Harry Triguboff Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

On another level, I want to mention that I have a strong Jewish identity and - over the years - have been involved in several Jewish projects, such as the establishment of a strong program of Judaic Studies at the University of California in San Diego.

If you are a Rothschild, a Rosenwald, a Gimbel, or even a Waldbaum, growing up Jewish can be a rich experience. For the rest of us, it could be just so-so.

I grew up in a reform Jewish family in St. Louis. Our idea of Judaism was no bar mitzvahs and a Christmas tree that had a skirt at the bottom embroidered with the names of my grandparents.

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

I grew up pretty secular. I went to public school, and all the Jews that I knew, none of them were religious. While probably half of my friends were Jewish, they were all secular Jews. We went to Hebrew school, we knew we were Jewish, but it wasn't a major part of our existence.

[Jews have] a particular need, evidently greater than that of any others, to pay more careful attention to education.

I grew up happily immersed in Jewish culture and community.

I grew up on the North Shore of Chicago, and I don't think I had a friend that wasn't Jewish. I spent more time in a temple than any other house of worship. I've been to about 150 bar and bat mitzvahs.

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.

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

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

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

As a journalist, I've always treaded carefully about being Jewish and caring a lot about Israel and having that not become too big of an issue that could affect my journalism. But I also don't think it's essential to my Judaism, as I think it might be for some other people.

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.

My six handbooks to Jewish life and lifecycle events mostly followed the trajectory of my adult Jewish life.

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.

I've discovered my Jewishness late in life. And I've really enjoyed exploring that world.

I'm basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.