Jewish Values Quotes

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.

I very much favor democracy, but when there is a contradiction between democratic and Jewish values, the Jewish and Zionist values are more important.

We cannot separate Judaism from the Jewish State; we have to decide how to live with it.

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

Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

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.

My children receive education that greatly emphasizes the fact they are part of a human group that has tradition, collective memory, and a state. I am a great believer in the need for Israel to be a Jewish state. I certainly believe my children will pass that on to their children.

We had a Jewish school; we had a Jewish club. My father was a main donor. My mother was on the committee of the school.

I was not raised a Zionist, but a socialist, as were most Jews before the Holocaust.

May this civic and social landmark ... be a constant reminder of the inspiring service that has been rendered to civilization by men and women of the Jewish faith. May we recall the long array of those who have been eminent in statecraft, in science, in literature, in art, in the professions, in business, in finance, in philanthropy and in the spiritual life of the world.

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

I have always been very proud of my Jewish heritage, which has greatly influenced my music, my world view, and my work as an advocate for individuals whom society often leaves behind.

Judaism will be enmeshed in pride and shame for as long as it endures. But to endure as a country, Israel must shun both these tendencies.

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

I believe that our democratic values are also born out of our Jewish faith, a 'love for the stranger,' and equality before the law - these are not foreign values: this is Judaism.

With all its being, the Labor Party supports Israel as a Jewish and democratic state. Labor built the state, and its leaders formulated the Declaration of Independence, the foundational document that anchors Israel as a Jewish state.

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

Modern Orthodoxy has a highly positive attitude toward the State of Israel. Our Ultra-Orthodox brethren recognize only the Holy Land, but not the state.

As a matter of fact, part of being Jewish is the whole question of what it is to be a Jew.

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

I've been working with Jews for over 20 years.

The observant Jew has his own sense of values. Torah Judaism is his blueprint for this life, his target for existence.

The Land of Israel goes with the Torah of Israel under the sovereignty of the State of Israel.

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.