Elizabeth Taylor Quotes

My wife who is non-Jewish regrets it all the time that I can say these terrible things about fellow Jews and she can't.

My father was ethnically Jewish, but his family converted to Catholicism.

Nor marry to unbelievers until they believe.

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.

Now that Marilyn Monroe is kosher, Arthur Miller can eat her.

My mother converted to Catholicism to marry my father.

Over the course of history, many Jews have ultimately embraced Christianity - some forcibly, some in order to advance in non-Jewish society, some out of wholehearted belief.

For Jews, the paradigmatic convert is the biblical Ruth, who sought not only a new relationship with God but also a new nationality.

I try to be a good shiksa wife. I go to Central Synagogue in New York.

My wife and I have what's known as mixed marriage. I am a Methodist, she is a Muslim. So we're keeping it in the M's.

My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.

My mother's family is Christian: her father was a Baptist lay preacher, and her brother, in a leap of Anglican upward mobility, became a vicar in the Church of Wales. But my mother converted to Islam on marrying my father. She was not obliged to; Muslim men are free to marry ahl al-kitab, or people of the Book - among them, Jews and Christians.

I saw Islam as the correct way to live, and I chose to try to live that way.

Intermarriage is not a calamity but an opportunity for both a Jewish and non-Jewish partner to learn.

These days the Jews have reached their dreams. They’re rich; they reign supreme…O Egyptians, here’s my advice to you. Turn Jewish, since the heavens have turned Jew!

Conversion to Christianity was my ticket of admission into European culture

The Chief Rabbinate holds a monopoly on all Jewish marriages in Israel. There is no civil marriage, which leaves an Orthodox marriage as the only option for Jewish couples in Israel.

We Muslims in the West, like Jews before us, grapple with the same issues that Jews of the past did: integration or isolation, tradition or reform, intermarriage or intra-marriage.

A lot of close friends and family members have got married through online dating. I don't think it would be wise for me to do it.

My husband and I have been married for 15 years. He is a priest in the Church of Sweden. I have a faith, but it's not so formal. We made our peace with that.

My husband stands on his own two feet; my religion is not a factor. God created and decided for me to be born in a Christian family. It's not every day that a Lebanese marries an Afghan. I think God's hand is also in there.

I wasn't raised a Catholic, but Yolanthe was, and I wanted to get more involved in her religion.

If marriage isn't something for me, but I like living with someone or being committed, I can choose this other path as long as she's okay with it but I would hardly say that that should be what other people do. Some people want that, that written paper, that commitment and that means something to them. And I don't in the least look down on it.

You know. I don't think I'm gonna be Jewish for very long.

The Jew almost never marries a Christian woman; it is the Christian who marries a Jewess.