Natalie Portman Quotes

I am, as a human being, an opponent of nationalism, but as a Jew, I am from today a supporter of the Zionist effort

When Jews left Judaism, they didn't stop being religious. They simply swapped God-based Judaism for godless secular humanism and leftism. For left-wing Jews, Judaism is their ethnicity; leftism is their religion.

I do not want to be misunderstood that you need a dose of persecution in order, really, to have a sense of your identity. Otherwise, you know, there would be no American Jews. Even if you're not strictly, fiercely Orthodox, you commit yourselves to a community of memory.

In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.

Judaism is important to me from a tribal point of view.

My dad's Israeli. He was born in Baghdad to Iraqi Jews. Then, at age two, his parents wanted to move to their homeland and he grew up in Israel. I've been there twice, once as a baby and once when I was 15.

I've never understood people who say they're not a practicing Jew. You never hear a black guy say he's not a practicing African-American. What does it even mean?

The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.

If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?

I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.

I'm not really a Jew; just Jew-ish, not the whole hog.

Myself, first of all, I am a Jew. And that is the most important thing for me.

Many Jews are not Zionists and many non-Jews are. Zionism is a political movement, not a race. To say Zionism is the Jewish people is like saying the Democratic Party is the American people. Jewish people who oppose Zionism, however, have been given a very hard time.

I am not a Hollywood Jew and I won't ever be one.

Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that their personal identity and their ethnic identity are not one and the same.

Our people represent a tapestry of interwoven identities embodying the rich diversity of what it means to be Jewish.

America is the result of the amalgam of three people: Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans

For thousands of years, we Jews have been nourished and sustained by a yearning for our historic land …. I believed and to this day still believe in our people's eternal and historic right to this entire land.

I come from Israel, where most of the population is dark-haired, dark-skinned, dark-eyed.

American Jews are no longer a homogenous minority; we come in all colors and from all corners of the world.

I was a very clumsy Jewish kid.

In the New York metropolitan area, you can find Jews from just about every Jewish cultural community in the world.

More than Israel has kept the Sabbath, the Sabbath has kept Israel.

A Jew is anyone who says he is.

I am Jewish. My real name is Chris Tuckenberg. A lot of people don't know about that.