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

— Anita Diament

#events #followed #jewish #life #mostly

I believe that if Israel were to put an end to the settlements in the West Bank tomorrow, as it did in Gaza, there would still be reluctance on the part of the Palestinian Authority to recognize Israel's right to exist as a Jewish secular democracy. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#bank #believe #democracy #did #end

Twenty five percent of Israeli citizens are not even Jewish. Anybody can become an Israeli citizen if you qualify. Religion is not a criterion for citizenship. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#become #citizen #citizens #citizenship #criterion

I have a 10-year track record of writing for the Jewish community. ↗

— Anita Diament

#i #jewish #jewish community #record #track

November is Jewish book month, so Jewish Community Centers all around the country have book fairs where they invite authors and sell books in advance of the holidays. ↗

— Anita Diament

#around #authors #book #books #centers

Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community. ↗

— Anita Diament

#community #contemporary #i #jewish #jewish community

People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz. ↗

— Nathan Lane

#changed #i #jewish #last #name

There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic. ↗

— Spike Lee

#cannot #character #film #jewish #labeled

I think it was when I was nineteen, by that time the Jewish laws were already in force and the split was beginning to come about which isolated the Jewish culture. ↗

— Gyorgy Legeti

#already #beginning #come #culture #force

The Jewish background is not that far from the black groove. Blacks are downtrodden, Jews are downtrodden, therefore they have something in common in that affliction. Being downtrodden often makes one more empathetic and sympathetic. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#background #being #black #blacks #common