Arthur Hertzberg Quotes

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

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.

In North America, the greatest threat to the Jewish people is not the external force of antisemitism, but the internal forces of apathy, inertia and ignorance of our own heritage.

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.

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.

I realized that we have to do everything we can to preserve the Jewish race. I'm very proud of it, and I think it's wonderful.

As a Jew, it is my historic responsibility to defend the Jewish people. I feel this responsibility for the survival of the Jewish people. We're not going to accept any decision by anybody else about security of the State of Israel. It is our role and only our role.

We are organizing Jewry for its coming destiny.

I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.

I've begun to think like a Jew, to feel like a Jew.

There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond territory, it is something we all have in common.

Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.

I think that every Saturday, we ought to say, 'My father's a Jew, my mother was a Jew, and I'm a Jew,' with great pride.

To be good Americans, we must be better Jews, and to be better Jews, we must become Zionists.

The real threat to Zionism is the dilution of quality, Jews know that they can land on their feet in any country of the world. The real test for us is to make Israel such an attractive place—such a cutting-edge place in human society, education, culture, science, quality of life that even Americans Jewish young people will want to come here.

I first discovered the Jewish People in America. I have seen any number of Jews, but the Jewish People I never met in Berlin or elsewhere in Germany. This Jewish People that I found in America came from … Eastern Europe generally. These men and women still retain a healthy ethnic feeling. It has not yet been destroyed by the process of atomization and dispersion.

The great question of our day is whether we, the Jewish people of Israel, can find within us the will to survive as a nation.

I have a very strong sense of who I am as a Jew and a strong sense of belonging.

I am very proud of being Jewish.

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

Jewishness is a very big part of my identity. I am a proud Jew, I would say, who doesn't practice very actively.

The Jewish state has so much to teach diaspora Jews about resilience, innovation, energy, and optimism.

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.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.