Jewish Rituals Quotes

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

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.

I was Jewish, through and through, although in our house that didn't mean a whole lot. We never went to synagogue. I never had a Bar Mitzvah. We didn't keep kosher or observe the Sabbath. In fact, I'm not so sure I would have known what the Sabbath looked like if it passed me on the street, so how could I observe it?

Since the birth of modern Orthodox Judaism in 19th-century Germany, a central goal of the movement has been to normalize the observance of traditional Jewish law - to make it possible to follow all 613 biblical commandments assiduously while still participating in the reality of the modern world.

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

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

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

I'm Jewish, and so religion, to me, is a kind of moral code and a kind of history.

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

I've had a bris, was Bar Mitzvahed and, on occasion, have referred to a temple as a shul. I've never denied it, nor have I disguised it. I am, indeed, a Jew.

My Judaism has always been a great pride with me.

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 noticed that people were craving a way of reinterpreting tradition and of being Jewish without joining a synagogue.

I'm not super, super religious. If this is okay to say, I'm more culturally Jewish.

I'm Jewish, but not overly religious, and have certainly never formally observed the Fourth Commandment, other than via the tradition of wearing white on Friday nights at summer camp, which never seemed to dovetail with the fact that Fridays were also the night for grape juice.

Despite the fact that the vast majority of Israeli Jews are not Orthodox, the ultra-Orthodox hold the keys not just to Israel's Jewish sacred places, but to the life cycle events - conversions, weddings, divorces, burials - of the country's more than six million Jews.

I met Evan Goldberg at bar-mitzvah class. It was called tallis and tefillin.

My dad was raised Orthodox in Atlanta. He speaks Hebrew. He speaks Yiddish. He married a Jewish woman who is not Orthodox, so I was brought up by two different kinds of Jews.

I've never dated a Jewish woman.

Judaism is not just a religion but a people, and the food and customs of one part of the people is connected to the other part of the people. They are part of a larger story.

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

We have our own values; we build our own special, our JEWISH life - and we are proud, so very proud.

As a traditional Jew, I have benefited personally from the hospitality of Chabad Hasidim on many occasions, and I marvel at how many Jews Chabad has brought back to their primordial home.

I went to Hebrew school but opted out of a bar mitzvah.

I grew up happily immersed in Jewish culture and community.