Jewish Faith Quotes

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

My mother told me once that she and my father agreed that I would not be brought up Jewish in Chicago. She had me going to a Methodist church.

I'm Jewish, not Catholic, but I'm a spiritual person.

I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral or a Bar Mitzvah.

[Referring to Judaism:] ... a gutter religion.

My grandfather was Orthodox, and he was religious, but neither of my parents were. Of course, as they got older, it seems like they get more religious the older they get, even though they're still not practicing Jews.

Though I am not religious in the least, I am very proud to be Jewish.

For so long as the Jew has even one ally, he will be convinced - in his smallness of mind - that his salvation came from that ally. It is only when he is alone - against all of his own efforts and frantic attempts - that he will, through no choice, be compelled to turn to G-d.

Jerusalem had never been the site of the Jewish Temple

I was a Jewish rabbinical student for 12 years, and studied the Bible all the time.

There's two identity markers I'm sure of, and one is, I'm Jewish. And the other is, I'm a writer. There's just no arguing with either thing. I'm just Jewish.

In our present national and international emergency, I consider it of importance that I clarify some general misconceptions concerning my attitude towards my fellow citizens of Jewish faith. I do not subscribe or support, directly or indirectly, any agitation which would promote antagonism against my Jewish fellow-citizens. I consider that the hate-mongering prevalent for some time in this country against the Jew is of a distinct disservice to our country, and to the peace and welfare of humanity…. It is my sincere hope that now in this country and throughout the world, when this war is finished and peace once again established, hatred of the Jew, commonly known as anti-Semitism.. .will cease for all time.

My brothers were rabbis. My grandfather was a rabbi.

My husband is Jewish.

I am just a plain Jew; I mean have no training.

One could grant to science and history everything they seem to teach regarding the age of the world, the origin of man, the impossibility of miracles, the impossibility of the immortality of the soul, and of the resurrection of the body, the Jahvist, the Elohist, the third Isaah, and so on, without abandoning one iota of the substance of the Jewish faith.

I guess you could say I'm kind of Jewish but not really.

Since the turn of the 20th century, members of the Jewish community in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia have been meeting together to celebrate and worship.

I'm a cultural Jew, I was raised with it, so I'm still into it, like gefilte fish with kugel.

If I were not a Jew I would be a Quaker.

I am a Jew. Those are four words of pride. My Jewishness is as deep as my genes.

Palestine, as Icelanders see it, includes the Western Wall of the Second Temple, Judaism's holiest site.

I think I may well be a Jew.

I consider myself a Jewish writer - even if my characters frequently are not Jewish - in the same way, I guess, that I consider myself a Jewish man, even though I don't often attend shul.

I went to several public schools. I went to religious school. I was thrown out of Hebrew school, which was the final straw. They said, 'God doesn't like you anymore. Go eat pork.'