John David Washington Quotes

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.

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'm Jewish. Went to a Jewish school.

Judaism is in all my books.

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.

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

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.

I never thought I'd play an orthodox Jewish man.

My mother is Jewish. We celebrated all the Jewish holidays at home.

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.

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

When I was little, I went to a Jewish community day school for most of elementary school.

I get invited to an awful lot of Jewish functions.

I was bar mitzvahed at Beth Shalom, and I had trouble. I didn't quite get it all.

I went through a little hippy dippy program at Brandeis and was bat mizvahed by the rabbi who married my parents. We celebrated the High Holidays and had the traditional Rosh Hashanah dinner.

My husband is Jewish.

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

I was bar mitzvahed, which was hard. I feel it was the hardest thing I ever had to do; harder than making a movie. It was a lot of studying, you know. I wasn't a perfect Hebrew reader, and also, they say when you're reading your Torah portion, you're not supposed to memorize it. It turned out very tricky.

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

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

I've had a bris, was Bar Mitzvahed and, on occasion, have referred to a temple as a shul. I've never denied it, nor have I disguised it. I am, indeed, a Jew.

I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.