had a Jewish club. My father was a main donor. My mother was on the committee of the school.

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

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.

Most of the Jewish writer friends I have are American, and I feel closer to them because they're always obsessed with one issue - identity: what does it mean to be an American Jew?